John Allison
@badmachinery.com
Cartoonist in Leeds, UK. I brought you such comics as Steeple, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, Scary Go Round, Bobbins, Great British Bump-Off and Solver. The nation's favourite.
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John Allison
@badmachinery.com
· Jul 8
Someone just asked so it may be worth reiterating, the Giant Days/Batman crossover can be read not just free but ad-free here.
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
These are great, very well researched pieces, a bit like Stereogum's "The Number Ones" for old computer games. Excellent reading.
Over the last two months on my blog, I've written about the history of each of the nine computer games to reach #1 in UK sales charts during 1985.
Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned for each of them
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Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned for each of them
www.superchartisland.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
These are great, very well researched pieces, a bit like Stereogum's "The Number Ones" for old computer games. Excellent reading.
New comic: "Back back back" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Back back back - Bad Machinery
I’m not sure who maintains the “where are they now” file these days. It used to be a jam packed (ram-packed) ledger but now, just a cloud of scuttlebutt and who knows.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New comic: "Back back back" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
I repost purely because it is one of my very favourite things from my time in comic books: Lottie and Claire on the @gurihiru.bsky.social variant cover for the 2020 series Wicked Things.
December 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I repost purely because it is one of my very favourite things from my time in comic books: Lottie and Claire on the @gurihiru.bsky.social variant cover for the 2020 series Wicked Things.
I've found the perfect ad copy. It's so soothing that I think it would cure you without your having to buy the remedy described within. I give you: Blue Jay Corn Plasters
December 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I've found the perfect ad copy. It's so soothing that I think it would cure you without your having to buy the remedy described within. I give you: Blue Jay Corn Plasters
New comic: "Bip Bop" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Bip Bop - Bad Machinery
Sid has seemed very authoritative in this story, doubtless due to the passing of a few years and a promotion, but you can be sure that Shelley will reduce anyone to their most basic and primitive form...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
New comic: "Bip Bop" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Whitbread Mackeson - Gran Hardy - CDP 1965
YouTube video by CDPcelebration
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December 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I often see people say that they keep their Facebook account going "or they'll lose contact with people". I understand the fear completely but I've not been on Facebook for 14 years and have yet to be cast out into the void by anyone but people I didn't actually have any meaningful relationship with
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I often see people say that they keep their Facebook account going "or they'll lose contact with people". I understand the fear completely but I've not been on Facebook for 14 years and have yet to be cast out into the void by anyone but people I didn't actually have any meaningful relationship with
When timelines diverge
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
When timelines diverge
YOURS AS IN ROCK, NEW COMIC: "The Great Africa Dope Burn" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
The Great Africa Dope Burn - Bad Machinery
At last we reach the page of this story that reveals the main reason for its existance: my desire to reference Samuel K. Amphong’s famous letter to the NME, “Where is Beatles band?” You can look it up...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
YOURS AS IN ROCK, NEW COMIC: "The Great Africa Dope Burn" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
New comic: "Non-fine wine" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Non-fine wine - Bad Machinery
Number 9… number 9… number 9? Oh yes, Nemulon-9, the classic you remember from Shelley’s adventures in time.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New comic: "Non-fine wine" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
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Here is the GROTZILLA lore so far...
mini print for a poster event- grotzilla UP NORF
the world's greatest fanart by the mighty @badmachinery.com (framed in my studio!)
super grotty mini poster
merch that should exist also by badmachinery (go buy all his comics!)
mini print for a poster event- grotzilla UP NORF
the world's greatest fanart by the mighty @badmachinery.com (framed in my studio!)
super grotty mini poster
merch that should exist also by badmachinery (go buy all his comics!)
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Here is the GROTZILLA lore so far...
mini print for a poster event- grotzilla UP NORF
the world's greatest fanart by the mighty @badmachinery.com (framed in my studio!)
super grotty mini poster
merch that should exist also by badmachinery (go buy all his comics!)
mini print for a poster event- grotzilla UP NORF
the world's greatest fanart by the mighty @badmachinery.com (framed in my studio!)
super grotty mini poster
merch that should exist also by badmachinery (go buy all his comics!)
New comic: "Only the best looking ones" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Only the best looking ones - Bad Machinery
Italian restaurants of the 1960s were the height of chic. They had all the dishes: long thins, tubes with tomato, cheese mystery and the best of all, the timpano, which was a drum filled with meatball...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New comic: "Only the best looking ones" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
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The increasingly half-hearted Cat and Girl holiday store is now up! Your once or twice a year chance to get personalized items, my once or twice a year chance to clear up some closet space. Will this be the year someone buys the licorice eyebrows tin? catandgirl.com/attic-shoppe/
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The increasingly half-hearted Cat and Girl holiday store is now up! Your once or twice a year chance to get personalized items, my once or twice a year chance to clear up some closet space. Will this be the year someone buys the licorice eyebrows tin? catandgirl.com/attic-shoppe/
It's interesting that a lot of the things in this ad haven't gone up that much in 42 years. A 2025 Asda black forest gateau (620g) is £2.98. I know it's not Bird's Eye but I defy you to tell the difference. £1.35 in 1983 is £4.63 now.
50 cocktail sausage rolls at Sainsburys are £2 today! JAM TODAY!
50 cocktail sausage rolls at Sainsburys are £2 today! JAM TODAY!
Dec 1983: Peeled Prawns ad from Asda
(+Black Forest Gateau; Mini Macs Cocktail Skinless Sausages; Lyons Maid Soft Scoop Vanilla; Fine Whole French Beans; Extra Fine Baby Carrots; and Birds Eye 30 Cocktail Sausage Rolls)
«FOR A MERRIER CHRISTMAS. ALL TOGETHER, BETTER CHRISTMAS.»
(+Black Forest Gateau; Mini Macs Cocktail Skinless Sausages; Lyons Maid Soft Scoop Vanilla; Fine Whole French Beans; Extra Fine Baby Carrots; and Birds Eye 30 Cocktail Sausage Rolls)
«FOR A MERRIER CHRISTMAS. ALL TOGETHER, BETTER CHRISTMAS.»
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It's interesting that a lot of the things in this ad haven't gone up that much in 42 years. A 2025 Asda black forest gateau (620g) is £2.98. I know it's not Bird's Eye but I defy you to tell the difference. £1.35 in 1983 is £4.63 now.
50 cocktail sausage rolls at Sainsburys are £2 today! JAM TODAY!
50 cocktail sausage rolls at Sainsburys are £2 today! JAM TODAY!
New comic: "Start somewhere more realistic" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Start somewhere more realistic - Bad Machinery
Maurice returns, and his offer now seems more appealing. Though with such a parade of tins, I’m surprised that Esther can ever be prised out of the house.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
New comic: "Start somewhere more realistic" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
New comic: "Silly moo" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Silly moo - Bad Machinery
It’s fun to think of Esther as a “right raver” but I don’t think she’d fit in on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Sock it to me!
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December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
New comic: "Silly moo" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
I use Powerpoint so infrequently that every time I have to use it, I find I have forgotten how. I dig out the last Powerpoint I made, years earlier, and it seems competent. Who made this, I think, and what happened to him? Every time. Same every time. If only Clippy was still here to help. CLIPPY!
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I use Powerpoint so infrequently that every time I have to use it, I find I have forgotten how. I dig out the last Powerpoint I made, years earlier, and it seems competent. Who made this, I think, and what happened to him? Every time. Same every time. If only Clippy was still here to help. CLIPPY!
Today and tomorrow, one last chance to enjoy my "little jokes"
I have two events with Gosh Comics in London this weekend, I promise to be merry at both, but not so merry as to offend
* Drink and Draw Friday evening
* KILL OR BE QUILT signing Saturday at 2pm
* Drink and Draw Friday evening
* KILL OR BE QUILT signing Saturday at 2pm
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Today and tomorrow, one last chance to enjoy my "little jokes"
New comic: "Enjoy the ride" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Enjoy the ride - Bad Machinery
In 1968, Shetland was still called Zetland. I’m all for bringing Zetland back. As for fishwives, I think they were very much “of their time” and the term is best left to slumber.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
New comic: "Enjoy the ride" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...
Christmas just isn't the same without the Sky TV EPG festive music. Until Jonny Trunk puts out a box set of all these hits, this 2h23 Youtube video will have to do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r97U...
Sky UK EPG Christmas Music ALL tracks (2005 - 2015)
YouTube video by Cocu Grimshaw
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November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Christmas just isn't the same without the Sky TV EPG festive music. Until Jonny Trunk puts out a box set of all these hits, this 2h23 Youtube video will have to do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r97U...
Vvhat a family
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Vvhat a family
Next to my Brian Wilson print on the stairs I have three (3) Jonathan Edwards prints and let me say, dear friends, that I regret hanging none (0) of them
That time of year again. This year’s winter mini print (the 10th!) is now available in my shop. jonathanestore.bigcartel.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Next to my Brian Wilson print on the stairs I have three (3) Jonathan Edwards prints and let me say, dear friends, that I regret hanging none (0) of them
I have this print hanging at the foot of my staircase, it's a "ding dang" beauty if I do say so myself.
New A4 Brian Wilson 4 colour Riso print on my shop now.
A remake of the larger version made this year with a tiny production tweak & sand on the floor, this really turned out a peach.
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A remake of the larger version made this year with a tiny production tweak & sand on the floor, this really turned out a peach.
petefowlershop.com/buy/brian-wi...
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I have this print hanging at the foot of my staircase, it's a "ding dang" beauty if I do say so myself.
I have two events with Gosh Comics in London this weekend, I promise to be merry at both, but not so merry as to offend
* Drink and Draw Friday evening
* KILL OR BE QUILT signing Saturday at 2pm
* Drink and Draw Friday evening
* KILL OR BE QUILT signing Saturday at 2pm
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I have two events with Gosh Comics in London this weekend, I promise to be merry at both, but not so merry as to offend
* Drink and Draw Friday evening
* KILL OR BE QUILT signing Saturday at 2pm
* Drink and Draw Friday evening
* KILL OR BE QUILT signing Saturday at 2pm