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Jordan Collver

@jordancollver.bsky.social

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Eisner-nominated comic artist with an MSc in science communication. Posting about comics, illustration, science, nature, history. www.jordancollver.com My books: PETS TELL TALES - https://shorturl.at/gjT9P HOCUS POCUS - https://shorturl.at/nYyXd

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · Mar 18

In the most exciting creative news of my life, I can finally share what @rikworth.bsky.social and I have been hard at work at for the past year.

PETS TELL TALES: ANCIENT EGYPT from @hachettechildrens.bsky.social will be on bookshelves in July & is available to preorder NOW! 👉 geni.us/PetsTellTales

Cover art for Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt featuring a pharoah anxiously holding open the jaws of a hippo with his legs. A falcon swoops between his legs, a cobra snake is wrapped around his arm and a baboon shoots a spit ball at him from behind some reeds - where a dog, ibis bird, cat, and strange dog-like Set creature also look out from. Pyramids are seen in the distance and the sunset sky fades into stars above.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5h

This is so fun to look at it took me a good few seconds for my brain to untangle.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5h

An excellent video by Kurzgesagt explaining the nature and depth of the contamination problem - of *information* moreso than art (despite the thumbnail, although both apply). And nice to see them making a promise to always be human-made.

Mahmud Asrar 🪲 @mahmudasrar.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 9h

I won't be able to make it to this excellent panel discussion with @karriefransman.bsky.social @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social and my boy Rik, but some of my art will be part of the exhibition alongsides greats like @nsousanis.bsky.social @kaysohini.bsky.social @cartoonkate.bsky.social !

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 10h

If any of you lovely people are in Leeds for the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The Comics Research Group at Leeds University is hosting a roundtable and exhibition event on Comics Theory and Practice on Nov 12.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-pra...

Comics Practice and Theory: Roundtable & Exhibition Launch

An exploration of comics, research and creative practice. Part of Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 10h

The advice is the be wary of Amazon rankings because they are frankly the work of madmen, but we did 2 school events in Leeds yesterday and it’s very rewarding to see Pets Tell Tales shoot up the rankings.

Full disclosure. I have no idea if they are actually related but I’ll take it!

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

June 1941 character sheet featuring intrepid newspaper reporter Lois Lane, for the classic Fleischer Studios’ Superman cartoons.

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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 4d

Hang in there, struggling artists

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 4d

I don't have a hot comics take.

Uplift your peers, celebrate your friends.

that's it.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 23h

Heading back home after talking about comics and ancient Egypt to 2 schools and 420 kids. Whew.

Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 2d

Start the morning off right with a bus replacement service to Leeds. Meeting @rikworth.bsky.social for some school visits tomorrow about our book Pets Tell Tales, history and comics.

Photo of suburban England out the window of a bus

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 1d

Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery!

It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.

It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder

Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards

Script:

An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang

Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes

mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past

and assembled from all over the world

Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution

to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen

in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light

[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]

WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity

which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen

who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth

[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]

with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around

[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"

in this endless, silent void.

[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]

"… I want a pasty.”

[ends]

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 2d

Start the morning off right with a bus replacement service to Leeds. Meeting @rikworth.bsky.social for some school visits tomorrow about our book Pets Tell Tales, history and comics.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 2d

LAST ORDERS, FOLKS! This closes at midnight tonight!

It’ll take you ten mins, your anonymised answers will be used for the good of the whole comics scene, and you might win £50 to spend in your favourite online comic shop... 💰📕 ✅

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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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 3d

It took me a great many seconds to register that those were holes in the glass and not Slash's eyes.

Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 4d

*uni admin

Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 4d

Oh this sucks. I worked in uni and in for almost a decade and had known/felt it for a while, but never heard someone just say it out loud like that.

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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!!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

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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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5d

Behold the absolutely bangin' 1940s lunar spacesuit design by the British Interplanetary Society. Thermal cape, front airlock for specimen collection, shooting stick, and a goddamn knight's helmet. The National Space Centre even built a "working" version of it: www.spacecentre.co.uk/collections/...

Concept drawing of an astronaut on the surface of the Moon, climbing over the crest of a rocky hill. He looks like a retro-futuristic knight.

Photo of a replica of the suit. It is buff. It is shiny. It looks slightly less cool than the drawing but somewhat more practical.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5d

You should talk to @karriefransman.bsky.social!

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5d

a woman with curly hair is reading a book in front of trees .

Alt: gif of Elizabeth Bennet from the 1995 BBC TV series of Pride & Prejudice. She closes a piece of paper she is looking at and catches her breath.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 5d

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Yes, the dragonfly was drawn with this very brush. 🧐🔍

Detail from a silhouette drawing in black ink of a dragonfly, photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with. The detail is very tiny and intricate. The penny could eclipse the dragonfly entirely with room to spare.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5d

Gosh even a single still from this "scene" looks tacky. Making Hallmark movies blush.

Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5d

Batman cover art from the OP but with the painted face modified to look like that janky painting of Jesus that old woman "fixed" on a church fresco.

Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like people are getting distracted by Oscar Isaac in this shot. But look at the lighting! The composition! How gorgeous and mysterious Oscar Isa-wait.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 5d

This is a perfect week to buy, directly from the Jane Goodall institute, Patrick McDonnell’s gorgeous and excellent children’s book biography of Jane Goodall. My daughter’s favorite book for what feels like a year, because of how often we read it.

Link here: shop.janegoodall.org/product/Me-J...

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh la la

Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 5d

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

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