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Artist, writer, host of 100 Words of Astounding Beauty, Brighton & Hove UK.

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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Poets Corner Offline Arts Lab tonight, 18.30 - 21.30 www.patreon.com/posts/170893...
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Offline Arts Lab tonight - 29/09/26 | Poets Corner Arts Lab CIC
Come and join us tonight at The Poets Ale & Smoke House, BN3 5BF, 18.30 - 21.30. All artists of all kinds are welcome. It's free and you can
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Bran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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First panel of today's Swan Boy. Swan Boy is in detective mode. Putting the pieces together.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What is the Poets Corner Arts Lab? www.patreon.com/PoetsCornerA... #brighton #hove #ukart #ukartists
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What is the Poets Corner Arts Lab | Poets Corner Arts Lab CIC
The Poets Corner Arts Lab meets every Tuesday in a pub in Hove to share our work, offer support and look out for opportunities. Our aim is t
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thanks so much Stuart. Data has so much to offer us, even after all these years.
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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
They're real, and they're spectacular
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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Wes Streeting looks like a clown's ghost haunting an uncooked chicken thigh
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Myfanwy Tristram @myfanwytristram.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Heyo #Brighton, if you’re around on Monday 18th, @zebko.bsky.social & I are talking about our new graphic novels at @waterstones.bsky.social with @panelborders.bsky.social. Would love to see you for drinks, crisps & chat: www.waterstones.com/events/carto... @cartooncounty.bsky.social
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Cartoon County: Drawing On Protest & Loss | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Cartoon County: Drawing On Protest & Loss today.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The Decepticons are retreating! Prime turned the tide!
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🔥The results of the UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 are in 🔥 STATS! Come get yer STATS! Fresh juicy STATS! ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...
The front cover of the UK Comics creators research report, by Joanna Rivera-Carlisle, Amanda Nicole Curtis and Hannah Berry May 2026
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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 06/05/2026
The Comics Cultural Impact 2025 census is out. This graphic says a lot. Graphic novels are a booming, expanding industry. 1/5 creators say they earn the majority of their income from comics. 89% say they earn less than the minimum wage. More here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Was that Starscream? What the shit"
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A free weekly meet up for artists in #brighton and #hove. Online isn't working any more. We have to go offline, where the people are. #brightonartists #brightonart #ukartists
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
First update on our @kickstarter campaign on a group exhibition at Jubilee Library in #brighton 24 hours in and we are 38% funded! An excellent start. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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Poets Corner Arts Lab: Autumn Exhibition in Brighton
Join in and support our upcoming exhibition in the window gallery of Jubilee Library in Brighton, in September 2026.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Crowdfunding a group exhibition for an Arts Lab I am part of: artists in #brighton and #hove are most welcome to join in. We're hanging 16 banners from 16 artists in Jubilee Library in September. Check out Poets Corner Arts Lab: Autumn Exhibition @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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Poets Corner Arts Lab: Autumn Exhibition in Brighton
Join in and support our upcoming exhibition in the window gallery of Jubilee Library in Brighton, in September 2026.
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Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Adventurous new flavour concept. #Brighton #StreetArt
Looking at a wall with sprayed graffiti of an onion shaped smiley face and “onion milk” lettering with a small “racism is for losers” sticker.
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Polygon @polygon.com · 10/04/2026
Frank Oz, legendary puppeteer behind the Muppets and Sesame Street, returns to the world of puppets after a decade away.
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Frank Oz makes surprise puppet comeback with Judge Boing Boing shorts
Frank Oz, legendary puppeteer behind the Muppets and Sesame Street, returns to the world of puppets after a decade away.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Let's just say it's my problematic fave
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.artstation.com/tommcnally for the whole shebang
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Tom McNally
Artist based in Brighton. Screen prints, pixel art, oils.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#portfolioday , is it? I'm Tom, an artist and writer in #brighton. I'm currently making a series of oil paintings about Bagpuss, screen printed zines with #flashfiction and 3D renders of stained glass windows. Nobody can stop me. I organise a weekly Arts Lab in Poets Corner.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Pretty good on the whole - I'm trying to become a member of society. I'm registering a CIC, and crowdfunding for a community exhibition. I even called up one of my councillors today. Mixed result so far. But the leopard seal is always with us.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Got that one up on my wall
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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
How it feels to be around people
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I was about to reply with a cool Heathcliff cartoon specifically about the John Astin Riddler that I'd seen recently but then discovered that it was you who had posted it. My policy of checking social media feeds just before going to sleep and just after waking up is bearing fruit.
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Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Today on Batman IT'S HIS TIME
That Heathcliff cartoon of him dressed as a moustached Riddled, with some watching mice sayjng "He's the John Astin Riddler."
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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
MORE old shit
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
CCIC, the Comics Cultural Impact Collective, has announced their success in obtaining an Arts Council England (ACE) Project Grant of £37,000
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Arts Council England funding for Comics Cultural Impact Collective
Arts funding success for comic creator champions
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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Buk real
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Staggeringly low pay for a role with such high requirements.
A screen shot from the Sussex Wildlife Trust's financial report, showing that its upper management reveive salaries of £80k - £90k and receive roughly £400 000 of employee benefits. Two members of management had their salaries raised to that range in 2025. The reader is invited to compare these figures to the £24k that the posted job offers.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
If I had to work with the kind of millenials that the young people are describing in their complaints then I, too, would hate millenials.
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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
$1 Pick up
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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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ScARRRRGHy Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is fun. You should go draw horsies instead of whatever it is you're meant to be getting on with*. gradient.horse *That's a lie. If you have important things to do don't listen to me. But this is cute.
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Marian 🎃🦌🩺🌸 @mmortah.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
IT'S A PODCAST MAXIMUS REUNION GET IN @inflatabledalek.bsky.social @tom-mcnally.bsky.social
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Harrison V. Perry @harrisonvperry.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
And we're live with the new KS! Come check out the comic! www.kickstarter.com/projects/har...
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Atonement of a Monk #1
World Champion MMA fighter, Tyson Woods, can't remember who he is, but four monks are convinced he is the Chosen One — Nova.
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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Looking at that scheme in Ireland for paying creatives and we definitely need it here. They get €1300 a month (about £1130 / $1556) to live on so they can create work without worrying about bill payment and that's honestly a great idea.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The many heads of precious cattle on the tumultuous moon of Io. The beef industry simply can't withstand a disaster like this, what with all that has happened recently.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
the tumultuous moon of Io, with its 400 active volcanoes
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Steven Devote @stevendevote.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Turkey #photography #Brighton #Mobilephone #iphonephoto #Macrophotography #meat
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Diamanda Hagan @diamandahagan.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Reminder that there exists an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet filmed with untrained stray cats in Rome, dubbed over by British Shakespearean actors. It's called 'Romeo.Juliet' and has never been given a VHS/ DVD or Bluray release. BUT THERE IS A COPY ON THE INTERNET ARCHIVE.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a three quarter profile of an ancient Egyptian figurine of a leaping dog facing left. Carved from ivory, now a warm caramel brown colour with glossy surface. The dogs eyes are outlined in black, the ears are floppy, the mouth is slightly ajar (the inside of the mouth is painted red - not sen in my photo). The front and back legs are outstretched as if running at full speed. A lever under the dog’s chest opens and closes the mouth so that the dog looks as if it’s barking. Dimensions: L 18.2 cm × H 6.1 cm × W 3.6 cm. Dated to Late Dynasty I8, I400-I350 BC, reign of Amenhotep III who was Tutankhamun’s grandfather.

The dog is mounted on a thin metal rod in a display case. In the background in the same display case is a ‘galloping’ brown horse, which is the handle of an ancient Egyptian fly whisk or light whip.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I've just written to my MP, Peter Kyle, about this horrible attack on human rights that @teamlabouruk.bsky.social announced so proudly today. What they do to asylum seekers, they can do to anyone.
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Cartoon County @cartooncounty.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is a sad way to start a big celebratory weekend at Thought Bubble. Rachel supported so many graphic novels over the years All at Cartoon County send our sincere condolences to her family and friends
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
thanks to those who alerted me that the Bandcamp store hadn't populated yet. is that the right term? it is now populated i.e. you can get the whole album there. themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/throug...
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Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, by the Mountain Goats
12 track album
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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Me & my comics pal @fraserc69.bsky.social were adding our unused TFTQ page to this but the con artist AKA Frazer Brown has put that on hold for now. Instead Fraser (good one) & I are creating a brand, spankin’ 1 pager for A1 DEADLINE so please… BACK IT NOW! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...
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A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL
A1 and DEADLINE, two landmark UK comic book publications ARE BACK! The heart of UK counterculture returns to print.
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Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Smart casual #channel4news #c4news #uk
A photograph of a television screen showing this evening's edition of Channel 4 News. The lead newscaster, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, is sat at a desk in a relaxed, candid posture, looking at his phone, as if he is on a break. The camera filming him was apparently not supposed to be broadcasting.
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