Clare aka GingerKnits

Oooooooh! This is exciting.

🚀 YO COMICS FAIR IS BACK! We are thrilled to announce that Yo Comics Fair, a comic fair FOR kids and BY kids, is back at South London's @stanleyarts.uk on MARCH 22nd 2026! Woo hoo!

See you there!

www.yocomicsfair.co.uk

Posters are free - we just ask you to cover postage and packaging costs. 🚇

looking at my big christmas window painting again, cos i'm still proud of it

Counting the number of times I hear the word unprecedented on the news today.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

No Country by Patrice Aggs and Joe Brady - The Phoenix Comic Shop No Country by Patrice Aggs and Joe Brady, available from The Phoenix shop! What would you do if your home wasn't safe any more? Bea and her family are trying to live as if everything is normal.

No Country in the Phoenix? I read it ages ago so can't remember the exact issues in it but found it terrifying.

thephoenixcomic.shop/products/no-...

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent

When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

The deadline for responding to this consultation (about whether we should shovel even greater heaps of bureaucratic misery onto immigrants in the hope of pacifying racists) is midnight on Thursday 12th:

YouTube video by LifeIsSublime Muppet Movie 1979 camera test: The banter is so hilariously improvised.

While I don’t know if any Muppets break the second fourth wall on Television or Movies …

There is this one camera test where Kermit and Fozzie ad lib being abstract entities …

Oh no, so sorry, this must be so very hard. Sending you and your family lots of love.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 732:
When times are bleak, art shines a light. Shine on. You’re not alone.

This post right here. ⬇️

Lest we forget. Robert Jenrick, the Tory defector and new chum of Nigel the jew-baiter, had a mural of Mickey Mouse at a refugee centre painted over. It had been put there to help calm the children as they arrived at the place.

White spec-wearing ginger haired woman smiles into the camera with a mock up of Jimmy Carter's Oval Office in the background.

I popped into the Oval Office while visiting my US family. Sorted everything out. Happy 2026 from your benevolent leader. x

A comic for the Guardian by Stephen Collins on New Years Eve 2024. Script as follows: 1 THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him. Also, a DATE STAMP appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading: OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England FAN 1: That’s Harry Styles! FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]: Can I have a selfie, Harry? 2 FAN: What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry? 3 HARRY STYLES: Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘ 4 *FSHW* [Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM] 5 [We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it] 6 [Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles] [Legend on screen]: ARTIST ELIMINATED HOLLAND: Goddamn it 7 HOLLAND: Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT? 8 HOLLAND: Tim Davie! TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]: Y-yes Jools? HOLLAND: Who’ve we got left for this year? 10 TIM DAVIE: The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond HOLLAND: Almond *again*? 11 TIM DAVIE: We’re running out of artists to call, sir… M-must we keep killing… so many…? HOLLAND: You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it… 12 HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]: Must be eliminated

One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?

A drawing of a cephalopod in a Santa hat hovering over a town, dropping candy.

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

The ‘People’s Reform Party’ pissed £16k up the wall on helicopter joyrides and £5k on a chauffeur for Anne Widdecombe in 2024. 2025’ll be worse. Donate if you like being mugged off by posh hate tourists from Dubai cosplaying as “working people."

I have dreams where I've not been to my A-level classes for the final year and I fail. Every time I wake up I have to remind myself I was a good student and passed my exams.

Cracking list 👇

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Signing this @ukparliament.parliament.uk without a doubt!

My husband (with #Type1Diabetes) and I ( #asthma) paid £95 each for the #Covidvaccine - because we want to protect ourselves and others from this dreadful illness & its sequelae #LongCovid

It makes good sense to be #Covid vaccinated!

Eradicating malaria by 2040 would cost between $90 billion and $120 www.cfr.org/backgrounder...

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.

There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.

You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.

People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

Fun fact: most of our memories are reconstructed on retrieval which makes episodic memory extra fallible as retrieving them the wrong way, through manipulation, context, or fallibility, can modify the memory going forward

Which is to say that we’re going to see more of this.

Cartoon of a window on legs with a mad smile running off towards the right pursued by a small group of people calling COME BACK! Caption: THE OVERTON WINDOW

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege