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Neill Cameron

@neillcameron.bsky.social

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✏️ Comics writer and artist 🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD! 🤖 buy books & ticket links: www.linktree.com/neillcameron 🍩 www.neillcameron.com

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello new followers! Just to say hello, I’m Neill, I write and draw comics. Often about robots. Increasingly about donuts. Here is one I made earlier!

A bearded man that is me, holding up an issue of children’s weekly comic The Phoenix, with donuts on the cover.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3h

lol, “plan”

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4h

Accidentally wrote a bestseller as part of a very roundabout long plan to get people to check out my little robot guys.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve noticed at recent signings, and this has now been borne out anecdotally by a couple of booksellers, that my fondest wish may in fact be starting to happen and the recent popularity of donut squad is actually… driving people to check out Mega Robo Bros? Whisper it! 🤞

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4h

Photo courtesy of the lovely people of Cheltenham Waterstones! @waterstoneskids.bsky.social

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely delightful day of school events in Cheltenham. My thanks to the organisers, all who came along, everyone at Waterstones and everyone at Cheltenham Literature Festival. What a glorious, ridiculous way I get to make a living.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 18h

The ancient ones performed feats of memory, as their culture required them to commit long strings of numbers to their mind palaces.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 9h

Create Your Own Comics by me and Alex Lopez is 25% off if you preorder it from Waterstones now!

I'm really proud of this book and it's a great way to get kids to learn how to make comics!

Yse the code OCTOBER25 this link www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...

#WPreorder

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💀🧟‍♂️Kevin Church of the UNHOLY 🧟‍♂️💀 @beaucoupkevin.com · 9h

Oh, man, Drew Struzan's departed us.

You know all the hits, of course; the man was a legend. Here's a rejected (!?!?) poster he did for STAR TREK V.

The movie-era USS Enterprise speeding towards a planet that's in the process of exploding. You can HEAR this poster.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 9h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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BOBBY JOSEPH COMICS @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social · 9h

I am raising money for the Cartoon Museum as they do amazing work with young people in the community (among many other things). I am giving a talk about Comics History -one that may surprise you! Plus, exclusive readings! Come down, support @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social downthetubes.net/cartoon-muse...

Cartoon Museum gets set to host “A 100-year Journey of Diversity and Representation in Comics”

A special fundraiser for the Cartoon Museum

downthetubes.net

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 1d

The Fun and Glamorous Life of an Author, part 1,768

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VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 2d

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

Very soon!

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

Next weekend I will be in Brussels, where I have to imagine less of the audience will be reading the Phoenix week-by-week, so I’ll miss the reaction to a certain Big Reveal. But we’re back on home turf at comics club the week after, and I look forward to catching up on all the OUTRAGED HOWLS then ❤️

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

The last couple of weeks in the Lakes and then Bath is was all elder gods this, elder gods that, and then yesterday in Cheltenham there was lots of outraged theorizing over WHO IS THE DONUT OF MYSTERY?? Absolutely delightful, and hugely gratifying.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 2d

A fun thing about doing events *literally every weekend* is that I kind of get very live feedback on my stories as they happen, by which I mean a room full of children all shouting at me.

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

ah they just wish they could draw like that

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 3d

Look who’s only ruddy curating the ruddy Cheltenham Literature Festival 🤩 @jamiesmart.bsky.social

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4d

I'm attempting to moderate my language on here so let me just say: absolutely [nuts to] that publisher, they can go straight [in the bin].

Fatima O'Hara @cabbagesandkings.bsky.social · 4d

An illustrator friend did a kid's book where one of the mums wore hijab. Not to make a point, just as part of a normal city school background. Took it to publisher and was asked to remove because it 'wasn't a book about inclusivity'

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4d

(I just call this place twitter now, SORRY)

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4d

And hey, you know what they say: if you’ve got time to moan about it on twitter…

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4d

You joke, but

Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4d

(It’s actually fine, I think; I have worked very hard for a long time to have a good healthy runway built out ahead, and this is the point where I cash that in and start to eat up that runway.)

(I realise I mixed about four metaphors there. My point is, it’s FINE.)

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 4d

No I know what you’re thinking, there’s simply no way, but it’s okay because *checks immune system* I have a heavy cold and feel like death.

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