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Darren Colours Your Comics!
@dikiminster.bsky.social
Comic strip colourist and occasional artist! Online portfolio at www.dscomiccolours.com
Woohoo! Hero Slam is out everywhere TODAY!!
🥳 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!
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Couldn't resist this Metroid Samus and her bike Amiibo. Looks so damn coooool. 😍
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you're in your local comic shop....this was a highly entertaining read. Recommended! 🤠 🤠🤠🤠🐎 🐎🐎🐎💀💀💀💀
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Hero Slam, by @jamiesmart.bsky.social with my colours and @nellucnhoj.bsky.social inks, returns to the Phoenix comic this week after a short break, with a topically spooky episode, gearing up for the games general release on November 12th! 😊
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
OK Silksong....let's do this*.

*Why yes, we DO still have then plastic on the screen of our TV after a year or so.....😄
September 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
OUT TODAY!
HERO SLAM is available today from Waterstones and online from The Phoenix Comic store! It’s a brand new card game where you collect heroes, go on quests, gather upgrades and try to defeat a huge villain at the end. For 1-4 players, ages 8+, it’s a new adventure every time! ⚔️🔥💖
August 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
There's a double length episode of @jamiesmart.bsky.social Hero Slam in this weeks @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social Episode 10 ALREADY! Inka and letters by the wonderful @nellucnhoj.bsky.social colours from me. The strip takes a short break and will return very soon....😀
August 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So, can FINALLY reveal this is what I've been colouring for the last year and a half! Hero Slam: the card game, from Jamie Smart! This and the accompanying comic strip currently running in the Phoenix comic. 😀 Available to preorder from Amazon, Waterstones and many others!
July 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I have some 🌟exceptionally🌟 exciting news to share tomorrow. Like, years in the making type news.
July 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Moar @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social colours for @jamiesmart.bsky.social Hero Slam, with lovely inks by @nellucnhoj.bsky.social 😀
July 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Yep, still a massive thrill to see my name along side @jamiesmart.bsky.social and @nellucnhoj.bsky.social on #Heroslam in the weekly UK @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social 😃
June 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This weeks upcoming issue of the @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social (No:702) has a 'Hero Slam' cover, coloured by me. It's a great glimpse at some of the crazy heroes coming up in the strip! Hero Slam is written and pencilled by the brilliant @jamiesmart.bsky.social with lovely inks from John Cullen.
June 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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We’ll be doing this in a week’s time! Grab a ticket, some paper and pens, and let’s draw cartoons together for an hour 💪💪💪
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 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
In a meeting with management I used the wrongcolour post-it note, and joking said "sorry, got my colours mixed up". One of the managers then piped up " but don't you do colouring books and shit?"

No. No, not quite*. 🙄

* no shade those that do!
May 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I can't WAIT to show you guys more of this. But, for now.....!
I have a ✨BRAND NEW COMIC✨ starting in The Phoenix in a couple of weeks time. I’m not going to say anything about it other than it’s huge, and epic, and ridiculous, and that @nellucnhoj.bsky.social is on the inking and @dikiminster.bsky.social is on the colours. I’m so excited about it ⚔️🔮💀
May 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I mean....you only have to look at their expressions, half the time. #AndreaJenkins #HatefilledEmpathyVacuum
May 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@2000ad.bsky.social is the only acceptable answer. I won't be taking questions at this time.
If you could own the entire run of any comic, BUT they’re the only comics you could own, what would it be?
May 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Need professional lettering for your comic book / strip / project? Rob is your man!
Hello there.

As always, I am on the lookout for new lettering jobs. So, if you want a plucky Brit clad in facial hair and a dressing gown to letter your comics, I'm your guy, dudes.

robjonesletteringblog.wordpress.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Couple of #TMNT painting's from the depths of my hard drive! #comics #art #clipstudiopaint
February 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I've been colouring my current project for over a year, so it's nice to occasionally take a lil break and do something for myself! #2000ad #comics #colourist #comiccolourist
February 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Talking of @2000ad.bsky.social ....picked uo this today. HIGHLY recommended!
February 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Today marks the 48th birthday of @2000ad.bsky.social the galaxy's greatest! I had my first professional work printed in one of their comics and it was probably the highlight of my creative endeavours, setting me on the road to megastardom and huge riches*! 😃

* that last bit may not be quite true.
February 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Boba is in the house.... #ClipstudioPaint with a tad of #Affinityphoto #starwars #art #comics #colourist
February 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My copies of LoLz comic, issue 2 arrived. I drew, coloured and lettered a two pager, written by the super talented @peculiarplanets.bsky.social inside and also coloured the fantastic Mike Collins art on the 'Matilda Atkins' strip! Link in comments!
January 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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All I hear from AI bros is ‘Humans don’t need to make art anymore’ and it’s just the dumbest direction for us to go in.
January 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM