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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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 2d

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 · 3h

(I just call this place twitter now, SORRY)

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3h

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

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3h

You joke, but

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3h

(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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 14h

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 · 15h

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 · 20h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

🚀 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 · 1d

Love Toppings!

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

SADLY ACCURATE

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

Just going to repost this to cheer myself up. Thank you, Alfredo Von Pantameaos.

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 6d

Just the fact that someone had to sit down and come up with a translation for ‘Alberto Von Damptrousers’. Impeccable.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

Specifically the choices that led to ‘the option to take a sick day’ not being a part of my life.

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t mind me, I am full of cold and regretting my life choices.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

* or, from a different perspective, better than ever. (I am conscious of sounding ungrateful for extraordinary good fortune.)

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

‘Just need to get through this busy patch and then I’ll have a chance to relax a bit’ sounds good in theory, except when you realise you’ve been saying it for like fifteen years and things are worse than ever.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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