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stickydrawer

@stickydrawer.bsky.social

The blunt end of the pencil, the sharp end of the rubber, sometimes cake, often tea. Never pikelets. Can be hired for summer fetes and wedding receptions. One half of the Whinging Eights a capella quartet.

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Paul Bassett Davies

@thewritertype.bsky.social

It’s nearly Halloween, so don’t forget to buy plenty of sugary treats and snacks. You’ll need something to eat while you sit at home in the dark, pretending to be out.

October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM

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David Henig

@davidheniguk.bsky.social

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM

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Count Binface

@countbinface.bsky.social

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

October 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

October 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

Carl Benz has an idea

[Scene is a 19th century drawing room with a sign outside saying TRANSPORT INVENTORS CLUB. Inside, the German Engineer KARL BENZ is addressing a meeting of gentlemen about his new transport idea]

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KARL BENZ:
OK guys - you’re gonna love this

2
KARL BENZ:
So it’s like, a box made of metal that goes at up to 120 miles an hour, yeah?

[Karl shows them a diagram of a car]

3
KARL BENZ:
And your drive it down one side of the road, and the boxes going the other way go on the opposite side, so we don’t need to build two roads!

4
OTHER GUY:
What’s down the middle?

KARL BENZ:
A white line.

5
OTHER GUY:
So like, a white barrier…

KARL BENZ:
No a white line. Drawn on the floor.

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OTHER GUY:
And who’s piloting these machines?

KARL BENZ:
I was thinking: random members of the public.

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[Pause, the other guys all look with concern at Karl]

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OTHER GUY:
Karl are you OK

KARL BENZ:
No listen it’s fine

9
OTHER GUY:
You know we’re worried about you, don’t you?

KARL BENZ:
No really it’ll work -

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KARL BENZ:
Once hundreds of millions of people have died and the world’s started ending because of the fumes it’ll all be normal.

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OTHER GUY:
Is that normal like the ‘commuter travel device’ you brought in last week which was just…

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OTHER GUY:
…an iron maiden fired from a catapult?

[The other guy displays a diagram of an iron maiden being fired from a catapult]

KARL BENZ:
THAT WOULD’VE WORKED!

[ends]

September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

My cartoon for this week’s @guardian books.

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at www.tomgauld.com

Macho editions: classics reworked for men!

War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
33% more war!

In search of Lost time by Marcel Proust
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
Less remembering, more action!

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
More information about the cars!

Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
Jack Reacher Cameo!

September 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM

stickydrawer

@stickydrawer.bsky.social

Clearly the worst take on the internet. More marmite!

Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · Sep 9

I regret to inform all sane people that M&S has launched Marmite caramel sauce and some Marmite-infused brownies.

September 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

My cartoon for the @theguardian.com books autumn reads special.

Panel 1
A figure lies on a lounger as a hot, orange sun sets, saying
"The holiday's over."

Panel 2
Now wheeling a suitcase towards a plane in warm eveniong light
"It's nice to sit around in the sun reading all day."

Panel 3
The plane rises amongst the clouds
"But all good things must come to an end."

Panel 4
The figure deplanes with the suitcase in drizzle
"Coming home has its own pleasures."

Panel 5
The rain is harder. The figure shelter under an umbrella and looks into a shop window containing a selection of books and a sign reading
"New books for autumn!"

Panel 6
The figure now sits at home by an open fire, happily reading a new book. The suitcase has not yet been unpacked.

September 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Panel One:
A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room.
A voice offstage says
"You can't survive on books alone"
The woman replies
"Maybe I can!"

Panel Two:
"How?" asks the voice
"I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman

Panel Three:
Caption: However
The book is filled with yet more books.
A skull sits on the chair. It says
"I regret nothing!"

August 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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Henry Morris

@mrhenrymorris.substack.com

Full recent PNG article. (New subs remain welcome)

August 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM

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Paul Bassett Davies

@thewritertype.bsky.social

It’s World Lion Day. To find your amateur lion tamer name, take your regular name and prefix it with “The late”.

August 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

August 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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Ben Jennings

@bjennings90.bsky.social

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon

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July 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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Jamie Smart

@jamiesmart.bsky.social

My ever talented partner Sarah has been crocheting these super cute little Looshkins, and she’s shared the pattern HERE

pdf-inline.ravelrycache.com/sweigel/2027...

So if you’ve ever fancied making your own Looshkin and you know how to do this sort of thing then do have at it 💪

July 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

1
[show exterior of a comprehensive primary school, voice of TEACHER taking assembly emanating from it]:

TEACHER:
Ok children

2
[Interior of school hall, TEACHER is taking school ASSEMBLY]

TEACHER:
Now the next hymn we're going to sing is one of your favourites...

3
[she puts the words to a hymn up on the interactive whiteboard. It's title is]:

'Better-Off Families Should Pay Less For Their Summer Holidays'

CHILDREN;
Yay!

4
[the children all sing]:

God made the cloud of starlings
God made the flock of sheep

5
God made the kids at private school
Get holidays for cheap

6
God made the herds of Land Rovers
That stream across the plain

7
Two weeks before the rest of us
For cut-price stays in Spain!

[show exterior of the school, while Land Rovers stream past it down the road, with surfboards and bikes on top]

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God made the two-tier system
God made the Hidden Hand

9
God made two weeks in Bog-nor
Cost upwards of two grand!

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Aaaaaaa-meeeeeen...!

12
TEACHER:
Very good children

[show exterior scene again, Land Rovers etc]

July 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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BUCKERS

@deathofbuckley.bsky.social

Don't forget to rinse out every jar and tin you finish, guys x

June 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM

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Jamie Smart

@jamiesmart.bsky.social

I have a rather big hero-related project announcing soon, so this will be a super fun introduction to it all. I’m doing a brand new DIGITAL WORKSHOP on Saturday 7th June! Create your own heroes! Vote in the polls and change the story as we go! Tickets HERE thephoenixcomic.info/draw-epic-he... ⚔️💀🔮

May 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

for @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Cartoon script: comic strip for Prospect magazine, by Stephen Collins:

[Scene is a suburban house. We hear a conversation coming from inside it, with the voice of the MAN who owns the house]

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MAN:
…You only installed it two years ago!

2
[Interior scene now, we can see the MAN is talking to the GLAZIER who has come to inspect a very oddly-placed window in the man’s wall]

GLAZIER:
Yeah I can see there’s been a bit of movement in the casing…

3
MAN:
A bit of *movement in the casing*?

4
MAN:
It used to be in the bloody middle!

[The window, we see, is strangely positioned right next to the wall]

5
GLAZIER:
Well, you went for the budget line mate.

MAN:
What?

6
MAN:
Your budget windows *move across the wall*?

GLAZIER:
If you get comfortable with fascism, yeah.

MAN:
*What*?

7
GLAZIER:
Look mate, we told you up front:
Premium triple-glazed, Standard UPVC, and our budget line: ‘Overton’.

8
GLAZIER:
Which can move to the left or right depending on the political acceptability of fringe views at any given time.

9
MAN:
And what’ll it cost to put it back?

GLAZIER:
Pffff

10
GLAZIER:
Maybe a third World War?

May 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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Tom Gauld

@tomgauld.bsky.social

An exclusive extract for easter! (From this week’s @theguardian.com books)

: An exclusive easter extract from Dan Brown's new blockbuster novel

Panel one: the caption reads "Renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon makes a shocking discovery!" below it we see him holding a stripy egg and saying "Colourful ovoids secreted in the undergrowth!".

Panel two: the cation reads "Casting the beady eye of his brilliant brain over the mysterious designs, he draws the only plausible conclusion..." below we see him with six coloured eggs with classic designs (bunny, spots, cross, stripes) saying "A conspiracy reaching to the highhest levels!"

Panel three: the caption reads "Langdon's mind leaps instantly into immediate action." Now he is holding a basket full of eggs and racing out of the garden saying: "I must consult the secret underground library hidden beneath the vatican!"

Panel four: A mother and child watch himfrom within the house. The child asks "Mummy, why did that man steal our easter eggs?". She replies "Don't worry darling, he's gone now."

April 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM

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Jamie Smart

@jamiesmart.bsky.social

Happy #WorldBookDay everyone! 🥳📚

March 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

The modern phenomenon of the Haunted Cereal Bowl has bothered me for years

February 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Henry Morris

@mrhenrymorris.substack.com

The @wildjustice.bsky.social petition to ban driven grouse shooting has passed 50k. Halfway.

Please feel free to sign it if you object to gamekeepers exterminating almost all other species so that pissed toffs can shoot medicated birds in decimated landscapes.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...