Edward Ross

Introduction to Cyanotype Learn to create your own deep blue Cyanotypes in this hands on workshop. All material is provided.

If you're in Edinburgh, my amazing wife will give an Introduction to Cyanotype workshop as part of Support the Makers in Portobello!! 🤖😊
www.eventbrite.com/e/introducti...

Had an amazing day at @ohcon.bsky.social Outer Hebrides Comic Con on Lewis! Such a fantastically warm and family-friendly event, run with genuine passion and love by a team of outstanding volunteers! What a wonderful thing they’ve created!

Thank you! If you buy it from my website I get 50% of cover price, and I can sign it for you! That’s for UK customers only. Otherwise simply supporting a local indy bookshop!

Thank you!

Photo of a convention table, featuring my Graphic Novel Builder graphic novel. A colourful cover shows teens making their own giant graphic novel

Convention table featuring my graphic novels Gamish: The graphic history of gaming, and Filmish: a graphic journey through film.

Convention table featuring copies of my mini comic Interstellar Taco Truck. A pink, blue and purple colour scheme. We see human and alien kids cooking a delicious looking pudding!

All set up at @ohcon.bsky.social in Stornoway Town Hall! Come say hi and take in the activities and fun!

Thank you! And you and @firstmadekit.uk too! Loved reading Feed - a really great piece of work and super timely.

Extremely happy to be shortlisted for Best Graphic Novel at this year’s Selkie Awards! Surrounded by wild talent!

Building (Super) Heroic Worlds with Etienne Kubwabo An in-person writing workshop about turning ordinary surroundings into superheroic worlds.

🗣️Help us spread the word 🗣️: Join us for an in-person workshop on turning ordinary surroundings into superheroic worlds, led by comic creator and writer Etienne Kubwabo: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/building-sup...

An illustration of the five leads from 1985's The Breakfast Club

An illustration of the Scooby Gang from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

An illustration of 1961's Breakfast at Tiffanys

An illustration of 1996's Matilda

I illustrated this excellent piece by Katie Goh for @natlibscot.bsky.social about libraries in pop culture. Was extremely fun to get to draw the Scooby Gang! Can someone hire me to draw a Willow comic please?

You can read the article here: www.nls.uk/collections/...

A graphic for the Uk comics creator survey, saying: we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in? With the URL ukcomicscreators.org.uk over a series of illustrated raised hands

Everyone who is behind this survey wants your voice to be counted. Everyone who is *boosting* this survey wants your voice to be counted.

Get this puppy filled in before midnight on Monday and be counted!!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

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…

I was on the libgen database but due to not being registered with the US copyright office, I’m not included on this database (I.e not eligible for a payout despite having my work stolen)

Thrilled to share that @julesscheele.bsky.social is adapting Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as a graphic novel biography with Avery Hill! From Elizabethan courts to the present day, a timeless journey reimagined in comics. ✨📚

The data from this survey is VITAL for us as a community - helping us see the wood from the trees and argue for what we need as comic creators.

In other words… go fill it in!

“Ah you’re struggling to find pleasure in reading? Have you considered making it stressful? Maybe adding a pass/fail element into the mix?”

Hari holding a copy of the book 'night at the vampire castle' while wearing a suitably vampiric shirt with a ruffly collar - the graphic reads 'out today!'

Photo of an open copy of the book 'night at the vampire castle' where you can see the text and an illustration of an ominous castle on a stormy night

🩸 OUT TODAY 🥀
Disappear into a dark forest and get seduced, devoured, and perhaps escape your job for good, in NIGHT AT THE VAMPIRE CASTLE: A choose-your-own-romance for adult readers

✶ No experience needed
✶ Replayable
✶ Illustrated
& out now www.hari-illustration.com/natvc

Excited to be off to @comicartfestival.bsky.social for the first time this weekend!

I'll have copies of

✏️ Graphic Novel Builder: The illustrated guide to making your own comics
👾 Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming
📽️ Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film
🌮 Interstellar Taco Truck!

Come say hi!

A meter showing how many people have responded to the uk comics creator survey 2025. So far it’s at 289! The minimum target is 380 to be statistically representative, and 623 responded in 2020

Damn, look how many of you have filled in the survey in its first week! (Yes I *have* made a respondent-meter like it’s a village hall fundraiser - let me have my little whimsies)

If you have ten mins to join in the fun, the link is here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk

“They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude.”

This by @anthonymoser.com goes so fuckin hard

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

“They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude.”

This by @anthonymoser.com goes so fuckin hard

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Comic book chemistry The scientists using visual storytelling to communicate their work - and how you can do it too

Super excited to have a comic in this month’s @chemistryworld.com magazine, alongside a great article by Rupo Mapanga. Both are about the power of science comics, with mine offering a guide for scientists looking to translate their research into the comics form www.chemistryworld.com/careers/comi...

My book is in libgen AND I won’t be getting any money! 🥳

You needed to have had your work registered at the US copyright office before the suit was filed to qualify.

Check out my new mini-comic! Available in print and digital on my website.

Hope you feel better soon and it's nothing major. Take care, bud!

Out of curiosity, do most US authors / comic creators submit their work to the US copyright office as a matter of course?

Or are a lot of people going to be shit out of luck like me?

In sum, the work must have been: Registered within 3 months of its first publication (in any format) OR before the titles were downloaded (because the Copyright Act provides statutory (court-set) damages only if one of the two is true); AND Registered within 5 years of first publication (because the Copyright Act provides a presumption of validity of all of the facts in the registration certificate, such as author and owner for works registered within 5 years). In other words: The work was registered within 3 months of publication, OR It was registered within 5 years of publication and before the download dates (from LibGen in June 2021 and PiLiMi in July 2022).

This sucks…

This despite the fact that copyright is automatic - but a work needs to be registered to make a claim, and it’s too late in this case.

This is worth reading if you’re wondering where you stand as an author whose work was ripped off by Anyhropic.

Looks like, as I was worrying, that I’ll probably not get a payout since my work wasn’t registered with the US copyright office.

Labour to designate “going all floppy” a terrorist act.

A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

ukcomicscreators.org.uk