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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Have you seen this? A Manchester secondary school has purged its library of 200 books in a US style censorship spree (using AI to identify 'inappropriate' titles), then ruined the career of the school librarian for good measure: www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Just realised my laptop's music library is telling a little tale of most mornings...

Shot of a laptop screen, showing three albums

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I'm late to this party, but genuinely thrilled to find my short story "The Tiddy Mun" is on the BSFA longlist for Best Short Fiction! Congratulations to all the nominees, and huge thanks to those who nominated my story!

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Great news! Blakewood: Volume 2 is now available as a PDF from DriveThruComics and Globalcomix, and in a rather nice printed edition from DriveThruComics! I'd love you to check them out! www.drivethrucomics.com/en/publisher... globalcomix.com/a/cult-of-ny... #comics #graphicnovels #indiepress

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hey MSN, that's 100 years of sci-fi cinema. Frankenstein was published 207 years ago. Cheers.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Episode 11 of Blakewood, my serialised occult noir graphic novel is here! Will reading it take your mind off things for a few minutes? Almost certainly. Will it brighten your day..? No comment. Hope you’re not claustrophobic… open.substack.com/pub/cultofny...

A man in suit and tie, lying sideways. One of his eyes is a glowing green gem, for uncertain reasons.

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📚 MoominReadsaLot 📚 @moominreadsalot.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Book 62 Blakewood: Vol. 1 Kev Rooney Graphic novel 60 pages Published 2024 Dates Read: 7/6/25 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Re-read. I already read this as it was being serialised last year on @kevrooney.bsky.social's Substack, but I wanted a copy for keeps! 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #2025Reads #ReaderSky #Readers

Paperback copy of 'Blakewood - Volume 1' - written and illustrated by Kev Rooney

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

theslab.press/2025/06/01/h... I’m happy to share the cover reveal for the forthcoming folk horror anthology, “Hiding Under the Leaves”, which I created for The Slab Press. Loved working on this one. A final list of writers and stories should be confirmed soon! #booksky #art #bookcover #horror

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Hiding Under the Leaves – an Update

First of all, thank you to all the authors who have submitted stories for Hiding Under the Leaves – there were hundreds of submissions and it has taken me some time to go through them all. Fi…

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Today is Free Comic Book Day! And while I would absolutely encourage you to go and support your local book store today - before you do, I’d love for you to read Blakewood: Episode 9, released - by complete coincidence - today! It's a comic, and it's free! Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/cultofny...

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Blakewood: Episode 9

I'm About To Go Talk To a Killer...

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

WIP page from the next Episode of Blakewood. Hand drawn from pencils to washes. Also, there's less than 2 hours to go on Drive Thru Comics deal of the day - get Blakewood Volume 1 at 40% off! #comic #comics #graphicnovel #art #illustration #handdrawn www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5...

A nine panel comic book page of a man in a white suit arguing with an intercom.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Blakewood Episode 8 is here! 13 pages of free-to-read comic book noir goodness. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon! Don't forget to catch up on Episodes 1 to 7 while you're there! #comics #comic #graphicnovel #noir open.substack.com/pub/cultofny...

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Blakewood: Episode 8

What the Hell Is Going On..?

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

Lord Vetinari of the Discworld, with a small dog.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Blakewood Volume 1 launches today! Collects Chapters 1 to 7 of the neo-noir comics serial - 66 pages, refined artwork, lettering and text, and brand new spot art. Blakewood has never looked better. Pick it up here: www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5... #comics #comicsky #graphicnovel #noir

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Blakewood - Cult of Nyx | DriveThruComics

Corrupt politicians. Murderous criminals. A missing teenager. And just a hint of magic. Welcome to Metrogrande… When a teenager with a taste for the arcane goes missing, occult investigator Antony Bla...

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Had to produce some new spot art for the upcoming collected edition of the first 7 chapters of Blakewood. Pretty pleased with this '40s style poster for a movie that never was... #art #comics #comic #digitalart #movieposters

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Quick play with some Woodcut Brushes I picked up for Affinity from Retro Supply. For use on an upcoming project. Pretty good tools #art

Digital portrait of a woman in a scarf made to look like a woodcut print.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

So I've just finished installing the latest Windows 11 update to find Wordpad is gone. Just... gone. I did all my draft writing in that amazing little app. What is this relentless corporate obsession with making everything worse?

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

The #filmsky challenge. Choose 20 movies that have greatly influenced you. One film per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just posters… ACTION! 2/20

The poster for John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York'. Figures flee a threatening mob through a ruined Manhattan dominated by the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of Christopher Stasheff's 'The Warlock In Spite of Himself'. Against an orange-yellow sky, a barbarian on horseback lays into a group of lizard people with a bloody sword. Not a strong indicator of the contents of the novel.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Since I'm enjoying the book version so much... The #filmsky challenge. Choose 20 movies that have greatly influenced you. One film per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just posters… ACTION! 1/20

The poster for James Cameron's The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger poses against a black backdrop and red lasers, in shades and leather jacket, clutching a gun.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16 (nobody said they had to be consecutive!) #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of Richard Morgan's novel Market Forces. The author and title in chrome over a faded cityscape with a red palette.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

As it's October I'm reprinting some older, more unsettling stories over on Substack. Here's the second! Find all my other comic strips, free to read, on my Substack homepage. Don't forget to like and subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/cultofny... #webcomics #comics #comic #graphicnovel

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Halloween comics part 2

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Happy #PortfolioDay I'm a writer and illustrator who prefers media like ink and watercolours, but is perfectly happy in digital too. To read my latest comic book serial 'Blakewood', please head over to my Substack. It's all available for free! www.cultofnyx.substack.com

Watercolour portrait of the model Mary Hannah - she smiles in orange sunglasses, with green tinged hair.

A page of comic book art from the serial Blakewood. Black and white art with ink washes.

Page of comic book art from a strip entitled 'The Truth They Want'. Two fantasy characters - a mage in a red coat and an elf in green - ride through a town arguing about money.

A watercolour painting of Thornton Abbey Gatehouse in Lincolnshire.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely. An abstract design with a faded brownish red palette.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Life really was better 50 years ago. Here's proof.

A variety of newspaper clippings, one from each decade from the 2020s to the 1890s with someone declaring that life in one way or another was better 50 years ago.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Episode 6 of Blakewood is here! Enjoy this and the rest of my content for free - just click the link below! #comic #comics #webcomic #graphicnovel open.substack.com/pub/cultofny...

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Blakewood: Episode 6

Listen up, peeper. Listen good...

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

Cover of Nancy A. Collins' Sunglasses after Dark. A female vampire in mirrorshades menaces someone against a night-time industrial cityscape.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

Cover of Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat. Against a black background, a blonde man in period dress cradles a glass of wine.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

Cover of The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison. A retro-futurist spaceman smirks while examining his finger nails, smoking blaster in the other hand.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

Cover of Tim Powers' The Stress of Her Regard. A woodcut style illustration of a Victorian gentleman striding towards the London skyline, against a vaguely turquoise blue background.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

Cover of Tourniquet by Kim Lakin-Smith. A man in black spreads his arms, and raises his face to the sky, against an abstract sepia backdrop.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire. The lower half of a face lies horizontally across the bottom of the image, breathing a twisting, yello-orange flame against a black background. Bit on-the-nose, but there we go.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. A fantastic cityscape rises against a rich sunset. Or sunrise. It's actually pretty unclear which direction we're facing. Great book though. Seek it out.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Blakewood: Episode 5 is available now! Blakewood's investigation leads to a crumbling boarding house, and an unwelcome reunion with Paulie's killer... All previous episodes available to read for free! Follow the link. #comicstrip #comic #graphicnovel open.substack.com/pub/cultofny...

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Blakewood: Episode 5

A Last Goodbye...

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of Joe Abercrombie's The Heroes. A bloody axe sits atop an old, sepia toned map.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

Cover of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. This edition is illustrated by Bernie Wrightson and features his art on the cover, a black-ink hatched portrait of the creature, looking weary and forlorn.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Our earnings are a rounding error to these fuckers. They think it's so little it doesn't matter. They don't understand that it matters BECAUSE it's so little, and when it's taken away from us we have NOTHING.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

Cover art for Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward. A drop of clear liquid sits over and partially distorts the words Only Forward, which are written in upper case chrome, with two small, glowing triangles, like the fast forward button on a remote control, sat beside them.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

Cover of 'The Player of Games' by Iain M Banks. A figure stands silhouetted against a star scape, overlooking a complex, three dimensional, white and red gameboard, peopled with unusual playing pieces.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula. Artist unknown. A single rose drips blood onto a crossed pair of gentleman's white dress gloves, against a black background.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #20BookChallenge

The cover of the Terry Pratchett novel 'Sourcery'. Illustrated by Josh Kirby. Rincewind and friends looked concerned atop a magic carpet.

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Kev Rooney @kevrooney.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Blakewood: Episode 4 is now live, and it's CSI Metrogrande as Blakewood deals with a murder... #webcomic open.substack.com/pub/cultofny...