David Baillie
@davidbaillie.bsky.social
Comics writer: 2000AD, Judge Dredd, Vertigo, Valiant, Heavy Metal. Scottish. Effervescent.
http://www.davidbaillie.net/
http://www.davidbaillie.net/
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New Interview!
This week Downthetubes welcomed writing droids @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and @davidbaillie.bsky.social onto their site to talk about horror comics, and constructing the perfect Chiller! https://bit.ly/4pSGOU2
This week Downthetubes welcomed writing droids @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and @davidbaillie.bsky.social onto their site to talk about horror comics, and constructing the perfect Chiller! https://bit.ly/4pSGOU2
Creating Comics: Scripting Spooky Strips
Matt Badham chats with writers David Baillie and Arthur Wyatt
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December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New Interview!
This week Downthetubes welcomed writing droids @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and @davidbaillie.bsky.social onto their site to talk about horror comics, and constructing the perfect Chiller! https://bit.ly/4pSGOU2
This week Downthetubes welcomed writing droids @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and @davidbaillie.bsky.social onto their site to talk about horror comics, and constructing the perfect Chiller! https://bit.ly/4pSGOU2
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Are you a comics critic? Have you published two pieces over the past year? If so, please apply to this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant! The application takes only minutes to fill out!
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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...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Are you a comics critic? Have you published two pieces over the past year? If so, please apply to this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant! The application takes only minutes to fill out!
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Every time a superhero wears a jacket over their suit, Grant Morrison should get twenty quid. Hundred if it's a movie.
December 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Every time a superhero wears a jacket over their suit, Grant Morrison should get twenty quid. Hundred if it's a movie.
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Tapping the sign
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Tapping the sign
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Using AI is like slathering yourself in hamburger juice so your boss can feed you to his dog
December 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Using AI is like slathering yourself in hamburger juice so your boss can feed you to his dog
Had a chat with @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and Matt Badham about horror in comics for awesome UK comics site Down The Tubes. Loads of great art, too:
downthetubes.net/creating-com...
downthetubes.net/creating-com...
Creating Comics: Scripting Spooky Strips
Matt Badham chats with writers David Baillie and Arthur Wyatt
downthetubes.net
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Had a chat with @arthurwyatt.bsky.social and Matt Badham about horror in comics for awesome UK comics site Down The Tubes. Loads of great art, too:
downthetubes.net/creating-com...
downthetubes.net/creating-com...
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Had no idea Bloomberg even had comics, never mind that they can be this good
Was reading this, fully hooked and immersed into the sheer horror, while constantly thinking 'Wait, why is this so good?! Who did this?'
Until I got to the end and saw it was Anand RK, with lettering by @adityab.net and then it just made total sense lmfao.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Until I got to the end and saw it was Anand RK, with lettering by @adityab.net and then it just made total sense lmfao.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel
No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.
www.bloomberg.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Had no idea Bloomberg even had comics, never mind that they can be this good
No spoilers but I have one lined up for later today!
Just released a really fun interview with @davidbaillie.bsky.social Go check it out if you've ever wondered how fatherhood changed him as a writer or what his favourite flavour of pot noodle is.
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
No spoilers but I have one lined up for later today!
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I had so much fun collaborating with New Scientist on this article!
“Pay attention to the moments of contradiction & uncertainty threaded through character dialogue & self-reflection…Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are”
@dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social on Iain Banks for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
@dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social on Iain Banks for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her
www.newscientist.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I had so much fun collaborating with New Scientist on this article!
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“Choose the form of your destructor!”
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Choose the form of your destructor!”
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Back on my semi sporadic radio grind. Show 90 if you can believe the persistence.
www.mixcloud.com/RecordsRetri...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Back on my semi sporadic radio grind. Show 90 if you can believe the persistence.
www.mixcloud.com/RecordsRetri...
www.mixcloud.com/RecordsRetri...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.
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Here's where GAME will be showing across the UK in the hext few weeks. I'll be at the Q&A at Chapter, Cardiff, this Friday.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Here's where GAME will be showing across the UK in the hext few weeks. I'll be at the Q&A at Chapter, Cardiff, this Friday.
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🐈⬛ BLACK CAT 🐈⬛
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🐈⬛ BLACK CAT 🐈⬛
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If you fancy mystery and treachery in the Bristol Blitz, me and @maximizedcomics.bsky.social have a treat for you! Fear of Fire, Commando 5911, out next week wherever good comics are sold
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If you fancy mystery and treachery in the Bristol Blitz, me and @maximizedcomics.bsky.social have a treat for you! Fear of Fire, Commando 5911, out next week wherever good comics are sold
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I was the assistant editor on MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. I have 9000 stories from that time, and many of them feature this man who passed away this morning, Udo Kier. He would talk about Fassbinder, Warhol and Paul Morrissey for hours. I was so lucky to get to know Udo and he will be missed by so many.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I was the assistant editor on MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. I have 9000 stories from that time, and many of them feature this man who passed away this morning, Udo Kier. He would talk about Fassbinder, Warhol and Paul Morrissey for hours. I was so lucky to get to know Udo and he will be missed by so many.
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Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Happy Doctor Who day!
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Happy Doctor Who day!
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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Cat's out of the bag, I'm back on Catwoman covers for DC Comics!
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Cat's out of the bag, I'm back on Catwoman covers for DC Comics!
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I did an interview with @davidhallerwrites.bsky.social that you may enjoy; I talk about a few things I don't think I have talked about before. Plus, enjoy a huge picture of my fast-collapsing middle-aged face which I do not even hide with a beard. www.davidhallerwrites.com/post/freeze-...
Freeze Frame: John Allison on the Realities of Living the Dream
Credits: John AllisonJohn Allison has forged his own unique path from novice freelancer to Eisner Award winner through a career defined by perseverance and experimentation. Within this article, he dis...
www.davidhallerwrites.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I did an interview with @davidhallerwrites.bsky.social that you may enjoy; I talk about a few things I don't think I have talked about before. Plus, enjoy a huge picture of my fast-collapsing middle-aged face which I do not even hide with a beard. www.davidhallerwrites.com/post/freeze-...
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We lived in a pub when I was growing up and when I was 3 (50 years ago!) we had someone in to draw the pub for a business card. I sat next to him and watched him draw every line. I was transfixed and it was a huge inspiration for me. I’ve dreamt about owning that drawing for years…
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We lived in a pub when I was growing up and when I was 3 (50 years ago!) we had someone in to draw the pub for a business card. I sat next to him and watched him draw every line. I was transfixed and it was a huge inspiration for me. I’ve dreamt about owning that drawing for years…
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This is just great.
I've edited a video! Of some of my standup! Like you're supposed to when you're a comedian!
Please enjoy "My jokes are good, actually, and here are the reasons why".
Shares/fawning praise etc obviously appreciated x
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93X...
Please enjoy "My jokes are good, actually, and here are the reasons why".
Shares/fawning praise etc obviously appreciated x
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93X...
My jokes are good, actually, and here are the reasons why.
YouTube video by Guy Kelly
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2024 at 6:56 AM
This is just great.