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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bronze Age Fantasy is where it’s at! Plus Ramon is good people. Get it read!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Postie put the FILTH through my letterbox today. Cannot wait to paw through this properly!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Working away on LoLM: Scourge of the Squared Circle and having fun drawing cannon fodder!

A photo of part of a comics page showing a gang of wrestlers in black singlets rushing into frame with a variety of weapons.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Left: I relieve you. Right: I stand relieved.

A new, blank sketchbook next to a battered, finished sketchbook.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Banged it into a chowder this evening! Absolutely delicious

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A sampler of some of the other heavy hitters. It’s been a good summer!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve also grown some truly fucked-looking (but delicious) strawberries

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve also had fairly good success growing cucumbers which are not constrained by your petty notions of “straight” and “not spikey”.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My central obsession has been trying the three sisters planting method, where you grow corn, beans and squash all together in the same soil, creating a symbiotic relationship. TBH it was closer to seven sisters because there was peas and marigolds in there and tomato plants kept cropping up too.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I post more about it over on Instagram, but I’ve been growing a chaotic kitchen garden this summer. I planted a box of random spuds and have been getting all kinds of colours now they’re finally ready for harvest!

A bowl of blackish-purple and deep yellow spuds

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks very much! Working on it as we speak!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What are you, some kinda real artist? Some kinda talented, real-ass proper artiste??

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Might be time to retire this pencil.

A sketchbook page of three Warhammer dwarf slayers. On the page is a double-ended blue-red pencil that has been sharpened down to the point where the two points are almost touching.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Watching the new GITS anime and feeling real weird about Batou lecturing trafficked girls about their SOS causing rich creeps to get injured like it’s a bad thing.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Damn government alert startled me so much I nearly dropped my sparkler

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My missus mentioned this film too!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What if, right, the Roman invasion of Britain but make it a Go Nagai super robot anime? Anyway, here’s a Wicker Mech, DO YOU GET IT

An illustration of a wicker mecha in the design style originated by Go Nagai, with Boudica as the pilot.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Oh, you’re making tarpaulin money??

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’ve had this happen before and what I’ve found is that if you let yourself have your feelings now and then start it again tomorrow you’ll recreate it better in half the time.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I learned how to make a courgette pipe* today! *music, not crime** **unless…

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dunno what you mean, this is fucking great!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Love that all the participants in the procession are geared up in period clothing but the charioteer is just in a polo and baseball cap, like “I built this bloody thing, that’s cosplay enough”.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Playing with ideas for a retired Wing Chun assassin who opens a cat café as a halfway house for street cats.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Been playing Hearts of Stone and it’s got me in a cossack kinda mood! Most of ‘em inspired by the excellent Ilya Repin painting.

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Prof Stephen Whittle @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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Samaritans responds to EHRC guidance after 40% rise in calls following Supreme Court ruling

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I like to rotate beween “OOSHT” and a pacino-esque “HOOWAH”, personally

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Sketchbook doodles Inspired by the little shinobi who like to whiz around my neighbourhood on weekends

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Oh ho hooo, well well, don’t mind if I do

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yeah, they’ve namechecked that in the one I’m reading! Along with one of his earlier characters. John Thunstone, I think it was? IIRC, Long Lost Friend was basically a folk herbalism manual?

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

They’re great! Always keen for a classic genre story in a lesser-trod setting.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’ve made time to tuck into Manly Wade Wellman’s John the Balladeer stories after finding out about him from a @schweizercomics.bsky.social drawing a while back. It’s great, classic weird tales-style fiction set in Appalachia and written in that dialect. This particular line goes pretty hard.

“They brag they don’t believe in no devil? All right folks, they’ll plumb believe before they get through with me. I’ll give them the Devil- I’ll give them hell with the lid off and the bottom of it a-shining right up into their faces!”

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I will be there… and I will have a new book, I hope!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Absolutely one of my favourite gag articles of all time. Crease every time I read it.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Comics artists! You’re all doing this, right?? If you’ve got any work published in something with an ISBN or ISSN, register with this payback scheme and simply receive free money later in the year. It is that simple. Do it! Love you.x

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A character in homage, but not meant to be the man himself!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I like the idea of gearmakers in the world of LoLM having shamanistic roles and abilities while still being very pragmatic craftspersons. Less inclined towards pageantry (they leave that to their clientele), but with a clear understanding of the mysticism of masking and the Road To Glory.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

That’s such a joke! For cards no less!!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Just to say that I devoured Star Impact up-to-date recently and it absolutely rules! Love everything you’re doing!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Just seen a Kickstarter trying to charge 13 quid for a 50-odd page PDF?? I understand the need for higher prices on print books and shipping, but I dunno how those factors apply to digital goods. Digital goods are zero overhead so you price low to get more pledges in the door? What am I missing?

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Fraser nailing it here. We badly need RM pulling back into public ownership because it’s getting absurd. I want to do another Kickstarter eventually but each year that passes it seems less and less feasible.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Oh man, I can’t wait to tote this around with me til it gets good and weathered.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Loved it! Thank you for sharing!!

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This is GREAT!! Go give it a read.

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James Lawrence @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Seeing people get into histrionics about this question the same way they do about “what brush is that” and tbh the person asking is probably young and trying to learn. They’re picking up on surface level stuff and focusing on that because they’re still learning to look deeper. Be civil, be open!

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