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Neill Cameron

@neillcameron.bsky.social

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✏️ Comics writer and artist 🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD! 🤖 buy books & ticket links: www.linktree.com/neillcameron 🍩 www.neillcameron.com

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello new followers! Just to say hello, I’m Neill, I write and draw comics. Often about robots. Increasingly about donuts. Here is one I made earlier!

A bearded man that is me, holding up an issue of children’s weekly comic The Phoenix, with donuts on the cover.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1d

SADLY ACCURATE

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1d

Just going to repost this to cheer myself up. Thank you, Alfredo Von Pantameaos.

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

Just the fact that someone had to sit down and come up with a translation for ‘Alberto Von Damptrousers’. Impeccable.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1d

Specifically the choices that led to ‘the option to take a sick day’ not being a part of my life.

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t mind me, I am full of cold and regretting my life choices.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1d

* or, from a different perspective, better than ever. (I am conscious of sounding ungrateful for extraordinary good fortune.)

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1d

‘Just need to get through this busy patch and then I’ll have a chance to relax a bit’ sounds good in theory, except when you realise you’ve been saying it for like fifteen years and things are worse than ever.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

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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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

Ummm it definitely made perfect sense at the time, probably.

James Turner @patchworkofregrets.bsky.social · 2d

Through a complicated series of events, this weekend @neillcameron.bsky.social ended up drawing me as a sidekick for a donut in front of 600 children, who then went on to draw me too. Here are a few of the ones I saw - please note that they all made sure to draw my sweaty armpits.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 3d

I’d take THAT option (plus, real justice for doing it in the first place!!) over the pennies offered in the settlement any day. It’s not about money. Don’t “crawl” my work. Period. I don’t want to be paid to allow AI to use my work, I do NOT WANT MY WORK USED TO TRAIN AI. I do not allow it.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 3d

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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John-Paul Bove AKA the wordmonger(er) @wordmonger.bsky.social · 5d

Very pleased to announce that the first issue I wrote of the all new Turtles comic is out in the UK on Oct 8th! Available at all good newsagents with art by the stellar @edpirrie.bsky.social and colours by the epic Kat Cardy. Please check it out and share it far and wide! #tmnt #turtles

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

I mean… therapy, maybe? 🤷😂

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

Taking my imposter syndrome INTERNATIONAL 😎

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, if you’re in Brussels come along, SO much fun stuff happening: downthetubes.net/british-comi...

British Comics Now at Brussels Comic Art Museum next month

British comic creators head to Belgium

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

A couple of weeks till I am going to Brussels as part of a British Comics Delegation, and I am already at ‘so excited I can’t sit still‘ levels. Still kind of waiting for someone to tell me that there’s been a Hilarious Misunderstanding, of course they didn’t mean ME.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah exactly! I have had a couple of them explained to me and the thought process that goes into it is fascinating and completely delightful

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

Just the fact that someone had to sit down and come up with a translation for ‘Alberto Von Damptrousers’. Impeccable.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 5d

The donut squad’s names in Spanish are restoring me to life

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 6d

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210"

It reads:

"Dear Joel:

I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country.

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Sincerely yours,

Charles M. Schulz"

At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 6d

Anyway hopefully it will help break me of some habits that have been ruinous to the health of my hands, like ‘drawing comics’.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 6d

This morning I’ve got a hand care seminar that the Phoenix have organised for all their artists, and I just wanted to give them a shout out because I think that is a pretty cool thing to do.

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 7d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 7d

Apologies for my controversialness.

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 7d

I think I might like Silksong more than Hollow Knight?

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