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Nick Abadzis

@nickabadzis.bsky.social

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A convincing digital facsimile based on the Eisner award-winning author, cartoonist and maker of beloved graphic novels such as Laika, Hugo Tate, various Doctor Whos and many other tall stories. Coming soon: My Beloved Other. He/him. Optimist. Not (c) free

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · Jan 7

New Italian edition of #Laika out 16.Jan.25 from Tunué

#book #comics #graphicnovels #italiancomics #fumetti #bandedessinee

Laika graphic novel by Nick Abadzis - new Italian edition from Tunué Press published 16.1.25

Laika graphic novel by Nick Abadzis - new Italian edition from Tunué Press published 16.1.25, interior page 1

Laika graphic novel by Nick Abadzis - new Italian edition from Tunué Press published 16.1.25, interior page 2

Laika graphic novel by Nick Abadzis - new Italian edition from Tunué Press published 16.1.25, cover (alternative angle)

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 3d

Latest Morning Star cartoon

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 9h

If you like THIS, you might like…
#BookSky #TV #TVhistory #UKTV

Cover of Anna Home’s 1993 book on British children’s television, Into the Box of Delights.

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BOBBY JOSEPH COMICS @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social · 6d

Laureate vibes, empowering young people through comics and obviously promoting My Dad Fights Demons on the BBC! downthetubes.net/cLaureate

Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph on the BBC

Check out a wide-ranging interview about comics and more

downthetubes.net

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 19h

“The only place we can be certain violence has a place is in art”: An interview with Eden’s Shore author Oisín Fagan by PM Buchan #BookSky

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"The only place we can be certain violence has a place is in art"

Oisín Fagan admits he's 'a bit of a bastard' when he writes. The Eden's Shore author on violence in art, David Lynch, and why writers who think they have moral responsibility are lying to themselves.

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 19h

Diane Keaton, Oscar win, 1978, placing the statuette on a table full of glasses in front of her.

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 1d

This week's comic: What does not belong?

FUN TIME

AMERICA: What does not belong?

APPLE PIE

INVADING US CITIES

BASEBALL

KINGS

STATUE OF LIBERTY

STATUE OF LIBERTY WITH HITLER MOUSTACHE

THE RIGHT TO VOTE

BOOT STOMPING ON HUMAN FACE FOREVER

COMEDIANS MAKING FUN OF PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT FIRING COMEDIANS

HOT DOGS

KING EATING ALL THE HOT DOGS AND APPLE PIES

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 4d

Mood

One of Todd Rundgren’s lesser known songs… He is/was always way ahead of the curve…

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Utopia- Trapped

YouTube video by FD13NYC

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 4d

LRT about the Taito photo goes hand in hand with this video by Kurzgesagt, talking about how AI posted by official sources will creep back into the datasets as legit information until it will be impossible to verify what is real and what’s not

Mahmud Asrar 🪲 @mahmudasrar.bsky.social · 5d

AI slop is ruining our lives. Do not be a part of the problem.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 4d

And one of the industries which, relying entirely on freelance workers, but requiring public audience spaces, was fucked over completely by the pandemic, without mercy or assistance, but survived, on its knees so it can now get another kick in the teeth from these soulless twats.

Corey Brotherson - ready for my close up--NOOO TOO CLOSE! @coreybrotherson.bsky.social · 4d

Hey kids!

Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?

Remember that?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

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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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 13d

“Sharing This Comic Is a Crime” 🖤 Our newest comics collection is here! Curated by @mattbors.bsky.social, featuring @jensorensen.bsky.social, @rubenbolling.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com & Brian McFadden.

inthesetimes.com/article/shar...

Comic titled "Rage at the Ragged" by Jen Sorensen. It critiques societal hostility to homeless people, highlighting a Fox News host's extreme comment. Contrast shown through an uncaring response to heart attacks. Ends with a suggestion to focus on systemic issues like housing and healthcare. Tone is satirical and critical.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, indeed. I wanted to write you a more considered response:

This says, “To be clear, I think using inflammatory language the way he does is almost an irrelevancy to him, in the same way that “free speech” absolutists feel like they can say what they want and not be held accountable for any consequences. I agree, he knows exactly what he’s doing.

His racism is the creeping, class and status-based kind, appealing to the lowest and most extreme of human social impulses, but clothed in this broad, populist language that disguises his everyday othering as “honest debate.” There’s no high social purpose here.

His racism is a means to an end, an othering of a political sort that is just a motor to get him where he wants to go. He is an utterly divisive, loathsome and cynical individual.”

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Mark Norbury @markjnorbury.bsky.social · 5d

Wonderful piece - @stephenkb.bsky.social clocks one banger, but my fave: "[Jenrick] ... did at least do better than the shadow home Secretary Chris Philp, who delivered a series of jokes to a hall so empty and unenthused that he gave a new meaning to “assisted dying”." Chapeau @roberthutton.co.uk

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

thecritic.co.uk

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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not even sure Robert Jenrick is racist, but he’s indicated many times that he’ll say and do anything if he thinks it’s a path to power. He’s elitist, he’s dangerous, he’s utterly cynical and 100% unsuitable for *any* position of governance.

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BOBBY JOSEPH COMICS @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social · 6d

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 10d

Can't a kid have some privacy?
The making of a page from #MyDadFightsDemons by Abbigayle Bircham and @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social, OUT NOW in the UK and on October 14th in North America!

🔗 buff.ly/c0kTnUn

#selfmadehero #yabooks #indiecomics #graphicnovel #newcomics #publishing #bandedessinee

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 8d

If you are in USA or Canada, please ask for This Slavery in your local independent bookstore or public library! And if you see it in the wild, please share photos with us!

Publication date for North America is this Tuesday, and it’s gone down well in the month it’s been out in Britain & Ireland.

A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 7d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 5d

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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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to hanging out and signing Nessies!

Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 6d

Do you want to come to our party?
It's at @goshcomics.bsky.social and features creators from 3 of our amazing new books!!!
Also - I've got a Letter Of Transit allowing me to be away from my hordes of children for once, so if you're in London on Friday come along to say hello to me as well!!!