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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 1d

I illustrated this excellent piece by Katie Goh for @natlibscot.bsky.social about libraries in pop culture. Was extremely fun to get to draw the Scooby Gang! Can someone hire me to draw a Willow comic please?

You can read the article here: www.nls.uk/collections/...

An illustration of the five leads from 1985's The Breakfast Club

An illustration of the Scooby Gang from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

An illustration of 1961's Breakfast at Tiffanys

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 1d

I illustrated this excellent piece by Katie Goh for @natlibscot.bsky.social about libraries in pop culture. Was extremely fun to get to draw the Scooby Gang! Can someone hire me to draw a Willow comic please?

You can read the article here: www.nls.uk/collections/...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2d

"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 2d

Yara Elfouly's 190+ page comic 'Mountainkind' is a feat in worldbuilding and innovative layouts.
A melting cosmic glacier is the source of both life and strife. While the Summit States thrive, the Coastal Cities drown beneath rising seas, swelling populations, and mounting debt.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone who is behind this survey wants your voice to be counted. Everyone who is *boosting* this survey wants your voice to be counted.

Get this puppy filled in before midnight on Monday and be counted!!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A graphic for the Uk comics creator survey, saying: we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in? With the URL ukcomicscreators.org.uk over a series of illustrated raised hands

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7d

Global Sumud Flotilla had been pressing forward with its mission to break Israel's siege of Gaza.

Israel intercepts Gaza Sumud flotilla vessels: What we know so far

Global Sumud Flotilla had been pressing forward with its mission to break Israel's siege of Gaza.

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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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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 9d

The team @smallpress.scot have made a spreadsheet of info about awards, festivals, printers, publishers etc. that you can access here: smallpress.scot#resources

We have such an incredible, inspiring, and growing community of comic & zine makers here in Scotland and this is an invaluable resource

Small Press Scotland

Supporting Scotland's small press and independent publishers.

smallpress.scot

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 9d

REVEALED: two people appointed to set strategy at the Ministry of Health are lobbyists who’ve promoted health privatisation. None of them are medics: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

REVEALED: The big polluter and arms industry bosses overseeing government departments

Two in three Whitehall department non-executive directors have corporate backgrounds - and only one is a trade unionist - analysis released ahead of Labour conference reveals.

substack.com

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 11d

Come to @tagsfest.co.uk and recreate the feeling of being trapped in a pub with me while I rant about AI!

TAGS Festival @tagsfest.co.uk · 14d

Our panel lineup is out! This will be our first year running talks alongside the Marketplace and Board Game Zone, and we have some great discussions lined up for you.

🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

Talks & Panels
All of our talks are free to attend, but space is limited. We suggest queueing up 10 minutes before the talk begins to guarantee getting a seat. Talks run for 45 mins.

Saturday

Pitch to Page: How do you make a comic? 11am. Scripting, compositions, pencilling, inking, colouring, lettering, printing; so much goes into every comic you've loved reading. Sit in with veteran comic creators Gustaffo Vargas and Jenny Mure as they chat about the comic-making process.

Fanfiction, the Old Human Tradition. 12.30pm. Fanfiction has always been part of storytelling culture. Join Ell J Walker and Fran Morton as they discuss the similarities and differences between modern and historic fanfiction.

Comics For Your Own Good: Educating through comics. 2pm. As a medium, comics are a very accessible way to share information. Cat Laird and Julie Campbell will discuss the strength of comics in education and community outreach.

You Can Be a Luddite: How artists can resist AI. 3.30pm. Listen to comic creator Tom Humberstone discuss the impact of generative AI on the creative process, and how artists and audiences can rally against the rising tide of slop.

Sunday

First Draft to Final Product: How do you make a game? 11am. Join TTRPG publisher Paolo Greco / Lost Pages and game designer Letty Wilson as they discuss the ins and outs of the game-making process.

Let's Talk Cash: The cold hard finances of making comics. 12.30pm. Many creative industries are financially lean fields. With the costs of living ever spiralling, Faye Stacey and James Lawrence discuss the realities of making money as comic creators, from self-publishing to public funding.

Autobiography & Vulnerability. 2pm. Steven Fraser, Ashling Larkin, and Amandawonk come together to discuss their experiences of autobiographical work, and the power of creating comics about yourself.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 13d

We're in a cost of living crisis and Labour wants to bring in digital ID cards for everyone.

They're risking turning the UK into a pre-crime state where we constantly have to prove who we are just to go about our daily lives.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards

Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16d

Thanks so much for letting me know! That’s really heartening to hear it’s useful in academic settings

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16d

Hi Arielle! I’m Tom, an award winning comic artist and writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Some sequentials from my graphic novel Suzanne, plus some other comics below.

My site: tomhumberstone.com

A page from Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis. Published by Avery Hill.

A page from I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) Published by The Nib.

A page from Static. A self-published poem comic (a collaboration with poet Chrissy Williams).

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 17d

Excellent read, as always.

Mindless Ones @mindlessones.bsky.social · 17d

Issue #24 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Revolver, 2000AD, Aleister Crowley for kids, Deep Wheel Orcadia, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, haunted houses, Peter Redgrove and more!

All the winds and the lulls together

A Brief History of British Comics: Revolver. Nuance. Mach Zero Memory. Judge Dredd Annual 1989. Scottish Friction 6: Deep Wheel Orcadia/Archaeologies of the Future. Haunted House. Weird one, but okay....

mindless-ones.ghost.io

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19d

“No one is fighting back against one of the biggest threats to our very ability to fight back.”

Is anyone going to defend free speech online?

Government censorship on social media is already here. But it can get so much worse.

spitfirenews.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21d

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21d

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 22d

I can't find it online but the montage of Robert Redford in The Old Man and the Gun set to Blues Run the Game has stuck with me so much - I'm glad Redford went out with that film, which you should seek out if you haven't. An astounding swansong for an American icon.

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 24d

26 Police Officers were injured in Londons fascist riots, but only 9 people were arrested.

At last week's Palestine Action protest 0 Police Officers were injured, but nearly 900 people were arrested.

The UK govt is chasing Reform votes & colluding with fascism, home & abroad.

#fightfascism

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 26d

⭐5 DAYS TO GO!⭐

Join us next week for REAL UTOPIAS in Edinburgh!

Starting with Black Butterflies - an animated film draws from the testimonies of three women whose geographically disparate stories are connected by climate change.

👉 Wed 17 September | 7:00pm at Filmhouse Edinburgh

Black Butterflies (Edinburgh) - Take One Action!

Exquisite animations depict the struggles of three families of climate refugees whose respective cultural traditions buoy them in times of crisis.

www.takeoneaction.org.uk

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 26d

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 27d

Some MFers don't believe me when I talk about how deeply ingrained anti-Arab sentiment is in the comic book industry. Here's the guy who made HOLY TERROR & a public Islamophobic tirade, being celebrated w/ a guy who's inferring he ACTUALLY tortured Arabs, while a 3rd giggles like a buffoon about it

Cassie @gamersocks.bsky.social · 27d

while we're pretending Gretchen Felker Martin did something wrong, let's look back at current Wonder Woman and DC Studios writer Tom King making a really funny joke about torture when asked about how his CIA career affected his Batman writing. Featuring a very overeager laugh from James Tynion IV.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 28d

Trump says domestic violence is not a crime.

Why did we expect Starmer might have something to say? He still invited him on a state visit knowing he's a rapist, too.

Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 28d

Foreigners from a backwards, woman-hating culture are influencing our politics & spreading dangerous, degrading messages about domestic violence.

But Keir Starmer has invited their leader to a banquet with the king.

@uklabour.bsky.social How does this fit in with your VAWG agenda?🤦‍♀️

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 28d

Imagine using AI to churn out thousands of hours of useless podcast slop a week, and having the gall to call anyone who critiques that “lazy”

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