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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 2d

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 2d

And to you and yours! Hope you’re all well and life is good (well, as good as can be in these times we live in)

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 3d

@dylanhorrocks.bsky.social happy birthday old chum! Many happy returns! 🎉

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Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 4d

Final Days to fill out the survey!
Help them understand comic creators work/finances & help grow their case for supporting comics.

DO IT ASAP! Please!
(UK based creators only)

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

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 5d

I know, right? Sigh.

Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 10d

So tell me--who's the ref for today's game?

Jarred Gillett, you say? The same Jarred Gillett, who's a Liverpool supporter?

The same Liverpool that lost yesterday?

Hmm.

#arsenal

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 10d

At this point, I'm not sure who I hate more: the corrupt PGMOL or Newcastle with their murderous owners and their moronic fans.

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 11d

Not only do I dream about this condition, I suffer from it in reality. It really messes with my head… #occasionalcomix #comics #strips

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Domino Books @dominocomics.bsky.social · 12d

I do wonder if this following fact will ever change: people continue to make incredible works of art in comics with essentially zero support

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah, he’s seriously a wanker. Props to @reubs.bsky.social for his heads up about this…

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 17d

Wooo! Go Kalamazoo Whirlygigs! #ksefamily #arseblog #arsenal #upthewhirlygigs

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 18d

Oh, I don't know. You'd just nip off for a kip when shit got real. Sounds pretty good to me…

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 23d

I've completed the UK Comics Creators survey, and if you're involved in comics in the UK, you should too!

UKComicsCreators.org.uk

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 24d

NEW IDSG News Brief: Alleged Kirk Shooter, etc. Who is Tyler Robinson? And, again, who was Charlie Kirk? idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/news-brief-a...

I Don't Speak German: News Brief: Alleged Kirk Shooter

What do we know about Tyler Robinson?  What don't we know?  What are people saying?  Why are they saying what they're saying?  And again, who was Charlie Kirk really? Content Warni...

idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 23d

Why are they still banning books in 2025? Graphic novels are seen as a threat because they are so effective. LGBTQ+ is seen as a threat because it undermines the Patriarchy. The Patriarchy has been oppressing women and minorities for centuries, and it needs to be gotten rid of.

Toronto Comic Arts Festival @torontocomics.bsky.social · 26d

Comics are under attack in Canada. We cannot stay silent.

Read and share TCAF’s statement on censorship in Alberta’s public schools, then join us in taking action! www.torontocomics.com/post/comics-...

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 24d

Fucking hell. I didn't realise he was such a c**t.

Blocking him everywhere now… Thanks for posting this, Reuben.

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 24d

I wondered why I was feeling so awful…

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Gene Kannenberg, Jr. @genekjr.bsky.social · 27d

A true story of #AI gone wild (specifically the "PhD-level" #ChatGPT5) in a #digitalhumanities project focused on #comics. Hallucinations? ✔ Inability to count? ✔ Mis-attribution of data from one area of a text to another? ✔ Read it to laugh at the specifics and to weep for its wider implications.

Can ChatGPT replace our Research Assistants? — What Were Comics?

I’m not much of a science fiction reader, but a story that I read in middle school has always stuck with me. A. E. van Vogt’s 1944 short story “Far Centaurus” tells the story of a group of interstell...

www.whatwerecomics.com

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · 28d

This is brilliant:
youtu.be/CIj847pfyTU...

What are you celebrating?

youtu.be

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: everything really went to shit when Bowie passed.

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Comic Book Legal Defense Fund @cbldf.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yeah no: Alberta gov't claims to allay school book ban concerns by revising order to clarify that won't apply to a "written passage", just a "visual depiction" – in other words, only graphic novels and manga are targeted.

Targeted books for removal include Gender Queer and Fun Home.

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · Sep 8

Holy shit 😳

Dan Collen @dancollen.bsky.social · Sep 8

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

A screenshot of Apple Music which shows a playlist of Skrewdriver songs under a "Skrewdriver" banner.

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Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lads, Milan is really, really humid.

Brad Brooks 💬 @ninthart.bsky.social · Aug 23

#cartoonistsforg4za

Please consider signing: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-isr...

Panel 2: A shot of the train tracks leading to the Auschwitz death camp. The caption reads "…But I've never understood how a people so historically and presently persecuted…"

A long shot of the illegal settlements with an Israeli flag in the foreground. The caption reads "…Could turn around and viciously persecute others due to an anachronistic belief that an area of land 'belongs' to them…"

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