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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 5h

There were protests. Years ago in the Viz office someone blew up this picture and stuck it above my desk

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 5h

I hear the theme song for Peaky Blinders for some reason…

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 6h

To be fair, masturbation has a long and distinguished history of using aids to the imagination. If the AI industry could just stick to that, it may not be so bad

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 6h

At last! Now they've finally realised what AI is for, perhaps they'll stop trying to foist it on every other aspect of our lives

Panel of an old Roger Mellie cartoon - from about 30-odd years ago - in which he is presenting a 'wanking machine' which he has invented for Tomorrow's World. Drawn by Chris Donald.

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 2d

They talk a bit about that in the podcast. I reckon the later ones were still dead good, though.

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 2d

"The rosy fingers of dusk were creeping through the sky by the time I came to Jonathan Creek." No, I'm losing the flow.

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 2d

If I started a novel with that I would sit there wondering if it should be "It was very late in the day when I came to Jonathan Creek," and that's why I will never write a novel with more than one line in it.

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 2d

I came to Jonathan Creek very late in the day, because I'd always somehow assumed that it wouldn't be my kind of thing. But it turned out that it couldn't have been more my kind of thing if it had come out of a box of kind-of-things with the word 'MINE' embossed on the lid.

boxdelightspod.bsky.social @boxdelightspod.bsky.social · 4d

And we're off! NEW EPISODE out today. Journalist and author @michaelhogan100.bsky.social talks about the magic of Jonathan Creek and his own crime novel debut, The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Jonathan Creek

Podcast Episode · Box of Delights · 10/10/2025 · 21m

podcasts.apple.com

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boxdelightspod.bsky.social @boxdelightspod.bsky.social · 4d

And we're off! NEW EPISODE out today. Journalist and author @michaelhogan100.bsky.social talks about the magic of Jonathan Creek and his own crime novel debut, The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Jonathan Creek

Podcast Episode · Box of Delights · 10/10/2025 · 21m

podcasts.apple.com

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a completely pointless job but someone’s got to do it

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 3d

Way down in Dixie, where the hens are doggone glad to lay scrambled eggs in the new-mown hay?

Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 4d

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 5d

I did the cover drawing and a quadrillion* interior illustrations for the new issue of The Fence, on sale now. (*number of illustrations may be exaggerated for rhetorical purposes. No responsibility is taken. Contents may settle in transit)

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 5d

Issue 26 is here 📸

With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more

www.the-fence.com/shop/

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 5d

New Viz in the shops today. And there's "shy bladder" shenanigans with former president of France General Charles de Gaulle, in 'De Gaulle Bladder"

Panel from a comic strip in which General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) is desperate for a wee but can't go when people are watching. De Gaulle may or may not have suffered from this - probably not - but he's dead anyway, so he's not going to sue.

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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 6d

Nigel Blackwell, obviously

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 8d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 6d

Look at Hunt Emerson's beautiful work in this week's Beano.
Script by me.

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 9d

I think I drew it as a result of reading a collection of Bateman cartoons. He was so good.

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 9d

My Sunday evening challenge: first person to post a cartoon which they drew several years ago about Cyril Connolly is the winner. 5-4-3-2-1... I WIN

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), the English literary critic and author of Enemies of Promise (1938), doing battle with a pram in the hall, and losing.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 12d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 20d

hallelujah

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 20d

Going to the Lake District at the weekend for the comic art festival. Been years since I last went so I hope I bring some good weather with me oh

weatherman Michael Fish sticking a big fuck-off rain cloud over the Lakes

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 21d

I would say "not very at all."

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 27d

This looks like the denouement of a bedroom farce.

Trump visiting Windsor castle. He stand arms apart looking surprised and outraged. The king and ‘queen’ Camilla stand next to him looking amused

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 28d

This year, we’ve had insider pieces from barristers, escorts, SEND school teachers and medics inside asylum hotels – and we want to hear from you, whatever you do.

Got an insight into an industry people don't know about? Pitch to [email protected] without delay.

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