James Stayte
@jamesstayte.bsky.social
Children's illustrator. Creator of Gorebrah The Mightiest Chef In The Universe! (as seen in The Phoenix Comic) He/Him.
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James Stayte
@jamesstayte.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Hello New Following People! My name is James and I draw Gorebrah (the beefy barbarian chef) for The Phoenix Comic! It seems like a lot of people are starting to use Bsky this week so I'll get better at posting nice things!
Wrote an episode of Gorebrah this week that references both John Buscema's Conan artwork AND the A la Carte Kitchen ad from the 80s where the little girl makes a Swiss roll and beans for her Dad.
I'm a professional writer?!?
I'm a professional writer?!?
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Wrote an episode of Gorebrah this week that references both John Buscema's Conan artwork AND the A la Carte Kitchen ad from the 80s where the little girl makes a Swiss roll and beans for her Dad.
I'm a professional writer?!?
I'm a professional writer?!?
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🫡 Saturday, 22nd November (so just over a week’s time), I’m doing another online Phoenix workshop! We’ll be drawing Bunny Vs Monkey characters, coming up with new comics, and getting the audience involved too! If you’d like to join in then you can grab tickets here thephoenixcomic.co.uk/events
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🫡 Saturday, 22nd November (so just over a week’s time), I’m doing another online Phoenix workshop! We’ll be drawing Bunny Vs Monkey characters, coming up with new comics, and getting the audience involved too! If you’d like to join in then you can grab tickets here thephoenixcomic.co.uk/events
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🥳 As of today HERO SLAM, my first ever card game, is now available everywhere! Indie stores, book stores, Amazon, wherever you normally buy your games!
⚔️ Or, if you fancy buying the Hero Slam game or jigsaw direct from the publisher, head to www.laurenceking.com, enter code SMART20, and get 20% off!
⚔️ Or, if you fancy buying the Hero Slam game or jigsaw direct from the publisher, head to www.laurenceking.com, enter code SMART20, and get 20% off!
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🥳 As of today HERO SLAM, my first ever card game, is now available everywhere! Indie stores, book stores, Amazon, wherever you normally buy your games!
⚔️ Or, if you fancy buying the Hero Slam game or jigsaw direct from the publisher, head to www.laurenceking.com, enter code SMART20, and get 20% off!
⚔️ Or, if you fancy buying the Hero Slam game or jigsaw direct from the publisher, head to www.laurenceking.com, enter code SMART20, and get 20% off!
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If you're passing through Leeds on your way to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in Harrogate this week, why not pop into OK Comics.
We have comics, graphic novels and manga.
OK Comics, 19 Thornton's Arcade, Leeds, LS1 6LQ
We have comics, graphic novels and manga.
OK Comics, 19 Thornton's Arcade, Leeds, LS1 6LQ
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
If you're passing through Leeds on your way to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in Harrogate this week, why not pop into OK Comics.
We have comics, graphic novels and manga.
OK Comics, 19 Thornton's Arcade, Leeds, LS1 6LQ
We have comics, graphic novels and manga.
OK Comics, 19 Thornton's Arcade, Leeds, LS1 6LQ
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Out today is issue 2 of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Written by me, illustrated by @edpirrie.bsky.social & coloured by @katcardy.bsky.social. As well as an original story there is also a very rare TMNT trading card. Check it out and tag me when you snag yours! #tmnt #turtles #comics
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Out today is issue 2 of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Written by me, illustrated by @edpirrie.bsky.social & coloured by @katcardy.bsky.social. As well as an original story there is also a very rare TMNT trading card. Check it out and tag me when you snag yours! #tmnt #turtles #comics
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Two Tintin drawings from 11 years ago(!).
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Two Tintin drawings from 11 years ago(!).
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THE VILLINOOS are back! And they’re on the cover of @phoneixcomicuk! Honestly I think this is my favourite cover I’ve ever drawn. Enjoy the intergalactic carnage, every week from now till Christmas! 👾
Also: some other little round weirdos are back apparently? Look there’s a LOT GOING ON. 🍩
Also: some other little round weirdos are back apparently? Look there’s a LOT GOING ON. 🍩
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
THE VILLINOOS are back! And they’re on the cover of @phoneixcomicuk! Honestly I think this is my favourite cover I’ve ever drawn. Enjoy the intergalactic carnage, every week from now till Christmas! 👾
Also: some other little round weirdos are back apparently? Look there’s a LOT GOING ON. 🍩
Also: some other little round weirdos are back apparently? Look there’s a LOT GOING ON. 🍩
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💛 Flember: The Golden Heart, the fifth and final book in my series of illustrated novels, is out TODAY!
💥 An epic conclusion to the series, filled with heart-racing action, ridiculous inventions, strange weirdo characters, fart jokes, the sweetest moments and huge explosive set pieces!
💥 An epic conclusion to the series, filled with heart-racing action, ridiculous inventions, strange weirdo characters, fart jokes, the sweetest moments and huge explosive set pieces!
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
💛 Flember: The Golden Heart, the fifth and final book in my series of illustrated novels, is out TODAY!
💥 An epic conclusion to the series, filled with heart-racing action, ridiculous inventions, strange weirdo characters, fart jokes, the sweetest moments and huge explosive set pieces!
💥 An epic conclusion to the series, filled with heart-racing action, ridiculous inventions, strange weirdo characters, fart jokes, the sweetest moments and huge explosive set pieces!
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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
Comic series of the year. No contest 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
Here’s my and @matlopes.bsky.social back cover for BATMAN & ROBIN: YEAR ONE #12.
I felt like we needed just one more smiling image of B&R in their tweaked costumes to put a button on the issue/series. Thanks for letting me squeeze it in there @amarino2814.bsky.social @roblevin.bsky.social @dc.com
I felt like we needed just one more smiling image of B&R in their tweaked costumes to put a button on the issue/series. Thanks for letting me squeeze it in there @amarino2814.bsky.social @roblevin.bsky.social @dc.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Comic series of the year. No contest 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
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If you don’t know GOOF it’s packed full of really FUNNY comics for all ages! It deserves even more press, help fly the flag for great comics for kids!!
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you don’t know GOOF it’s packed full of really FUNNY comics for all ages! It deserves even more press, help fly the flag for great comics for kids!!
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THE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
I'll post about it properly in the morning but BY GOSH if anyone else is awake right now I'd sure love for you to take a look!
R xxx
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
I'll post about it properly in the morning but BY GOSH if anyone else is awake right now I'd sure love for you to take a look!
R xxx
Nap Comix
Bringing the acclaimed webcomic to life in graphic novel form
tinyurl.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
THE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
I'll post about it properly in the morning but BY GOSH if anyone else is awake right now I'd sure love for you to take a look!
R xxx
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
I'll post about it properly in the morning but BY GOSH if anyone else is awake right now I'd sure love for you to take a look!
R xxx
This week in @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social, Gorebrah becomes obsessed with food cross sections... WITH DELICIOUS RESULTS.
October 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This week in @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social, Gorebrah becomes obsessed with food cross sections... WITH DELICIOUS RESULTS.
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🚀 Bunny Vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business is out NOW! Book eleven in the best-selling comic series drags our cute chaotics up into space, as the fate of the whole world depends on them!
✨ I really hope you like it ✨
(Published by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social)
✨ I really hope you like it ✨
(Published by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social)
October 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🚀 Bunny Vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business is out NOW! Book eleven in the best-selling comic series drags our cute chaotics up into space, as the fate of the whole world depends on them!
✨ I really hope you like it ✨
(Published by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social)
✨ I really hope you like it ✨
(Published by @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social)
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There's a new issue (Viz 350) in the shops. Sorry no refunds.
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
There's a new issue (Viz 350) in the shops. Sorry no refunds.
![Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards
Script:
An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang
Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes
mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past
and assembled from all over the world
Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution
to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen
in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light
[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]
WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!
whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity
which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen
who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth
[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]
with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around
[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"
in this endless, silent void.
[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]
"… I want a pasty.”
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It's been over 24 hours, has anyone mashed up Taylor Swift's 'Actually Romantic' with Pixies 'Where is my mind' Yet?
October 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It's been over 24 hours, has anyone mashed up Taylor Swift's 'Actually Romantic' with Pixies 'Where is my mind' Yet?
COW. A. BUNG. A!
In case you missed it, a new monthly comic launches next week from Panini - written by me, pencilled & inked by @edpirrie.bsky.social & coloured by Kat Cardy. Lots of fun, action & humour to be had plus free gifts every issue! It's turtley up your street!*
*Sorry.
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*Sorry.
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New Tales of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title launches in the UK this week
The Turtles are back, and your local TG Jones should have them!
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October 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
COW. A. BUNG. A!
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Very pleased to announce that the first issue I wrote of the all new Turtles comic is out in the UK on Oct 8th! Available at all good newsagents with art by the stellar @edpirrie.bsky.social and colours by the epic Kat Cardy. Please check it out and share it far and wide! #tmnt #turtles
October 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Very pleased to announce that the first issue I wrote of the all new Turtles comic is out in the UK on Oct 8th! Available at all good newsagents with art by the stellar @edpirrie.bsky.social and colours by the epic Kat Cardy. Please check it out and share it far and wide! #tmnt #turtles
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why doompost when you could Doom (1993) post? i think this cacodemon is rather sharp
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
why doompost when you could Doom (1993) post? i think this cacodemon is rather sharp
It's amazing to think that the makers of Da Bomb hot sauce have made thousands and thousands of dollars from the biggest celebrities in the world, physically expressing how disgusting their product is.
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It's amazing to think that the makers of Da Bomb hot sauce have made thousands and thousands of dollars from the biggest celebrities in the world, physically expressing how disgusting their product is.
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Porkbun-Man Ep 3! (My personal favorite from the trilogy) 🥟 💨
June 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Porkbun-Man Ep 3! (My personal favorite from the trilogy) 🥟 💨
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If you wanna watch my comic drawing show next Saturday we’re live streaming it! You can grab a ticket here www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
Livestream - Intergalactic Monkey Business with Jamie Smart
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TICKET TO A DIGITAL EVENT. THIS IS NOT A TICKET TO JAMIE'S IN PERSON EVENT
Join us from the comfort of your own home to...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
If you wanna watch my comic drawing show next Saturday we’re live streaming it! You can grab a ticket here www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
Nobody can make Jenga look as exciting as Red Letter Media can.
September 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Nobody can make Jenga look as exciting as Red Letter Media can.
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Two books I illustrated are out today from the amazing @guppybooks.bsky.social and @busterbooks.bsky.social!
September 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Two books I illustrated are out today from the amazing @guppybooks.bsky.social and @busterbooks.bsky.social!