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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, although those early “serious” ones are quite bonkers

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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Buster Keaton. Pencils and Posca pen on toned paper. #caricature #art

Black and white caricature of Buster Keaton looking melancholy, and wearing a sailor's outfit.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I really love Dick Briefer's funny Frankenstein strips. Some people prefer the later, more serious Frankensteins he did. I think those people are peculiar.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A sketch from last weekend's LICAF.

Colour drawing of Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem band from the Muppets. They are all playing their respective instruments surrounded by musical notes.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The standout for me is their version of "Baby's On Fire". An electrifying rendition of a deeply strange song.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sure, why not. I think this is fairly honest.

MY 9 ALBUMS: Kaleidoscope World (The Chills), Oil & Gold (Shriekback), Singles Goung Steady (Buzzcocks), The Correct Use of Soap (Magazine), 3 EPs (Tall Dwarfs), Here Come the Warm Jets (Brian Eno), Underwater Moonlight (The Soft Boys), 801 Live (801), Toy Love (Toy Love)

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fez-heads! If you're in the UK, THE FEZ PAPERS is now available to order at hotelfred.bigcartel.com/product/the-.... (Outside the UK, pick up the Lulu edition from www.lulu.com/shop/roger-l... and avoid customs/tariff nonsense.) 64 pages of full-colour Fez stories from 2012-2025!

Front cover to THE FEZ PAPERS, showing The Fez - an empty suit wearing a fez and a monocle - holding a flaming torch as a monster creeps up behind him.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

Art by Tom Neely showing an abstract vision of Popeye with a dozen flailing fists

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David Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m seeing a lot of rending of garments about the news, but all the complaints I’ve ever heard before about webtoon are about predatory practices when it comes to creators rights, and… well, lets just say I see no reason that should impair them working with Marvel and Disney.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(Puts on Old Man Pants) I used to enjoy spending a half hour reading a comic. I liked a bit of narrative density; and if a writer decided to be sparing with the text for a bit, those moments had a lot more impact. (Takes off Old Man Pants, hurriedly puts them back on again after hearing the screams)

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Episode Number Nine @episodenumbernine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In a few weeks we'll be launching our new podcast where we look at British sitcoms using their 9th episode as the starting point. A curious conceit perhaps, but by the 9th episode of any sitcom the 'sit' is generally established and the 'com' should have bedded in. Well that's the theory anyway!

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Saying "LOL" when you hear a joke is the one that does my head in. (Instead of, you know, laughing out loud.) I realise this is because I'm 170 years old.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Fez, Deirdre Johnson and a little bit of Quantum Necromancy. What could possibly go wrong? fez.webcomic.studio/c6a89cea621d...

The Fez! This week: Playing the Odds. Read more at fez.webcomic.studio or patreon.com/hotelfred

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yup! It’ll go live next week.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

pretend this is for one of the ‘tobers

Jack Kirby’s Demon Etrigan lurches forward trailing his tattered blue cape, fanged mouth agape. The stone ground he walks on is fissured and cracking apart, and the background is ablaze with fire and Kirby dots

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Slogan: "I'd leave it 31 days if I were you"

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this weekend! I will be there with comics, art, sketches and my new self-published FEZ PAPERS, which collects my old Fez strips, most of them in full colour for the first time.

Cover to "The Fez Papers", showing The Fez (an ambulatory empty suit wearing a fez and a monocle) holding a flaming torch. Behind him a huge, toad-like monster with horns is lurking menacingly.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another reason not to buy McDonald's, apart from the existing ones that it looks like shit, tastes like shit, is made of shit and is shit

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Karloff version of The Mummy had a similar plot and the first sequel to that came out in 1940, so that might be the connection.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've heard that in the UK too. In New Zealand it's "fucken rude, eh"

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trying to learn new skills helps - I learned to work digitally a few years back, that was an engaging challenge for a while. Now I'm doing more traditional work and re-learning skills that have atrophied. Side projects with low/no stakes help, too.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder if it's David Lyttleton, who did some stuff for Deadline Magazine back in the day. He's still illustrating - his style is very different now (www.davidlyttleton.com), but in the 90s his work looked like this:

Cover to a graphic novel, KlingKlangKlatch, written by Ian McDonald and drawn by David Lyttleton. The cover shows a blue mouse-eared character holding up its hands in a distressed way. The style is reminiscent of Gerald Scarfe at his most painterly.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not necessarily? (Comic book logic!) They were both stand-ins for New York when they were created, at a time when none of their creators expected them to have to coexist. My gut impulse is that the intentions of their original creators carry more weight than the revisions of those who followed.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Get that on a triple letter score and you've virtually won

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I seem to recall Denny O'Neil saying something like that in an interview in Amazing Heroes way back.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fathers, talk to your boys about consent. They'll think you're cringe; fine, let them think you're cringe, doesn't matter. They need to hear it, and they need to hear it from you.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Silly old Batman. He’s such a big silly

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it possible Doctors 1-3 didn't score as highly because these days they'd be a bit short on conversation?

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Fez, Mrs.Potatoes and Gronch versus THE LAUNDRY BASKET OF DOOM – a complete three page story! fez.webcomic.studio/c6a9eb0d8205...

The Fez! This week: The Laundry Basket of Doom! Read more at fez.webcomic.studio or patreon.com/hotelfred

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Fez, Mrs.Potatoes and Gronch versus THE LAUNDRY BASKET OF DOOM – a complete three page story! fez.webcomic.studio/c6a9eb0d8205...

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Might have known it would be him! Excellent detective work.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, good shout. I wonder if any of the editors/staff are still around?

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just ordered one. You had me at Stanshall.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That bus thing is fairly common, but mainly used for disabled passengers around our way. I think it's on most buses but they only activate it when someone visibly needs it.

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