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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃

@rikworth.bsky.social

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Comics oik. Working class. Union man. Sci comm sometimes. Author of… 📚Pets Tell Tales series 🐈‍⬛ https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15438/9781526366627 📚Eisner-nom’d HOCUS POCUS👻🔮 Rep’d by Watson Little https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/ebooks/hocus-pocus-book/

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · Mar 18

NEW BOOK!
Pets Tell Tales: Egypt is the first in a series of non-fiction comics explaining history from the point of view of the animals who helped, hindered, and were downright baffled by, humans

@jordancollver.bsky.social
@hachettechildrens.bsky.social

#kidslit #booksky

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Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt: Book 1

Get yours now:

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 7m

Doesn’t once mention his client also has people killed who criticise regime. Like all stand ups, vastly over estimates their assumed importance as court jesters while diminishing his own credibility to actually speak truth to power. Disappointment.

Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 1h

ha ha ha

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 14m

Thinking about pitching Absoluter Batman to DC.

Following the success of Absolute Batman asking the question, what if Batman was bigger, this series will ask the question, well, what if Absolute Batman was bigger.

I’ll accept my Eisners by post, thank you.

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Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk · 2h

People sitting across from me on the train from London up to Scotland brought weird hotel-style slippers with them to wear on the way and then just left them for someone else to deal with. Seriously this is the Broken Britain David Cameron tried to warn us about.

Four abandoned white slippers underneath a train seat.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 2h

I’m pretty certain Axel Rose has not read The Master and Margarita, but his Woland is a much cheekier and sillier antagonist.

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 2h

Look, since Halloween is coming it’s important to remember the Guns N Roses version of Sympathy for the Devil is better than The Rolling Stones’.

Adjust your playlists accordingly.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 2h

It’s my birthday at the end of the month.

Just sayin’

JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 2h

Out now this #NCBD!

SCREAM! THE SPECIALS 1985-2024

Collecting all of the Scream specials including Anna Readman, George Pooley, @jmstevenson.bsky.social, @mestierious.bsky.social and I's "And His Skin Is Cold" from the 40th Anniversary Special

Go pick it up now for some Halloween spooks!

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 8h

I won't be able to make it to this excellent panel discussion with @karriefransman.bsky.social @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social and my boy Rik, but some of my art will be part of the exhibition alongsides greats like @nsousanis.bsky.social @kaysohini.bsky.social @cartoonkate.bsky.social !

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 9h

If any of you lovely people are in Leeds for the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The Comics Research Group at Leeds University is hosting a roundtable and exhibition event on Comics Theory and Practice on Nov 12.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-pra...

Comics Practice and Theory: Roundtable & Exhibition Launch

An exploration of comics, research and creative practice. Part of Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 9h

I think it's interesting in the comics space, because so many creators are already used to promoting and changing tactics to push books. So knowing what your sales are like is super useful.
But I also get publishers wanting to protect creators from the brutal reality of the industry.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 9h

Ahhh, that’s useful to know. Obviously no where near that in Best Sellers Rank but we’ve got that in categories, so that’s a bonus!

Cc: @jordancollver.bsky.social

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 9h

We also sold out of our first print run apparently

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 9h

Ahh great!
We’re feel a little dirty talking about amazon but it’s also the only regular metric we get.

And one day I’ll decipher its arcane, dark arithmetic!

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 9h

The advice is the be wary of Amazon rankings because they are frankly the work of madmen, but we did 2 school events in Leeds yesterday and it’s very rewarding to see Pets Tell Tales shoot up the rankings.

Full disclosure. I have no idea if they are actually related but I’ll take it!

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 9h

Comics Practice and Theory: Roundtable & Exhibition Launch

An exploration of comics, research and creative practice. Part of Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 11h

Ahhh sorry, mate. Terrible news.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Is the correctly done digital ID in the room with us now?

LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 1d

'Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state' argues Dan Howl

‘Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state’ – LabourList

Trust is the lifeblood of any modern democracy, and the foundation of every successful digital system. And so, in the case of Digital ID, Government…

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

What a day with my hobbit friend.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 1d

Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery!

It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.

It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Off to speak to some schools about comics!

What a day!

FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 1d

Useful idiots learning self awareness

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely unable to phrase my disgust at the situation where certain people have come to the conclusion that algorithms can perhaps maybe potentially be people but Palestinians are invariably and inescapably a collection of bothersome automatons

Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

1. Existing while Palestinian.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

Epistemology / Character.
#philosophy

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 2d

Start the morning off right with a bus replacement service to Leeds. Meeting @rikworth.bsky.social for some school visits tomorrow about our book Pets Tell Tales, history and comics.

Photo of suburban England out the window of a bus

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · 3d

Again, we wrote most of Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome before the 2024 election. Certainly this sequence.

Pretty hard to deny I want to warn kids away from the dangers of autocracy and towards the excellence of TV on The Radio.

Out Feb 2026

Art by @jordancollver.bsky.social

Three panel sequence of a Dog confronting a wolf.

The wolf wants “To make Rome Great Again”

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 2d

#daily 33: dual topics – spirits | skeletal knight

Skeletal knight before a wall of spirits

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