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Barrie
@barried.bsky.social
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Hello, I'm Barrie. I enjoy reading & writing comics!

BEYOND THE BLACK VOID anthology out NOW!
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THE CHILDLESS anthology KS FUNDED!!!

Black Void logo by Jay Measures
Profile image by Cameron S. Gaskins @cameronsgaskins.bsky.social
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fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social
*bangs table* CHAOS WITH ED MILIBAND
georgeeaton.bsky.social George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 1d
Verdict of one Labour grandee I just bumped into: “Ed Miliband is the person most likely to be the most next Prime Minister”.
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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unburntwitch.com
Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives.

Hmmmmm
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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lucysullivan.bsky.social
Me & my comics pal @fraserc69.bsky.social were adding our unused TFTQ page to this but the con artist AKA Frazer Brown has put that on hold for now.

Instead Fraser (good one) & I are creating a brand, spankin’ 1 pager for A1 DEADLINE so please…
BACK IT NOW!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...
A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL
A1 and DEADLINE, two landmark UK comic book publications ARE BACK! The heart of UK counterculture returns to print.
www.kickstarter.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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brokenfrontier.bsky.social
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! Beyond the Black Void Vol. 1 – A Vibrant Science Fiction Anthology from 2024 ‘2000 AD’ Talent Search Runners-Up. www.brokenfrontier.com/beyond-the-b... @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social @2000ad.bsky.social #ThoughtBubbleatBF25
Beyond the Black Void Vol. 1 – A Vibrant Science Fiction Anthology from 2024 '2000 AD' Talent Search Runners-Up  – Broken Frontier
The runners-up from last year's '2000 AD' competition at Thought Bubble come together to create anthology 'Beyond the Black Void'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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rtwyford.bsky.social
A great review from @brokenfrontier.bsky.social covering my first published bit of writing (not to forget all the great writing and art by my comic colleagues).

If you're at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this year, you can swing by Jason Measure's stall and grab a copy!
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
barried.bsky.social
Just read this wonderful interview with @alisonsampson.bsky.social on @brokenfrontier.bsky.social.
These creator spotlights are vital for learning more about cool comics folks whose work you adore. Top work again from the tireless BF (don't they ever sleep?)
www.brokenfrontier.com/alison-samps...
"Comics Bring Art at Its Highest Level to the People" - Alison Sampson Talks Comics and Architecture, Crossing Genres, and the Communicative Power of the Form – Broken Frontier
From 'Won't Back Down!' to 'The Department of the Peculiar', Alison Sampson talks to Broken Frontier about a wide-ranging career.
www.brokenfrontier.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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brokenfrontier.bsky.social
If you want to bookmark it this is the tagged list for all our @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Month coverage so far. We will be adding to it each weekday so it's your handy shopping list for #ThoughtBubble work! #ThoughtBubbleatBF25 www.brokenfrontier.com/tag/thought-...
Thought Bubble 2025 poster. The cover to the comic Down North, Where No One Goes. The Avery Hill Publishing exhibition at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate.
October 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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damesprod.bsky.social
COMING UP ON HALLOWEEN: VILLAINESS!
An artbook all about evil ladies, because we support women's wrongs!

In collaboration with our friends @novamali.bsky.social, and featuring about 60 artists!

Follow the project here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nov...

Cover by @venusmage.bsky.social ✨
Illustration in black and white + touches of red. It represents two women, one pointing in a direction, followed by the other one roaring. Text reads: Villainess, we support women's wrongs! - Kickstarter on October 31st!
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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chrislewislee.com
Artists, what's your favorite part to draw? quote this post!

mine: Trees! 🌳🌲
October 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social
Browse this year’s debuting comics, books and zines fresh from Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025’s exhibitors: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/debutingbooks
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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lengog.bsky.social
Did I tell you I wrote a short comic about a warlock photographer?? And @coddledtamago.bsky.social drew it???

WITCHING SEASON is half way funded with 22 days to go DON'T MISS IT ✨

www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...
WITCHING SEASON - A Witch Horror Comic Anthology
A 150+ page Horror Anthology filled with stories about WITCHES, WARLOCKS, and FAMILIARS from some of the biggest names in comics!
www.kickstarter.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social
sherman, for the love of god!
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social
The Thought Bubble Comic Convention full programme is LIVE!!

Two days rammed with panels, workshops, guest signings, and loads, loads more. Why not start planning your weekend schedule?

Take a look: thoughtbubblefestival.com/conventionprogramme
October 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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tadethompson.bsky.social
It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.
Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela
US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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rikworth.bsky.social
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
October 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
I said that @greenparty.org.uk membership is rising by 1000 new people a day.

I was wrong.

Yesterday we welcomed 2000 new people.

We now have 88,000 members! 🎉

Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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cole007.bsky.social
Some news shared in visual format (more details in blog post #linkinbio).

Please swipe for a short heart-felt summary of my health and if you need an illustrator/artist please do get in touch!

Thanks for reading 🙏
March 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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chronicleflask.katday.com
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking] 1 SOCRATES: Plato.. PLATO: Yes Socrates? 2 SOCRATES: Can you tell me, are you human? PLATO: Why… yes, Socrates 3 SOCRATES: And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is? PLATO: Um, yep 4 SOCRATES: So you can tell me, then 5 [Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel] SOCRATES: *Is that a chariot*? 6 PLATO: Well that’s more just a bit of wheel 7 SOCRATES: So not a *chariot*. PLATO: No. 8 SOCRATES: [Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes] So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*? 9 PLATO: Well you can’t tap any of them really 10 SOCRATES: So are we not human? PLATO: ‘Spose not. 11 [Bleak pause] 12 PLATO: I’ll get the hemlock SOCRATES: Yeah [ends]
October 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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wellsthomp.bsky.social
We're just under 80% funded with just a couple of days left and if we hit our goal I get to buy myself Silent Hill f. I need this, please help 😩

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...
Echoes - A One Shot Horror Comic
In the early morning hours after the witch is burned, a sole mourner comes to pay their respects to the smoldering stake, only to find that something is lurking in the nearby woods. Think The VVitch m...
www.backerkit.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
barried.bsky.social
AND (best til last) Rob Jones 😁 @robjoneswrites.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
barried.bsky.social
I backed SYSTEMIC Vol 1!
by @bencranewrites.com + many others!
It's on KS:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/art...
SYSTEMIC VOL. 1 : A Sci-fi Anthology
80-pages of systemic friction at the personal level, where social forces, cultures, and economic strata meet and grind together.
www.kickstarter.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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courtneymilan.com
This is about someone complaining about a 2% annual levy, which is way under the amount that billionaires increase their net worth every year.
sgp.bsky.social Sam Pizzigati @sgp.bsky.social · Sep 22
French billionaire Bernard Arnault, world’s 8th-richest man, is blasting economist Gabriel Zucman’s proposed annual 2% levy on French wealth over 100 million euros ($117 million) as an attempt “to destroy the French economy.” The proposal has 86% public approval. www.reuters.com/world/france...
France's richest man, LVMH's Arnault, slams proposed billionaire tax
Bernard Arnault, the boss of luxury goods group LVMH and France's richest man, has attacked a proposed 2% tax on billionaires as an assault on France's economy and denounced the plan's architect as a far-left ideologue.
www.reuters.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM