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Dirk Maggs

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#1 New York Times Audio Bestseller. Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Superman, Batman (BBC Radio); Alien, The Sandman (Audible) and many other audio productions. Writes. Directs. Plays Drums. No AI needed. 50% 🇳🇱 50% 🇬🇧 + a smidge of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 = 100 % 🇪🇺

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · Sep 4

With Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman & more - even the Joker - after three decades I'm back in Metropolis and Gotham City in November with KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, a fully cast, cinematic audio drama from DC and Penguin Random House Audio, with music by my SANDMAN pal James Hannigan.

An illustration from the graphic novel KINGDOM COME showing Superman, Wonder Woman, Green lantern and members of the Justice League Of America preparing to do battle against the forces of irresponsibility and hatred.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 16h

Dear Big Comic Book Company, please hire me and @sandyjarrell.com to make a book together.

(Or just hire Sandy. He's incredible.)

Sandy the Friendly Ghost @sandyjarrell.com · 16h

Hello, I’m Sandy Jarrell and I draw and color. Here’s some sequential work! On this #portfolioday, unlike most, I’m actively seeking gigs.

Full portfolio here: sandyjarrell.myportfolio.com

Norse Mythology 2 issue 6, breakdowns by P. Craig Russell, letters by Galen Showman.

The Legendary Lynx! Colors by Grey Allison, Letters by Jack Morelli. Words by Alex Segura.

Legion of Superheroes dance party, from Jimmy Olsen’s SuperCyclopedia

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

Read “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown for a list of treaties with Native American tribes broken within months by US Governments.

Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

I love it when The Onion simply tell the truth and it lands like a gag.

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh yes you really must.

Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

Shut up Louis you know too much.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

24” bd and only a Premier head available - on it went!

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era - me in my happy place with my best pal, then, now and always, 1985.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

Top Chap, that Al.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

I would pay to see this version.

Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

It is in northern Spain, but I’ve never seen it performed by The Beatles

Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

Gracias!

Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

We have been thank you!

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a shop full of them here.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 1d

Dump Together? An angle The Beatles never thought of for the Abbey Road cover from a shop window in Bilbao, Spain.

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 2d

Diversity is our strength, no matter what racist, bigoted Republicans say.

Real Americans embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.

Real Americans reject Trump and his white nationalist cronies.

Trump is bad, project 2025 is bad and the people who love America, the real patriots reject both.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 2d

I have been. It’s very good.

Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 2d

You’re going to love Glenn Wrage as Batman. A worthy successor to the late and much loved Bob Sessions.

Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 2d

I promise it’s as long as we could make it while staying true to the original. And Lorelei is brilliant as ever.

Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 2d

The new audio version runs 3hrs 15mins approx - not sure how the eight hour running time got into the pre-advertising for our new version, which I hope you’ll enjoy.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 2d

Yes though I think Spike (who else?) broke the mould before anyone else did with the Q Series, starting in the late 60s.

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 2d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting that late in the 70s tv shows like Dads Army could without major re-engineering transfer scripts back to Radio. I wasn’t a fan of that happening but it confirms how much 50s-70s radio sitcom plot structure worked perfectly well in the visual medium as BBC TV Comedy Dept approached it.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 2d

Gosh that’s a question. Off top head I think of Galton and Simpson’s work with Tony Hancock starting on Radio and then, with an overlap,on television, which in its early series often just added pictures to the existing set up (Railway Cuttings East Cheam). Arguably that set a template for TV sitcom.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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