Brad Brooks 💬

😳

And to you and yours! Hope you’re all well and life is good (well, as good as can be in these times we live in)

@dylanhorrocks.bsky.social happy birthday old chum! Many happy returns! 🎉

Final Days to fill out the survey!
Help them understand comic creators work/finances & help grow their case for supporting comics.

DO IT ASAP! Please!
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I know, right? Sigh.

So tell me--who's the ref for today's game?

Jarred Gillett, you say? The same Jarred Gillett, who's a Liverpool supporter?

The same Liverpool that lost yesterday?

Hmm.

#arsenal

At this point, I'm not sure who I hate more: the corrupt PGMOL or Newcastle with their murderous owners and their moronic fans.

Not only do I dream about this condition, I suffer from it in reality. It really messes with my head… #occasionalcomix #comics #strips

I do wonder if this following fact will ever change: people continue to make incredible works of art in comics with essentially zero support

Yeah, he’s seriously a wanker. Props to @reubs.bsky.social for his heads up about this…

Wooo! Go Kalamazoo Whirlygigs! #ksefamily #arseblog #arsenal #upthewhirlygigs

Oh, I don't know. You'd just nip off for a kip when shit got real. Sounds pretty good to me…

I've completed the UK Comics Creators survey, and if you're involved in comics in the UK, you should too!

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I Don't Speak German: News Brief: Alleged Kirk Shooter What do we know about Tyler Robinson?  What don't we know?  What are people saying?  Why are they saying what they're saying?  And again, who was Charlie Kirk really? Content Warni...

NEW IDSG News Brief: Alleged Kirk Shooter, etc. Who is Tyler Robinson? And, again, who was Charlie Kirk? idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/news-brief-a...

Why are they still banning books in 2025? Graphic novels are seen as a threat because they are so effective. LGBTQ+ is seen as a threat because it undermines the Patriarchy. The Patriarchy has been oppressing women and minorities for centuries, and it needs to be gotten rid of.

Fucking hell. I didn't realise he was such a c**t.

Blocking him everywhere now… Thanks for posting this, Reuben.

A positive Covid test :(

I wondered why I was feeling so awful…

Can ChatGPT replace our Research Assistants? — What Were Comics? I’m not much of a science fiction reader, but a story that I read in middle school has always stuck with me. A. E. van Vogt’s 1944 short story “Far Centaurus” tells the story of a group of interstell...

A true story of #AI gone wild (specifically the "PhD-level" #ChatGPT5) in a #digitalhumanities project focused on #comics. Hallucinations? ✔ Inability to count? ✔ Mis-attribution of data from one area of a text to another? ✔ Read it to laugh at the specifics and to weep for its wider implications.

What are you celebrating?

This is brilliant:
youtu.be/CIj847pfyTU...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: everything really went to shit when Bowie passed.

Yeah no: Alberta gov't claims to allay school book ban concerns by revising order to clarify that won't apply to a "written passage", just a "visual depiction" – in other words, only graphic novels and manga are targeted.

Targeted books for removal include Gender Queer and Fun Home.

Holy shit 😳

Lads, Milan is really, really humid.

Panel one: There's my avatar and I'm saying "I'm a quarter Jewish via my grandmother. A fact that has given me a certain sense of pride…"

Panel 2: A shot of the train tracks leading to the Auschwitz death camp. The caption reads "…But I've never understood how a people so historically and presently persecuted…"

A long shot of the illegal settlements with an Israeli flag in the foreground. The caption reads "…Could turn around and viciously persecute others due to an anachronistic belief that an area of land 'belongs' to them…"

Panel 4: My avatar returns, this time angry, dressed in a Palestinian flag t-shirt and fist raised in solidarity saying "This genocide needs to stop and saner heads need to get around the peace table to give the Palestinian people their lives and dignity!"

#cartoonistsforg4za

Please consider signing: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-isr...

#babysbreath comes out on the 1st of September and if you have a kindle, it's way too cheap too: www.amazon.co.uk/Babys-Breath...
I was lucky enough to get an ARC of the book, but I loved it so much, I've ordered it too. I cannot recommend it enough…

The novel moves at a rapid pace, and it's the embodiment of the old cliché of 'Unputdownable'. #babysbreath is a wild, exhilarating ride that doesn't disappoint. I love Jones' non-fiction and now I have a new favourite thriller writer too…

WOW. He totally knocked it out of the park. #babysbreath is an enthralling thriller with a wicked twist at the end that you'll never see coming, as well as a protagonist who's not altogether what she seems…

So, I've finally gotten around to reading #babysbreath by @russincheshire.bsky.social of the brilliant Torygeddon trilogy fame (which, if you haven't read, you really MUST). Switching from writing non-fiction to creating fiction isn't an easy path, and so I was fascinated to see how he fared...

D’oh! Well, happy birthday for whenever it is! 🤣