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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing the title and presenting the cover of mine and Angela Watson’s forthcoming book, #MyBelovedOther
#comics #graphicnovels #BookSky #book #books #book2026 #antiracism #BlackSky

More info and links:

www.nickabadzis.com/blog/2025/10...

The cover to My Beloved Other by and copyright (c) Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson. It shows two hands forming a “heart” symbol. The hand on the left is Angela’s (who is Black), the hand on the right is mine (which is white. Sort of Greek, actually, but please read the book to find out more about that.) All rights reserved under protection of EU copyright laws.

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Scholastic UK @scholasticuk.bsky.social · 5d

JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany.
ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994.
MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015.

All three children must endure harrowing journeys. All face unimaginable dangers. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. Refugee: The Graphic Novel is out now.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 3d

It’s awesome! Always have a sweet spot for shy characters.

JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 4d

A new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel! Hurray!

Scholastic UK @scholasticuk.bsky.social · 4d

The Mancusis don't have any kids... but they sure do have a lot of pets! So when they're desperate for a sitter, who do they call? The Baby-sitters Club!

Read Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter - The 18th Graphic Novel in the Baby-sitters Club series - out now!

#TheBabySittersClub

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 5d

Sharing some classic graphic novels here: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed, New Kid by Jerry Craft, Timid by Jonathan Todd. #KidsBooksFriday

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 5d

With the IBC Excluded Voices report making for sober reading this week, let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate brilliant books from global majority writers.
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/excluded-voi...

Book cover for Spirit Warriors by Ashley Thorpe

Book cover for Nush and the Stolen Emerald by Jasbinder Bilan

Book cover for Nate Yu’s Blast from the Past by Maisie Chan

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 5d

Currently reading Bumble & Snug and the Shy Ghost by @markbradley.bsky.social . Cute and fun and a perfect October read. #KidsGN📚💬 #KidLitUK

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 7d

For the 1st book it was our agent who gave us feedback before the pitch went on submission. So lucky that both our agent and editor are on the same wavelength as us. When they say they’ve got to love a book to take it on, that’s why: they can’t edit as effectively if they don’t really click with it.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 7d

Still making the art for the 1st Wilomina graphic novel + already writing the synopsis for Book 2. Just got the notes back from our editor, so we’re on draft 2. Loving the input, it’s great to have a third pair of eyes to highlight bits that can be improved and it’s really strengthening the story.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 12d

🚨FINAL FEW DAYS!🚨

The UK Comics Creator Survey will close forever at midnight on Monday 6th! Have you submitted your response yet? Or were you, like me*, waiting for the last minute? The last minute is now, lads! Get in there!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

*I thrive** on pressure
**Exist painfully

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 11d

Great to hear! Glad it was of help🙂

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 12d

It’s #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek in Scotland this week and in the rest of the UK next week. As a dyslexic reader myself I wanted to use #KidsBooksFriday this week to celebrate brilliant, accessible and super-readable texts of all kinds.
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #KidLit

Book cover for Reek by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by George Caltsoudas showing a young person with a helmet and rocket books swinging through a futuristic Edinburgh via a rope.

Book cover for Wonderfully Wired Brains by Louise Gooding showing a young person with short hair and glasses wearing a green hoodie. Around their head are a myriad of different things from animals to basketballs, pencils, paint brushes and games controllers.

Book cover for Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp and Sylvia Bi showing three girls with papers in their hand as if passing our leaflets, hovering over a medieval European style city.

Book cover for The Horse Dreamer by Holly Surplice showing a sketch style drawing of a girl riding a galloping horse.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 12d

Happy birthday Peanuts!🥜🥜🥜

Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

It’s your 75th anniversary, Charlie Brown! 💛⁠
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🎉 Today marks the official 75th anniversary of Peanuts! On October 2, 1950, the first Peanuts comic strip, shown here, was published in seven newspapers nationwide. Charles M. Schulz was 27 years old.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 12d

You're welcome!😃

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 12d

We signed up for this webinar at Frankfurt Book Fair: Comics on the Rise, with speakers David Saylor (Graphix), Doug Headline (Dupuis), Luis Martinez (Norma), Dr Joachim Kaps & @comixace.bsky.social
Tuesday 7 October
Register here. www.buchmesse.de/en/timetable...

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 13d

Now reading City of Dragons: Rise of the Shadowfire by Jaimal Yogis & @superrisu.bsky.social . It takes you to Paris to uncover a mystery in the Louvre and the Catacombes. Book 3 is actually already out but we don’t have it yet. Looking forward to it. @scholasticuk.bsky.social #KidsGN📚💬
#KidLitUK

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 13d

When you work for yourself, you have to troubleshoot your own IT with no training.

JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 13d

Yes! We managed to troubleshoot our PC not enrolling to ESU. The PC was seen as a commercial device because there was email addresses associated with it that had been set up by schools when we did Teams workshops. We deleted those and it made our PC eligible. Just enrolled it to the Windows 10 ESU!

JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

Question for tech folk:
Our old PC doesn’t have the option to enrol to ESU to extend the life of Windows 10 updates (when we go to Windows/Settings/Updates&Security). We just enrolled our laptop to ESU and both devices share the same One Drive. Any idea why and how to get the PC to enrol? HELP!

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 13d

The irony is that we bought a brand-new PC last week with Windows 11 because of the whole Window 10 shenanigans.
it’s just that we don’t have time right now to set it up because of our book deadlines. Anyway, we can continue using the old PC until our deadlines are past.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 13d

Yes! We managed to troubleshoot our PC not enrolling to ESU. The PC was seen as a commercial device because there was email addresses associated with it that had been set up by schools when we did Teams workshops. We deleted those and it made our PC eligible. Just enrolled it to the Windows 10 ESU!

JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

Question for tech folk:
Our old PC doesn’t have the option to enrol to ESU to extend the life of Windows 10 updates (when we go to Windows/Settings/Updates&Security). We just enrolled our laptop to ESU and both devices share the same One Drive. Any idea why and how to get the PC to enrol? HELP!

JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

Looks like they just did a U turn on that. If you go to Windows - Settings - Update & Security -Windows Update, you should see an option at the too of the screen to enrol into ESU, which extends the life of Windows 10 for an extra year for free.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 13d

I can’t even get our own page count right: it’s 266.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

We need more hours in our days. Making a 256 page graphic novel + content for socials + a newsletter is taking up way more time than a full time job.. Every half hour counts.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

Question for tech folk:
Our old PC doesn’t have the option to enrol to ESU to extend the life of Windows 10 updates (when we go to Windows/Settings/Updates&Security). We just enrolled our laptop to ESU and both devices share the same One Drive. Any idea why and how to get the PC to enrol? HELP!

JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

Looks like they just did a U turn on that. If you go to Windows - Settings - Update & Security -Windows Update, you should see an option at the too of the screen to enrol into ESU, which extends the life of Windows 10 for an extra year for free.

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Craig Munro @craigactually.bsky.social · 14d

Looks like you can extend Win 10 for a year at no cost! Just did it just now. That's a relief for a while.

JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

Looks like they just did a U turn on that. If you go to Windows - Settings - Update & Security -Windows Update, you should see an option at the too of the screen to enrol into ESU, which extends the life of Windows 10 for an extra year for free.

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

Cool! We just found out about it this morning!

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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 14d

This has worked on our laptop, but our PC doesn’t seem to have this option. We assume it’s because it’s too old but then looking into it further, it looks like ANY computer should be able to enroll into ESU, so need to look into it further.

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