David Baillie

Creating Comics: Scripting Spooky Strips Matt Badham chats with writers David Baillie and Arthur Wyatt

New Interview!

This week Downthetubes welcomed writing droids @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and @davidbaillie.bsky.social onto their site to talk about horror comics, and constructing the perfect Chiller! https://bit.ly/4pSGOU2

Oh wow - thanks Tony!

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Every time a superhero wears a jacket over their suit, Grant Morrison should get twenty quid. Hundred if it's a movie.

Post from Gaius from tribunate There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

Tapping the sign

Using AI is like slathering yourself in hamburger juice so your boss can feed you to his dog

Creating Comics: Scripting Spooky Strips Matt Badham chats with writers David Baillie and Arthur Wyatt

Had a chat with @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and Matt Badham about horror in comics for awesome UK comics site Down The Tubes. Loads of great art, too:
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Weird X-Men with my old Vertigo team mate Meghan Hetrick. Whoever she wanted to draw, regardless of them making sense, all in one dysfunctional team. Think we'd kill it.

Had no idea Bloomberg even had comics, never mind that they can be this good

No spoilers but I have one lined up for later today!

『落下の王国』4K版美しかったです✨

I had so much fun collaborating with New Scientist on this article!

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“Choose the form of your destructor!”

Looking good!

The DJ Henry Widdicombe eating a Panda liquorice bar with his headphones on. An action shot of him recording the show this morning.

Back on my semi sporadic radio grind. Show 90 if you can believe the persistence.

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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Superman with a lot of dialogue, though I think it might be John Byrne writing his own dialogue here, hoist by his own petard etc

Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.

Here's where GAME will be showing across the UK in the hext few weeks. I'll be at the Q&A at Chapter, Cardiff, this Friday.

🐈‍⬛ BLACK CAT 🐈‍⬛

Commando cover featuring a War time police man rescuing a child from a burning building, cover by Neil Roberts

If you fancy mystery and treachery in the Bristol Blitz, me and @maximizedcomics.bsky.social have a treat for you! Fear of Fire, Commando 5911, out next week wherever good comics are sold

Photo of actor Udo Kier as Hans in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

Photo of actor Udo Kier as Hans in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, holding a lamp up dramatically illuminating his face.

I was the assistant editor on MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. I have 9000 stories from that time, and many of them feature this man who passed away this morning, Udo Kier. He would talk about Fassbinder, Warhol and Paul Morrissey for hours. I was so lucky to get to know Udo and he will be missed by so many.

Fantastic!!!

Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81 Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.

Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.

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(Sorry, you know how it is. Bit of xenophobia gets you out of all sorts of trouble.)

I already said. The English.

All the more reason for us to now gang up on the English!

Ouch! I thought we un-hirsutes stuck together?

Also, you should hit up whoever did that typography to letter your next comic. Trippy kerning!

I was going to tag @robwilliams71.bsky.social but felt bad about bullying him on Facebook last week.