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PJ Holden

@pauljholden.com
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Comic Artist. Website: www.pauljholden.com Portfolio: www.pauljholden.com/portfolio Eisner & Harvey nominated webcomic: Terran Omega at www.pauljholden.com/patreon/?via=bskybio Absolutely no generative AI🚫 Contact: pjholden at gmail dot com /

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 12h
New terran omega page uploaded! www.patreon.com/pjholden/pos...
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The Seed Ep1 P8 | PJ Holden
At this point I think I was finally getting the kind of art I wanted this episode to be. Hopefully it'll keep going that way. Another silent
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 9h
The stress of managing an 18 year old with autisim in the first weeks of university.
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 10h
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 10h
My local an dram group is doing a drop in play reading tonight and my acting chops are rusty but it would be nice to say words out loud as someone else for a bit again.
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Jamie Ross @mrwent.bsky.social · 11h
Make sure you are following this!!!
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 12h
New terran omega page uploaded! www.patreon.com/pjholden/pos...
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The Seed Ep1 P8 | PJ Holden
At this point I think I was finally getting the kind of art I wanted this episode to be. Hopefully it'll keep going that way. Another silent
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 21h
More like “supine intelligence”
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 29/09/2026
Puts head above parapet. Looks quietly around. Slowly puts head below parapet and resumes hiding again.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thread on Dan Boultwood's victim who waives her anomity to talk about the experience. For those who didn't see the original reporting, this is the only significant coverage. Maddie says how she's disappointed there wasn't more public introspection and conversation over this, and she's right.
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Dan Boultwood Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Child Sex Offences
Comic book creator Dan Boultwood was sentenced in court yesterday, after pleading guilty to child sex offences
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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
BIG JIM GORDON
Commissioner Jim Gordon, ink sketch by Dan McDaid
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you an editor or publisher with an original short fiction project of weird fiction out this year? Anthology? Magazine? Collection? Get it in for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
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Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strange days have found us Strange days have tracked us down
Dr. Strange by Chris Weston
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 28/09/2026
Trying a flatting technique wherein a reink a page (I say reink I mean I speed ink flat lines) over the page and then flat that with bucket fill and that MIGHT speed things up?
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Naomi Watts is 58.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 27/09/2026
We should have a social media day. Everyone off social media all year and then one day a year everyone comes on line. Like the purge.
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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On Final Order Cut-Off right now! DOG TAG #6! By @manruss.bsky.social, @pauljholden.com, @bertacious.bsky.social, Jon Moisan and me! OUR FINAL ISSUE! Very surreal to have finished all the colour work for this series. So goddamn rewarding to work on, especially with this team PRE-ORDER IT NOW!
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 27/09/2026
The very best short stories that still stick in your memory and should be on every writer/artist must read list: kevin nowlan batman b&w short. alan moore and jesus redondo’s the time machine. Lots of alex toth to choose from but ill pick the one with jet fighters (the name escapes me im afraid)
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Matt Garvey @mattgarvey1981.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Something happened!
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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mick McMahon
Judge Dredd: Mega City Rumble
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 26/09/2026
I have finally figured out the oerfect way to read the three tot genius books i have. A drawing board (to rest the book on) and good lighting. Nice to see a cameo of @danmcdaid.bsky.social in the first book too.
Open pages of the alex toth genius isolated book on a drawing board
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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mick McMahon
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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Got into an accident. Can’t afford it. My dog just had surgery that I also can’t afford. Can’t really take on any extra work yet. Please buy my books. If you’d like to own any of my original art, please let me know. 💖
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy National Comic Book Day.
Charlie Brown going through comic books at the newsstand, saying, “I’m discouraged today, and when I get discouraged a comic magazine is the only thing that will revive me.”
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 26/09/2026
Watched Harvey with my son. It was fantastic. Every actor just perfect. Son loved it.
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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Comics folk - if you read just one thread this weekend it needs to be this one. It’s important.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
Im collecting numbers for printing issue 2 of terran omega. If you like a self published printed edition (uk postage is £2 outside of that ill have to work it out) then please just tap the survey www.patreon.com/pjholden/pos...
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Terran omega The Ghosts of War printed edition | PJ Holden
I’ve giving this a week and this will dictate numbers for printing. Please if you want a printed copy select one. Costs are £7 per issue plu
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
Im collecting numbers for printing issue 2 of terran omega. If you like a self published printed edition (uk postage is £2 outside of that ill have to work it out) then please just tap the survey www.patreon.com/pjholden/pos...
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Terran omega The Ghosts of War printed edition | PJ Holden
I’ve giving this a week and this will dictate numbers for printing. Please if you want a printed copy select one. Costs are £7 per issue plu
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
I watched the omen yesterday and it made me want to really do that “VHS” small press idea i had of doing a zine about films where its just sketches and whatever nonsense i can think of from classic films wot i have watched.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
I muted some words (ill not tell you which but you can probably guess) and its helped a smidge. Its a 24hr mute. But well see if it comes back permanently.
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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hand-drawn obsidian stone age weapons. Places to get it: 🗡️ www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... 🗡️ salvaterra.itch.io/obsidian-wea... 🗡️ www.patreon.com/posts/79914538
drawing of several stone age obsidian weapons such as daggers, spears and clubs. "obsidian stone age weapons stock art - art pack with 15 hand-drawn obsidian stone age weapons".
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
Its treat day for me. Some art off to the mighty tharg and first week of uni for youngest. So im getting a haircut.
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Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was let go from BOOM! Studios this afternoon. If you are looking for someone well-connected in the comic industry (in both media and PR), with experience in graphic design, audio and video editing, and much more. Please reach out. Email: Liammcguirejournalism@gmail.com.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
It's out there now, prog 2511 cover of Rogue Trooper by me (how do you hide a blue soldier? why can't every one see him... or... maybe...)
2000ad Rogue Trooper cover...
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
A while ago I complained about how slow my scanner is. Well, I switched from using the mac's scan function (on a brotehr device) to using brothers print&scan app, a standalone app for scanning. This means now scanning art in to clip studio is a one touch operation - so instead of import->select
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
I am exhausted so today im not having any opinions. Its just too tiring havibg takes on everything. This isnt the same as sitting on the fence. This is not being arsed to go near the fence and staring at it from a safe distance. It’s not laudible but its all i can manage today.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/09/2026
Operation mincemeat the musical is coming to belfast! Hurrah!
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's how to find me and @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk side by side at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Redshirt Hall C 29-30, right inside the doorway of Entrance 4!
A graphic showing tables C29-30, facing Entrance 4 in the Redshirt Hall at Thought Bubble.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 24/09/2026
Maybe it was a mistake to let the Bronze Age collapse.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 24/09/2026
I have taken to calling my inner voice “derek” because his unrelenting idiotic insistence for attention reminds me of derek from the good place. Now when my inner voice begins negging i just imagine shouting “shut the fuck up derek” this is turning out to be a good strategy.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 24/09/2026
On my iphone “set an alarm for 4:45” would set an alarm tor 4:45PM on my ipad with apple intelligence it sets it for 4:44AM. WHICH IS NEVER WHAT I WANT.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 24/09/2026
Enjoyed ludwig series 2. Even if the last few minutes felt like the end of an avengers movie.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 24/09/2026
Gawd. That middle panel.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 24/09/2026
I love this.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 23/09/2026
hulk sketch drawn in procreate.
Hulk sketch.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 24/09/2026
Who called it a menage a trois and not “the three body problem”?
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Phil Boyce @philedboyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jerry Paris’ stunning cover to no.1 of Marvel UK’s epic Transformers. What a beginning! Even before we’ve opened it! Jerry set a very high bar for others to rise to. Take a closer look at more photos of issue one in the first of a new OiNK Blog series here: oink.blog/2026/09/20/p... 🚚🤖🐽
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