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Edward Ross
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Comic artist. Creator of Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film and Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming. New book Graphic Novel Builder - The Illustrated Guide To Making Your Own Comics OUT NOW! He/Him
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Oct 22
Hello new followers! A quick introduction... I'm Edward Ross, an Edinburgh-based comic artist, mainly making non-ficiton comics!

My latest book is Graphic Novel Builder: The Illustrated Guide to Making Your Own Comics, which is aimed at young people aged 11+ wanting to make their own comics.
Illustrated cover for Graphic Novel Builder: The Illustrated Guide to Making Your Own Comics by Edward Ross, with and Intro by Alice Oseman. Five teenagers at work around a huge dark blue sketchbook, which has the title on it. Finn draws on the cover, Jay types on a laptop, Sam pours colour into the book, and Rayah and Ash build a mix-and-match bird astronaut character out of pieces. Around them we see a variety of characters, including a dinosaur, robot, and adventuring fox. A spread from Graphic Novel Builder: The Illustrated Guide To Making Your Own Comics. We see a non-binary teen with yellow hat and Charlie Brown style zig-zag jumper describe different types of genre, each of which is visualised with a humorous panel. Comedy: we see rugby lad Sam slipping on a banana peel, while he says “Banana peel gags aren’y funneeeee!” Drama: We see Finn crying at the bedside of Sam who is in an arm and leg cast. We see bananas in a bowl beside the bed. Adventure: We see Sam angrily chase Finn, both of whom are driving Tuk-Tuks down the street. Finn crashes through boxes of bananas and other fruit trying to escape. Science Fiction, we see Finn in a space suit floating near a banana shaped spaceship. Text reads: Somewhere in the Ban-4-NA sector. Fantasy: we see a warrior and a wizard on a fantasy landscape, searching for “an ancient fruit, long forgotten” Romance: A pair of hands are seen holding a ring, with a banana shaped jewel, as a woman gasps in delight! Horror: We see a goblin peeling a banana in a cave, saying “I’ll peel the skin from your bones” Non-Fiction: We see Sam booking a bunch of bananas in a pan. Text advises the reader to examine the elements of different types of stories and work out what elements they enjoy. What happens when you combine elements to make something new? A spread from Graphic Novel Builder: The Illustrated Guide To Making Your Own Comics. Jay, a boy wearing a green puff jacket explains a character’s “wants”. We see other teens imagining what their characters want: an amulet, money, a trophy. But Jay explains that we should dig deeper - why do they want these things? To end a terrible war, to save the family business, to help make friends… On the next page we see how a character’s desire can be linked to their personality, e.g. a lonely character wants to make friends, or a rebellious character wants to bring down an evil king. We’re encouraged then to think about our character’s personality and how that affects what they want. A spread from Graphic Novel Builder: The Illustrated Guide To Making Your Own Comics. Finn a non-binary person wearing a yellow hat and top, who walks with a stick, walks with Sam a blonde rugby lad. They walk through a very non-descript park. Finn explains that a world will feel more real if we put time into adding detail and specific elements. We then see a deeply detailed location, full of cherry blossom trees and a Japanese pagoda. On the next page we are told that it helps to add texture, wear and tear, and signs of day-to-day life to our settings. We see examples of this. We are also told that it helps to have characters actually interact and inhabit the world around them, rather than use it as a backdrop.
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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 1d
I illustrated this excellent piece by Katie Goh for @natlibscot.bsky.social about libraries in pop culture. Was extremely fun to get to draw the Scooby Gang! Can someone hire me to draw a Willow comic please?

You can read the article here: www.nls.uk/collections/...
An illustration of the five leads from 1985's The Breakfast Club An illustration of the Scooby Gang from Buffy the Vampire Slayer An illustration of 1961's Breakfast at Tiffanys An illustration of 1996's Matilda
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 5d
Everyone who is behind this survey wants your voice to be counted. Everyone who is *boosting* this survey wants your voice to be counted.

Get this puppy filled in before midnight on Monday and be counted!!

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A graphic for the Uk comics creator survey, saying: we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in? With the URL ukcomicscreators.org.uk over a series of illustrated raised hands
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 3d
Now would be a great time to reach out to any comics creators you know who are less online or more remote (geographically and/or emotionally) to make sure they’ve filled this thing in too…
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 6d
🚨FINAL FEW DAYS!🚨

The UK Comics Creator Survey will close forever at midnight on Monday 6th! Have you submitted your response yet? Or were you, like me*, waiting for the last minute? The last minute is now, lads! Get in there!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

*I thrive** on pressure
**Exist painfully
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · 5d
I was on the libgen database but due to not being registered with the US copyright office, I’m not included on this database (I.e not eligible for a payout despite having my work stolen)
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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 6d
Thrilled to share that @julesscheele.bsky.social is adapting Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as a graphic novel biography with Avery Hill! From Elizabethan courts to the present day, a timeless journey reimagined in comics. ✨📚
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · 6d
The data from this survey is VITAL for us as a community - helping us see the wood from the trees and argue for what we need as comic creators.

In other words… go fill it in!
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 6d
🚨FINAL FEW DAYS!🚨

The UK Comics Creator Survey will close forever at midnight on Monday 6th! Have you submitted your response yet? Or were you, like me*, waiting for the last minute? The last minute is now, lads! Get in there!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

*I thrive** on pressure
**Exist painfully
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · 12d
“Ah you’re struggling to find pleasure in reading? Have you considered making it stressful? Maybe adding a pass/fail element into the mix?”
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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 13d
Exclusive: The government plans to introduce a mandatory reading test for year 8 pupils in its upcoming schools white paper, amid fears poorer children are disengaging in the early years of secondary school

schoolsweek.co.uk/year-8s-to-s...
White paper to usher in year 8 reading test
Move to ensure poorer pupils are not shut off from wider curriculum
schoolsweek.co.uk
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 15d
🩸 OUT TODAY 🥀
Disappear into a dark forest and get seduced, devoured, and perhaps escape your job for good, in NIGHT AT THE VAMPIRE CASTLE: A choose-your-own-romance for adult readers

✶ No experience needed
✶ Replayable
✶ Illustrated
& out now www.hari-illustration.com/natvc
Hari holding a copy of the book 'night at the vampire castle' while wearing a suitably vampiric shirt with a ruffly collar - the graphic reads 'out today!' Photo of an open copy of the book 'night at the vampire castle' where you can see the text and an illustration of an ominous castle on a stormy night
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · 16d
Excited to be off to @comicartfestival.bsky.social for the first time this weekend!

I'll have copies of

✏️ Graphic Novel Builder: The illustrated guide to making your own comics
👾 Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming
📽️ Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film
🌮 Interstellar Taco Truck!

Come say hi!
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Comics Can Change The World @comics4change.bsky.social · 21d
THANK YOU to creativescots.bsky.social for their support bringing juliecampbelldraws.bsky.social | @tomhumberstone.com edwardross.bsky.social slothcomics.bsky.social barbarianlord.bsky.social & gustaffovargas.bsky.social to @comicartfestival.bsky.social | www.creativescotland.com
Julie Campbell is a guest at this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival thanks to Creative Scotland Tom Humberstone is a guest at this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival thanks to Creative Scotland Edward Ross is a guest at this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival thanks to Creative Scotland
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 27d
Damn, look how many of you have filled in the survey in its first week! (Yes I *have* made a respondent-meter like it’s a village hall fundraiser - let me have my little whimsies)

If you have ten mins to join in the fun, the link is here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk
A meter showing how many people have responded to the uk comics creator survey 2025. So far it’s at 289! The minimum target is 380 to be statistically representative, and 623 responded in 2020
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · 28d
“They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude.”

This by @anthonymoser.com goes so fuckin hard

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · 28d
“They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude.”

This by @anthonymoser.com goes so fuckin hard

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · 28d
Super excited to have a comic in this month’s @chemistryworld.com magazine, alongside a great article by Rupo Mapanga. Both are about the power of science comics, with mine offering a guide for scientists looking to translate their research into the comics form www.chemistryworld.com/careers/comi...
Comic book chemistry
The scientists using visual storytelling to communicate their work - and how you can do it too
www.chemistryworld.com
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 9
My book is in libgen AND I won’t be getting any money! 🥳

You needed to have had your work registered at the US copyright office before the suit was filed to qualify.
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 8
Check out my new mini-comic! Available in print and digital on my website.
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Jul 29
Hey! Check out my new all-ages adventure comic...

🌮 INTERSTELLAR TACO TRUCK! 🌮

Issue 1 is out now for digital download! Or you can pre-order issue #1 for UK delivery when copies arrive.

www.edwardross.co.uk/shop
Cover for Interstellar Taco Truck #1 by Edward Ross. A colourful illustrated image in a fun, cartoony style. We see a dinky spaceship painted neon pink and blue, landed on a dusty planet. The ship is shaped a bit like a taco, with a smiling face in its headlights and front grill. A queue of alien customers line up - a barbarian bird, a hairy cyclops-sasquatch thing, and so on. Through the access hatch we see the kitchen inside - Kit a bequiffed, elf-like alien skooshes green sauce on a taco. Behind him a robotic fungi panics over a flaming stove. Atop the ship sits human girl Ari who wears yellow overalls and is munching a taco, next to her trusty toolbox. Comic page from Interstellar Taco Truck #1 by Edward Ross. We see a dimly lit spaceship bunk room in the background, with human girl Ari poking her head around the door. In the foreground, top lit by roof light, we see five aliens crowding round a table, playing a table-top game with hex tiles and colourful cards. The table is covered in bowls of snacks and cans of drink. There’s a cyclops-sasquatch looking alien, a frog-like one wearing a cap, a sentient tree wearing a yellow jumper, a barbarian bird (birbarian) and a red striped spider-looking creature. In the final panel we see the birbarian flinging snacks into her mouth. Text reads: “It’s hard being a human in space. See, we were late to the party. Zysquatches, Birbarians, Froglodytes... they'd all mastered interstellar flight centuries ago. Their species reached out across light years to discover new civilisations, and more importantly... new snacks!” Comic page from Interstellar Taco Truck #1 by Edward Ross. We see human kid Ari enter a small kitchen onboard the spaceship. It’s teeming with kitchen equipment recognisable and futuristic, and shelves crammed with colourful packets. “The food here suuucks, and we're stuck with whatever they packed on board when we set off from Earth. Fortunately, I'm pretty good at rooting out the good stuff.” She starts raking through cupboards looking for interesting food. As she pulls cans out of a cupboard, we hear a voice from off panel: "Making a little midnight snack, I see!” Comic page from Interstellar Taco Truck #1 by Edward Ross. We see a montage of cooking. Alien kid Kit’s blue hand grabs a pan, sets a pink flame ablaze under it, grabs a knife from a rack, then some marshmallows and a banana. We see him chopping ingredients. Ari leans over his shoulder: What are you doing? Kit: What does it look like? Cooking! Don't you cook? Ari leans on a yellow microwave looking device: Not if I can help it. Oh, unless Quantum-blasting counts? Kit flips the ingredients in the pan, smiling: It doesn’t!
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 8
Hope you feel better soon and it's nothing major. Take care, bud!
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 7
Out of curiosity, do most US authors / comic creators submit their work to the US copyright office as a matter of course?

Or are a lot of people going to be shit out of luck like me?
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 7
This is worth reading if you’re wondering where you stand as an author whose work was ripped off by Anyhropic.

Looks like, as I was worrying, that I’ll probably not get a payout since my work wasn’t registered with the US copyright office.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · Sep 5
AUTHORS: AG has prepared a detailed explainer on the Anthropic settlement and how it affects us. Full details:
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 7
This sucks…
In sum, the work must have been: Registered within 3 months of its first publication (in any format) OR before the titles were downloaded (because the Copyright Act provides statutory (court-set) damages only if one of the two is true); AND Registered within 5 years of first publication (because the Copyright Act provides a presumption of validity of all of the facts in the registration certificate, such as author and owner for works registered within 5 years). In other words: The work was registered within 3 months of publication, OR It was registered within 5 years of publication and before the download dates (from LibGen in June 2021 and PiLiMi in July 2022).
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 7
This despite the fact that copyright is automatic - but a work needs to be registered to make a claim, and it’s too late in this case.
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 7
This is worth reading if you’re wondering where you stand as an author whose work was ripped off by Anyhropic.

Looks like, as I was worrying, that I’ll probably not get a payout since my work wasn’t registered with the US copyright office.
tyleraking.com
Tyler King @tyleraking.com · Sep 5
AUTHORS: AG has prepared a detailed explainer on the Anthropic settlement and how it affects us. Full details:
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · Sep 6
Labour to designate “going all floppy” a terrorist act.
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · Sep 5
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · Sep 5
🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

ukcomicscreators.org.uk
A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · Sep 4
I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.

Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · Sep 1
Homework is basically just teaching kids to have a shitty work-life balance and to work for free outside their contracted hours.
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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · Aug 28
Something special today at BF!

Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read @tomhumberstone.com Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF.

www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-again... #NoToAIArt
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) - Read Tom Humberstone's Comic 'I'm a Luddite! (And So Can You!)' on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF – Broken Frontier
Tom Humberstone provides the lead story from his comics collection 'I'm A Luddite! (And So Can You!)' as part of our series on AI "art".
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