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Stíofán Mhac an Bhaird (Stephen Ward)
@stephencward.com
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Comic-loving bookworm. Scribbler of words and images. (cis,he/him)

Website: https://stephencward.com

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Old arting 🙂
Pen and ink drawing of a gymnast mid-flip on a vault. Their hands are on the vault with legs above them
January 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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A Garden of Spheres
#NowReading #ReadComics
(Another great choice by @littledeercomics.bsky.social as part of subscription service ☺️)
Cover of "A garden of spheres" The demigod stands on a hill looking to their left while holding onto a branch that hangs overhead
January 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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😎😎😎😎
Cover to "the Simpsons sing the blues" album. Text in the centre of the image. Homer, Maggie, bart and Marge are all peeking into view at various corners of the image
January 9, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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Feminist!
Wrestler Bray Wyatt with his hands and feet on the ground. His stomach is pointed upwards and his head is pointing towards the floor
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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happy birthday to future me!
(pre-ordered it for release date)😁
Image of Excalibur 4K boxset directed by John Boorman. Has multiple art cards as well as a booklet.
December 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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"unwelcome holiday guest"
#GoshBFDD
Drawing of a Christmas tree surrounded by gifts. A shadowy figure with glowing red eyes is peeking out from behind the tree
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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"world's angriest Santa"
#GoshBFDD
Drawing of a very angry Santa clutching a sheet of paper. Text reads: "who put my list through chatGPT??!"
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Red Winter
#NowReading #ReadComics
(Picked this up when I finally managed to get up to @littledeercomics.bsky.social for a visit 😊)
Red winter by anneli furmark. A man and woman wearing winter clothing embrace in a snowfall. A town/village is visible in the background
December 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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It's Man-E-Faces!
Still of Man-E-Faces from He-man cartoon. A muscular man with a blue helmet and a green face is visible
December 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The comics courier. Issue 2.
#comics #NowReadimg
Photo of front page of the comics courier second issue (2025 summer/fall edition). Designed in newspaper format. Text reads: "comics! Comics! Comics! Revisiting ann nocenti and John romita jr's daredevil. Interviews with Alex Norris, Briana loewinsohn, Lucia gargiulo. All hail doom. Sound of the page. Jules feiffer's jagged line. Umberto eco's myth of superman. Captain citrus and corporate comics. Confetti realms. The third person. The dancing plague. Big Jim and the white boy. Ennis and Burrow's babs."
December 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Do appreciate when @littledeercomics.bsky.social uses the monthly subscription to promote local/small press work😁
Cover to art brat vol 1 (2015-2025) by mollie Cronin. A larger woman wearing a bra and covered in tattoos. One of which reads: "large and in charge" Cover to the hanging by Aaron Losty and Becca Carey. The camera is looking downward on three men, and one of them is looking up and pointing to camera
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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😋
Scene from "There Will Be Blood" where the "I drink your milkshake" line happens. Daniel Day Lewis face covered with a Dublin flag
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Happy Christmas to me😋
Blu-ray cover for Failure's "we are hallucinations" concert. An astronaut on the cover looks at the camera but the visor is hiding their face Cover to "every time you lose your mind. A film about failure" Blu-ray. A starry sky with a blue line running across the horizon
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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A relatives dog very much not enjoying the winter 😂
A dog on a couch covered in blankets, while sitting upright, with just their face peeking out
December 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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jaysus!
Post from Danielle O'Shea - Sinn Féin facebook page. Text reads: "So 6 weeks ago this one bedroom apartment sold for €135,000 and today it’s up for rent for €2,100 A MONTH. This is disgusting. There’s no justification for rents like this. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have fostered the landlords market that has led to rents like this. How can young people possibly be expected to get ahead in a country that allows us to be exploited like this?" screenshot also the daft screenshots to support numbers cited in text.
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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It's gone from Facebook.
The Dublin branch posted the following.
Text reads: Hi folks, We would like to formally apologise for the use of AI-generated imagery used in a recent post on our Social Media pages. We in Forbidden Planet Dublin are proud of our history supporting artists through our Small Press Day and various signings over the years. Some of our staff are artists, writers and creatives in their own right and vehemently oppose the use of generative AI in comics, manga, anime and media in general. Beyond the obvious job that is taken from an actual human artist when AI is used, the impact its usage has on the environment and the absurd lack of quality to AI generated media make it clear that it is a tool for those more concerned with profit that art. We sincerely apologise for its usage on our platforms and hope that we can regain your trust in our support of real, human artists. Best, The FP Dublin Team
December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Hate that a certain way colours are used in illustrations immediately have me thinking a piece is AI generated (more so than other ways of possibly figuring it out).

For instance, this ad for Forbidden Planet looks like the man was AI generated (that or the creator opted to emulate AI style)
Ad for a stream. A man is reading a comic while doing a podcast. The illustration style really looks AI generated to me
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I'll only be referred to by my new title😋

Sorry, but @ciaraioch.bsky.social makes the rules😁
Photo of envelope. Reads: "the legend Stephen Ward" Also has Ciaraioch's avatar printed on the envelope, a woman using her hair as a makeshift moustache.
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Finally getting around to having a read of this collection from @jambookshopuk.bsky.social 😃
Photo of cover of "Vintage. The definitive comics collection 2009-2025" by David Ziggy Greene
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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with alt-text
Ms Carroll-MacNeill told TDs that she has previously raised her concerns about the "divisive debate that seemed to be seeping over from the United Kingdom". "We could see it coming, and I recall speaking with trans people prior to that, who had said to me the sort of fearful things that were being touted at that time, that people were going to come into changing rooms, for example, dressed up as men. "I mean, the nonsense of it. The sheer nonsense of it, we all know that. That a man was going to dress up as a woman come into a changing room for the purposes of attacking me, as though, with all the conversations we've had about femicide in this room, we ever needed a man to dress up to attack a woman? Did you ever hear such nonsense ever? "And did you ever have examples of it from any of the time since the Gender Recognition Act was passed, until this different movement seeped in- somehow- in 2021, 2022 and changed the narrative and made it cruel, and made it cruel for trans people, and I never understood why." She said she "always regretted that it seeped over here", adding that she recognised there was work to be done in healthcare provision for "gender-diverse people", adding that the Government was committed to appropriate pathways for gender healthcare.
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Close up of the fiery face of the balrog from Lord of the Rings. Text reads "congratulations, you scrolled so far that you have found a balrog"
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ah yes, the Blart-mobile😋
still from Paul Blart - Mall Cop movie. A mall cop on a segway with a little blue light on the top of the segway
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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refer you to Dylan Moran's granny advice😋
text reads: "Dylan Moran: I sometimes think what my granny would've made of the world. You know it was a simpler view, but very clear-eyed. With everything that's going on. I always remember, she used to say, 'The neck and the groin. The neck and the groin. It doesn't matter how big the fucker is - they've all got a neck and a groin.' Last thing she ever said to me; she said, 'Listen, I'm off to Peru. Don't tell a soul. There's money in it, and maybe an early Matisse. Don't breathe a fucking word Kemosabe. You got me?' Bless her."
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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still find it bonkers that they reduce the speed limit *after* the entrance to a school located on a bend in Limerick!
and as far as I remember there's another school a few metres before that one
photo of presentation school in Limerick
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I'm the Cathman
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
(I'm the Cathman)
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Yo da dub dub
Pope Leo at the mic, looking like he's singing.
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM