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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just one day until The Day of Dredd arrives! Don't miss signings with top creators, plus special limited edition swag! Read the details: 2000ad.com/news/the-day...

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Barry Kitson & Colin MacNeil head a great line-up of #DayOfDredd signings at Forbidden Planet International stores in Norwich, Belfast, Manchester & Glasgow THIS SATURDAY! Don't miss it, citizens bit.ly/4gTHRAt

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can imagine the exact opposite argument being put forward by an ATV producer while showing the tape to Lew Grade for the first time.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s funny how, when AI generates a picture, it’s just a tool - but when it hacks the government, it did it all by itself.

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Day of Dredd is coming! Don't miss creator signings across the UK plus in Prague and Portland! Details here: 2000ad.com/news/the-day...

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I did. It was a nice balance between cryptic artsy-ness and mechanically satisfying espionage. Watched it, Blue Collar and One False Move (all for the first time) recently, and it was maybe my favourite of the three.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Weird, I watched this for the first time last night. Small world.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Honestly thought this was a screenshot from GTA VI.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I will be signing comics on the 3rd of October, in accordance with The Law. Watch this space for details.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It really was outstanding. What a dream line-up.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Been reading some old Spider-Man comics and this letter from a reader regarding the (then recent) death of Gwen Stacy is treasure to enjoy over and over again.

Picture of a reader letter to Amazing Spider-Man, which reads:

“Dear Gerry, Gil, John, Tony Mortellaro, Roy, Dave, Art, and Steve,
You've finally done it! For about a decade now I've been following the life of Mr. Parker. And now you've given him the first taste of reality he has ever received. Gwen Stacy, the woman he loved, is dead.
Just 12 short hours ago I lost my own love ... not through death, but through other circum-stances. Already it seems like a lifetime has passed.
Besides her, the only things I held important, and still do, are my books, including my comics.
I've waited long, with Mr. Parker, to mature, grow up, and I've done it right along with him.
Our ages and backgrounds are close, both of us were quite unpopular in our youth, but gained popularity through the years. And now this.
There's not much I can say. But maybe what a good friend told me last night holds meaning for both Peter and myself.
"It was the setting of the sun, Eurlion, yet the sun will rise tomorrow, and it will be a new day. fitle pairall, what would life be like without a
Eurlion Enjaven
4 Elm St.
Batavia, N.Y. 14020”

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sounds like a cool T-shirt. Where can I get one of those?

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This one makes a pretty strong case for itself too.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I meant “took me a wheel”, naturally.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Another little panel from New Adventures from the Trigan Empire (out now). This was one of the first that I really felt worked in paint. Took ma while to get used to the medium.

Painted comics panel of a man in a green cape pushing rudely past another man in robes and confronting a group of women outside a train car. In the foreground a hand reaches vainly toward him. Also included is the preliminary sketch with perspective grids.

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Michael Carroll @mikeowencarroll.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New Adventures from The Trigan Empire: Book One is Out Now! michaelowencarroll.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/n... #TriganEmpire #SFXMagazine @2000ad.bsky.social @sfxmagazine.bsky.social

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New Adventures from the Trigan Empire: Book 1 is OUT NOW. Here's some more process for one of the panels.

Painted comics panel of a man in combat gear and an eyepatch flying towards the viewer, powered by rocket-boots. Also included are the rough layout and pencils prelim of the same image.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

OUT TODAY! New Adventures from The Trigan Empire: Book 1, written by @mikeowencarroll.bsky.social and painted by me. Here's a bit more art from it. Pencil prelim and finished painted artwork.

Painted comic panel of an airborne marksman, riding on the back of a fantasy creature, shooting laser blasts at the viewer from a rifle-like firearm. Also included is the preliminary, pencil version of the same panel.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New Adventures from the Trigan Empire is OUT TOMMOROW, so here's another of my favourite panels. This one ended up getting desaturated to make clear it was a flashback, but I always quite like the full-colour version.

Painted comics panel of a man in the the yellow robes of a Hericon guard, knocked to the ground and recoiling from a threatening, green-caped figure. Two guards in similar yellow uniforms look on. The prostrate man has blood and an expression of fear on his face. One of the other guards rubs his knuckles as if from delivering a blow, or preparing to deliver another.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

With Book 1 of New Adventures from the Trigan Empire coming out this week, I'm going to be sharing some of my favourite panels from it. With some of the less space-management-friendly ones, you'll get a bit of process too.

Painted comics panel of a short-haired, blonde man getting absolutely clocked in the face by a pair of green feet. A pleasingly jagged spurt of blood from his mouth adds a suggestion of movement and reenforces a generally diagonal composition. The wooden stock of a rifle is visible behind his head. An astute viewer would deduce he must be carrying it on his back.

Also included are the preliminary sketch and tighter pencil drawing that represent the early stages of the painting's development. All in all, a solid 8 out of 10.

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Michael Carroll @mikeowencarroll.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Woohoo! Contributor's copies! :) New Adventures from the Trigan Empire, volume 1, published next week! shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/RC... #TriganEmpire

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

You know summer is a comin' in when you somehow hear an outgoing landline dial/ring tone drift in through an open window.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I think this might be the first time this new logo's been revealed. Drew it myself and I think it turned out quite nicely.

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

New Adventures From The Trigan Empire, a new graphic novel continuing the story of the classic British comic series, is out in May! The hardback is available to pre-order in standard or webshop-exclusive signed edition ▶️ bit.ly/4rpFBnS

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Beautiful stuff. Really love the bit of Bama polish. Really shows off how well you understand the forms and gives it so much depth. Absolute cracker.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Meanwhile, there’s a reason Picard is standing up so straight.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Incredible how rarely that happens, isn’t it? I live in Glasgow and all my ones seem to be in Aberdeenshire. When I lived in Edinburgh, I think the closest I ever got was Livingston.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I feel like The Battle of Yavin from Star Wars has to be one the only big, climactic action set-pieces in movie history where all of the principle characters are either sitting down or standing still.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I did get those for a short, but concentrated burst. Mostly AI generated, I think. Then they disappeared.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Yeah, I’m starting to realise that not everyone gets the same ads anymore. These two only ever pop up when my partner’s signed into YouTube. Been going for what feels like forever though.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Okay, about time for you two to fuck off now, I think.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This May, New Adventures from the Trigan Empire: Book 1 comes out - the first new Trigan Empire story in over 40 years and my first fully-painted book. Here's a look at pencils and finished, painted art for a panel. More to come. You can pre-order the book here: shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/RC...

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Considering I now do almost all of my work with practical materials, it’s amazing how paralysing it feels to be without a computer. Those little intermediary digital parts of the process suddenly seem a lot more critical. (Also the fact DPD now aren’t even showing an estimated arrival date is 🤪)

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Lovely! Thank you for letting me see 😊

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

More film series should have an instalment where the titular character goes bananas.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

More process from Young Death: Fitting In (written by @kekw-writer.bsky.social) in @2000ad.bsky.social 2465. Still in shops until tomorrow. Really focused on the neck anatomy with Sidney. A sort of anatomical foreshadowing.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Pencils and finished coloured art for another panel of Young Death: Fitting In, written by @kekw-writer.bsky.social and out in the current issue of @2000ad.bsky.social I'm not generally a big breaker of panel borders, but with short stories, I tend to worry less about keeping things so regimented.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Some more process work from this week's Young Death story (written by @kekw-writer.bsky.social) in @2000ad.bsky.social . One of two or three panels in the story where I had a very specific idea of how the colour ought to look, which then dictated the palette for the rest of the page/scene.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

More art breakdown from Young Death (written by @kekw-writer.bsky.social) in this week's @2000ad.bsky.social. I often don't spend as much time on the hair as I ought to, but here it seemed unavoidable.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Thanks! I really put a lot of attention into that, to try and get it right.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Another look at the development of Young Death: Fitting In, from this week's @2000ad.bsky.social (script by @kekw-writer.bsky.social). After spending a year painting the new Trigan Empire book, this was my first chance in a long time to focus on linework and I really enjoyed leaning into it again.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A little more process work from this week's Young Death in @2000ad.bsky.social (written by @kekw-writer.bsky.social). I really liked how the colours came together on this one.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Prog 2465 of @2000ad.bsky.social is out today, with a Young Death Story written by @kekw-writer.bsky.social and illustrated by me. Here's a look at page 1 of the original pencils. After spending a year painting the new Trigan Empire book, it was nice to do some line art again.

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Tom Foster @tomfosterart.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Really enjoyed working on Young Death: Fitting In (written by @kekw-writer.bsky.social) for this week's @2000ad.bsky.social. Here's a detail from the original pencils, as well as the finished, colour art.

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