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🚨 NEW: The Tories, Labour and Lib Dems have all united to condemn Nike's new St George cross design on the England Euro shirt as they demand a return to the original
When my dad passed away I drew a comic about my relationship with him. 13 years later and it was my mum’s funeral today, so I wanted to draw something to honour her too.
Goodbye mum, love you very much x
(TW: losing a parent)
Mum suddenly became unwell last night, and she passed away this morning. She wouldn’t want me to dwell on what happened, just to remember her as the incredible force of energy she was. She was always my biggest supporter in everything I did, and I’ll miss her so much.
A long time ago, in the early days of the pandemic, Doctors threw up one of the best episodes in its run with ‘The Joe Pasquale Problem’ (Season 21 Episode 81) where a patient thinks every person she sees is Joe Pasquale. I will never stop thinking about it.
Hey. So this is on my mind. My Dad died suddenly ten years ago tonight. A long time ago but it still seems as random and unfair as it did then. Anyway the day after it happened i didn't know how to process, so i drew this comic. Thought I'd repost it to mark the anniversary x
@dank_ackroyd
It took me a reread to realise they were saying they’d happily dump a potential tenant who’d already paid a deposit, then another reread to realise oh hang on there was no tenant was there. Hurgh.
@Variety
Weird the responses saying ‘she’s rich enough already’ - this is about breach of contract. If a huge multimedia company can do this to a big name actress, they can do the same to creatives further down the payroll. She’s owed what was agreed.
When I was about 6 I wrote a story about a bunny, the teacher told me 'bunny' was a childish word and I should say rabbit. 30 years later I sometimes wish that teacher was still alive just so I could go round and show her all four books of my comic Bunny Vs Monkey.
I’ve been waiting a long time to be able to say this but today Sarah was officially declared 🎉cancer free🎉. She beat both breast and kidney cancer last year. So so happy. (And thank you, NHS)🙏🥳💖
Every year I post this on the Find Chaffy Facebook page, and worry I’m just posting old stuff, but every time it gets shared all over again and people say seeing it has become a Christmas tradition. It’s so nice ^_^
Today my mum got a puncture on a busy main road. She was p distressed. A van pulled up, two guys jumped out, fixed her tyre, sat her down, helped her stop shaking, then drove her in her car onto where she needed to be. Just in case you were looking for some good in the world🙏
I don’t know who this is but I knew plenty of kids who were deeply uncomfortable with their identity, who struggled with socialising and learning, and who had no end of stomach pains and illness. Difference was society didn’t know/care as much as it does now, you plum.
Today I married (well, civil partnership) the most beautiful person I know. We laid some flowers with my mum and dad, then onto a registry office where we had a small ceremony with close family, followed by a really nice lunch. Honestly today could not have been more perfect. 💖
Genuinely think this is one of the most perfect intros to any TV show. The desolation, the loneliness, the music, the music gives me CHILLS every time. And it’s for a COMEDY.
Every Saturday I’d phone my mum at 4pm and have a long chat with her. Sometimes I’d still be working, but we always made time. This is the first Saturday for forever that I don’t get to do that and it really sucks. Maybe call your mum if you’ve been putting it off.
It’s weird how during three months of being shut indoors no one has needed artists - no one has watched tv, listened to music, read books, played games. Not one single art required 🙄
@David_Cameron
Oh for goodness sake you caused all this you absolute coward. You threw the country into absolute anarchy and let the extremists win. Then you ran away. Don’t you dare question politicians standing up for what they believe in, don’t you flipping dare.
As multiple people have already flagged, they’re asking for free spec work. This is exploitative, particularly of younger artists who may not know any better. You want art for your multi million dollar vidyagame, then you commission first and *then* pay 👏 the 👏 artists 👏
There are so many ways for illustrators and graphic designers to get involved in making visuals that'll be in the game “Beyond Good and Evil 2” — join in! Details here:
@MarySafroArt
Can’t have an animated movie unless the lead character is a hapless joe with an oversized nose and a slightly squeaky voice. Can’t do it. Cannot be done :(
One of the side effects of lockdown is that my neighbours have started whatsapping memes to each other - most of them are rubbish but this one destroyed me
As for whether we will take to AI-generated content - Griffin reckons that, whereas adults need a soul behind their content, the kids don't care—as long as it entertains them.
💖Okay here’s a MASSIVE Bunny Vs Monkey contest - win the whole BVM book series, including book 9 ahead of release, all signed and personalised, AND a £10 BVM book token!
🎉Just RT this tweet to be in with a chance!
🧐(UK only, I’ll pick a winner at random in a few days time!)
If you voted Leave surely you have to concede by now that the issue you claimed to be most concerned about (NHS, immigration, farming etc) could have been fairly and efficiently tackled with a sudden £2billion grant.
There’s an advert for Google Pixel 8 where it’s showing the user editing group photos to get the best version of everyone’s faces, but it just made me feel gross. The normalisation of fabricating memories. Nothing will matter.
(10pm curfew just meant everyone rolling out onto the streets and onto the tubes at the same time and it was the busiest I’ve seen central London in months)
🔥Looshkin: Oof! Right In The Puddings is the brand new Looshkin book out this April, but I’ve just received my advance copies, so let’s give some away a month ahead of release! Just share this tweet, and I’ll send a signed copy to a few people chosen at random 🥳🥳🥳
🚨 BIG NEWS:
@jamiesmart
's comic books have now sold ✨over half a million✨ copies! Congratulations, Jamie!🥳
Huge thanks to each & every passionate bookseller for making this happen♥️ Also, to the brilliant
@phoenixcomicuk
team! Jamie's comics first appeared in The Phoenix🌟
Someone shouted ‘taliban’ at Sarah this evening because of the headscarf she’s wearing during cancer treatment. Just in case you’re wondering how pig stupid the racists are getting.
During one of the comic-making workshops on Sunday I mentioned I didn’t know how to draw hyenas. Later in the day this got passed to me from a kid who wanted to show me how. Thank you, artistic legend, whoever you were! 🙏
Now the village Facebook is down I can hear people wandering the streets, yelling at the moon. They’re asking for recommendations for local roofers (thanks in advance). They’re demanding something be done about the dog poo on the rec. They’re saying can’t share this, hun.
When Brian Cox just asked ‘what is time?’ I replied ‘it’s about ten past nine Brian’ to the television and everyone (me) laughed and patted me (still only me) on the back.
Mum passed away a year ago today. No health problems, no previous symptoms, just started to get disorientated in the evening, then passed out, into a coma, and gone, all within twelve hours. It’ll be a strange evening tonight. 1/3
Not thrilled about celebrities moving into children’s comics now, I’ll be honest with you. We were just getting started, new comic artists were being given lots of chances, it’s been nice. I really hope publishers and booksellers will still support the smaller titles 💪
The other 20% is not getting credited because some tit added a few words to your comic on tumblr and saved it as a jpeg instead of sharing the original (Original comic by
@HannahHillam
)
As a cartoonist, one of the biggest fears about getting successful is dying, and then someone drawing a cartoon of your grave with your characters crying around it.