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Jules Scheele

@julesscheele.bsky.social

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Illustration, comics, scribing ✏️ Known for the Queer/Gender/Sexuality illustrated Graphic Guides out through ICON Books. 📚 Portfolio: www.julesscheele.com 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · Apr 7

Small announcement time: I’ll be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social with @omipalonepress.bsky.social in November! We will also be at Glasgow Zine Fair in July, more details on that coming soon…

Orange Social Media Image for Thought Bubble Festival that says “I’ll be at Thought Bubble Comic Convention / 15 & 16 November 2025 / Harrogate, England” above an illustration of a delightful little guy in a ruff collar and a big pointy pink hat reading a comic

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 4h

It's blurry cause I was so excited when I photographed the screen during my lockdown poirot watch

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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

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 16h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 11h

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 12h

felt like a toddler with an ipad at the katy perry concert last night—my review of this entirely overwhelming show for the guardian: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Katy Perry review – like being high on Haribo while trapped in a theme park

In a fun but frenetic show, the star hangs off props, wears a glove that shoots pyrotechnics and generally distracts from her own energy and charisma

www.theguardian.com

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 1d

Is there actually an industry with book groups outside of these fake AI emails? Never heard of it before, always (maybe naively) assumed book groups are hobbyist/leisure activities and pick their own books

Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, makes sense that it crops up when you further engage, which I never do

Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 1d

Right, there's never any links for anything or requests for money - maybe they're hoping to train their AI on your replies?

Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 1d

Save me from AI Miriam Toews

Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 1d

Literally just logged on to vent about this despite my no-logging-on-no-venting rule I'm trying to live by

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 1d

I have got to live that Inbox Zero No Active Notifications life or I can easily go off the deep-end and this is truly a new circle of hell I didn't even know was possible

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 1d

None of these ever get sent to spam, and an additional delightful thing is that I have a limited work capacity out of office on at the moment which they VERY ENTHUSIASTICALLY reply to with even longer emails

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 1d

So who else is receiving daily damage to their psyche from constant AI bots writing lengthy flowery emails about promoting their work at book clubs or other made-up places? Winner for me so far has been fake AI Miriam Toews (?) wanting to connect with me through our shared love of storytelling (?)

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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SAJAN @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 2d

I'll make another post but reminder that I'm looking for work! I did pretty okay last year, but didn't really feel like it because a bunch of gigs paid late/barely on time which had a real knock-on effect, and this year's been very slow

SAJAN @planetsmudge.bsky.social · Oct 8

hi #PortfolioDay - available to make otherworldly work from 2025.
TTRPGs, board games, more vinyl covers and concept + visdev stuff for games/film/tv would be cool!

illustration for Haunted Table's Triangle Agency adventure 'rom dump' - of adventurers zapping out of a barn window - a horned cyclops witha book of spells, a protagonise-looking goblin girl, a blue demon with some kind of spirit mace. A grim reaper hovers in front of the crescent moon.

Illustrated cover to the monkey man soundtrack vinyl. The monkey god hanuman opens his ribcage out, behind Dev patel's head. Hanuman's tail is a flaming circle that frames the figures, which dev patel graps. There's flame, blood, fleshy vomit.

the busts of two figures, one looks in pain, as they're having their vocal cords yanked from a hole in their throat by the other, who clutches them in a bunch with their furthest hand. With their other hand they concentratedly use a stringed instrument bow on the vocal cords. A rainbow bridges the heads, and is dotted with fantastical music notation. Their busts rest above a small basin.

a dark starry background, and a blue room where a bed sit next to windows looking out to the night sky. Psyche lies naked on a patterned bedframe amongst plants, her white hair arching around to the foot of the bed. She looks in wonder at Cupid - who is illuminated by the three candles she holds up. Cupid appears as a fleshy mass, strung within a halo, from which arrows eminate haphazardly.

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 2d

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 2d

Check out these uncoloured pages from @julesscheele.bsky.social of his adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando!!! I had an idea in my head of what Jules could do with Orlando before I suggested it to him and it's even better than I imagined...

Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 5d

Some snippets from my inks 👀

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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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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, though also worth noting that there are a number of trans investigative journalists who have reported on this. It is widely known among experts and in community - not least because of how many of us have experienced it first-hand.

Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 2d

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 4d

I won’t even get into how you get treated there once you do make an appointment for anything. Shout out to the nurse who absolutely refused to take my coil out when I was sobbing cause as a 34-year old (then) I couldn’t be trusted not to get pregnant

Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 4d

Can I say it’s also nearly impossible to book any sexual health appointments at the Sandyford - took me over a year to get both my mpox vaccines and a prep appointment and so far I never managed to get a free basic health screening (most people I know pay privately for those) 👎

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 4d

It was 20+ years when I registered for my first appointment and I didn’t realise I should have been grateful that it might still happen in my lifetime

Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈 @awjt.bsky.social · 4d

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist.

This system is failing to support people to transition not because it is broken, but by design. The frustrating thing is that this would not be a difficult problem to solve under a different political paradigm.

Trans+ people do not need to be assessed by gender clinics or diagnosed by psychiatrists to tell us what we already know: we are trans. The healthcare we need, especially when it comes to hormones, is already available to cis people through making an appointment with their GP.

Gender clinics are unnecessary and exist to segregate healthcare for Trans+ people. Abolishing this system and providing Trans+ healthcare in primary care, at the GP through an informed consent model, would solve many of the issues this data reveals. GPs already prescribe hormones to cis adults. Trans+ adults simply need the same access to this healthcare.

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 4d

🌷✨ shortboxcomicsfair.com ✨🌷

comic by @weisanboo.bsky.social

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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Gavia!! I'm really excited