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Dylan Horrocks
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Spills ink, rolls dice.
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RIP the 2026 Angoulême Comics Festival. @comicsjournal.bsky.social has a good backgrounder on how mismanagement, ego, and misogyny derailed Europe's greatest comics festival:
www.tcj.com/the-285-mani...
Minute papillon! The 285 Manifesto girlcott halts the 2026 Angoulême Festival - The Comics Journal
What's happening with the 285 Manifesto, the unprecedented girlcott against the 2026 Angoulême Festival by Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin with Marlene Agius.
www.tcj.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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cartoonistsrights.org
If you value cartoonists and the work they do, a great way to show your support this #GivingTuesday is with a donation to our Pledge Drive: cartoonistsrights.org/donate
CARTOONISTS HOLD POWER TO ACCOUNT. HELP US DEFEND THEM. PLEASE HELP US DEFEND CARTOONISTS’ RIGHTS WITH A DONATION to cartoonistsrights/org/donate In a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, a gargantuan fist bears down from the upper right corner, and is held at bay by a cartoonist seated at her drawing board; she is drawing with pencil in her right hand and holds up a bullhorn in her left.
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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cartoonistsrights.org
Dear friends and followers, we need your help this #GivingTuesday after a bad year for nonprofits in the US. Please donate and spread the word: cartoonistsrights.org/donate
IT’S GIVING TUESDAY! PLEASE GIVE TO CARTOONISTS RIGHTS SO THAT THEY CAN DEFEND YOURS. PLEASE HELP US DEFEND CARTOONISTS’ RIGHTS WITH A DONATION to cartoonistsrights/org/donate In a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, President Trump wields a flaming torching his right hand and a burning sheet of paper bearing the line “We The People” in his left. He wears a uniform redolent of a military dictator, including a fez emblazoned with an eagle.
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
Recently, my colleague Zach Dodson and I sat down to chat with B-Side Stories on @wgtnaccessradio.bsky.social about comics, games, and the Visual Narrative Lab: soundcloud.com/b-side-broad...
The Visual Narrative Lab: A Place for Storytellers
Dylan Horrocks and Zach Dodson have created a university programme that their younger selves dreamed about. They are co-founders of The Visual Narrative Lab: a place for visualisers and world-builders
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December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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samorchard.bsky.social
Inspired by @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social's 'Lonely Fun' zine - @taracomics.bsky.social has another RPG for you to enjoy taracomics.substack.com/p/the-myster...
The Mystery Note
A lyric game in comic form
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November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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paullicino.bsky.social
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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maureenjohnsonbooks.com
This is an object lesson in storytelling.
ajbauer.bsky.social A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 14d
ChatGPT: You Shoulda Called a Mechanic
Chat gpt billboard two people looking at a broken car
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
#Gamification
hairic.bsky.social Hairic Lilred @hairic.bsky.social · 14d
game design 101
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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funeralbeat.bsky.social
👩‍🌾 Grab your tools
An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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emiliusdraws.bsky.social
#3157 A helpful tutorial
A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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rmi.bsky.social
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
A gentleman wearing a transparent puffer jacket filled with Tsingtao beer he is drinking through an internal straw.
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
A reminder: if you're interested in our creative practice-based MFA in Visual Narrative at Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka, applications are open for two more weeks (until December 1st). Also, we now have a sparkling redesigned website! www.visualnarrativelab.nz
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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jonathanking.bsky.social
Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.
bespokeswears.bsky.social Bespoke Swears @bespokeswears.bsky.social · 19d
$4 BILLION to save 'up to 10 minutes' during peak traffic. Fucking hell - imagine what that $4B could do for housing, education, health, etc, in Aotearoa.
Clip from RadioNZ article about the second Mt Vic tunnel: The proposal says it would save up to 10 minutes during peak periods on journeys from the Wellington region to the CBD, hospital and airport...
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
My fabulous Dad, Roger Horrocks, has a brand new book out, with launch events in Auckland (this Sunday 23 November) and Wellington (Sunday 30 November). If you're into music, sound, listening, thinking, or reading, this book is for you! 🎶 atuanuipress.co.nz/product/musi...
Book launch for Music Without End: a Book of Listening, by Roger Horrocks. At Lamplight Books, G01/100 Parnell Road, Parnell. 3:30pm, Sunday 23 November. Introduced by Wystan Curnow. All welcome Book launch for Music Without End: a Book of Listening, by Roger Horrocks. At Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington. 5pm, Sunday 30 November. Introduced by Chris Bourke. All welcome Back over of Music Without End: a Book of Listening, by Roger Horrocks. What is listening? How does music work? Music Without End: A Book of Listening will introduce you to unfamiliar areas of music and spark new insights into the nature and pleasures of listening. Besides providing an unusually wide-ranging, accessible survey of the landscape of music, and the various ways we listen, it features interviews with ten people deeply involved in the field – composers, singers, and sound specialists – working in popular, jazz, classical, experimental or global music. If you’re a listener who enjoys only some of those genres, this book can revolutionize your interest in them all. “This book is a must read for anyone with music in their lives. Horrocks’s passion for music in its broadest spectrum is inspiration to get out there and hear what’s going on. You don’t know what you are missing! It’s an insightful exploration through time and location of that amazing phenomenon we call music.” – Peter Scholes (composer, performer, conductor) “Roger Horrocks is up with the zeitgeist, from esoteric punk to arcane European avant-garde. He has kept me happily guessing for decades by suggesting new music names to me. From Ars Subtilior to Wandelweiser, Horrocks leads the reader gently by the ear into his world of listening, and we’re enchanted.” – Eve de Castro-Robinson (composer) This Book of Listening is a sequel to Roger Horrocks’s 2022 Book of Seeing. Horrocks was the author of Len Lye: A Biography and Song of the Ghost in the Machine, which were both finalists in the NZ Book Awards. He was also the librettist of Len Lye: The Opera.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
This is peak online RP
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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disasteradio.bsky.social
This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
mehr.nz samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Oct 26
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
publicaddress.bsky.social Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · Oct 26
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
This is the way
October 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
One of the many evils the tech industry has inflicted on our lives is that when an Act of God forces everyone to stay home from work (wild weather, earthquake, pandemic), we're now expected to Work From Home (rather than have a day off like God intended).
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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martynpepperell.bsky.social
Personally, the main thing I think artists, musicians, writers, etc need sorted is the same thing most other people need sorted: cost of living.
October 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
dylanhorrocks.bsky.social
Come create your graphic novel, picture book, animation, video game, boardgame, TTRPG, larp, visual novel, fictional world (or other weird & wonderful thing) with us! Apply (by Dec. 1) for the MFA in Visual Narrative at Victoria University of Wellington:
visualnarrativelab.nz/study-with-us
A group of eager anthropomorphic artists on a tiny island, hard at work on their visual narrative masterpieces! (cartoon by Dylan Horrocks)
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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estherschindler.bsky.social
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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richtaur.bsky.social
[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects
October 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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creativeelc.bsky.social
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Luxon giving his 'best' advice to unemployed youth...

#NzPol #Caricature #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Luxon
Cartoon. Title: Youth 'Pep' talk... A tiny Luxon is in the hall talking to young people. He's standing on a stool with his hand casually in his pocket lecturing a room of youth. He's saying, "The world doesn't owe you a living! BUT... if you grow up to be a landlord..." In the audience over 20 young people with varying expressions react to his speech. One in particular is looking at us with a distinct angry face.
October 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Meanwhile, in another, better, world...
October 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM