John Riordan
@johnnyriordan.bsky.social
Comic artist, illustrator, co-creator of Hitsville UK and trustee of the Blake Society, currently creating a graphic novel about Blake
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM BLAKE!
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Almost forgot about my most successful 'collaboration' with #WilliamBlake. This was the intro to a Blake quiz on zoom in 2020, when we were trying to figure out how to keep the @blakesociety.bsky.social going during Covid.
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Almost forgot about my most successful 'collaboration' with #WilliamBlake. This was the intro to a Blake quiz on zoom in 2020, when we were trying to figure out how to keep the @blakesociety.bsky.social going during Covid.
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
And yet more Blake-inspired artwork on his birthday (and #nationalillustrationday as it happens). I made these all for VALA, the journal of @blakesociety.bsky.social blakesociety.org/vala/ #williamblake #BlakeFriday
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
And yet more Blake-inspired artwork on his birthday (and #nationalillustrationday as it happens). I made these all for VALA, the journal of @blakesociety.bsky.social blakesociety.org/vala/ #williamblake #BlakeFriday
More artwork inspired by #WilliamBlake. Collaborations with my then 2-year old daughter from 2020. #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
More artwork inspired by #WilliamBlake. Collaborations with my then 2-year old daughter from 2020. #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
More Blake stuff for #WilliamBlake 's birthday. From 2007-2009 I did a weekly cartoon for Time Out London called William Blake, Taxi Driver, in which Blake was reincarnated as a visionary London cabbie. The full-page one was to celebrate his 250th birthday in 2007! #Blakeoff #Blakefriday
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
More Blake stuff for #WilliamBlake 's birthday. From 2007-2009 I did a weekly cartoon for Time Out London called William Blake, Taxi Driver, in which Blake was reincarnated as a visionary London cabbie. The full-page one was to celebrate his 250th birthday in 2007! #Blakeoff #Blakefriday
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM BLAKE!
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM BLAKE!
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Scratching a monstrous itch with Blake’s Ghost of a Flea
loshighway.substack.com/p/flea-circus
loshighway.substack.com/p/flea-circus
Flea Circus
The Ghost a Flea is a fascinatingly weird creation, odd even by the standards of Blake’s imagination. The intense, tiny painting broods menacingly in the collection of Tate Britain.
loshighway.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Scratching a monstrous itch with Blake’s Ghost of a Flea
loshighway.substack.com/p/flea-circus
loshighway.substack.com/p/flea-circus
New Blake bollocks up on my substack, in which I consider Blake’s weirdest and gnarliest creation, The Ghost of a Flea
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
Flea Circus
The Ghost a Flea is a fascinatingly weird creation, odd even by the standards of Blake’s imagination. The intense, tiny painting broods menacingly in the collection of Tate Britain.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New Blake bollocks up on my substack, in which I consider Blake’s weirdest and gnarliest creation, The Ghost of a Flea
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
Lots to love in this by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social about trippy pagan bit in WitW that everyone forgets. Btw, W Graham Robertson, who did original illustration, pretty much saved W Blake’s artwork for the nation, as described in @philiphoare.bsky.social’s new book www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Lots to love in this by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social about trippy pagan bit in WitW that everyone forgets. Btw, W Graham Robertson, who did original illustration, pretty much saved W Blake’s artwork for the nation, as described in @philiphoare.bsky.social’s new book www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
First pic is me succumbing to FOMO cause I’m not at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this year 😭 But you CAN buy the first issue of LOS, my comic about William Blake from @mindlessones.bsky.social table, B30-31, 2000AD hall. And/or help me draw the bloody thing by subscribing to loshighway.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
First pic is me succumbing to FOMO cause I’m not at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this year 😭 But you CAN buy the first issue of LOS, my comic about William Blake from @mindlessones.bsky.social table, B30-31, 2000AD hall. And/or help me draw the bloody thing by subscribing to loshighway.substack.com
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Using Blake - Next Wednesday 19 November, 7:30 PM on Zoom. Looking forward immensely to welcoming artist and writer Christopher Bucklow, who will talk to us about Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
Using Blake - Christopher Bucklow - The Blake Society
Artist and writer, Christopher Bucklow, discusses Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
blakesociety.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Using Blake - Next Wednesday 19 November, 7:30 PM on Zoom. Looking forward immensely to welcoming artist and writer Christopher Bucklow, who will talk to us about Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
Spoooky things happening in LOS, my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Spoooky things happening in LOS, my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
Robbie Gibb, by some measure the worst of the Bee Gees
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Robbie Gibb, by some measure the worst of the Bee Gees
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
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I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
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Tourists! Come to America! Our air traffic controllers haven't been paid, so there's a non-zero chance your flight will crash! Don't worry, if you do get here you could be kidnapped by a masked stormtrooper and held indefinitely in torture conditions! Bring your money to the US!
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Tourists! Come to America! Our air traffic controllers haven't been paid, so there's a non-zero chance your flight will crash! Don't worry, if you do get here you could be kidnapped by a masked stormtrooper and held indefinitely in torture conditions! Bring your money to the US!
Did another thing for the wonderful Mindless Ones. Clue - mine is the stupidest thing this week
Issue #31 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Scotland as unicorn factory, Asimov's robots, The Red Dress Project, unsmashed pumpkins, Toxic, The Filth, Pricks, Jimmy Smits, Peter Watkins and more!
Love didn’t grow very well
Robots. The West Wing/Star Wars. Toxic! The Filth. Oscar Wilde's ghost. Pricks. The Red Dress Project. Unicorns. Peter Watkins.
mindless-ones.ghost.io
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Did another thing for the wonderful Mindless Ones. Clue - mine is the stupidest thing this week
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A bit late for Halloween, but here’s young William Blake’s brother fulfilling the age old duty of big siblings everywhere by freaking him out
More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory
More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A bit late for Halloween, but here’s young William Blake’s brother fulfilling the age old duty of big siblings everywhere by freaking him out
More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory
More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory
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Young William Blake meets God! (or does he?)
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Young William Blake meets God! (or does he?)
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
Young William Blake meets God! (or does he?)
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Young William Blake meets God! (or does he?)
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
Sharing my pal Tim’s gofundme, in case you can sfford to help www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...
Donate to Support Carol's Recovery and Community Aid, organized by Timothy Morton
Hello. I'm Tim Morton and Carol Balds is my wonderful Jamaican mother-in-law… Timothy Morton needs your support for Support Carol's Recovery and Community Aid
www.gofundme.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Sharing my pal Tim’s gofundme, in case you can sfford to help www.gofundme.com/f/support-ca...
What’s that a-tapping William? 🤔
Sneak preview of next week’s new pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
#graphicnovel #williamblake
Sneak preview of next week’s new pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
#graphicnovel #williamblake
October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What’s that a-tapping William? 🤔
Sneak preview of next week’s new pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
#graphicnovel #williamblake
Sneak preview of next week’s new pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
#graphicnovel #williamblake