David Bowman
@dlbowman76.com
Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
Pinned
Bah. I’m turning the game off. The commentators have put me right off.
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bah. I’m turning the game off. The commentators have put me right off.
My art sucks today. So it goes.
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My art sucks today. So it goes.
Tried to work on some art but am feeling misanthropic and grouchy so I’ll try again later.
December 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Tried to work on some art but am feeling misanthropic and grouchy so I’ll try again later.
People don’t know how to read these days. This depresses me.
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
People don’t know how to read these days. This depresses me.
*Morrissey voice*
🎶 Teeny-weeny sadist, I know, I know…it’s serious… 🎶
🎶 Teeny-weeny sadist, I know, I know…it’s serious… 🎶
December 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
*Morrissey voice*
🎶 Teeny-weeny sadist, I know, I know…it’s serious… 🎶
🎶 Teeny-weeny sadist, I know, I know…it’s serious… 🎶
Watching football.
Blimey. It looks a bit brisk in Buffalo.
Blimey. It looks a bit brisk in Buffalo.
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Watching football.
Blimey. It looks a bit brisk in Buffalo.
Blimey. It looks a bit brisk in Buffalo.
I've decided that one of my goals for the upcoming year is to be a kinder man.
No one else might be, but I can strive to make the world a slightly better place in my own tiny way.
No one else might be, but I can strive to make the world a slightly better place in my own tiny way.
December 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I've decided that one of my goals for the upcoming year is to be a kinder man.
No one else might be, but I can strive to make the world a slightly better place in my own tiny way.
No one else might be, but I can strive to make the world a slightly better place in my own tiny way.
*Me being quite cross voice*
You know, the British actually do make some rather good things and they've completely forgotten that they are one of their best exports:
• British Comedy.
• British Television.
• British Music (well, some of it.)
• British Cinema.
• British Literature.
You know, the British actually do make some rather good things and they've completely forgotten that they are one of their best exports:
• British Comedy.
• British Television.
• British Music (well, some of it.)
• British Cinema.
• British Literature.
December 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
*Me being quite cross voice*
You know, the British actually do make some rather good things and they've completely forgotten that they are one of their best exports:
• British Comedy.
• British Television.
• British Music (well, some of it.)
• British Cinema.
• British Literature.
You know, the British actually do make some rather good things and they've completely forgotten that they are one of their best exports:
• British Comedy.
• British Television.
• British Music (well, some of it.)
• British Cinema.
• British Literature.
I have decided that "Perfidious Albion" should be the name of a Premier League football team who always cheat.
December 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I have decided that "Perfidious Albion" should be the name of a Premier League football team who always cheat.
Saying that the big comics companies are a bit exploitative of their creative workers is like asserting the possibility that gravity might actually exist.
December 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Saying that the big comics companies are a bit exploitative of their creative workers is like asserting the possibility that gravity might actually exist.
Reposted by David Bowman
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December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hi Friends! Our 2025 issues are both great. Please consider grabbing them. Seasonal shipping is taking up to 4 weeks. Alternatively, we have eBook versions.
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Ha!
Wordle 1,632 3/6
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🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,632 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ha!
Wordle 1,632 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,632 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Me, being one of *those* people: "Gosh, I wonder if there's a significant distinction between perfidious and treacherous..."
*Checks dictionary*
OF COURSE one of them is used to define the other.
*Checks dictionary*
OF COURSE one of them is used to define the other.
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Me, being one of *those* people: "Gosh, I wonder if there's a significant distinction between perfidious and treacherous..."
*Checks dictionary*
OF COURSE one of them is used to define the other.
*Checks dictionary*
OF COURSE one of them is used to define the other.
Perfidious is an outstanding word and it should return to the common parlance.
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Perfidious is an outstanding word and it should return to the common parlance.
The original title of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was "Crimea River".
(I regret nothing.)
(I regret nothing.)
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The original title of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was "Crimea River".
(I regret nothing.)
(I regret nothing.)
I have to say that I have decided that "Souls-like" games are not for me. They literally make me feel bad. Digitally dying repeatedly for two hours makes me think that I could be painting or reading a novel or listening to Bach.
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I have to say that I have decided that "Souls-like" games are not for me. They literally make me feel bad. Digitally dying repeatedly for two hours makes me think that I could be painting or reading a novel or listening to Bach.
Okay, who are the Colts going to lose to today?
(Sorry, but this is the default mode of a Colts supporter.)
(Sorry, but this is the default mode of a Colts supporter.)
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Okay, who are the Colts going to lose to today?
(Sorry, but this is the default mode of a Colts supporter.)
(Sorry, but this is the default mode of a Colts supporter.)
Some of you may be a bit too young to recall the horrors of the workplace in 2008. This is roaring back with a frightful vengeance. Bad managers LOVE when they can terrorize their staff because they think that everyone is expendable.
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Some of you may be a bit too young to recall the horrors of the workplace in 2008. This is roaring back with a frightful vengeance. Bad managers LOVE when they can terrorize their staff because they think that everyone is expendable.
Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans' "Molesworth" books are miraculous. There is literally something that makes me laugh aloud on every single page. It's even funnier if you survived an all-boys' private school. (As any fule kno!)
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans' "Molesworth" books are miraculous. There is literally something that makes me laugh aloud on every single page. It's even funnier if you survived an all-boys' private school. (As any fule kno!)
"Don Quixote" is a profoundly strange and wonderful book. Cervantes is way ahead of his time in the games he plays with the reader's expectations. In the second half of the book, everyone in the book HAS READ DON QUIXOTE.
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Don Quixote" is a profoundly strange and wonderful book. Cervantes is way ahead of his time in the games he plays with the reader's expectations. In the second half of the book, everyone in the book HAS READ DON QUIXOTE.
Reposted by David Bowman
Ridley Scott's Alien giving a public poetry reading of his latest sonnet but the sonnet suddenly opens and a haiku comes out instead. The audience applauds politely but there's no sound in a rented space.
December 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Ridley Scott's Alien giving a public poetry reading of his latest sonnet but the sonnet suddenly opens and a haiku comes out instead. The audience applauds politely but there's no sound in a rented space.
Thinking about SINNERS, I think it's a member of a very exclusive club — a long horror film that genuinely works. The only two others I can think of off the top of my head are THE SUBSTANCE and the newer SUSPIRIA.
(For clarity, I'm defining "long" as over 130 minutes.)
(For clarity, I'm defining "long" as over 130 minutes.)
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thinking about SINNERS, I think it's a member of a very exclusive club — a long horror film that genuinely works. The only two others I can think of off the top of my head are THE SUBSTANCE and the newer SUSPIRIA.
(For clarity, I'm defining "long" as over 130 minutes.)
(For clarity, I'm defining "long" as over 130 minutes.)
Seeing a 70mm film in a cinema with a good audience is one of my favorite experiences in life. When I went to see SINNERS, the house was packed and *everyone* was completely engrossed.
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Seeing a 70mm film in a cinema with a good audience is one of my favorite experiences in life. When I went to see SINNERS, the house was packed and *everyone* was completely engrossed.
What does a lawyer wear under their trousers?
A pair of amicus briefs.
A pair of amicus briefs.
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What does a lawyer wear under their trousers?
A pair of amicus briefs.
A pair of amicus briefs.
Making physical art with traditional materials and tools these days almost feels like an act of rebellion.
I raise my paintbrushes and cry aloud, "I REBEL."
I raise my paintbrushes and cry aloud, "I REBEL."
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Making physical art with traditional materials and tools these days almost feels like an act of rebellion.
I raise my paintbrushes and cry aloud, "I REBEL."
I raise my paintbrushes and cry aloud, "I REBEL."