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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 16h

Funnily enough @rmblees.bsky.social said exactly the same to me on Saturday queuing up for #DayOfDread

C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 16h

"...The real craft of comics is designing the invisible." — Yiqi Zhang #booksky #drawntoextinction #comics #art #comicsky trainor.fyi/books/drawn

A striking, chaotic comic-style cover layered with overlapping hand-drawn panels, showing fragmented faces, sketchbook pages, and inked figures in a mix of rough linework and vivid colour. Fluorescent yellow horizontal bands slice across the entire image like warning tape, partially obscuring the artwork beneath. Over this, bold, blocky black typography reading “Drawn to Extinction” runs vertically and dominates the composition, creating a sense of disruption and tension. The background feels like a collage of analogue craft under pressure, with visible pencil marks, notes, and expressive character art clashing against the harsh digital overlays, evoking the collision between human creativity and machine generation.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 19h

The original Forbidden Planet in Denmark Street, probably. Or Radars in Aberdeen for a Fudge Sundae.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 19h

We had two places in Yeovil where I grew up that I’d love to go back to. Both gone now. Bulldozed. Acorn Records where I learned I loved music. Rainbow Video where we used to rent out VHS. It was huge and easily an hour of happy browsing to pick something as a treat.

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theovanamelsvoort.bsky.social @theovanamelsvoort.bsky.social · 20h

There was a local bar in my hometown, they played mostly rock/metal, it was called Extase and it's where I went with friends out every weekend for like 10 years, drank beer, danced, met my wife there, had our first kiss there...good times... Anyways it closed and is a restaurant now...c'est la vie.

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Iain @iainmspillane.com · 21h

I need 2 shops to come back:- FC Parker and the sandwich shop opposite the Virgin Megastore. Both in Cardiff, FC was were I first found my love for D&D and I've never found a better mixed cheese sandwich since that deli closed.

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Night Owls on Hospital Radio Glamorgan @nightowlsrg.bsky.social · 21h

Coliseum Books in NYC - many happy hours browsing there

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 21h

Right then — found a till receipt from a shop that closed years ago and sat down about it. Fond one for today: which long-gone place would you walk into tomorrow if you could 🏚 — the corner shop, a chippy, a video rental with the carpet smell and all? #goneplaces

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 22h

You can say what you like about him for being sent to prison etc etc… but it’s undeniable what a remarkable writing career Archer created. The numbers sold are staggering. A creative and inventive giant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86

Publisher says author died peacefully at home ‘between writing sessions’

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Marc Laming all singing, all dancing comics guy. @marclaming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what a fantastic first page! I've been there too. My dad was a difficult man but comics, sci fi and fantasy novels, progressive rock and punk gave us something to bond over. He took me to my first comic shop and to the old Westminster Hall comic marts. On the same day bought me Dungeons & Dragons

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 06/10/2026

梯子 Hashigo · Endless 27,640 · 15 ladders · 1 perfect ▓░░░▓▓▓▓░░▓░█▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░▓ Climb @ www.hashigo.ing

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Hashigo — Number Ladders, a Daily Puzzle Game for iPhone

Four ladders, one rule: every card has to beat the one below it. One Daily deck a day, the same for every Climber.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 06/10/2026

Rights of passage, and comics / genre hobbies always provide a leveller.

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Patrick Goddard @paddyg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m hoping to do more in the new year, maybe a short one off before my next strip 🤞🏻

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 05/10/2026

The mighty Dave McKean on being Ai curious… going there and then coming back again. flaminghydra.com/issue-662/#a...

flaminghydra.com

Culture warrior

Dave McKean and Zach Rabiroff on the gathering storm in AI, art, and ethics

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 05/10/2026

Had totally passed me by. Season 2 is 🔥 I’ve laughed (sperm), lent forward (railway tunnel), and almost cried (Bruce) and I’m only 4 episodes in.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, yeah, a really good show that deserves a much wider audience!

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 05/10/2026

From the first page of my book. I think Eagle and Dan Dare has been such a right of passage for so many generations, and it’s amazing you’re keeping the flame burning. Can’t wait to get my hands on it + take it to show my 82-year-old dad.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 05/10/2026

Got introduced to Mr Inbetween by a friend and oh wow, what a joy. Australian charm at its finest. Took me a while to settle into it, but now I’m really loving it. Go and check it out!

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 05/10/2026

Awake before the alarm, which never feels like a win but here we are. Slow one for today: which window have you loved most 🪟 — not the best view, just the one you kept standing at? Someone else's kitchen, a train seat, a flat you only rented a year. #windowsiview

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 05/10/2026

Get busy! We need more… 😆

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

"...It’s about choosing which of ten possible panels is the one that makes the page breathe." — @paddyg.bsky.social #booksky #drawntoextinction #comics #art #comicsky trainor.fyi/books/drawn

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

Oh, this one is notoriously impossible to get hold of. I hunted for many years 😆

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

And of course… there’s also this beauty…

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

If we’re sharing our favourite #JudgeDread stories, then I’m almost embarrassed to say some of my favourites from @2000ad.bsky.social are in the XXX Files… some disgraceful additions, but some absolute belters. “Love Hurts” might be the most surreal Dread story of them all.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

Now, I hear this rumour about there being an original 2000AD art owners lunch that happens occasionally… I really need in on this action because outside of Dread I have picked up some sensational pieces over the years. Where do I sign up?

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

And this sensational Mechanismo by Lyndon Arthur. Who, incidentally @2000ad.bsky.social really need to bite the bullet and hire, because his work js sensational #DayofDread #ComicArt

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

A Lee Carter that I really must get framed and hung #DayofDread #ComicArt

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

This rather funky piece I got from Frazer Irving #DayofDread #ComicArt

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

Sharing a few of the original Dread pieces I’ve picked up over the years … starting with this Colin MacNeil #DayofDread #ComicArt

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 04/10/2026

Tea's gone cold twice and I've let it, which tells you the sort of morning it is. Quiet one for today: is there a walk 🌫 your feet still know without you — the route to school, a shortcut through somewhere that's since been built over? Where does it take you? #wellwornpaths

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

#DayOfDredd really does remind us about how much creative talent the UK has… in this chapter from my book we talk about three of those men, three short stories, one fire axe, and the most accurate prediction of the #Ai age ever published in a weekly British comic. open.substack.com/pub/petetrai...

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The Art of Kenny Who?

Three men, three short stories, one fire axe, and the most accurate prediction of the AI age ever published in a weekly British comic.

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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As it’s #dayofdredd here’s my favourite Judge Dredd moment. And one of the best lines in comics history.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are a gadzillion favourite Judge Dredd pages I carry around in my head. To pick any one as the best, or even my favourite, would be nigh impossible. But I can share the first one that came to me when I thought about it all, from Block Wars by Wagner, Grant, Bolland & Potter. #DayofDredd

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

I bet Megastore was heaving?! Gosh is one of my happy places 😆 I should be given shares.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. This is the Colin I’ve always always wanted to get my mitts on. That “Simultaneously, mechanised destruction rains down” page is my grail.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

Here’s one of my favourite non-2000AD related Brian items. Framed on my office wall. It’s a glorious thing.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

Dude, your covers are EPIC… nobody else does colour that good.

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Want to know more about the mind behind Judge Dredd? Check out the EPIC three-part interview with his legendary co-creator, writer John Wagner... Part one: youtu.be/3dmUrRrqVZQ Part two: youtu.be/eWlR2lvYdZw Part three: youtu.be/agWGkFPfcGI #DayofDredd

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John Wagner: "Dredd's Never Going to Die"

YouTube video by 2000 AD

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

Brian is the GOAT. Lovely lovely man too.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

📚 Seems fitting on @2000ad.bsky.social #DayOfDredd to join in with the Dredd Shelfies ☠️ #ComicBooks #ComicSky

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

I also got this little beauty signed by Liam… it’s the 1994 gold Deaths Head #1 which is a prized edition from my collection.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

Darcy Van Poelgeest and Niko Henrichon have done an absolutely stunning job on the All In #DoomPatrol … it looks beautiful, and Darcy clearly understands these characters really really well. Looking forward to this run.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

Got these two signed by Liam and Rob. Both brilliant examples of comic book art and writing at their very finest.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

It's The #DayofDredd – post your ultimate Judge Dredd artist! Carlos Ezquerra is clearly the master. But over the years I’ve fallen hard for anything by Dan Cornwell or @paddyg.bsky.social, who are both like Santa and always deliver. Henry Flint of course… always makes me happy.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

The best thing about book signings are always the people you meet in the queues and today I had a lovely chat with @rmblees.bsky.social who’s made the trek from Denmark for #DayOfDredd, which is some kind of awesome commitment. Excellent to see @robwilliams71.bsky.social and @liamsharp.bsky.social

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Happy #DayOfDredd to all who celebrate.

The album cover for 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by The Beatles, except the Fab Four and their cardboard friends have been replaced by Judge Dredd and his impressive gallery of allies and enemies. No, I'm not going to name all of them, and yes, while it is quite possible that the character you really like isn't in there, I make no apology for their absence. Batman, Predator, Alien and The Biker Mice From Mars are all missing because I wanted this to be a tribute to Rebellion.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 03/10/2026

"...Comics, at their best, are not efficient, they are exacting." — John Wagner #booksky #drawntoextinction #comics #art #comicsky trainor.fyi/books/drawn

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