Neill Cameron

I don’t want to use the word lightly, but Squid Bits is GENIUS. Your kids will love it 💖 AND YOU WILL TOO.

It's happening!! In June 2026, Squid Bits: That's a Nice Hat will be coming out! This book is a collection of some of the Squid Bits comics I've been working on since 2014 for The Phoenix and it's so exciting to finally see it in book form! There're some vintage SB strips in there too!

SQUID BITS BOOK COMING NEXT YEAR! This is (a) incredibly exciting news, (b) frankly long overdue, and (c) going to be HUGE 🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑

Consider yourselves TEASED.

(I am very excited for this week’s issue. As I told the kids at comics club on Saturday, it is maybe the hardest I have ever worked on anything in my life, and one of my favourite things we have ever done in a comic.)

WARNING today’s shirt may contain MILD SPOILERS for this week’s Phoenix 👀

‘Neill we are making some new Donut Squad POS materials’
‘EXCUSE ME???’
…every time.

I get occasional e-mails from book marketing people referring to ‘POS’, which means Point Of Sale apparently, but is absolutely not how my brain will ever read that acronym 🫣

"I'm havin a breakdown," says one crudely-drawn stick figure to another. "You'll be OK," says the second. The first stick figure exclaims, "AGGHHH", and collapses. His head and outstretched arms and legs spell out the letters O-K.

You’ll Be OK

Tomorrow evening! Please come along and say hello, if only so that I am not humiliated in front of Michael Palin and Oti Mabuse, THANK YOU

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

The best children’s books of 2025 A new read-aloud favourite, doughnuts with world-conquering ambitions, high fantasy from Katherine Rundell, and more

Donut Squad is one of the Best Children’s Books of 2025, according to @theguardian.com! And WHO AM I TO DISAGREE? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

It is Cyber Monday! (I think?) and as such I have put some donut and / or robot-related Christmas present ideas together for you in this week’s newsletter! neillcameron.substack.com/p/its-christ...

Genuinely one of my favourite parts of Christmas. STRAP IN.

It's the most wonderful time of the year... James Turner has begun his annual advent calendar challenge...

I’m having a DAY OFF today!

I mean, I have try and write and draw like twenty donut squads. But I get to do it IN A CAFE, and by modern day Neill standards this apparently qualifies as a day off.

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

It’s Christmas! I mean, obviously it’s not. But also, weirdly: it IS?

It’s Christmas! Not in real life yet, sadly. But in this week’s special edition of the Neill Cameron Newsletter, it’s JINGLE ALL THE RUDDY WAY neillcameron.substack.com/p/its-christ...

No but very much please do!

Yeah Imaginary Jude Law seems like a real piece of work.

I had a dream that Jude Law was trying to get a book signed for his daughter, whose name was ‘Euthemnem’, and I had to ask him to spell it, several times, and he was SUCH a dick about it.

SPRONKY, NO! STOP MANIFESTING IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL REALITY!

It’s Oxford, of course they did!

I guess the *other* very last thing I need is yet another history podcast to get obsessed with, but I’m going to jump on that too 😂

I can’t decide if it is funny or tragic that all the most Donut Squad-obsessed kids in Oxford totally missed this because they were stuck with boring old me at Comics Club. Let’s hope funny!

The very very last thing I need is more books but dammit, that sounds amazing.

Oxford Waterstones finally opened in its new location! Sadly I was not there, I had Comics Club. But look who was!

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Possibly a bit niche for marketing.

I mean honestly ’Mega Robo Mum and Dad Feel Sad Because Alex and Freddy are Growing Up And Kind Of Don’t Need Them, Or At Least Not In The Same Way, Any More’ is kind of the comic I want make most in the *world*.