Myfanwy Tristram

A digital drawing of a tangle of leaves, grass and flowers

Drawing

BBC headline: More holidaymakers using AI to plan trips

Alternative headline: Not destroying the climate quite enough with your flights? Here's how to pile on more carbon.

Cartoon County autumn fair - Sat 18th Oct at the Open Market

#Brighton! Come buy comics, zines, graphic novels from a veritable host of local creators! Dare I say this could kickstart/revolutionise your Xmas shopping? #comics #whatsonbrighton

I remember when our eldest was three and him absolutely fuming because the 43 bus was on diversion due to roadworks, and I’m standing on the bus holding his buggy and arguing with him about it, and finding myself retorting “Well you’ll just have to take that up with Islington Council.”

I will be on a panel on the second day, repping CCIC!

📢BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! 🐎🎃🥿

If you missed this, this is a conversation we need to be having as an industry. Right freaking now.

Now would be a great time to reach out to any comics creators you know who are less online or more remote (geographically and/or emotionally) to make sure they’ve filled this thing in too…

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

It's very nice, but that is a wild price for St Leonards. The usual Modern House premium.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

..rather than address the underlying issues being protrsted about 🙄🙄🙄https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/05/police-to-get-new-powers-to-crack-down-on-repeated-protests-says-home-office

Esquire and Michael Malul Expand Fragrance Collection with Cartoonist and Composer Esquire, the men’s magazine brand, in partnership with Michael Malul London, announces the latest additions to the Esquire Fragrance Collection: Cartoonist and Composer. Building on the success of the...

www.totallicensing.com/esquire-and-... Not the social indicator we were expecting - a new men’s fragrance called ‘Cartoonist’ “explores masculinity through the lens of creativity, individuality, and cultural storytelling.”

Although, sod the implication that cartooning is a masculine pursuit.

If you see this, post a goth (or punk) girl.

No need for the quotation marks, I feel. Theft is theft.

Let’s be honest, it’s a stretch to say we live in a true democracy, isn’t it? Government & big business skip along merrily together towards policy decisions that affect the rest of us but over which we have zero control. Decisions are made about us without us all the time.

Home - UK Comics Creators Survey UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 If you are a UK-based comics creator over 16 years old, we want to know all about you! Whether you are a working professional, a casual creator or a student, if you make ...

"Should I fill it in?"

Yes - whether you're an occasional zine-maker, a full-time member of staff at the Beano, a sometime festival exhibitor, a published graphic novelist, a keen webcomics maker... or something in between... yes, you should. ukcomicscreators.org.uk/

Home - UK Comics Creators Survey UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 If you are a UK-based comics creator over 16 years old, we want to know all about you! Whether you are a working professional, a casual creator or a student, if you make ...

There are just a few days to fill in the survey at ukcomicscreators.org.uk/.

Run by @streakofpith.bsky.social, this is for all #comics makers in the UK. Share your experiences and help build the evidence base for better support! And just as important, please share with all the creators you know.

Home - UK Comics Creators Survey UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 If you are a UK-based comics creator over 16 years old, we want to know all about you! Whether you are a working professional, a casual creator or a student, if you make ...

"Should I fill it in?"

Yes - whether you're an occasional zine-maker, a full-time member of staff at the Beano, a sometime festival exhibitor, a published graphic novelist, a keen webcomics maker... or something in between... yes, you should. ukcomicscreators.org.uk/

Home - UK Comics Creators Survey UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 If you are a UK-based comics creator over 16 years old, we want to know all about you! Whether you are a working professional, a casual creator or a student, if you make ...

There are just a few days to fill in the survey at ukcomicscreators.org.uk/.

Run by @streakofpith.bsky.social, this is for all #comics makers in the UK. Share your experiences and help build the evidence base for better support! And just as important, please share with all the creators you know.

My hand holding a book. 'How to Make Life Better When it Feels Like it's Getting Worse' by Simone Lia + Fluffy Pulcino

I read this at the weekend and it is amazing!
I would say “if you only read one self-help book written in collaboration with a rabbit this year, then this should be it”
…but that underplays the fact that it’s a brilliant graphic novel as well. Well done Fluffy and @simonelia.bsky.social!

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

A cover of the London Review of Books being held up by Jon McNaut.

Well ok since there's inexplicably no preview, here's a screen capture. The video is Jon McNaut talking through his process for making loads of beautiful covers for the London Review of Books.

THIS is a dose of pure joy (absolutely love artists, of any type, showing their process) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6t... Hat tip to @whatgoodstories.bsky.social whose newsletter is very worth your time!

This week’s show: Atmospheric Locations Starting a new series of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of graphic novelists about stained glass inspired strips, and to an animator turned comic creator about his ghostly titles. Sabba …

broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to @karriefransman.bsky.social, @zaraslattery.bsky.social & Sabba Khan about their comics based on Canterbury Cathedral, and to NormKonyu re: @comicstitan.bsky.social' graphic novel Downlands. 5pm Weds 1st Oct, 104.4 Resonance FM panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/t...

An image of a person holding a sign saying, "Driving up to Thought Bubble?" The person is in cargo shorts and a flannel the sign is covering the person's face. there is text on the side that reads, "Fee paid to drive a storytelling machine (pictured) from London to Harrogate 14th-16th November for Thought Bubble Comic Con." Then there's contact info at the bottom. Contact karriefransman@gmail.com

To the party people going to TBubs! Heads up!

John Lewis Celebrates 100 Years Of Never Knowingly Undersold A new film created by Saatchi & Saatchi includes Easter eggs to past films

I tend to avoid ads where I can, so I hadn't seen this. I do find it rather beautiful (is it a single shot or just an illusion? Either way, gotta admire that synchronisation) creative.salon/articles/wor...

Good lord!

Wow! Do they ask if you can drive before they let you behind the wheel?

I think we’re all in thrall to Big Apple. 🍎 🍏

so the UK governments new"Making Tax Digital" Scheme is just a grift to get us all to start using fucking paid tax management software that politicians have undoubtedly got shares in, instead of just fucking USING A FUCKING SPREADSHEET