Matty Long
@superhappymatty.bsky.social
Black lines & bright colours 🔸️ Check out my new series CROAKY 🔸️ SUPER HAPPY MAGIC FOREST is on iPlayer and CBBC now! 🔸️
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Insta: @superhappymatty
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Matty Long
@superhappymatty.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hi I'm Matty, a human making children's books. I write all the words and draw all the pictures. One of my books was even made into a TV show! Thanks for following - buckle up for more great posts.
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Sure would be nice if I could hold just one drawing event without getting ill afterwards 🙂
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sure would be nice if I could hold just one drawing event without getting ill afterwards 🙂
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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![[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]
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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
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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then
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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]
SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?
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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel
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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.
PLATO:
No.
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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*?
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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really
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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?
PLATO:
‘Spose not.
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[Bleak pause]
12
PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock
SOCRATES:
Yeah
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiazbuxbxnuyt5etli2cjseaychvbuym6n6z33nwx2mutlvoqjdhge@jpeg)
CROAKY: Escape from Crow Castle is out now. Some fun surprises in this one, with a bit of spookiness too 😱🐦⬛🏰
October 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
CROAKY: Escape from Crow Castle is out now. Some fun surprises in this one, with a bit of spookiness too 😱🐦⬛🏰
Me asking for another deadline extension
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Me asking for another deadline extension
SHMF turned 10 this week, which is mad! For a more earnest reflection on it do check out my instagram @superhappymatty if you fancy.
Cheers 🍄
Cheers 🍄
September 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
SHMF turned 10 this week, which is mad! For a more earnest reflection on it do check out my instagram @superhappymatty if you fancy.
Cheers 🍄
Cheers 🍄
Think I loved everything about Hollow Knight apart from playing the game
September 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Think I loved everything about Hollow Knight apart from playing the game
Trevor TO THE MAX
@superhappymatty.bsky.social in our house, Trevor is everyone’s favourite and my kid has made a thousand different ones, including cop Trevor, Minecraft Trevor, constellation Trevor and many more!
September 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Trevor TO THE MAX
Wading through AI slop on Pinterest like that grandma in the acid lake in Dante's Peak
August 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Wading through AI slop on Pinterest like that grandma in the acid lake in Dante's Peak
Come draw Super Happy stuff! 🍄
August 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Come draw Super Happy stuff! 🍄
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5yo borrowed this book from the local library. Read it at bedtime and I'm not sure who enjoyed it more 😅
Great buddy comedy between a #crab and a #prawn, lots of nice facts thrown in. The images are gorgeous and full of so many details and hidden surprises.
Can't recommend it enough!!
#rockpool
Great buddy comedy between a #crab and a #prawn, lots of nice facts thrown in. The images are gorgeous and full of so many details and hidden surprises.
Can't recommend it enough!!
#rockpool
My new book Who Rules The Rockpool? is out now!
Join a foolhardy crab and a nervous prawn who are washed away into a journey of discovery and danger. And other stuff. I hope you'll check it out 🦀
Join a foolhardy crab and a nervous prawn who are washed away into a journey of discovery and danger. And other stuff. I hope you'll check it out 🦀
August 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Apple did a great job making the Pencil Pro as slippery as possible
August 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Apple did a great job making the Pencil Pro as slippery as possible
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Anyone here draw on iPad? Are you using paper-like / glass screen protectors or raw dogging it? I need answers
August 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Anyone here draw on iPad? Are you using paper-like / glass screen protectors or raw dogging it? I need answers
Anyone here draw on iPad? Are you using paper-like / glass screen protectors or raw dogging it? I need answers
August 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Anyone here draw on iPad? Are you using paper-like / glass screen protectors or raw dogging it? I need answers
New one from me, out October 2nd. CROAKY: ESCAPE FROM CROW CASTLE.
Pre-order NOW, and if you do it TODAY at Waterstones.com you can get 25% off with the code SUMMER25. But only until midnight tonight. Sorry for the late notice 😅
Pre-order NOW, and if you do it TODAY at Waterstones.com you can get 25% off with the code SUMMER25. But only until midnight tonight. Sorry for the late notice 😅
July 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New one from me, out October 2nd. CROAKY: ESCAPE FROM CROW CASTLE.
Pre-order NOW, and if you do it TODAY at Waterstones.com you can get 25% off with the code SUMMER25. But only until midnight tonight. Sorry for the late notice 😅
Pre-order NOW, and if you do it TODAY at Waterstones.com you can get 25% off with the code SUMMER25. But only until midnight tonight. Sorry for the late notice 😅
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Last day of the Waterstones pre-order promotion (31 July) 🐺
When There Are Wolves Again is currently in the Waterstones pre-order summer promotion - 25% off online pre-orders until 31 July with code SUMMER25 🎉🐺
www.waterstones.com/book/when-th...
www.waterstones.com/book/when-th...
July 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Last day of the Waterstones pre-order promotion (31 July) 🐺
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🔥🌟⚔️ HERO SLAM, a brand new card game, is out VERY SOON! 🔥🌟⚔️
Venture through the enchanted forest, gather a team of heroes, and defeat the Great Evil! But beware, your heroes will fall foul of dangerous sidequests, magical imps, even each other, as you battle to keep them alive!
Venture through the enchanted forest, gather a team of heroes, and defeat the Great Evil! But beware, your heroes will fall foul of dangerous sidequests, magical imps, even each other, as you battle to keep them alive!
July 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🔥🌟⚔️ HERO SLAM, a brand new card game, is out VERY SOON! 🔥🌟⚔️
Venture through the enchanted forest, gather a team of heroes, and defeat the Great Evil! But beware, your heroes will fall foul of dangerous sidequests, magical imps, even each other, as you battle to keep them alive!
Venture through the enchanted forest, gather a team of heroes, and defeat the Great Evil! But beware, your heroes will fall foul of dangerous sidequests, magical imps, even each other, as you battle to keep them alive!
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Private Eye hits the nail on the head
July 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Private Eye hits the nail on the head
Well, didn't expect that 😅
Super Happy Magic Forest is an AWARD-WINNING TV show!
We scooped Best Digital Children's Content at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2025 last night.
This show had amazing humans making it. I'm endlessly grateful to them 🍄
Super Happy Magic Forest is an AWARD-WINNING TV show!
We scooped Best Digital Children's Content at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2025 last night.
This show had amazing humans making it. I'm endlessly grateful to them 🍄
July 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Well, didn't expect that 😅
Super Happy Magic Forest is an AWARD-WINNING TV show!
We scooped Best Digital Children's Content at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2025 last night.
This show had amazing humans making it. I'm endlessly grateful to them 🍄
Super Happy Magic Forest is an AWARD-WINNING TV show!
We scooped Best Digital Children's Content at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2025 last night.
This show had amazing humans making it. I'm endlessly grateful to them 🍄
Me waiting for a dragon to appear in Tears Of The Kingdom
a woman singing into a microphone while wearing a fur coat and scarf
ALT: a woman singing into a microphone while wearing a fur coat and scarf
media.tenor.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Me waiting for a dragon to appear in Tears Of The Kingdom
Was in a Y2 class this week doing a drawing workshop and two kids started fighting. Started with clawing at each other's faces and ended with them both holding chairs and using them to jab and parry. I was halfway through drawing a pixie.
June 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Was in a Y2 class this week doing a drawing workshop and two kids started fighting. Started with clawing at each other's faces and ended with them both holding chairs and using them to jab and parry. I was halfway through drawing a pixie.
