Nick Abadzis

Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world Populism has damaged the economy. And to fix the economy, you have to damage populism.

Vision. In which, Ian sees things with clarity.

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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

A view of Great Harwood town square from above. It’s FULL of people and action, including protesters, fire fighters, soldiers and townsfolk. What could possibly go wrong?

Here’s a crowd scene from This Slavery for you to pinch and zoom - we loved setting fire to everything for this book 🔥

Spirit of Christmas past #5
The 1960s. This stylised scene of pastoral charm was painted by Gaynor Chapman for the 24 December 1966 issue. It was her second successive festive cover for @radiotimes.bsky.social #ChristmasRadioTimes

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

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A somewhat expanded version of the news piece from today (I kept adding things as they developed)

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Considered the most important comic book event in the world, the Angoulême International Comics Festival usually welcomes nearly 6000 comics professionals from all over the world to the French city – but not, it…

https://downthetubes.net/angouleme-festival-2026-on-hold-after-months-of-controversy/

An orange and black graphic reading Creatives 4 Sudan. The 4 is in an eye shaped logo. the logo is by@raafaye on insta.

It's friday! Time for the weekly good news thread. What's YOUR good news from the week? My good news? The #Creatives4Sudan auction has had an amazing response so far. Bid on everything from pro tv script reads to paintings and signed books from Katherine Rundell! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

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Colourful strange mixed media drawing of Blake by me, with yellow eyes and radiant forehead markings, lots of bright green

Happy Birthday William Blake!

Notebook 27: Get To Up

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Drawing of a young boy by David Bowie. The boy sits at a tabletop sculpting or painting another human figure. Behind him a clock shows 4pm, a crucifix hangs on a wall and the word. ‘Fascination’ hovers above while a shadowy figure hovers in the background, watching. (C) David Bowie

David Bowie’s sketch of a cover idea for the album that would become ‘Low.’ Fascination, indeed. Seen at the V&A Archive. Well worth a visit.

DB continues to inspire. Creativity is life.

#davidbowie #art #music #V&Amuseum

Drawing of a young boy by David Bowie. The boy sits at a tabletop sculpting or painting another human figure. Behind him a clock shows 4pm, a crucifix hangs on a wall and the word. ‘Fascination’ hovers above while a shadowy figure hovers in the background, watching. (C) David Bowie

David Bowie’s sketch of a cover idea for the album that would become ‘Low.’ Fascination, indeed. Seen at the V&A Archive. Well worth a visit.

DB continues to inspire. Creativity is life.

#davidbowie #art #music #V&Amuseum

A screenshot of an auction item in the #Creatives4Sudan auction showing a picture of Nick Abadzis's heartbreaking graphic novel, Laika. The auction item is: Kickstart your creative journey: 1-Hour mentorship with comics pro Nick Abadzis.

Poster announcing CREATIVES 4 SUDAN. A sudanese flag is waving behind the text. The rest reads AUCTION NOW LIVE! RAISING LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR PEOPLE ESCAPING GENOCIDE IN EL-FASHER, BID TODAY. galabid.com/creatives4sudan The art on the poster is by @raafaye on insta.

I'm delighted to see that the #Creatives4Sudan has now raised over 7 grand! We're raising money for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan, and every bid helps the Emergency Response Rooms there do their work. Bid here on mentoring from comics supremo! @nickabadzis.bsky.social bit.ly/4pxHBK7

“Choose the form of your destructor!”

Creatives for Sudan: the online auction supporting humanitarian work in Sudan The collective has donations from a range of prominent creatives, including David Nicholls, Monisha Rajesh, Nikesh Shukla, Leila Aboulela and Jordan Stephens.

Ma! We're in the Stylist! #Creatives4Sudan www.stylist.co.uk/news/creativ.... If you've not bid on anything yet, feast your eyes on all the options!

If you are feeling the holiday spirit and want to support a good cause. Consider purchasing a gift from #Creatives4Sudan, a wonderful fundraiser for our comrades in Sudan. Bonus, I am offering 2 Reiki Sessions as items to bid.

This is an INCREDIBLE item in the #Creatives4Sudan auction - FAO aussies/people in roughly that time zone! Get your script read by the director of award-winning director of Hannah Gadsby's Nanette! #ScriptSky #FilmSky bit.ly/4ijR1X6 Bid bid bid! Let's get the auction over 8k raised today!

🙏 Thank you

A sketches of a bar drinker in the Prince of Wales, Moseley, Birmingham, 24/11/25 (c) Nick Abadzis - all rights reserved

A sketches of a bar drinker in the Prince of Wales, Moseley, Birmingham, 24/11/25 (c) Nick Abadzis - all rights reserved

A sketches of a bar drinker in the Prince of Wales, Moseley, Birmingham, 24/11/25 (c) Nick Abadzis - all rights reserved

A few sketches of drinkers in the Prince of Wales pub, Moseley, Birmingham, UK 24/11/25

#sketchbook #art

Yeah the pre-emptive nihilism people display is *very obviously* a self-fulfilling prophesy and extremely in fact part of shifting our cultural norms in exactly the direction Farage et al would prefer. Care, care simply because it matters, and it matters to you. Say as much publicly.

There absolutely are people who will vote for whichever candidate is the most racist, but you don't get Farage's numbers without engaging a lot of people who's politics begin and end at 'he says what he thinks', and we can absolutely pull them away by making his brand toxic.

Kickstart Your Creative Journey: Mentorship with Comics Pro Nick Abadzis

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Comics makers! Bid on mentoring from Nick "made me cry so much with Laika" Abadzis the #Creatives4Sudan auction app.galabid.com/creatives4su... @nickabadzis.bsky.social

The Stream - channels may change

Wild 🎼🎶🎵🎶

#fyfedangerfield #music

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No proof necessary 👌

Poster announcing CREATIVES 4 SUDAN. A sudanese flag is waving behind the text. The rest reads AUCTION NOW LIVE! RAISING LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR PEOPLE ESCAPING GENOCIDE IN EL-FASHER, BID TODAY. galabid.com/creatives4sudan

I will be posting about this non stop in the days to come but v excited to say this auction is LIVE! Funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Perfect xmas presents and treats for you! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan

It’s been a real privilege to help out with this fundraising project - there are some really wonderful lots, with the funds raised going to a really important cause.

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