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Peer Sylvester @peersylvester.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My designer diary of Upland&Prairie is online and if for nothing else, ppl should read it to learn how lineages of inspiration can flow. boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

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From the King of Siam via Afghanistan to Sweden and back to Berlin: Upland & Prairie | BoardGameGeek Blog

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Julius Chancer / Rainbow Orchid t-shirts are available again! Go on, have a look - they're right here: garen-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/colle...

Four t-shirts with different Julius Chancer and Rainbow Orchid (the comic) designs.

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Talented independent comic creator Kate Ashwin recently announced plans to end her long-running, ever entertaining web comic Widdershins, which she has been publishing for 15 years, so it seemed like a good time to catch up…

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Creating Comics: Kate Ashwin, creator of “Widdershins”

A special interview with the talented web comics veteran!

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pteranodons for Curious Expedition 2 (2020).

Six Pteranodons, variations on the same basic model, in a clear-line style, creature sprites for the game Curious Expedition 2 from Maschinen Mensch.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Good to repost this every now and then.

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

We made an animated trailer for our book, My Beloved Other, due out from Macmillan’s 23rd Street Books imprint in August, 2026. You can watch it at the link below, and if you’d like to preorder, link follows. #comics #graphicnovels #antiracism #memoir #history www.youtube.com/shorts/hkqM9...

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My Beloved Other Final Edit Fade Full HD 1080p MEDIUM FR30

YouTube video by Angela Watson

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Marc Laming all singing, all dancing comics guy. @marclaming.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

NOW LAUNCHED!! DAN DARE: FIRST CONTACT Graphic Novel Kickstarter campaign. Please visit the link in my bio and considering backing this project. This is very much a passion project for @alexdecampi @b7.comics and myself and being made with love. SPACESHIP AWAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

My crime thriller, Nine Knives, is out! So Whitley Bay now has two published crime writers. Ann Cleeves (Vera) and me. If you steal a car, make sure there isn't a body in the boot! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191805240...

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Nine Knives: Amazon.co.uk: Auchterlounie, Nigel: 9781918052404: Books

Buy Nine Knives by Auchterlounie, Nigel (ISBN: 9781918052404) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Completely handmade picture replete with whimsy, mistakes and a pig bat creature. Best defence against AI slop.

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Joel Meadows @joelmeadows.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hit 74 backers now and heading towards £4k now on our unique strip anthology Stripwire Presents which only has eight days left to hit. Featuring Declan Shalvey, Roger Langridge, Kody Chamberlain, Frazer Irving, Andy Bennett & more www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri... www.facebook.com/reel/1332814...

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Stripwire Presents

A 100 page A4 anthology featuring a selection of classic and some unseen strips taken from Tripwire's Stripwire section.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Battle! From 'The Secret of the Samurai' (BDMust, 2020) #juliusChancer

Two widescreen comic panels showing scenes from samurai in battle; the top one green and yellow spearmen fight red and brown swordsmen; the bottom one in a village, huts aflame, horses gallop through, a samurai in red and green swings his spear at a rifleman and swordsman.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Old work ... a cover I did for a local entertainments guide in 1993.

Cover for a magazine called '5D' - a greywash head portrait of Marc Bolan with stars, flowers, planets, a swan and a nymph in his long hair, the tag-line is 'T-Rextacy at the Felbridge' (a T-Rex covers band).

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

⭐️COVER REVEAL⭐️ for our graphic novel Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares! @scholasticuk.bsky. We’ve been working on it since 2023. It’s been quite a journey. The idea was one of those lightning bolt moments. Think Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Labyrinth & Wednesday #comics #KidLitUK

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." A small acrylic painting for a Patreon supporter. Quite a lovely hole in the ground really. I think the movie version of Bag End certainly had a lot of people going 'yeah I'd be happy to live there'.

Painting of a man carrying a staff and wearing robes and a hat approaching a well tended garden leading to a round door of a house built into a hill.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I made a little online music quiz to help my children learn to read music. It's still in play-test mode, does it work for you? www.garenewing.co.uk/music/musicq...

A cream-coloured card with a musical note on a stave and a large, faded treble clef in the background.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

What's black and white and red all over? This drawing.

Drawing of Julius Chancer walking and Lily Lawrence behind, turning to look back; black line drawing with solid red and half-tone red, inspired, I think, by those Chaland and Clerc comics of the 1980s.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

About a week ago the episode of the BBC's Secret Sussex featuring me talking about the Brambletye ruins was put online. I believe it will air on the radio sometime in February but you can listen to it now from the link at my blog: www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi...

Photograph of the 17th Century Brambletye House ruins, three towers remain, the central one with a door at ground level, all in ruins, the east tower still has its cupola roof.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Happy new year :-) Lot's of challenges last year - hope for lots of good stuff for you in 2026.

Two panels from my Julius Chancer adventure comic, The Brambletye Box, both close-quarter views of occupants of cars speeding alongside each other and looking at each other; 1) Julius Chancer and Sir Alfred Catesby-Grey, looking somewhat perturbed, 2) a villainous looking group, two men in the front and a woman in a white suit and hat and holding a pistol in the back, smiling and grinning.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A video for the weekend: roughs, pencils and finished art from my adventure comic, The Brambletye Box. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaE-... #comics #wip #pencils

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The Brambletye Box comic - roughs to pencils to finished art

YouTube video by Garen Ewing

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/06/2025

Welcome to the public domain, GODS’ MAN (1929) by Lynd Ward. 🖋️📖 A haunting, wordless story told through woodcuts, this early graphic novel follows an artist’s Faustian bargain. Read it here ➡️ archive.org/details/gods... 🧵 #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #GraphicNovel #ArtLiterature

Title page of the graphic novel “Gods’ Man" framed by "Welcome to the Public Domain" text and graphic. Text reads: God's Man, A Novel In Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. The figure in black in the foreground as two men in the background have their backs to him.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. A man with a peg leg sits, hands spread apart as he looks up.

A woodcut illustration from the graphic novel “Gods’ Man. Close on the hands of people holding up their hands with varying numbers of fingers extended.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Comics Workshop went well at the the Forest Row Festival yesterday. Here's my 'Anatomy of a Comic' hand-out I (rather hastily) made for a previous workshop a couple of years ago that remains quite useful.

Double-page spread of comics pages and panels showing various parts of a comic: panels, tiers, narration, balloons, establishing shots, close-ups, timing, sound effects, etc ...

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

@emmaillustrate.bsky.social Beautiful piece of art in your new newsletter. Good luck with it!

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Feel I should post some Star Wars art today - in fact I think I only have one thing, this invite I drew for my son and his friend's 5th birthday (7 years ago). #starwarsday #starwars

Children's birthday invite illustration - a line drawing, coloured, of two 5-year old boys dressed as Jedi with light sabres (one red, one yellow); Darth Vader's head looms in the background of space, also showing the Death Star, TIE-fighters, X-Wings and C3PO and R2D2.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A blog post on drawing cars, challenging myself, and why art is art and AI isn't ... www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi... #comics #drawing

Extract from a comic strip (The Brambletye Box, a Julius Chancer adventure) set in the 1920s, showing a black car following a red Mercedes SSK - panel 1: a side view driving past a sweet shop with pedestrians; panel 2: low point of view from alongside the black car with the SSK in front; panel 3: the SSK overtakes a cyclist a little close, who shakes his fist saying "Oi! Who d'you think you are? Henry Segrave?"; panel 3: a bird's-eye view of the road with cars on; two speech bubbles from the SSK saying "Stay cool, Julius, don't rush it" and "They're still on us!".

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Comics Folk! We need your help. The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) has written a report, asking the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCSM) to invest in comics. We need you to help to make this the biggest action to support comics in UK. Please read, sign & share. 🙏✍️✏️✒️

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In the most exciting creative news of my life, I can finally share what @rikworth.bsky.social and I have been hard at work at for the past year. PETS TELL TALES: ANCIENT EGYPT from @hachettechildrens.bsky.social will be on bookshelves in July & is available to preorder NOW! 👉 geni.us/PetsTellTales

Cover art for Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt featuring a pharoah anxiously holding open the jaws of a hippo with his legs. A falcon swoops between his legs, a cobra snake is wrapped around his arm and a baboon shoots a spit ball at him from behind some reeds - where a dog, ibis bird, cat, and strange dog-like Set creature also look out from. Pyramids are seen in the distance and the sunset sky fades into stars above.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

' Sentimental ' is 20 years old today 😮🎉 !! Recorded in Italy & London I was looking for a band sound & playing around with added orchestration . A happy step to where I am now ❤️ Check it out , it's a real hug of an album 🎶 😊 ❤️ Love Tanita #recordcollector #recordstoreday #singersongwriter😘 #London

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I appear to be losing friends on Facebook. After a very short investigation I discovered it was me, unfriending people who persistently create and post AI images. Quite the epidemic. But case solved.

Montage of horrible AI slop images with the words 'A.I. ART IS POLLUTION" across it in red.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

'Fine Food Digest' cover from 2023; prep-work and final cover. #illustration #magazineArt

Six frames showing development of a drawing showing a street market: rough sketch outline, shaded rough sketch with more detail, perspective guides, pencils, inks and final colour art.

Cover for Fine Food Digest magazine, Aug 2023, colour line art showing a street market, people milling about, several stalls, each with a canopy of a different national flag (Spain, France, Japan, etc.)

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Marvellous little film about a boy visiting Hergé at his studio (we also see Bob de Moor, I think) in 1979 and a very grey and wintry Brussels. Love the Thompson Twins wandering around as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFeD...

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TINTIN CHEZ LUI

YouTube video by Tintinomania

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Small Press Day @smallpressday.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Save the date! We're celebrating 10 Years of Small Press Day on July 19th, 2025. smallpressday.co.uk

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Maschinen-Mensch 🤖 Mother Machine 🤖 out now! @maschimensch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Today is the big day! 🤖🥳🎉 From 9am ET / 6am PT / 2pm CET you will be able to buy Mother Machine! And until April 9th you can get a free FLC to expand your experience! store.steampowered.com/app/1555980?...

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Mother Machine on Steam

Climb, jump, and explore procedurally generated alien caves in this 1-4 player co-op action-RPG platformer. Customize your cute gremlin, embrace the creative chaos, and unlock a vast array of mutation...

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Melissa Reddraws Spandri @melissared.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Today's an old work for Nord Games I loved <3 the Forest Oracles <3

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Katerina Ladon Art ✨ @katerinaladon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Queen Yolande🪄🔮🌿 I just realized that one of the latest illustrations I painted for Dungeons & Dragons has been revealed! ©️Wizards of the Coast #art #illustration #fantasy #dnd

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Back in December I started work on a triptych homage to a favourite comic book series, Asterix. This is watercolours, acrylic gouache and marker pens. Asterix is a Franco-Belgian comic that first appeared in the comic Pilote in 1959 written by René Goscinny with art by Albert Uderzo.

Illustration. A short helmeted man strides through a forest, waving to the viewer he is carrying a wild boar. In front of him walks a happy little white dog.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Initial rough sketches for all 'The Lost Expedition' game cards (2016, Osprey) #gaming #cardgames #boardgames

Spread of rough sketches for all 56 cards in The Lost Expedition card game, thumbnails in pencil, showing various game events in a jungle (Amazon) environment - tribes, bugs, snakes, poison, accidents, wild animals, terrain, etc...

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:

Professor Calculus from the Adventures of Tintin pointing his brolly forward.

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Wocco @wocco.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Ghost Train revisited.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Man nothing makes you realise the truth of A Picture Being Worth A Thousand Words like having to laboriously type out alt text for some dumb thing you drew

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Maschinen-Mensch 🤖 Mother Machine 🤖 out now! @maschimensch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

📢 Mother Machine finally has a launch date!! 💥 Get ready to cause chaos and explore everything the game has to offer on 🎉 March 26th! 🎉 Curious? Watch our brand new announcement trailer now! ✨ youtu.be/oQT6vGuqRrs

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Mother Machine Release Date Announcement

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Queen Maksjia, panel from The Rainbow Orchid (2012). #comics

Panel from a comic (The Rainbow Orchid by Garen Ewing) - a woman, a queen, in dark red robes and headdress, with bangles and jewellery, brushes aside a red curtain and looks out over the mountains and starry night sky; in the distance, a speck, seems to be a flying device of some kind with a flame glowing out of the top.

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

'It Happened here' - Kevin Brownlow's incredible 1964 film about fascism after a successful Nazi invasion of the UK couldn't be more relevant. Highly recommended - I think about it a lot. We made a podcast (in 2016) discussing the film - it's an amazing story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKLm...

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War film 5: It Happened Here (1964)

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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

'The Time Trap' was my introduction to Blake & Mortimer, so I have a lot of love for it. It was the Catalan Communications edition from 1989 (got no.2, 'Atlantis Mystery' soon after).

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