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Scott Gray
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New Zealand writer/artist living in the UK. Comics, storyboards, commissions, yadda-yadda-yadda.

Website: https://www.scott1gray.com/

Art prints for sale: ebay.co.uk/usr/scotgra-57

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stephencollins.bsky.social
Forgot to post this one
[Scene is KEIR STARMER as FATHER CHRISTMAS in his factory, with RACHEL REEVES as an awkward-looking Head Elf] 1 FATHER KEIR: Well, well, well! [Elf Reeves is holding an enormous sack of letters] 2 FATHER KEIR: Look at all these letters of membership cancellation! ELF REEVES: More than ever this year 3 [Father Keir reads one out:] “Dear Father Keir I am writing to cancel my Labour Party membership…” Awww how sweet 4 “I have truly believed for 40 years, but now I’ve had enough.” 5 “Please please please this year can you deliver some policies that aren’t craven right wing bullshit?” 6 FATHER KEIR: Well, I think we know what to give this good boy don’t we? Elf Mahmood! 7 [Show SHABANA MAHMOOD as an elf poking her head round a doorway to afactory full of busy elves, above the door is a wooden sign reading CRAVEN RIGHTWING BULLSHIT FACTORY] ELF MAHMOOD: What. 8 FATHER KEIR: Do we have any performatively cruel immigration stuff left? 9 ELF MAHMOOD: We've got ‘stealing their belongings and a 20-year wait for settled status’…? 10 FATHER KEIR: In the sack, please! [Elves Mahmood and Reeves push the big sack into the sleigh as father Keir climbs in the driver’s seat] 11 And off we goooo! [He wooshes off into the snowy polar night] 12 [Cut to a person’s LIVING ROOM - a man and a woman are looking in their stockings - the man looks disappointed] WOMAN: Is it not what you wanted MAN: Not really, no [Ends]
January 2, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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hotelfred.bsky.social
Support Steve Rude! I just picked up a bunch of digital sketchbooks from his web store.
www.steverude.com/collections/...
Veteran US Comic Artist Steve Rude Needs Your Help
Help The Dude Out Over on his Facebook page, US comic artist Steve Rude (Nexus) announced that he needs our financial help (photo©Greg Preston. All Rights Reserved)… Friends, Another birthday. Another...
tripwiremagazine.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
We're challenging this terrible Labour Government.

And we're ready to take on Reform.

I spoke with the Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game
This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections – by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbook
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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byrei.ink
It's not all orange cats, but it's always an orange cat. 😂
January 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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feelinglistless.bsky.social
Absolutely wonderful. youtu.be/xYbnMF4FEnw?...
Every Mention of the Doctor's Early Life | Doctor Who
YouTube video by whoooob
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January 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
I'm hearing "I Drove All Night" by Cyndi Lauper.
tokugifs.bsky.social Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs.bsky.social · 1d
Ultra Q (1966)
Episode 19
January 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
I've never really understood this backstory for Blake. If he was a well-known dissident, what would be the point of erasing his memories? Surely he'd be meeting people all the time who knew of his background?
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'The Way Back', the first episode of Blakes 7, was originally broadcast on this day in 1978.
January 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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faitherinhicks.bsky.social
My very first newsletter just went out! Thanks to everyone who's subscribed so far! Read it on the web here (& then sign up to get it in your inbox, pretty please 🥰): pencilbooth.com/posts/7087cc...
2025 - A Look Back
Faith Erin Hicks's 2025
pencilbooth.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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bombsfall.bsky.social
Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants
January 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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scott1gray.bsky.social
Don Heck was BOTD in 1929. Here's a kickass story by him from 1954. Fantastically expressive faces and dynamite panel transitions. So much energy and imagination on display here. (1 of 2)
#comics
January 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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jonnymorris.bsky.social
The copyright protection that Labour intends to remove from artists is the one that also protects people from having their holiday snaps turned into porn on twitter. If it is fair game for generative AI to slopify books, films and music, then your personal photos will also be fair game.
January 2, 2026 at 12:37 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
I'll bet you're all wondering what are the 12 greatest comic book villains Stan Lee invented without any help at all from Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko? Well, wonder no longer, True Believers! Here they are! 1/3
#comics
Captain America #121. The Coming of the Man-Brute! Art by Gene Colan. Captain America #133. The Power of Bulldozer! Art by Marie Severin. Captain America #135. Big white ape guy. Art by John Romita Sr. Thor #192. The Day of the Demolisher! Art by John Buscema.
January 2, 2026 at 12:26 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
I watched #28YearsLater last night. The performances were strong, the setting convincing, and it built to an ending that I found genuinely moving.

And then they stuck in an epilogue which was so idiotic I thought I had hallucinated it. WTF?!
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams in 28 Years Later.
January 2, 2026 at 11:38 AM
scott1gray.bsky.social
Jerry Robinson (Jan 1, 1922-Dec 11, 2007) co-created the Joker and Robin, taught Steve Ditko how to draw, forced DC to make a deal with Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and looked like Roy Scheider. What a dude.
Jerry Robinson.
January 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
"Sometimes I won't wear a tie."
Keir Starmer promises change in New Year address.
January 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
Watched Little Miss Sunshine again last night. Jeez, look at this cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell and little Abigail Breslin who got an Academy Award nomination. THAT'S how you cast a movie.
Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell and Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine.
January 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
It's wild how racism has once again become a critical factor in British politics yet nobody is allowed to call *anybody* a racist.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be ‘born British’ is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
I've never watched the extended cuts of the Lord of the Rings movies and I was thinking of giving them a try.

I have only one question: do they include the songs?
Gandalf and Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring.
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
scott1gray.bsky.social
Some interesting observations on comics from Jerry Robinson.
STEVE: Jerry, you wrote your own history ofthe comic strips and I was just wondering if you have a philosophy that you've evolved about comics as a com- munications medium, something that's maybe developed out of your teaching. JERRY: Well, what do you mean? My philosophy about the comics? STEVE: Yeah, just about what makes comics unique as an entertainment medium. JERRY: I guess that's what I tried to write in a three-hundred page book! That's a big question…a good question, but … STEVE: Well, if you could distill it down to about five minutes. JERRY: Well, I will try to answer it in part. There's a lot to that question because comics are unique. It took centuries to develop, but the modern comic strip hap- pened almost accidentally. There were economic, sociological, technological reasons why it came about at the time it did. Although in retrospect, it seems in- evitable. It came about coincidentally, almost at the same time as the develop- ment of the film and animation. There seemed to be a striving for movement in art, in giving an illusion of movement on a flat canvas, so that was part of it. The development of the sequential narrative was another step in its evolution. One force of the medium that is perhaps not fully appreciated is the manipulation of time that you can create with the com- ics, maybe even more so than film in some ways. You can expand it or compress it. The strip engages the reader's imagina- tion - this is also a part of its impact. You can tap into the reader's mind when it's done well. And once you begin to add dialogue, it gives a sense of a story un- folding before you. There are other technical reasons that give the genre its unique power. The development of character, of course, is an essential part. It's a living art form in the sense that, par- ticularly in the comic strip, the characters in the strip are in constant change and growth and interaction with the reader over an extended period of time. The novel or a movie does not have it…even if you have a character in a series. The television serial is closest… .I think that's the heart of the power of the soap opera and sit com.
January 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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jonnycannon.bsky.social
Happy new year! The final part of my wee series on Alex Toth is now up on my free Substack:

cannonhillcomics.substack.com/p/toths-22-p...
Toth's 22 Panels That Blow My Mind (Part 4)
Wherein I come to a surprising conclusion about Alex Toth's work
cannonhillcomics.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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hotelfred.bsky.social
Just glommed my annual font swag - today is the day!
January 1, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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scott1gray.bsky.social
Into the Vortex!
#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoArt
The TARDIS flies into a lightning storm inside the Space/Time Vortex. Art by Scott Gray.
June 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The Fugitive Doctor and the Movellans!
#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoArt
The Fugitive Doctor (as played by Jo Martin) and the Movellans. Art by Scott Gray.
June 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#TheRani #DoctorWho
The Rani stands and points. Behind her is the text, "Leave the girl, it's the man I want." Art by Scott Gray.
May 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Brig
#DoctorWho
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart stands with his pistol raised. Behind him are the words, "Chap with wings, five rounds rapid." Art by Scott Gray.
February 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM