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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's the 100th page of The Curse. It's actually not very much like the other 105 pages I've done, but none of them are actually that similar to each other if I'm honest.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's one of those pages from yesterday

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bob As An Ultramarine for Bill's birthday.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Messaging my wife about how Bill's spending his weekend. It's not that I'm disappointed, it's just... well, times change.

It seems the reason that The Youth aren't drinking and having premarital sex isn't because they're all on ket, or because of price increases. It's because they're having multi-stage
wars in Minecraft
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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spent longer trying to find something I wanted to watch while drawing this than I actually spent drawing it.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Have done about 85 pages for this sequel to Found Forest Floor, for an intended 250. It's getting grungier with each pass, and I'm mostly very happy with it.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watching the 201t Scott Adkins vehicle Close Range.

A page of black and white abstract comics being held up on a clipboard in front of a tv

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'The Curse' graphic novel - how it started, how it's going.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At the moment I'm working toward a kind of sequel to Found Forest Floor, which was my first chunky piece of work. When i made that I sped up the process of churning pages by not drawing very much and doing a lot of quick (arguably unsophisticated) changes digitally. I've not quite got there yet.

A black and white abstract drawing of some stuff which could be a landscape or a hag or i don't know what, on a clipboard

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Enjoying drawing although the films I've been watching have been terrible.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

With all that in mind, sign up to my Patreon, where you can access very detailed descriptions of short comics I've made, get posts every few days (it was daily but my wife told me I was overwhelming everyone, especially her), and you can do it for money or for FREE www.patreon.com/c/grthink/po...

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Looking forward to Gosh!Fest tomorrow at @goshcomics.bsky.social. I'll be behind the table at 5pm until 6pm, along with cool guys like @douglasnoble.bsky.social @marxtafford.bsky.social, @danwhite.bsky.social and @patrickwray.bsky.social (and Sean Azzopardi, except he doesn't have bsky account)

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jeezus louise-us, another heartbreaking printing experience. Anyway, 11 copies ready for people to buy and love. Also pictured: all the pages that didn't print properly.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

With MS Publisher on its way out i'm trying to get my head around Affinity Publisher, which is great until I actually try and print anything. Like... in what world is this what I was going for?

Three sheets of A4 paper. On half of each piece of paper two comic pages have been printed. Looking closely, some have been printed yhe correct way up and some have been printed upside down.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Curse, releasing this Saturday.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Curse was going to be 32 pages, but now it's going to be 28. Here's half of Page 21.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finally getting somewhere with The Curse. I've written and scrapped three scripts and now I'm just going with whatever feels right.

An abstract comic page, black and white ink on white paper. There a four panels of varying sizes, full of swirled, slightly threatening drawing - I mean, I think it looks threatening. Captions running across the page read "Mode." "Mood." "Sudden Flash." "No Cable Connect." "Face Flaw Fall." "The White Tower, Gone."

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here's all the books I had on my bedside table until we decided to try and properly tidy up. It's like a secret, sordid part if my to-read pile that I never acknowledged.

Two stacks of books of various sizes, about 30 books in total

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

First draft of the script for The Curse is done. Needs at least a third of the words deleting, and some of the verbs made more interesting. Here's a picture of some art which may or may not make its way in.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some pages from 'The Curse', a possible follow-up to Found Forest Floor, currently being posted every day to my Patreon.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Show me your pet and who or what they are named after. My wife named him.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Some photos from my recent holiday to Aberaeron

An inverted photo of the underside of a bridge. The reflection of light off the surface along with the straight lines of the shadows from the structure draw a Pyramid against the back wall

A church doorway that has been concreted over. Apparently this was to discourage church goers from leaving Sunday Service and crossing the road to the Black Lion pub.

A view of Aberaeron Harbour taken from the footbridge. An exposed screw is out of focus in the foreground.

The long neck and tiny head of a plastic brachiosaur

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This fucking game ruined me. I was so tense throughout playing it, I think i quit after the third hour or so.

The cover of the PS2 game "Gregory Horror Show"

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Today's post on Patreon is here. To save you the click here's the page, and there's a sentence noting that it'd be impossible for this to not be a follow-up to Found Forest Floor now. www.patreon.com/grthink/post...

A black and white abstract comic. Six panels of various sizes are arranged around each other. Each panel contains heavy black areas, heavy white areas, with thin brushed linework connecting and the filling space between the two.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Have only just noticed that the watch i bought of vinted a few months ago is engraved. Similar feeling to buying a comic that has been signed for someone else.

The back of a watch. Into the metal the words "Love From Joy XXX" have been engraved.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Working over a black&white page printed on orange paper has worked really, really well. Making it work in the context of a printed comic will be a nightmare, mind you.

Orange A4 paper with a black and white abstract comic drawn/painted on

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Turns out it's don't have any memes saved but I do have passive aggressive photos I've sent to my kids telling them to either put things away, or into the dishwasher

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Am reading this at the moment. Haven't got to 'Down Below', Carrington's autobiography yet, and think that will be quite a lot. But the short stories that precede it, truly surreal, hilarious and disturbing, are worth reading and re-reading.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm enjoying drawing like this again.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Here's one of a pair of images from 'The Curse 010', today's Patreon page: www.patreon.com/grthink/post... If you can't see it when you follow the link you can sign up FOR FREE to see everything.

A rough painting of a landscape (in portrait orientation), or some hills. The ground takes up about 2/5s of the page. The sky above them is grey-blue. A caption on the sky reads 'a data centre chewing on ghosts'

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Regular posting schedule on Patreon has started again while I work through my stupid imposter syndrome and self doubt. Join for free to follow along at patreon.com/grthink

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

There you go, all done and ready to go. Pages open to 'Alpha Flight Special '87' and 'Waveless'.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Apologies - 32 pages. It's called 'Plants Not Pets' after a line in a comic that I forgot to include. Available at @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social tomorrow as long as I can print it.

The cover to 'Plants Not Pets'. It's A5 proportions. On the left is a simple line drawing of a church, on the right is a mess of abstract lines and colours. The words 'Plants Not Pets, short comics, Gareth A Hopkins' are written just below the top-left corner of the image.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

10 copies of Vortices for @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social Vortices uses text from 'Sensitive Chaos', a philiosophical/scientific book about the relationship of water and air and deeply personal annotations from one of my copy's previous owners. That's what it is... what it's *doing* is... I dunno.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

More important advice: If you're going to reproduce the cover to every copy of a comic by hand make sure it's easy and you don't have problems holding your attention.

A sheet of tracing paper with black ink showing a drawing of a water-funnel and the words 'Vortices' and 'Gareth A Hopkins'. On a sheet underneath the original blue-line drawing van be seen.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They don't even fit my hand, let alone my feet.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is all I see when I see the Anthropic logo.

A photograph of Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole, from his novel Breakfast Of Champions

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I got a card with my Fortnite skin (Tactical Mystique) and a bottle of whiskey and some sweets.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

'Between Teeth' has been sat untouched for three years, half finished. Was originally for @douglasnoble.bsky.social's Pocket Chiller series. Basically what happened is that the ending was so bleak and full of self-loathing that it stopped being relevant once the fluoxetine started working.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Exciting reference photography for Rainlight Cope Aesthetic

An electrical control box with a torn circus poster hanging off it

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Still working on this Cave thing. I am getting... antsy?...to work on something different for a few days.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Brand new and for sale at the @cartooncounty.bsky.social Market Takeover tomorrow - Vortices. Each copy has a hand produced tracing paper cover. The interiors are more complicated to explain than the Internet has room for.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Printing on tracing paper did NOT work so I've done a version on paper and it looks OK. I might take my time now though, slow the process right down and really nail what I want to achieve.

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Slow, careful progress on 'Vortices', my tracing-paper comic. Here are pages 1 & 2 which should give a decent idea of how each page will be constructed.

Black and white abstract inkwork on a landscape-format page. Two caption boxes are present, with white text on black backgrounds. The first reads 'I have this recurrent night-mare that I am not doing anything." The second is backwards and reads 'Perhaps I am trying to undo everything."

Black and white abstract inkwork on a landscape-format page. Two caption boxes are present, with white text on black backgrounds. The first is backwards and reads 'I have this recurrent night-mare that I am not doing anything." The second reads 'Perhaps I am trying to undo everything."

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I have no idea why this is in my phone.

Truth Coming Out Of Her Well by Jean-Léon Gérôme

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Facebook has reminded me that 14 years ago I exhibited a life-size papier mache Batman costume thing lined with abstract comic pages in the vacated Barclays bank in Chelmsford. Theoretically it was wearable (the 'fists' had handles in them which could be held) but the cowl was nailed to the wall.

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