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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 10h
When Trump talks about inane rubbish like his Daylight Savings whinge, it’s probably worth checking how the polymarket betting changed on the subject in the hours before He can’t benefit from working for his party on election stuff, so why wouldn’t he look for other wins?
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 11h
Two things on Brexit: 1 conversations are now on Europe - leave the B-word to the swivel-eyed fraternity 2 the victims losing while the perpetrators thrive is a scam not a mistake. Are the Badenoch types still benefiting (financially? Certainly not politically) or are they really REALLY stupid?
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 12h
The only way to get politicians to act is to flood the zone with ai-generated nudies of the politicians (Bonus effect: their taints will taint the tAInt for a lot of digital pervs)
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/02/2026
AI "impedes [theory because we're] interested in human-understandable theory and theory-based models, not statistical models which provide only a representation of the data. Scientific theories and models are only useful if [we understand them and] they connect transparently to research questions."
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 20h
@iesornozines.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/engl...
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📣NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! We’re excited to announce a new paid role with the Comics Cultural Impact Collective. We’re looking for SOMEONE to join us as a Non-Executive Director… Could that SOMEONE be YOU?? 🫵 Full info here: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/Join-Us
Fee: £1,800 paid 12-month appointment.
Commitment: Approx 8.5 days across the year.
Location: Primarily remote.
Eligibility: You must be resident in the UK.
First Board Role? Very welcome.
Application: Written, audio and video applications welcomed, with access support
throughout.The Comics Cultural Impact Collective
(CCIC) is growing, and we're looking for someone who loves comics and the comics community and wants to help it flourish.
We want to broaden who has a voice and power in shaping CCIC and contribute to a stronger, fairer and more connected comics sector.
For this appointment, we welcome applications from Black, Asian, Brown, mixed-heritage and other racially minoritised people, whose perspectives are currently underrepresented within CCIC's governance.
You don't need previous board experience. There's no single route into this role, and we value lived, professional, creative, community and learned expertise.Most importantly, we want somebody who cares about comics, believes in the people who make up our community, and is excited about helping the sector thrive.
This appointment is one part of our wider commitment to making CCIC more representative, equitable and accountable, and ensuring a wider range of knowledge, experience and perspectives meaningfully shape our decisions.Applications open: Friday 2 October
Closing date: Friday 30 October, 5pm

This paid appointment has been made possible thanks to funding from
Supported using public funding by
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND

The Comics Cultural
Impact Collective
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Michael Nimmo | 3 Million Years @comics.3millionyears.co.uk · 05/10/2026
The seventh issue of my zine, Custard, had been sent to the printers! It will be available in about ten days and a digital version to follow. You can catch up on the previous issues here: custardcomix.gumroad.com/
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Cartoon County @cartooncounty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sunday at #LICAF started with a cracking live drawing trio accompanied by a brilliant musical trio. Couldn’t have been better. Artist no2 was the County’s own @lucysullivan.bsky.social drawing with ink after being only spotted using carbon paper recently
Lucy Sullivan live drawing at LICAF 2026 with live music from la’l tethera
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Cartoon County @cartooncounty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our @zaraslattery.bsky.social at #LICAF panel on InspirationalComics on Neurodiversity & Disability “comics are gloriously indulgent… and generous”
Zara Slattery talking on a panel at LICAF 2026
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Cartoon County @cartooncounty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Morning at #LICAF - a talk from our pal @ilyagraphic.bsky.social
Ilya talking at LICAF 2026
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Finn Hopson @finnhop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Three fields and ten trees on the South Downs. One of a small series of pictures made as part my ongoing ‘Fieldwork’ series, all taken in the middle of bright sunny days with little cloud, no shadows and no more than two or three colours within the frame.
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hope we’ll see so many cases like this(“it might be ai”) that art directors move away from the fashionable homogenous look of the last 20 years toward commissioning more individual idiosyncratic illustration (it’s already started with the likes of The Fence magazine’s illustration choices)
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Rob Jackson @robjacksoncomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not doing any comics shows this year sadly, so if you want any of my comics there's only my shop rob-jackson-comics.sumupstore.com cheers, it is a nice shop.
front cover of a comic, The Purple Feather, showing an old man walking past a boarded up shop
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This train to #licaf is too wobbly for me to read so I’ve the @comiclab.bsky.social pod in my ears Common phrase from Dave Kellett: “it’s a marathon not a sprint” is very true for a career and for the productivity side of making comics… but for my money the art side is a ramble. Often with no map!
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On This Day, 30th September 1972, Marvel UK’s very first issue of the weekly The Mighty World of Marvel arrived in newsagents, accompanied by its “iron on” Hulk transfer, very much a collectable today...
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On This Day, in 1972, Britain welcomed the arrival of The Mighty World of Marvel
Celebrate the “birth” of Marvel UK back in 1972!
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When Harry left I thought we’d done great business - because he was getting ankle injuries every season, it felt like he’d be forced to retire if he’d stayed one more year. The Prem saw how Leeds were portrayed in Damned United and decided that’s what they wanted football to be
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘Measures’ post-match reaction is good but I look forward to a pod where it’s not needed! We watched Damned United last night it’s very pantomime and I think Sheen was channelling Rik Mayall more than Cloughie, but boy could we do with 2026 managers calling out dirty tactics and players like that
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That’s always so convincing
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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yesterday, me and Angela recorded an episode of the excellent @hellishpod.com podcast and had a hilarious (ahem)… er, *infernal* time. If you like your #music and laughs, follow! Listen! The ep should be out shortly after the UK publication date of My Beloved Other, Sept. 26. Watch this space!
My Beloved Other cover (c) copyright Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson
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Dark & Golden Books @darkandgolden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another Way Out collects 3 new comics by Carol Swain. The landscapes are wreathed with ghosts, and the spaces between words spill over with unsaid secrets. Elusive and intriguing, these stories are never quite what you expect, but always a truth you have known all along. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@edzitron.com Without tech billionaires money wouldn’t your latest Better Offline just be about the outsider art of teenagers imagining life if they had super powers; acid casualties’ obsessive archives; fans of the Habsburg dynasty; and obscure death cults?
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s “personal”. You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong! But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The ‘experts’ who get platformed on this subject are almost universally individuals working for the ai companies or leaving to work in a related advisory capacity in the circular financing racket. None are reliable witnesses. All have vested interests.
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House of Harley @houseofharley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hot diggity dawg! Ugly Mug 9 is now available from @goshcomics.bsky.social... head to their excellent Soho shop at 1 Berwick St, London W1F 0DR or buy from their online store at goshlondon.com/ugly-mug-9/?... #comics #undergroundcomix #UglyMug
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Mindless Ones @mindlessones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Issue #75 of our newsletter is out now ft. The Arrest, The Comforters, Grot Scrabblers, Gundam Hathaway, “I’d be great on Mastermind!”, Number 16, an unkillable Optimus Prime and more! “I underwent a process to discover I had - very gangsterly tbqh - had a heart attack without realising…”
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Never trust pilots who believe in the afterlife
Grot Scrabblers. Planks Constant. Muriel Spark. Jonathan Lethem. Mobile Suit Gundam. I am Too Tough to Die. Last night on earth.
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Setting up at Volt in Eastbourne. Here all afternoon
A table of art comics for sale at VoltPoster for the Collective Books Fair Volt Eastbourne
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Douglas Noble @douglasnoble.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Now also available as a handy digital pdf! stripforme.bigcartel.com/products
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 10/09/2026
I’ll combine chemo lines and Celtic knotwork. Why the hell not
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 09/09/2026
Kind reminder: 1st October, 6pm, London: Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics. Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum and Zara Slattery will examine how comics cann open up conversations about disability, neurodiversity, care and belonging. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panels-per...
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Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics
Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum & Zara Slattery explore disability and neurodiversity in comics. Chaired by Dr Ernesto Priego (City HCID).
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ThirdBear Press @thirdbearpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just over £800 left to raise now! BOXES Vol. 5 can exist with your help! *The funding campaign ends on Friday at 12 noon UK time.* Help us fund it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... Thanks 📦📦📦
A screenshot of the BOXES Comic Magazine Vol. 5 Kickstarter page.

£4190 raised of £5000. 
160 backers. 
38 hours to go.
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yes! Sara brought early copies of this to a Cartoon County Fair and sold gangbusters. She’ll be great to hear in a couple of weeks’ time
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Fraser Geesin @frasergeesin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Recent commission that I was more than happy to do. A drawing to remember an arch rivalry between two dogs. Sadly the chihuahua passed away last week, thankfully not in battle. Contact me if you’d like me to draw something for you.
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🔥 Sunday School: DAS SCHADENFREUDEFEST 🔥 We dissect a horrible few days for Farage, every aspect of his latest scandal, and every moment of his car crash conference. And laugh about it quite a lot. As is right and proper. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7bMP...
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Sunday School: Das Schadenfreudefest
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 6 September · 1hr 12min
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The only comicker in the comic con - hope that makes you precious and busy!
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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
On the Wilomina book tour! It’s such a buzz sharing our graphic novel with kids! We visited 4 more primary schools around Glasgow with Daydreams bookshop, talked to hundreds of kids about Wilomina & making comics, signed tones of books! Looking forward to more next week! @scholasticuk.bsky.social
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nobody needs to follow anyone on these lists because half their mutuals will end up sharing anything they do that touches on our actual interests (I doubt it will happen often anyway)
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good luck today. Hope it’s fun. The kids are wondering what the rest of the stalls are like?
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Daniel Bell @danbellcomics.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
All set up at Brighton & Hove Comic Con, if you're in town the pop along to the Dome.
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 03/09/2026
NEXT UP! Saturday afternoon sees the triumphant return of #Pengefest to #Penge High Street. There'll be beer, food, stalls, live music and people in lederhosen. It's all in aid of St Christopher's hospice - and we'll be there, selling our books and #zines, too... See you all there!
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ThirdBear Press @thirdbearpress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Time is running out if you’ve been meaning to back BOXES Vol. 5… 6 days to go and around £1700 to raise! BOXES showcases new short comics from a diverse range of UK based comics creators. Reserve your copy of the new issue here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... 📦📦📦
A screenshot of the BOXES Vol. 5 Kickstarter page. 

£3342 pledged of £5000
123 backers
6days to goArt work from the comics that appear in BOXES Vol. 5. 

Art by Joost Buis, Ccrow, Francis Todd, Bruna Martini, Kamila Krol, Skai Campbell, Claudia Palmez, Dimitris Zach, Julie Mapes, Sean Watson & Fin Cramb, Zu Dominiak and James Taylor
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Because the 2nd and 3rd photos get cropped and stacked in BlueSky, that headline was funnier in the body of your post than when I clicked on the image
Accidentally cropped photo of a newspaper headline makes it read as if Argentina are sniffing our PM’s farts
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Paul B. Rainey @pbrainey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The UK launch of my graphic novel MURDER SCHOOL is taking place on Saturday September 19th 1 PM to 2 PM in @goshcomics.bsky.social Please come along and watch me sign one or more copies to you before your very eyes. goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 30/08/2026
Morning! We sent out our latest newsletter yesterday with details of THREE new #zines - plus something for the weekend... Still don't subscribe? Suit yourself, pal. You can read it hear instead: bit.ly/colossiveaug26
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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
29/8/26 - nocturn
small hours
big time

a real murk
becoming splatter 

stars return at 0400hrs
you absorb them
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And
Lots of zines
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Pictures!
Cover of Nearlymades Redux
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Brand new for my bit of the table: Nearlymades Redux, alongside other goodies like Once Upon Again 7 and the infamous Merkin and pick up some Odyssey postcards by @drlouis.bsky.social
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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And a lurking cryptic presence … is it a threat or a guardian?
A Nearlymades adaptation of the IDW comic crash photo turning the damaged truck into a a strang dog like creature
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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just turned in the pencilled pages for Wilomina Book 2 to our editor! That’s another 265 pages of art. Just started inking them now. The deadline clocks are ticking! Wilomina Book 2 will be published in 2027. Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares is out now from @scholasticuk.bsky.social
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Jamie Ross @mrwent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Boxes, Boxes, read all about it!
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