Tom Humberstone
@tomhumberstone.com
Comic artist and illustrator
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Portfolio: tomhumberstone.com
Newsletter: tomhumberstone.com/newsletter
Links: linktr.ee/tomhumberstone
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I Know The Way Out - the new poetry comic collection from me and @chrissywilliams.bsky.social - is OUT NOW and available to order online here: tomhumberstone.com/shop/i-know-...
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
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And today is #scottishcomicbookday! So sharing this thread again. #scbd
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can also pop into @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social , or La Belle Adventure to pick up my new comic!
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can also pop into @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social , or La Belle Adventure to pick up my new comic!
Today is Black Friday. Why not buy something full price from an independent artist or creator you like? Or shop in your local indie store?
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
Shop | Tom Humberstone
Shop for comics, prints and more by award-winning comic artist and illustrator Tom Humberstone, creator of the graphic novel Suzanne.
tomhumberstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And today is #scottishcomicbookday! So sharing this thread again. #scbd
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can also pop into @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social , or La Belle Adventure to pick up my new comic!
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can also pop into @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social , or La Belle Adventure to pick up my new comic!
And today is #scottishcomicbookday! So sharing this thread again. #scbd
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can also pop into @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social , or La Belle Adventure to pick up my new comic!
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can also pop into @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social , or La Belle Adventure to pick up my new comic!
Today is Black Friday. Why not buy something full price from an independent artist or creator you like? Or shop in your local indie store?
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
Shop | Tom Humberstone
Shop for comics, prints and more by award-winning comic artist and illustrator Tom Humberstone, creator of the graphic novel Suzanne.
tomhumberstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And today is #scottishcomicbookday! So sharing this thread again. #scbd
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can also pop into @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social , or La Belle Adventure to pick up my new comic!
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can also pop into @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social , or La Belle Adventure to pick up my new comic!
Reposted by Tom Humberstone
It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
forms.gle
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
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I’ll be bringing some of these beauties with me for Gosh to sell at the Golden Rage signing tomorrow!
I Know The Way Out - the new poetry comic collection from me and @chrissywilliams.bsky.social - is OUT NOW and available to order online here: tomhumberstone.com/shop/i-know-...
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I’ll be bringing some of these beauties with me for Gosh to sell at the Golden Rage signing tomorrow!
This is so nice to hear! Also really nice to see Danielle manage to do what I always struggle with: take good photos of a riso printed comic.
This just in, from one of my favourite indie creators @tomhumberstone.com! 💙🩷
I Know The Way Out is a gorgeous collection of 3 poems in comic form. Genuinely thoughtful and beautifully produced.
My favourite pick up from Thought Bubble this year.
okcomics.co.uk/products/i-k...
I Know The Way Out is a gorgeous collection of 3 poems in comic form. Genuinely thoughtful and beautifully produced.
My favourite pick up from Thought Bubble this year.
okcomics.co.uk/products/i-k...
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is so nice to hear! Also really nice to see Danielle manage to do what I always struggle with: take good photos of a riso printed comic.
Reposted by Tom Humberstone
black friday sale on my shop everything is now 1 penny more expensive
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ohhaiku.bigcartel.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
black friday sale on my shop everything is now 1 penny more expensive
ohhaiku.bigcartel.com
ohhaiku.bigcartel.com
Today is Black Friday. Why not buy something full price from an independent artist or creator you like? Or shop in your local indie store?
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
Shop | Tom Humberstone
Shop for comics, prints and more by award-winning comic artist and illustrator Tom Humberstone, creator of the graphic novel Suzanne.
tomhumberstone.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Today is Black Friday. Why not buy something full price from an independent artist or creator you like? Or shop in your local indie store?
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
Reposted by Tom Humberstone
What are the good indie/art comic review sites these days? Beyond TCJ, Solrad and Broken Frontier. Where else do you find good comics criticism/recommendations?
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What are the good indie/art comic review sites these days? Beyond TCJ, Solrad and Broken Frontier. Where else do you find good comics criticism/recommendations?
What are the good indie/art comic review sites these days? Beyond TCJ, Solrad and Broken Frontier. Where else do you find good comics criticism/recommendations?
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What are the good indie/art comic review sites these days? Beyond TCJ, Solrad and Broken Frontier. Where else do you find good comics criticism/recommendations?
If you make poetry comics, published or self-published, this is worth applying to!
The Micheal Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets are open! Calling publishers, poets and illustrators of poetry pamphlets published in the UK between 28 September 2024 and 1 October 2025. Our judges want to read your work.
michaelmarksawards.org
michaelmarksawards.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you make poetry comics, published or self-published, this is worth applying to!
Reposted by Tom Humberstone
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
I Know The Way Out - the new poetry comic collection from me and @chrissywilliams.bsky.social - is OUT NOW and available to order online here: tomhumberstone.com/shop/i-know-...
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I Know The Way Out - the new poetry comic collection from me and @chrissywilliams.bsky.social - is OUT NOW and available to order online here: tomhumberstone.com/shop/i-know-...
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
Contains 3 poetry comics. 24 pages. Riso-printed in 4 inks (black, blue, aqua and fluo pink).
I think I’ve finally found a way to satisfyingly fake the Riso printed results of I Know The Way Out! Useful to show the pages as they’re designed to be seen and I can now make an ebook available that looks as close to the printed book as possible.
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I think I’ve finally found a way to satisfyingly fake the Riso printed results of I Know The Way Out! Useful to show the pages as they’re designed to be seen and I can now make an ebook available that looks as close to the printed book as possible.
Reposted by Tom Humberstone
Attention all Edinburgh & Dunfermline folks! Do you like free books?! Of course you do!
We will be leaving free book presents around small businesses over the next week or so. 'Tis the season to give back and shop local! Keep an 👀 out, only be one book per shop!
Happy hunting!
#booksky #freebooks
We will be leaving free book presents around small businesses over the next week or so. 'Tis the season to give back and shop local! Keep an 👀 out, only be one book per shop!
Happy hunting!
#booksky #freebooks
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Attention all Edinburgh & Dunfermline folks! Do you like free books?! Of course you do!
We will be leaving free book presents around small businesses over the next week or so. 'Tis the season to give back and shop local! Keep an 👀 out, only be one book per shop!
Happy hunting!
#booksky #freebooks
We will be leaving free book presents around small businesses over the next week or so. 'Tis the season to give back and shop local! Keep an 👀 out, only be one book per shop!
Happy hunting!
#booksky #freebooks
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The internet just showed me this response drawing that I posted five years ago. Feel free to use it if you have a need.
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The internet just showed me this response drawing that I posted five years ago. Feel free to use it if you have a need.
Reposted by Tom Humberstone
AI is the new motion smoothing
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
AI is the new motion smoothing
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We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
Reposted by Tom Humberstone
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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Run don't walk to the @averyhill.bsky.social exhibition at The Mercer this Thought Bubble weekend. It's so incredibly well put together and the comments book shows that it's blowing the minds of people who previously weren't fans of the world's best medium.
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Run don't walk to the @averyhill.bsky.social exhibition at The Mercer this Thought Bubble weekend. It's so incredibly well put together and the comments book shows that it's blowing the minds of people who previously weren't fans of the world's best medium.
It’s Sunday at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social and the final tabling day of the year for me!
Come by and pick up a poetry comic and I’ll draw you an abstract paint-pen sketch. Or pick it up from @chrissywilliams.bsky.social and I’ll draw in that copy!
Comixology Hall. Tables C36 and B3!
Come by and pick up a poetry comic and I’ll draw you an abstract paint-pen sketch. Or pick it up from @chrissywilliams.bsky.social and I’ll draw in that copy!
Comixology Hall. Tables C36 and B3!
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It’s Sunday at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social and the final tabling day of the year for me!
Come by and pick up a poetry comic and I’ll draw you an abstract paint-pen sketch. Or pick it up from @chrissywilliams.bsky.social and I’ll draw in that copy!
Comixology Hall. Tables C36 and B3!
Come by and pick up a poetry comic and I’ll draw you an abstract paint-pen sketch. Or pick it up from @chrissywilliams.bsky.social and I’ll draw in that copy!
Comixology Hall. Tables C36 and B3!
Some things you can buy from me at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in Comixology Hall, table C36. I will draw in your book and sign it!
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Some things you can buy from me at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in Comixology Hall, table C36. I will draw in your book and sign it!
On the train to Thought Bubble! Maybe see you (yes, YOU) at the @averyhill.bsky.social Exhibition at the Mercer Gallery tonight? If not, hopefully see you at table C36 in Comixology Hall 🖤
🚨 This weekend, I’ll be tabling @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social!
It’s been 10 years since tabling solo. I’m excited to return to the most important festival in the UK comics calendar, but also surprisingly anxious.
Come find me at COMIXOLOGY HALL C36 and give me an encouraging pat on the back.
It’s been 10 years since tabling solo. I’m excited to return to the most important festival in the UK comics calendar, but also surprisingly anxious.
Come find me at COMIXOLOGY HALL C36 and give me an encouraging pat on the back.
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
On the train to Thought Bubble! Maybe see you (yes, YOU) at the @averyhill.bsky.social Exhibition at the Mercer Gallery tonight? If not, hopefully see you at table C36 in Comixology Hall 🖤
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happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
I was asked by @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social to adapt a short story by Aileen MacAlister into a comic to celebrate the release of the Book Week Scotland collection.
It’s about friendship. And losing a parent. It was a privilege to adapt it.
Read it in full here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ_53imCGA...
It’s about friendship. And losing a parent. It was a privilege to adapt it.
Read it in full here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ_53imCGA...
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I was asked by @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social to adapt a short story by Aileen MacAlister into a comic to celebrate the release of the Book Week Scotland collection.
It’s about friendship. And losing a parent. It was a privilege to adapt it.
Read it in full here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ_53imCGA...
It’s about friendship. And losing a parent. It was a privilege to adapt it.
Read it in full here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ_53imCGA...