David Baillie

Slow Horses on Apple is amazing - and we also loved Severance on there.

This is the art Kirby drew to be included for a NASA probe, his reasoning is scary and brilliant and in the alt text.

Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm. On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.

Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!

Looks similar to a modern-day set!

An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.

📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680

#Archaeology

Turns out Alec has the best voice in comics. Have a listen!

Illustration of a man with a visor over his eyes.

"You know, I've always thought technology could solve almost any problem. It enhances the quality of our lives, lets us travel across the galaxy, even gave me my vision. But sometimes you just have to turn it all off."
Pencil, markers and gouache sketch.

This, from Lee, is one of the best pieces of advice I have ever gotten; and it applies across creative work, not just to writing.

a little free library with lettering that reads CROW TRINKETS across the front

the interior of the little free library full of tiny little objects like buttons and shiny baubles

i love little free libraries and i have a special place in my heart for the ones that have nothing to do with books. this might be my favorite of all of those.

Copies of How to Survive an Affair - A Practical Guide by Henry Widdicombe racked and stacked

My debut comic, How to Survive an Affair - A Practical Guide, has been out a week. Thanks so much to everyone who’s ordered it and said nice things. Currently available from @goshcomics.bsky.social @travellingmanuk.bsky.social and widdicomics.co.uk

Shares very much appreciated

The October Girl Vol. 1 A moody, coming-of-age tale for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Pecular Children and Nimona, filled with fairies and ogres and magic galore.Autum...

October 2025! My long time passion project finally hits shelves. This is the story that I became a comic book creator to tell! And it's the first in a series!

THE OCTOBER GIRL, Book One! From me and @madcavestudios.com's Maverick imprint!

Pre-order it now!

But for non-small creators, for corporates, they don’t play this silly game, it’s the other way round. Which is why garbage news is free, and good journalism is paywalled etc.

The rule - as explained to me re Substack and so on - is that your best stuff has to be publicly available for free. Your second best stuff is available for people who pay.

That seems nuts. But it’s how the public now expect stuff.

Though this is not how money and art has ever worked before.

I was lucky enough to get a sneaky preview of this and I tell you what - it's bloody brilliant!

Ow! That sounds painful, mate - hope you heal up super quick!

Fab, thanks!

Good morning! It’s Wednesday July 9th 2025! Already? Crikey. You be careful out there among them English, John Book. (Dated this very day in 1986, just 39 yrs ago, Swamp Thing #53, with its cover featuring The Batman, by Steve Bissette & Tatjana Wood.)

NYC’s famous Subway Baby is turning 25 — and thriving This summer marks 25 years since New Yorker Danny Stewart found a baby in a subway station and went on to adopt the infant with his partner, Peter Mercurio.

Need some good news? The NYC subway baby--abandoned in a subway station as a newborn and adopted by the gay couple who found him there--is now a healthy 25 year old computer science nerd.
nypost.com/2025/07/04/u...

#PortfolioDay

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Good Good, that is a great page. Sorry, do you know what issue it's from - really want to track it down and read it now!

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

I’m a little scared to do this but…after 5+years, i think i’m going to relaunch my commission list today. I have not taken commissions in over 5 years because that’s how serious comic book monthly deadlines are. So yeah, I could use some retweets when i do this thanks

The observant amongst you may have spotted that's my drawing on the first one. I don't need to tell you how thrilling it is to have my art on an official @peacheschrist.com tshirt.

I like these blasts from the past! Thanks!

HOW, WHAT, WHERE, WHY - Vertigo and '2000 AD' Writer David Baillie on the Importance of Portfolio Reviews – Broken Frontier Creator David Baillie talks to Alison Sampson, Will Morris, Alec Worley and more about the importance of portfolio reviews.

BF Blast from the Past! HOW, WHAT, WHERE, WHY – Vertigo and ‘2000 AD’ Writer David Baillie @davidbaillie.bsky.social on the Importance of Portfolio Reviews. www.brokenfrontier.com/how-what-whe...

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

Funerals should just be car boot sales of all your stuff with a jacket potato and real ale stall, and everyone can wander round your stuff reminiscing about how weird you were, and wondering why you’ve so many sea-salt dispensers. The family can keep the money or donate it to charity.

2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Getting Chip-py With The Major - Lee Carter’s Prog 2438’s Cover | 2000 AD Every week, 2000 AD brings you the galaxy’s greatest artwork and 2000 AD Covers Uncovered takes you behind-the-scenes with the headline artists responsible for our top cover art – join bloggers Richar...

2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Getting Chip-py With The Major! @mrleecarter.bsky.social walks us through the creation of this week's cover for 2000 AD Prog 2438 ▶️ 2000ad.com/news/2000-ad...

Stop forcing AI into fucking everything. Noboday asked for it. Everyone hates it.

Again for those at the back.

There are lots of people (including me) that are finding it very hard to get work. This is in part to the places that used to pay artists now wanking off to AI.

It aint cool or funny.
It's damaging to the planet & to the welfare of real people.

#fuckai #AIShite

Can't wait to pick this up!

A girl stands in the middle of the image, clutching a clay pot with feeble, dry stems sticking out of it. Behind her sprawls a wild dog rose. Surrounding the girl are several squares with snapshots of wildlife and wilderness.

wild + roses