Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Kate Ashwin! ⭐

@katedrawscomics.bsky.social

2.8K followers 320 following 1.7K posts

⭐ webcomics with wizards wearing waistcoats widdershinscomic.com ⭐ read my offbeat scifi heist book! https://www.widdershinscomic.com/hit-the-ground-running/hit-the-ground-running ⭐ occasional editor at Iron Circus Comics! ⭐ she/her/just some guy ⭐

www.widdershinscomic.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hey folks, my silly heist novel is on general release today! If you fancy reading about an idiot robbing a corporation's fancy Christmas party, here are the places you can get it books2read.com/u/me1BoR or on my own site (digital only) kateashwin.com/shop/product... #booksky 📚

The cover for hit The Ground Running, an offbeat cyberpunk heist novel! Tall skyscrapers tower in the background as our protagonist, a young man in a red jacket, takes a flying leap out of a strange airship.

Advertising that the book is available digitally or as a paperback, and features things like high-action Leverage-style heists, enemies to reluctant besties, and being gay while doing crime. There's also a crocodile, though the text doesn't mention that, it's just a treat for you, the alt-text reader

3 26 43

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 15h

updated yesterday!

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 1d

It's Widdershins Wednesday! Return of the real main character, Gren. www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/octobe... #webcomics #comics

4 15

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

Paul Southworth ☢️ 🐟 @southworth.bsky.social · Jul 7

Remember Keenspot? Blank Label Comics? Big Panda!? Congrats, you're very old! And so are we.

The WEBCOMIC OLD HEADS starter pack is a great way to follow all your favorite 2000s-era webcomic writers and artists on Bluesky with a single click.

Now let's get you back to bed, gam-gam.

Webcomic Old Heads

Join the conversation

go.bsky.app

14 72 160

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

Your bloody Rodrigo Vargas @letsgorodrigo.bsky.social · 4d

Oh look! You can buy this cute little anthology I have a comic in! with a discount?! cheap comics to celebrate my birthday! WHAT THE HELL!?!?!?!?!?!

store.ironcircus.com/products/the...

20 30

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 1d

i typed gren's name there as "greg" for a minute. imagine if harry's dog was named greg... what a world that may have been. sliding doors, innit

2 19

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 1d

It's Widdershins Wednesday! Return of the real main character, Gren. www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/octobe... #webcomics #comics

12 39

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

the haver of it🔞 @taylortitmouse.bsky.social · 2d

hey you should buy my excellent graphic novel so they let me make a third one. free shipping for the next two days within the US ✌️🦇

taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 2d

IT'S ANTI-PRIME DAY ON BOOKSHOP!
Oct 7 & 8 you can get FREE SHIPPING on books, AND support independent bookstores!

You should get Hunger's Bite, a YA horror adventure set on a Titanic-like ocean liner suffering a curse of capitalist greed. Perfect October reading!

bookshop.org/p/books/hung...

panel 1
neeta gasps
panel 2
neeta: you were thinking of buying a book from amazon!
wick: I wasn't!
panel 3
wick covers his mouth
wick: well, maybe i was
panel 4
neeta swings a book at wick
wick: what's the big deal, it's just books!
panel 5
neeta taps her copy of dracula, with a thought bubble of vampire wick biting a woman's neck
neeta: always buy books from indie bookstores! never buy from amazon! they're the real blood suckers of the book world!

4 68 290

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 3d

it's actually easy to imagine someone only comprehending the jokes and not the Everything Else since it's how I read those books initially too, but in my defence i was a 12 year old at the time, not leader of the opposition

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 3d

dreamt there was a BBC family sitcom that was played perfectly straight except that every plant in the background had teeth. not scary sharp ones, just a row of big peggy teeth

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD MORNING, BLUESKY. Wanna grab yourself an Eisner-and-Ignatz-nominated comic's print debut??

@secase.bsky.social's "Rigsby WI, Book 2: Burn it Down" is now LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! Come and see what everyone's talking about, and grab FREE Earlybird shipping!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Rigsby WI - Volume 2: Burn It Down, by SE Case

The second volume of SE Case's Eisner-nominated webcomic about the brutal disaster of being a teen in the early 2000s!

www.kickstarter.com

11 24

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 4d

elf only inn mentioned..!

1 5

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 4d

:] #f1

1 8

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 4d

oh my god he's very close to getting it, please vote alonso (because it's funny) #f1

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 4d

alonso driver of the day for being funny as hell #f1

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 4d

interesting watching piastri's cool exterior cracking under pressure this season, it's like a suspect in phoenix wright flipping to their flustered sprite on the stand #f1

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 4d

god I fucken wish

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 4d

this one's been a snoozer apart from him

1 1

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 4d

alonso driver of the day for being funny as hell #f1

1 8

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning fellow cis women. I've signed this. Have you signed this? you should sign this.

Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 8d

We expect to hit 55k signatures in support of our open letter this week, perhaps even today. Thank you to everyone who has signed or shared. Let’s keep this going:

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.

notinourname.org.uk

3 20 32

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 7d

updated yesterday!

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 8d

It's Widdershins Wednesday! Got to do that every so often. Keeps the beard on. www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/octobe... #comics #webcomics

2 15

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 7d

this is what life should be about. the other horse shit shouldn't be happening.

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 8d

let the gourd times roll

10 240 840

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

Jade Jᴜᴅᴇ Sarson @teahermitcomics.bsky.social · 7d

If you make comics in the UK, fill this in.

I'm really hoping for a better future for our industry but we need information about how the heck we're all surviving currently in order to change it.

Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 7d

🚨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

1 34 25

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re involved with making comics in the UK, please, please, please take 10 mins to fill this out. It’s such vital information!

Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 7d

16 10

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 8d

Seconding this post. Please keep calling and mailing. ESPECIALLY if you're in Germany.

If Germany flips to opposed, with how the current shakeup is looking, chatcontrol is dead in the water once again.

🔞Risax🔞 - Smut Writer @risax.bsky.social · 9d

#SaveSpeech

The vote on Chat Control is in October, I believe, and there's only 7 countries opposed. But there's a whole lot more that are undecided since this all started.

I know it's felt a lot like 1 step forwards, 2 steps back. But keep calling and mailing, please!

Fightchatcontrol.eu

3 850 770

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 8d

updated earlier!

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 8d

It's Widdershins Wednesday! Got to do that every so often. Keeps the beard on. www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/octobe... #comics #webcomics

2 20

Reposted by Kate Ashwin! ⭐

Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · 8d

Last year's comic convention tickets sold out, and we currently on track for that happening again this year.

We strongly recommend purchasing your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment, some ticket types may not be available on the door: thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets

2 18 26

Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 8d

It's Widdershins Wednesday! Got to do that every so often. Keeps the beard on. www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/octobe... #comics #webcomics

2 7 35