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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 6d

Something tells me you would enjoy @scarredforlife.bsky.social

Scarred for Life Books and Podcast | Scarred for Life

Get the latest on Scarred for Life – a three-volume book series and podcast about dark and disturbing pop culture in the 1970s and 1980s.

scarredforlifebooks.com

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 12d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12d

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."

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 12d

[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 12d

Of course, the same is true for so many people in our upside down society: money flows to those who treat the rest of us as expendable and exploitable. The world, apparently, doesn't owe us a living (unless you're a landlord)...

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 12d

Meanwhile, here in Aotearoa, I've known so many amazing writers & artists who've worked incredibly hard, created work that has changed lives, yet lived lives of desperate poverty and hardship. NZ's creative sector is worth billions but the people who drive it are treated as cheap raw materials.

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 12d

I've met cartoonists and writers from other European countries with similar policies and it's clear that it turbo-charges the artistic industries like nothing else.

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 12d

Meanwhile, in another, better, world...

Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 12d

🎉

Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks old friend - Much love to you and the fam ❤️

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 20d

It breaks my heart that this is both the correct thing to do & a sign of how awful things are right now. @marinaomi.bsky.social built something beautiful that helped make the comics industry (& community) better. Now they're taking it down to keep artists safe. ❤️❤️❤️

MariNaomi (they/them) @marinaomi.bsky.social · 23d

update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases

tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad.

www.patreon.com/posts/139743...

update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases | MariNaomi

Get more from MariNaomi on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 22d

Of course there's a typo in that skeet.

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 22d

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 22d

One for the ages

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 22d

Was that a spellckeck error?

News headline: Trump orders release of Earheart files

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 29d

*blush*

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yay @bloodysamoan.bsky.social !

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · Sep 9

Chloe's body language says it all.

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes, I was thinking of films like Top Gun, Dirty Harry, 300, etc (rather than misread critiques). But really there's so many (crime films, war movies, westerns)...

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Does anyone know this old (New Yorker?) cartoon I've been searching for?

How I remember it: two people walking out of a cinema that's showing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar Ate New York.' One person says (something like): "I can't help feeling they missed the point of the book."

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · Sep 1

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

the very hungry caterpillar superimposed on an illustration of gregor samsa from the metamorphosis as a beetle

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · Sep 8

When we do (if it hasn't already happened), we'll be able to see a clear, traceable, unbroken line of popular media from 1939 to today into which it comfortably fits.

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm blushing over here. Thank you, sir 😊

𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 ℝ𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕘 @ashcanpress.com · Sep 7

I read HICKSVILLE by @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social. A fictional story about the history of comics and a small town that is deeply tied to it. A staggeringly powerful love letter to the medium and the people who helped shape it.

Magical realism meets journalism meets (fictional) biography. Brilliant.

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Turns out the real Hicksville was inside us all along...

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · Sep 7

I once shared breakfast table with Aragones and it was everything you would hope for

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