Paul Smith

I took my dog to the cinema: they’re better behaved than children Pet-friendly screenings have spread since the pandemic, with Curzon and Picturehouse offering an escape for those unable (or unwilling) to leave them at home

🗣 I took my dog to the cinema: they’re better behaved than children

Pet-friendly screenings have spread since the pandemic, with Curzon and Picturehouse offering an escape for those unable (or unwilling) to leave them at home ⬇️

I got to go on BBC Radio London with the very kind @kmelandri.bsky.social this morning to talk about the 2025 #FirstGraphicNovelAward!

Go to bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kbr392 at the 2:18 mark to hear me mumble!

@selfmadehero.bsky.social @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social

#indiecomics

Broken Frontier Awards 2024: Announcing the Winners – Assume Nothing in a Wonderful Year of Unpredictability, and Emma Hayley of SelfMadeHero and Silver Sprocket Enter the BF Hall of Fame – Broken Fro... Broken Frontier is delighted to announce the winners of their 2024 Awards, honouring some of the finest work of the year.

Broken Frontier Awards 2024: Announcing the Winners – Assume Nothing in a Wonderful Year of Unpredictability, and Emma Hayley of @selfmadehero.bsky.social and @silversprocket.net Enter the BF Hall of Fame. www.brokenfrontier.com/broken-front...

A screen shot of the Channel 4 website, showing some of the Best British films available to stream - featured is the 2024 Winner Sister Wives, Until Today, Making Up, Rejoyce!, and Diomysus: More Than Monogamy. Each film has a tile with a still from the film.

All 15 of the Best British Short films from Iris 2024 are available to stream on Channel 4, perfect for watching as you keep warm through this chilly weather!

Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld, says writer and academic Emily Bell

Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now
@emilybell.bsky.social

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Happy New Year, friends! Remember: That which does not kill us wins reelection and tries again.

Be vigilant and keep a good humor about your every day and spread laughter and good will. It’s the best inoculation against autocracy and idiocy.

Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2025 finds a way to be kinder and be more caring whatever the challenges we face 🙏

What We’re Reading to Start the New Year New Yorker writers and contributors on the books they’re ringing in 2025 with.

New Yorker writers and contributors on the books they’re ringing in 2025 with.

Always feels like Francis Bacon’s portraits are trapped in an emotional limbo where they’re trying to manifest a physical presence, half in reality and half in spirt. Love #humanpresence, the #NationalPortraitGallery #exhibition, especially the many triptychs of friends, lovers and himself #lgbtq

AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed at White House for the first time It’s been a big World AIDS day for the world’s largest ongoing community art project.

For the first time in history, the White House displayed the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the South Lawn on Sunday, marking an extraordinary and emotional #WorldAIDSDay ceremony.

"One of the wildest historical stories you’re liable to hear..."

Big thanks to @comicbookherald.bsky.social for shouting out #MadameChoiandtheMonsters as a 2024 favourite!
🔗 comicbookherald.com/my-favorite-graphic-novels-of-september-2024/

#selfmadehero #indiecomics #godzilla #kaiju

I’m sure she won’t miss one wee cake #tasty #naughtybutnice #afternoonteas

‘I am nothing if not persistent’: Lesley Imgart, winner of our graphic short story prize 2024 It was fifth time lucky for Imgart in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists, with her spellbinding tale about the life of a young witch

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a man in a white tank top is singing into a microphone on a stage in front of a sign that says live aid . Alt: Freddie Mercury, with mic stand at crotch level, plays with the crowd at Live Aid.

On this day in 1991 the world lost Freddie Mercury to #AIDS.
AIDS not only robbed us of friends and lovers, it also robbed us of all they could have/would have achieved had they lived.
#FreddieMercury

It is dark. A candlelit chorus are singing John Lennon’s Imagine. A crowd hold more candles.

Last night I stood among 100s of others in the freezing cold of Soho Square to remember those lives lost as a result of transphobia.
We heard stories filled with anger, grief and loss but what I carried away with me most of all was the love.
These deaths must end.
💜
#TransDayOfRemembrance

Comics writer and artist Lucy Sullivan announced as new Lakes International Comic Art Festival patron Award-winning creator joins Festival's advisory team

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that comic writer and artist Lucy Sullivan has joined the organisation as a new patron

When are we in control, when do we surrender to our darker desires & set ourselves free? Sexual, social & generational powerplay all explored in #HalinaReijn’s #Babygirlmovie with stars #NicoleKidman #HarrisDickinson offering personal experiences on set and the worldwide reactions #preview

You Are Loved to hold a launch night of panel discussions and performances at Arch Clapham A Panorama of Film, Theatre and TV

You Are Loved to hold a launch night of panel discussions and performances at Arch Clapham on Friday, November 22 #Events #LGBTQ+ #YouAreLoved

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I was a judge for this way back in 2014 (I think!) and it was such a joy and a privilege to be part of that team. The enthusiasm and the genuine desire to create an opportunity for aspiring creators was wonderful to behold. Don't miss out on this!

Something #wicked this way comes to London’s #SouthBank tonight #WickedMovie #UKPremiere @jonmchu.bsky.social #arianagrande #jonathanbailey #cynthiaeirvo #michelleyeoh #jeffgoldblum #defyinggravity #pinkorgreen

As I make myself at home in this rapidly growing bluesky community, it feels right that my 1st post should reflect the way forward by sharing a little love with followers old and new from that other platform 😎❤️#feelthelove #mindfulness #bepositive #newbeginnings