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PJ Holden
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Comic Artist.
Website: www.pauljholden.com
Portfolio: www.pauljholden.com/portfolio
NEW Weekly Comic: Terran Omega at www.pauljholden.com/patreon.php?via=BS&campaign=bio

CURRENT STATUS: FOR HIRE (page rate only)
Contact: pjholden at gmail dot com /
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idiot ("I'm the problem, it's me. It's me, hi")
A Bunch of layers. They read "Original Lettering" then "new lettering" then "old lettering" then "final art" I do not know which lettering is correct.
January 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Over on patreon, it’s page 21 of Terran Omega The Ghosts of War!
21 pages of free comics. Read it from the start here:

www.pauljholden.com/patreon.php?via=bs

(and if you want to support me making more free comics From as little as $1 per month you get access to the full colour version!)
Terran omega about to thrust her bow staff into the eye of some weird thick cable/trunk thing.
January 14, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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Look! look! I wrote a 48 page story and I've been clocking in one day a week and drawing the damn thing (because no one is paying me for it) and I'm nearly halfway through! You know how hard it is to do anything creator owned!
48 page template for clip studio. 20 of the pages have colour thumbnails of their pages, and one final one has a b&w and green thumbnail, the rest are blank.
January 12, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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What turning up once a week a drawing one page of your own story looks like ... you can read it in b&w and green for free - new page every Wednesday OR you can read it in full colour by paying as little as $1 per page(*plus fees) www.pauljholden.com/patreon.php?via=bs
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Someone must have had a word
Zahawi smiling looking delighted shaking the hand of Farage (who still has a somewhat "I've seen a fly and I am pretty sure I can hit it with my tongue from here" look on his face) the headline now reads "Tories say Zahawi peerage request turned down before defection to Reform UK"
January 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Top work by the BBC editorial team for this amazing photo selection - also this headline, blimey, like ok bbc editorial, we get it, you think Zahawi is a prick.
BBC article photo Of Nigel Farage pointing to Nadhim Zahawi - Farage's face suggest he can't believe what an idiot the other guy is ("I'm with stupid' his eyes seem to say) Zahawi looks like a man forcing a smile. The headline reads Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK after peerage bid ruled out by Tories.
January 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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On the website ? (Unless you have a different website...)
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Not uncoincidenally I did a spoof of this cover for 2000ad
Similar coed but the blobby starborn thing has been replaced by an alien wig monster.
January 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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“Show me a comic you loved when you were 13, that’s all I need to know about you” - Brad Meltzer
2000ad prog 310 dated 2 April 1983. Dredd standing under the control of a blobby tentacled monster (“Dredd-victim of the starborn thing!”) he’s holding his gun up to the reader an saying “kill me… it’s your only hope!”
January 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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I'm off social media for the day (except my pattern and my blog, and the blog will auto post here)
The world is even more on fire than usual. Every morning I look at the headlines and bluesky and think "Oh no". It's not even one bad thing after another. It's one all continuous bad thing with no possible break, like one long dollop of never ending tar just viscously travelling through every event and every country. There's no escape. And there's no longer any attempt to show absolute truth, all morality has been corrupted by allowing the absolute worse people to be in charge, and all reporting then have to both sides every thing. No longer content to look at the evidence and say "it's raining" now we have to hear two people arguing whether rain exists or not. Anyway, today I choose to look away, and if you can I suggest you do too.
January 10, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Why I love Alan Moore...
Cover from Alan Moore's BBC Maestro comics story telling course notes 1.0 It's a large photo of his face, head tilted, dark grey/white long hair, frizzled dirty white beard and dark grey/white moustache, eyes staring through your soul, set deep into a gaunt face, twin bags below both eyes. Brow unforrowed but with the shadow of a thousand furrows scorched deep in to them. There is a large quote over the photo and it says: "This is what a human face looks like after 40 years of writing. I'd like you to think about that..."
January 10, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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John bought this for the Michael Golden story but turns out there’s a John Paul Leon b&w story in there too (an ladronn!)
Cover for marvel shadows and light featuring wolverine. One shot. Index and first page of art.
January 9, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Yassified Shane Ritchie
Photo of an advert for some jewellery. The model in the advert looks like Shane Ritchie if he was younger and had handsome flowing locks and a bit of a beard.
January 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Garth Marenghi “i know artists who name their layers. And they’re all cowards.”
January 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Taking part in the #january-200-words challenge. This is yesterdays word “spew”
Sneaked under the line ! (Had this in my head since this morning just the first idea of it and then let the writing take the shape it wanted) Spew He pushed the mop testily back and forth over the hardened floor. Blood soaking up in to its fibres. “Bloody idiots” he mumbled to himself “they never fink about the likes of me”. But they never do of course. Because they were demons and even the lowliest of satans minions ranked higher than him. Spew was a lesser thought. A conceit given form for the specific purpose of carrying out the sort of work that demons couldn’t be expected to do. The satanic horde didn’t do clean up. Instead it was left to Spew and others like him. Hurl, Retch, Puke and Vom all worked down in the lower levels on cleanup - all pushing mops and mumbling to themselves. If they were lucky it was just blood and if they weren’t lucky… well the human soul is capable of exuding a great deal of both liquids and solids that wouldn’t be welcome in any one’s basement not even Satan. So Spew continued to mumble to himself and push his little mop around, it wasn’t much of a living. But it was living. And for an idea some times just a little bit of life is all you ever really get
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Wanna see a vinyl record jump scare?
An old vinyl record called “Irish night out” The list of songs on the album include “the sash”
December 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Dredd pin up poster I did a couple of years back for cork comic con.
Judge dredd firing at mutant zombies in a green mist...
December 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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higher res!
Jealous girlfriend meme (really lecherous boyfriend meme) foreground, highly rendered drawing "Stupidly overrendering a drawing" the boyfriend looking on approvingly "Me a comic artist" a jealous girlfriend rendered sparsely with thick blacks "Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left"
December 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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My most popular twitter post...
Jealous girlfriend meme (really lecherous boyfriend meme) foreground, highly rendered drawing "Stupidly overrendering a drawing" the boyfriend looking on approvingly "Me a comic artist" a jealous girlfriend rendered sparsely with thick blacks "Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left"
December 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Guys, did anyone else do #Stinktober this year? just me?
Six superheroes, each appear to be covered in muck or slime or worse, each tagged #stinktober. Batman, Superman (kiss curl looks like a dog turd) captain america (flies buzz round him) Rorschach (his inkblot masks in the shape of either two turds or my ma and da doing it? unsure) wolverine and Wonderwoman.
December 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I run away from drawing work by… drawing.
Two characters. A large white guy and a black girl on a sci-fi moped. Dressed in ska/two tone clothing.
December 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Just before I saw that piece I was literally looking at this Robert McGinnis piece and thinking “i don’t even understand how you could Do that” (sadly I’m broke or I’d be all over buying that!)
Robert McGinnis “ordeal at sunset” waves crashing against a small boat at sunset.
December 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Oh so this could explain a lot. I wonder if this was my secret origin, we had a Pears Cyclopedia in a caravan when I was 10 and it had everything, I was fascinated by the section on Greek myths.
Cover for pears cyclopedia 88th edition. (I think 1979?)
December 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Ibs attack so been up since 1am (now 4:49am) did some doodling.
Page of assorted doodles. Includng hulk batman superman and sundry others on a single a4 page.
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Fed up with rubbish crackers. We bought very will big crackers and put presents for people in them an they’re all named
Big Christmas crackers around a dining table.
December 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM