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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · 1d

the big spill (how my brain feels right now) #GoshBFDD

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · 3d

Something weird is growing...

MOTHER will debut in print this autumn convention season 🔬

MCM London 24-26 OCT
THOUGHT BUBBLE 15-16 NOV
Available online later (while stock lasts)!

a print copy of my comic, MOTHER in the middle of a grotty fridge

a close up shot of a print copy of my comic MOTHER, sitting in a grotty fridge. There is a piece of burger cheese partially covering it, with convention dates for Thought Bubble and MCM London written on it.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 1d

Hey everyone! This amazing comic by @pigeonface.bsky.social really needs your help to get over the Kickstarter finish line. Kamila is one of the most exciting indie voices working in the UK and this totally deserves your support. Please back or spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...

The Ecstasy of Jenny D - New original comic by Pigeon!

Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.

www.kickstarter.com

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · 3d

Something weird is growing...

MOTHER will debut in print this autumn convention season 🔬

MCM London 24-26 OCT
THOUGHT BUBBLE 15-16 NOV
Available online later (while stock lasts)!

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · 10d

Please support this one folks!!

Your bookshelf will be all the better for it (and your eyes will be too, look at those colours!!)🪽

Kamila (also known as Pigeon) @pigeonface.bsky.social · 10d

10 days left and still 2k to raise for “The Ecstasy of Jenny D”! I believe we can do it but I need your help in making this comic a real thing!
Support & share the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...

Colour comic page. At a regency style party, Paloma makes eye contact with a pretty lady, then blushes and runs away clutching her rosary.

Colour comic page.Among the clouds Jenny stares intensely into the void and says: “Last night I understood understood something about myself and my place in this world. “

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Kamila (also known as Pigeon) @pigeonface.bsky.social · 19d

Sunday comics KS check! My tiny dream of reaching 2k by the end of the week MIGHT still happen with your help? 👀
Sooo maybe share it with someone who enjoys the camp medieval / bridgerton parody vibe? :>
💌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...
/ @cartoonist.coop / @brokenfrontier.bsky.social

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Sep 5

new blog post! what i got up to in august

🎸 talking about music, art, and revisiting old drawing processes

✏️ sketchbook pages, new work, process pics

📚 what i read w/ mini reviews from the @ldcomics.bsky.social fair!

🪐 looking back on an old anthology project

www.abscomics.com/post/august-...

August Round-Up | Returning to the old ways, new mini-comic, and thinking about music...

A round-up of August featuring musings about music and art, sketchbook pages, WIPs, and what I read this month.

www.abscomics.com

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Sep 5

new blog post! what i got up to in august

🎸 talking about music, art, and revisiting old drawing processes

✏️ sketchbook pages, new work, process pics

📚 what i read w/ mini reviews from the @ldcomics.bsky.social fair!

🪐 looking back on an old anthology project

www.abscomics.com/post/august-...

August Round-Up | Returning to the old ways, new mini-comic, and thinking about music...

A round-up of August featuring musings about music and art, sketchbook pages, WIPs, and what I read this month.

www.abscomics.com

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

i can't wait!!!

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

this comic is an absolute treat, and is gonna be incredible in colour.

highly recommend adding it to your comic collection!!

Kamila (also known as Pigeon) @pigeonface.bsky.social · Aug 28

KICKSTARTER IS HERE!
My new original comic “The Ecstasy of Jenny D” is now LIVE at:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...
I’m so flipping excited to get this book printed! I’ve got some special early bird rewards so follow along :>

My new comic is coming to Kickstarter! The image shows a digital collage of cherub stickers and a screenshot of the KS pre launch page which you can follow

A comic page in full colour. Evening scene at a fancy regency party. Young girl makes an eye contact with a pretty lady, blushes strongly and runs away distressed, holding her rosary.

A comic page spread. Detailed digital illustration of a dancing parade consisting of humans, skeletons, mythical creatures and angels.

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aquila 🍉 writing comms now open! @belllmonts.bsky.social · Aug 27

daily art affirmations

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Aug 23

first 10 fish lads painted! only 50 more to go before mid october...

ten small resin fish dudes with chibi bodies and cartoony fish heads scattered on a messy painting desk. they are pale blue with a dark green patch on their head, white stomachs, purple fins, and paler purple spots.

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Aug 20

doing some inking(? pencilling?) for a quick and dirty little mini-comic today

a close up of an in-progress comic page, drawn in black biro and pencil on white printer paper.

a character with a bleeding hole in her chest peers into a river, where a hopeless ghostly face reflects back.

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Aug 19

painting little fish guys today for mcm/tbubs 🐠

a messy desk with 11 small resin fish guys half-painted, all strewn about. they're little dudes with fish heads but chibi human-y bodies, sitting politely.

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Aug 3

currently uk-only shipping for physical items but you can read the digital stuff from anywhere!

Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Aug 3

yay, i have an online shop again!

digital comics
physical comics
stickers

more stuff coming soon!✨
ko-fi.com/abscomics/shop

banner for my shop that says 'shop open!!' in big yellow clay letters, surrounded by some comics covers and stickers.

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · Aug 3

Time for the comics community to put our money where our mouth is and back Boxes, one of the best indie comic anthologies out there. 2 days to get this over the line - it can be done!

ThirdBear Press @thirdbearpress.bsky.social · Aug 3

Down to the last 2 days to back BOXES Vol. 4 over on Kickstarter.

We’re 72% funded and could use your help over the line!

Our critically acclaimed anthology showcases exciting UK cartoonists. If you can help it continue, then consider backing it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

Thanks 📦

BOXES Comic Magazine #4

The 4th volume of BOXES Comic Magazine! Lots of new short comics from a diverse range of exciting UK based creators.

www.kickstarter.com

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · Mar 9

Please please please just make your fucking comic. It doesn't have to have mass appeal or be marketable. I'm literally making a comic about gay aztec steampunks. A publisher would laugh me out the door. I still have a budding audience!! And even then! If it brings you joy, make the fucking comic!

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Jul 31

although don't read my comic at your office job because you might get fired. wait until you're home

Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Jul 31

i wish i was reading these comics from the @ldcomics.bsky.social online fair instead of being at my stupid job!!

you can read these comics (including mine!) instead of being at YOUR stupid job, but only if you buy them today, because it's the last day of the fair!!!!

a laptop screen in an office setting showing comics from the LDC online comics fair

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Jul 30

sofa-bound (because i walked 40k steps in fashionable but ill-fitting boots) so am going into a DEEP rabbit hole of analogue music options.. i want to be a mp3 boy again

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Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Jul 30

MOTHER will be in my online store from 1st Aug onwards, but grabbing it directly from the @ldcomics.bsky.social online fair helps evidence a demand for events like this and means more might happen in the future!!

48 hours left! tons of great comics to browse!!!

Abs Bailey @abscomics.bsky.social · Jul 12

I haven't showed a ton of pages featuring the mould spores from MOTHER... So here are the first 4 pages of chapter 2!! 🦠

Available digitally in the LDC online fair until July 31!!

Chapter 2, page 1 from MOTHER: A page filled with a colourful mould-like pattern. this is a crowd shot of - millions of spores (too small to be seen with the naked eye). they are talking anongst one another.

"YAY YAY YAY! We love Mother!"
"We love Mother!"
"We love Mother!"
"Um... Why?"
"Because Stachybotrys said so!"
"You know we aren't allowed to ask about that!"
"Okay, okay!"
"We love Mother! YAY YAY YAY!"

Chapter 2, page 2 from MOTHER.

There is a mould pattern behind the panels, taking up the bottom 2/3 of the page, like a hill against a blank sky.

Panel 1 (top, middle): Stachybotrys [a spore with a dark green oval body, and small yellow-green oval head on top) addresses the crowd, raising his arms and looking over them. The crowd are murmuring:
"Oh, here he is!"
"I bet Mother has told him all sorts of tender secrets!"
"I wish we were smart enough to receive her enlightenments".

Crowd: Did Mother have a message for us?

Panel 2: Stachybotrys frowns, sweating nervously.

Crowd: Please tell us, Stachybotrys! Oh, please!

Panel 3: Stachybotrys kneels, clasping his hands in prayer. A thought bubble reads: Please, Mother...

Panel 4: A close up of Stachybotry's face. He exhales with a pained expression, now sweating horrendously.

Panel 5: Having summoned his nerves, the reaches for his sceptre.

Chapter 2, page 3 from MOTHER.

The mould pattern still covers most of the page, apart from a clear segment at the bottom right. The panels are in front of the pattern.

Panel 1: Close up of Stachybotrys' face. He looks nervously to the left, saying: "She... Uh".

Panel 2: He looks to the right: ...

Panel 3: He closes his eyes: "She says..."

Panel 4: Stachybotrys stands with his arms wide open, and eyes wide, as if shouting a major revelation:
Stachybotrys: "In order to take, one must first give! You will inherit a large sum of money!"
Crowd: "Oh, Mother is so wise!" "So wise!" "YAY YAY YAY!" "What's money?"

Panel 5: Zoomed in on a singular spore, nothing else in the background. Udocladium is a burgundy circle with a smaller, olive green circle in the middle. Spore: "What about my question, Stachybotrys? Has she advised me?"

Panel 6: Stachybotrys smugly answers: "Patience, Udocladium! Motherly wisdom takes time... And frankly, your life is a mess."

Panel 6: A quick cut to Stachy's face. He is wide eyed, a little panicked: Look, I've got to go.

Stachybotrys walks away, heading towards the edge of the page through the empty gap in the pattern: "Communicating with Mother takes a lot of meditation. Alone."

Chapter 2, page 4 of Mother.

Panel 1: A zoomed out panel of Stachybotrys walking away from the Mould patch. Sylvie (the person whose body they are on)'s skin is the ground, and her body hairs stand tall like trees.

Panel 2: He has a grumpy expression as he stabs his sceptre into her flesh like you might stand a shovel in sand, and says "Yeesh".

Panel 3: He sits, leaning against a hair-tree, and exhales sadly.

Panel 4: He closes his eyes and speaks, measuredly: "There are thousands of us in the colony"

Panel 5: He looks around: "Aspergillus, Penicillium, Mucor... All of the other ones."

Panel 6: "Before I was here, they were aimless. Dare I say, a little stupid." He looks directly at the reader now, realising what he has said. "Not me, though!"

Panel 7: Smugly: "I'm older, wiser. I was actually the first to grow on Mother's ceiling."

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · Jul 28

Review! Boxes #3 – @abscomics.bsky.social, @kitsuneart.bsky.social, Millie Strachan and Elliot Hanks Join the Line-Up for the Third Issue of @thirdbearpress.bsky.social ThirdBear Press’s Anthology Series. www.brokenfrontier.com/boxes-3/
Review by our @andywpoliver.bsky.social

Boxes #3 - Abs Bailey, KitsuneArt, Millie Strachan and Elliot Hanks Join the Line-Up for the Third Issue of ThirdBear Press's Anthology Series – Broken Frontier

ThirdBear Press's anthology 'Boxes' #3 includes stories about doomed love, premonitions, unemployment and umbrellas.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · Jul 27

Only TWO DAYS LEFT on the Kickstarter for our newest comic collection, featuring 3 heart-breaking autobio comics about relationships: with our family, with strangers, and with where we come from.

⚜️ Preorder the 2025 collection: kickstarter.com/projects/qui...

White silhouettes of people on a beach, milling around the sunbleached remains of a giant sea serpent. Text reads: 2 days left!

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Chloë Green @okaychloegreen.bsky.social · Jul 26

‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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