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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 7h

24h comics are classic type-2 fun in the best way. I’d love to run another event like this.

Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 12h

10 years ago today since I took part in the 24 hour comic challenge at LICAF. Here I am in the early hours of the morning with 24 hours comics kingpin @thingsbydan.co.uk What an experience! I’ll never forget looking up at about 3am to find Kate Beaton, Seth & Darwyn Cooke watching.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 11h

It simply can’t be ten years already.

Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 12h

10 years ago today since I took part in the 24 hour comic challenge at LICAF. Here I am in the early hours of the morning with 24 hours comics kingpin @thingsbydan.co.uk What an experience! I’ll never forget looking up at about 3am to find Kate Beaton, Seth & Darwyn Cooke watching.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 2d

You can ONLY make an omelette by really fucking them up good.

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Kristyna Baczynski @kbaczynski.bsky.social · 2d

As the saying goes “you can’t make an omelette without really fucking em up good”

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 2d

Omelette recipe.
1. Get some eggs.
2. Smash em, really fuck em up good.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 2d

Please please don’t tempt fate this way.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 2d

I apologise.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 2d

So yeah, being a freelancer is going pretty great, every day a fresh opportunity to lament the lack of people around me, keeping me grounded, keeping me from chugging old cat food.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 2d

Turns out I stirred my coffee with the spoon I’d just used to scrape the old nasty cat food out of the cat food dish and not the clean spoon I just got out of the cutlery drawer.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 2d

I was just drinking my coffee and an unsettling and distasteful mystery lump appeared in my mouth. On closer inspection, it was a chunk of cat food.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 2d

Here’s a short and true horror story.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 8d

“We sent a literal monkey to actual heaven, what he saw will shock you”

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 8d

All of YouTube is now a variation of

“I attempt to build a functioning car as big as a literal whale because the B-52s made it look so cool”

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 10d

Rightly so.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13d

Quentin Blake: How I Draw. “I do a freewheeling sort of drawing that looks as though it is done on the spur of the moment. However even a single drawing needs a certain amount of preparation and planning.” [kottke.org]

Quentin Blake: How I Draw

Illustrator Quentin Blake, who is most widely known for his energetic drawings for Roald Dahl’s books, generously shares his drawing process on his website and also in a series of videos. I do a freewheeling sort of d

kottke.org

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 27d

Wound as in wound up? Potent as in full of potential? Coiled like a spring?

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 28d

Added some originals to my shop. Ink on A2 cotton rag paper.

jonathanestore.bigcartel.com

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · 27d

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · Sep 10

I treat this newsletter like an old school blog (with footnotes) and I never really looked at the stats until today and realised that people seem to be enjoying it. Well that’s nice.

Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · Sep 10

Do you read my newsletter? You don’t need to worry about me clogging your inbox, I don’t write them all that often. thingsbydan.substack.com/p/april-to-s...

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · Sep 10

“Sensually”

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · Sep 10

Aw thanks!

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · Sep 10

Ah that’s so good to hear! I’m trying to get better at writing in a voice that is distinctly my own, I think I’m getting somewhere with it?

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · Sep 10

Do you read my newsletter? You don’t need to worry about me clogging your inbox, I don’t write them all that often. thingsbydan.substack.com/p/april-to-s...

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · Sep 10

Ha ha! I will show my kids and let you know that they say.

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Dan Berry inexplicably @thingsbydan.co.uk · Sep 10

And before you reply, yes I am exploring options to move the newsletter away from that particular platform.

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