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John Allison

@badmachinery.com

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Cartoonist in British-based Leeds. I brought you such comics as Steeple, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, Scary Go Round, Bobbins, Great British Bump-Off and Solver. The nation's favourite. https://badmachinery.com

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · Jul 8

Someone just asked so it may be worth reiterating, the Giant Days/Batman crossover can be read not just free but ad-free here.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 8h

They’re finished now we have a flagship character!

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 8h

It’s as true as possible to the original key cutting mythos

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 8h

I’ll probably just have the characters mention how many thermostats there are but have them off panel.

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 8h

This sounds like the perfect series, I’m writing this down!!

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 9h

I think he's like Spider-man but with an antique fish bite instead of a spider

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

He's done a six-page backup in the first issue, reunited with his old pencilling partner-in-crime Sharky Whipsnade!

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

I think I'd be missing a trick not to have a fully operational cinematic universe here. It's just going to be a bit tiring drawing them all.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

Keep your powder dry, I'm expecting 1992 numbers on these titles and a rain of molten gold

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

It's not right, is it?

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

You'd better believe it!

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

Like Det. John Munch, Des can always show up

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 10h

Vertigo have just announced ten new titles at #NYCC. Fine. So will I.

COELACANTH FIGHTER #1
LET'S BUY DECKCHAIRS #1
SUPERSTAR COBBLER #1
THERMOSTAT 3000 #1
THE GNOMIC NINE #1
BALTIMORE HUG PATROL #1
EBONY AND USURY #1
FLABÉLOS WARRIORS #1
PORTNOY THE PUNK #1
LINGERIE JONES #1

Collect them all!

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

I make no apologies for the "provocative" robot exhaust port in today's page; furthermore, I did it on purpose

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

Thanks Cheeseman! I wrote that joke 3.5 years ago, the brain cells responsible have probably withered away by now.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

Not bad I suppose, if Jonanthan keeps at it he could make it as an artist etc etc

Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 6d

My poster for City of the Dead (1960) for @hireillo.com’s Video Shop project. Ink and pencil. More info here - www.hireillo.com/announcement...

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

In direct market comics, the marketplace speaks. People do whatever necessary to get the pages done commensurate to what they are being paid. I can't blame them for that.

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

God no! I was more thinking of what happens when I use Sketchup models. I could sit and work out all the perspective and take two hours to get it perfect but there's no point. My own demands of my work create these problems of stiffness.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

As comics of a certain kind have pushed towards hyper-detail, with an audience that seemingly wants stiff, forced realism, I kind of get why people do it. Even if you can paint photo-realistically, you might as well take a photo.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

New comic: "Outer space?" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

Outer space? - Bad Machinery

Another flashback to 1962, and an opportunity to use my now seldom-employed robot-drawing toolset. Seldom-employed for a reason eh John you say. I will have none of this. I had drawn hundreds of robot...

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 3d

Regionally it varied, too. As a tot in the north east, as soon as harvest festival was over we'd put up the prompts for Inktober, change our social media avatars/names to Halloween-themed versions, and declare the start of "Papa Pumpkin's Harlequinade".

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 3d

Fellow Britons, when did it become "spooky season"? Sounds a bit American. When I was a child we always described it as "The Mordant Months".

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 3d

I think we have established that the price of a bun here is thruppence

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 3d

ICYMI

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 5d

It's my birthday in 16 days and we're going to Wimpy. All my followers are invited. What is everyone having? I'm definitely having the Shanty Brunch but I'm vacillating over my beverage. Maybe raspberry, or maybe a cool glass of milk.

KNICKERBOCKER GLORY NON NEGOTIABLE

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 3d

New comic: "If I do say so myself" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

If I do say so myself - Bad Machinery

All British films of the 50s and 60s take place in either a war or a bedsit. There are enough black and white British comics dedicated to war eg Commando, Battle, Skirmish etc, they are probably still...

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