Table applications are now open for Sequential Scotland 2026!

We can’t wait to see what everyone’s been up to!

Apply here
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don't focus on making it pretty or anatomically perfect or as detailed as possible. just focus on communicating your ideas! the most important parts of comics imo are pacing/timing, and getting the point across legibly, not beauty. beauty is a choice you can make, certainly, but it's just extras

Comics are hard, take ages, no-one respects them, they barely make you any money, and you should still make them.

An interview with Jordi Lafebre: 'I try to make the reader forget that they are reading a comic book' - The Comics Journal There’s an amusing anecdote as to how Jordi Lafebre got his start in comics (see below), but he rose to recognition collaborating with French writer Zidrou on such titles as Lydie, La Mondaine, and th...

Jordi Lafebre: ‘I try to make the reader forget that they are reading a comic book’ interview by Aug Stone www.tcj.com/an-interview...

Illustrated poster for inQ! London's Queer Comic Fair. At the top, the text says "London's Queer Comics Fair is Back" There is a circle on the top-right corner that says "Free Entry" in it. The image has a person with their back us, wearing a leather jacket. The leather jacket has inclusive, LGBTQ+ and progressive patches on the sleeves. On the back of the jacket it has the text "26 + 27 Sept 2026. inQ! London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. 60-62 Hopton St. SE1 9JH. 10:30am to 5:30pm. The person is reading a comic. In the background is the London landscape.

London’s Queer Comic Fair is back with a WHOLE WEEKEND of queer comics joy this September 26th and 27th 2026. Double the comic fair fun!

Entry is FREE. We’re family friendly so bring all your friends. Tell everyone! Get excited! inQ! is BACK!

[Poster by the brilliant @kitsuneart.bsky.social]

i know writers who use AI and they're not writers

A futuristic racing driver pulls on their gloves

Cassie Zoom: a character without a story.

I'd love to draw a high-octane racing comic sprinkled with a little Speed Racer, Venus Wars and Redline energy. I've just got to write it. Maybe a zine first.

The 2026 Sequential Scotland poster. It shows a forest landscape emerging from a book with people making, sharing and reading comics across the artwork.

So excited to reveal to everyone the absolutely incredible 2026 poster created by @mortiscausa.bsky.social 😍

We can't wait to welcome you all back to the DoubleTree this August to celebrate everything sequential and small press!

Q Manivannan

Esme Houston

Sister Alaska Lott, Hause of Nunsense

Lowe from Guiders Against Trans Exclusion

A few of the fantastic speakers at Trans Pride today:

"Our liberation is bound up with every person who's ever been told their body, their land, their life doesn't matter"
- Q Manivannan

Also pictured: Esme Houston; Sister Alaska Lott; Guiders Against Trans Exclusion 🩵🩷🤍

#transrights #edinburgh

Apply for the 404 Ink Bursary 404 Ink is the award-winning independent publisher, founded in 2016 to ‘publish loudly’, run by freelancers Heather McDaid and Laura Jones-Rivera. We will be closing the company on our tenth birthday ...

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN

Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern.

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An Oliver Levang cover for DIRTY ROTTEN COMICS #9 showing a character with a backpack walking through a moody countryside scene. This anthology promoted the work of both emerging UK-based artists and more established ones.

A cover of SOLIPSISTIC POP by Luke Pearson featuring a couple in an intricately geometric pattern. Tom Humberstone was the artist behind this anthology of some of the finest voices in indie and self-published UK comics. Undoubtedly the most influential small press publication of its era.

A party scene from the cover of TEAM GIRL COMIC #10. I can't find a credit for the artist online. Someone help! TGC was as much a community as it was a Scottish comics publication.

The cover of the graphite comics and illustration anthology TINY PENCIL by (I think but someone correct me if I'm wrong!) Bart Nijstad. Always experimental, often dark and ever essential. Founded by Amber Hsu and Katriona Chapman.

There's a whole generation of UK comics self-publishers who are probably totally unaware how much they and the scene owe to those influential 2000s/2010s small press anthologies like SOLIPSISTIC POP, DIRTY ROTTEN COMICS, TEAM GIRL COMIC and TINY PENCIL.

We stand on the shoulders of giants.

If people want to see the slides from that talk, here's a link: shorturl.at/D7vjr

It's not the actual talk, but I think there's some useful info and fun nonsense in there.

thinking a lot about the excellent talk @tomhumberstone.com gave at TAGS last year on AI and Luddism. his talk was based on his excellent comic I'M A LUDDITE, which you can buy here! tomhumberstone.itch.io/im-a-luddite

Duncan McCann: The dangers from Palantir’s UK data grab are already here | Good Law Project The US spy-tech firm has inserted itself into the Ministry of Defence, the police and our health service – we’re already paying the price

How’s it going with Palantir?

Last week Health Services Journal revealed that almost a third of the NHS trusts using Palantir’s platform “were not meeting minimum data security standards”:
https://goodlaw.social/aeok

Great thread and excellent newsletter worth subscribing to…

No oil means no electricity. No electricity means no water pumps. No running water means no sanitation. No power for hospitals. No fuel for ambulances. No refrigeration for drugs. Mass death soon follows. This is a crime against humanity.

The first chapter of Rhizomatic Compound is now completed and we are currently looking into collaborating with a publisher and expanding the scope of our game. If you know anyone in the industry who might be interested, please get in contact!
Pls wishlist if u havent already!

A montage of comics covers dealing with the threat of generative AI.

"Generative AI is an existential threat to the arts and creativity, an environmental disaster-in-the-making, and an oppressive, anti-worker tool. This list explores the many strands of the issues raised by theft-tech."

Our new AI "Art" resource list is here: www.brokenfrontier.com/resource-lis...

ICYMI and you’re looking for a quick weekend read - my latest newsletter is about the importance of art in times of crisis and why fascists love AI slop.

Decided to upload digital copies of my zines, comics, and poetry comics to itch.io You can get them all for £4 each here: tomhumberstone.itch.io

Thanks Claire! That's so nice to read

I’ve made a couple of zines out of my newsletters before and have been thinking of doing the same with this one! Maybe a slightly expanded version with bits I’ve inevitably thought of after putting it online :)

Ah thanks so much Lucy!

Thanks so much Dave!

Thanks Hari 💕

Thanks Rob! Appreciate that a lot

this made me cry in a good way

I'm currently running a sale on my store for the duration of March, 20% off your order using the discount code 03SALE26.

www.willtempest.com/shop

Thanks Katie!

Thank you!