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Gary Northfield

@stupidmonster.bsky.social
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Cartoonist/illustrator/author/magician/trapeze artist/grump Rep'd by United Agents www.unitedagents.co.uk/gary-northfi…

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Special shout out to @stupidmonster.bsky.social who’s new book Mighty Mega Pets is out NOW and it is AMAZING 💖
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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
MIGHTY MEGA PETS by Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social - a bunch of pets get superpowers in this gloriously funny, silly, exciting and generally joyous graphic novel. A book that made a friend enquire what I was reading because I was laughing out loud so hard. Just an absolute delight. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Peter Kelly @thepeterkelly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Aha! Jim Medway proving himself to be not just a fantastic cartoonist but also a fantastic human being. medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/jim-medway
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Stride for Palestinians 2025
I am striding for Palestinians in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). Starting on Nakba Day, I will be completing 107km in one month and virtually covering the distance from Occupied East Jerus
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 15,000+! You can #DoTheWriteThing & stop #MetaBookTheives by adding your signature here✒️ authr.uk/sp40
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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
All my Julius zebra books are in there, the thieving bastards.
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Katelyn T Slater 🏳️‍⚧️⚛️⚧️ @katelynslater.com · 19/03/2025
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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate! @destinationvenus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Comics are a community. I like to think that we take care of each other. Please consider following the link in the post below.
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CP @caitpol.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Already well thumbed, with thanks @wrdmag.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social. Julius Zebra's latest adventure, this time in Ancient China. An absurdly comic piece of fiction studded with fascinating historical facts. Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social always has us howling.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Oh hey that’s my quote. Incidentally I spent Saturday writing my speech for London Book Fair. I’m chuffed with how it turned out. It mostly covers how children’s comics were abandoned by publishers in the 90s/00s, and in doing so we lost a generation of readers. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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‘Something magical is happening’: sales boom for children’s comics creating young readers of the future
Publishers and analysts say popularity of genres like manga and superhero comics is a gateway into reading
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Had a brilliant #worldbookday, fantastic, jolly upbeat teachers and kids, 110% effort in costumes all round too! Such a life-affirming day :) A visiting parent (who was also a teacher) asked me in reception if I was an author, because I looked like one! 🥸 I’ve no idea what that means!
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...
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Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The word you’re looking for is “stolen”, not ‘given away’
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 25/02/2025
The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'
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YO Comics Fair @yocomicsfair.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🎨 YO COMICS WORKSHOP! Invent brilliant new comic characters with Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social ✏️ Learn comic skills from the weird and wonderful brain behind Derek the Sheep, Julius Zebra, and many other beloved, bonkers comic characters. 🗓️ 23rd March 2025 🚀 Tickets live March 1st
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WRDaboutbooks @wrdmag.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We have 4 RIOTOUSLY FUNNY copies of #JuliusZebra #CommotionInAncientChina by @stupidmonster.bsky.social to #win! If you crave an action-packed adventure full of illustrated silliness with Julius & friends in Ancient China… Repost & Follow by Feb 21 to enter @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #WRDMagComp
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Top of this week's "Who gives a sh*t?" news. "Why we're selling family castle after 700 years" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands up .
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands up .
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YO Comics Fair @yocomicsfair.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Find Gary at @stupidmonster.bsky.social
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YO Comics Fair @yocomicsfair.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
YO COMICS EXHIBITOR! Gary Northfield has been writing and drawing comics since 2002. He is most famous for Derek the Sheep - which appeared in The Beano. He has also created many jolly comics for The Phoenix, National Geographic Kids magazine, The Dandy, and Horrible Histories magazine.
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I assume I’m the billionth person to notice that Zuckerberg looks more like Beaker every day.
Mark Zuckerberg looking pensive at the inauguration Beaker, the dopey looking muppet.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
How can there be so many people in the world who want others to suffer?
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.
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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 28/07/2023
Hector Ayala, the White Tiger, by George Perez
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The ONE THING the UK punches above its weight at is the creative industries. Every move either party has made in the last 15 years has been to wreck them.
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
See also this @danfrancis02.bsky.social Hardworking artists and writers are having their IP stolen by the AI industry and the Labour Government is handing it them on a plate. There is an online consultation, but it is deliberate gobbledygook and impenetrable management speak.
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This is so depressing. We are sleepwalking into a disaster for the arts. Theft and laziness is being normalised and our professions undermined. @danfrancis02.bsky.social Please have a word!
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Matty Long @superhappymatty.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Didn't have to read too much of the consultation to realise it is merely window dressing; a government wanting to be seen as doing the right thing while it has already decided to do the wrong thing.
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Small Press Day @smallpressday.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Small press comics, pals! Check this out!
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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
News! Yo Comics! – New South London Comics Fair for Kids and By Kids Launches March 23rd, 2025. And please give @yocomicsfair.bsky.social a follow! #comicscommunity www.brokenfrontier.com/yo-comics-ne...
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Yo Comics! - New South London Comics Fair for Kids and By Kids Launches March 23rd, 2025 – Broken Frontier
'Yo Comics!' is a new kind of London comics fair with a pronounced emphasis on the kids comics demographic.
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YO Comics Fair @yocomicsfair.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🚀 Yo Comics Fair is gooooo! We are excited to announce that a brand new comic fair, FOR kids and BY kids, is happening at South London's on March 23rd 2025! Woo hoo! Keep your eyeballs glued to our Insta and Bluesky (we're @yocomicsfair) for more exciting announcements! #comicfair #Londonevents
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
#uksnow DA17 0/10 after the coldest day ever, boring flipping rain :( something is broken.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
We're burning the planet for a technology that has so far mainly produced mediocre animation clips and terrible student essays
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work. I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
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Unpaid Cat Maid @emeraldjaguar.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Why the fuck are there LED screens everywhere? Were we not using enough rare earth by just putting up posters? Anyone serious about climate change needs to be using fewer screens— and yet we’re plastering this shit over everything like suicidal muppets running off a cliff
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NateintheWild @nateinthewild.com · 23/12/2024
On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The wording made me so angry. To me it was deliberately impenetrable to stave off us poor creatives being used and abused.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
cool, shut it down
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Just filled this in. by which I mean I wrote the same answer in each box. "Total copyright protection. It's not hard." Please join me if you're not a thief.
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This is useful - doesn't work 100% but definitely helps (thank you @jongraywb.bsky.social) bsky.app/profile/jong...
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Garen Ewing @garenewing.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Getting reference images for drawing (hairstyles, cars, how a carpenter holds a saw ... whatever) now seems to show from 1 in 4 to 1 in 10 AI slop. AI is pollution. www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi...
Montage of awful AI images, including photo-realistic and comic style art, some have been in the news, some just from Facebook, etc.
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Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Found this Facebook post from eight years ago. Check out the prices of vinyl back then in Sainsburys! Lucky to pay less than double these prices now. #vinyl
A selection of LPs on a shop shelf. Most prices are £18, or £20 for a double.
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Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This article is so on the nail: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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The invisible problem with children’s books
Julian Gough on bridging the gap between reading picture books and young fiction/chapter books
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Alex Milway @alexmilway.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
And all those @stupidmonster.bsky.social Julius Zebras! 😍
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
My cartoon for Tuesday's Metro
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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This made me laugh. Curb levels of embarrassment. heawood.substack.com/p/why-scotla...
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Why Scotland Yard put me and my child on a register
and Stath Lets Flats is to blame.
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