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Neill Cameron

@neillcameron.bsky.social

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✏️ Comics writer and artist 🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD! 🤖 buy books & ticket links: www.linktree.com/neillcameron 🍩 www.neillcameron.com

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello new followers! Just to say hello, I’m Neill, I write and draw comics. Often about robots. Increasingly about donuts. Here is one I made earlier!

A bearded man that is me, holding up an issue of children’s weekly comic The Phoenix, with donuts on the cover.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 26m

Very soon!

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1h

Next weekend I will be in Brussels, where I have to imagine less of the audience will be reading the Phoenix week-by-week, so I’ll miss the reaction to a certain Big Reveal. But we’re back on home turf at comics club the week after, and I look forward to catching up on all the OUTRAGED HOWLS then ❤️

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1h

The last couple of weeks in the Lakes and then Bath is was all elder gods this, elder gods that, and then yesterday in Cheltenham there was lots of outraged theorizing over WHO IS THE DONUT OF MYSTERY?? Absolutely delightful, and hugely gratifying.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1h

A fun thing about doing events *literally every weekend* is that I kind of get very live feedback on my stories as they happen, by which I mean a room full of children all shouting at me.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 15h

ah they just wish they could draw like that

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 23h

Look who’s only ruddy curating the ruddy Cheltenham Literature Festival 🤩 @jamiesmart.bsky.social

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

I'm attempting to moderate my language on here so let me just say: absolutely [nuts to] that publisher, they can go straight [in the bin].

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 2d

An illustrator friend did a kid's book where one of the mums wore hijab. Not to make a point, just as part of a normal city school background. Took it to publisher and was asked to remove because it 'wasn't a book about inclusivity'

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

(I just call this place twitter now, SORRY)

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

And hey, you know what they say: if you’ve got time to moan about it on twitter…

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

You joke, but

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

(It’s actually fine, I think; I have worked very hard for a long time to have a good healthy runway built out ahead, and this is the point where I cash that in and start to eat up that runway.)

(I realise I mixed about four metaphors there. My point is, it’s FINE.)

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

No I know what you’re thinking, there’s simply no way, but it’s okay because *checks immune system* I have a heavy cold and feel like death.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

I know that sounds a lot, but it’s okay because they’re only *checks scripts* the most ridiculously overambitious, complicated comics I’ve ever attempted.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

Doing so many events that I’m only in the studio for *checks calendar* two days next week, and in those two days I have to pencil, ink, colour and letter about *checks schedule* 16 pages of comics.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. It’s exhausting, gives us nothing and makes everything just that bit worse. I hate it.

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 2d

Why didn't Starscream get any of Megatron's messages the other day? He was in airplane mode.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I very much wish I could fly out to see it on Broadway and be baffled and frustrated all over again, but this time with Bill and Ted 😂😂

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

This is the thing, right? The guy in question may be smarting from his expensive broadway tickets right now, but you know what, he's not going to forget it.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

1) People are allowed to experience art without knowing all about it in advance, and
2) baffled frustration is 100% a valid and reasonable response to that motherfucking play

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone's dunking on the guy who went to see Waiting For Godot without knowing all about it in advance and found it baffling and frustrating, so allow me as a joyless scold to just point out a couple of things.

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 3d

If you’ve enjoyed anything I’ve made, it’s because an editor & art director invested so much time in it.
Not only that, but working with an editor/art director is one of the great joys of doing this - you are literally working with people who are paid to be very good at making you better.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 3d

🚀 Bunny Vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business is out NOW! Book eleven in the best-selling comic series drags our cute chaotics up into space, as the fate of the whole world depends on them!

✨ I really hope you like it ✨

(Published by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social)

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

Love Toppings!

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

SADLY ACCURATE