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jessmakescomics.bsky.social
@jessmakescomics.bsky.social
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I make comics and illustrations, often about disability/mental health.
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jessmakescomics.bsky.social
Actually feel proud to be from Suffolk for once. Fire! Monkeys! Neanderthals!
nhm-london.bsky.social Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 4d
The oldest evidence of fire-making has been unearthed in Suffolk, UK 🔥

Dating to 400,000 years ago, it shows that early Neanderthals were controlling fire in northern Europe as our own species was only just emerging.

Find out how this shaped human evolution 👇🏻
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Earliest fire-making dating back 400,000 years ago unearthed in Suffolk, England | Natural History Museum
We were not the first species to master the flame.
www.nhm.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
jessmakescomics.bsky.social
I have stickers for sale in support of Palestine. £1 from each sale going to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social DM me for details. #palestine #stickers
Sticker of an origami boat in the colours of the Palestine flag on a soft grey beige background. Text : from the river to the sea
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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trusselluk.bsky.social
This #WorldFoodDay here's a stark reminder of how much the price of food has risen in the UK in the last 5 years...
trusselluk.bsky.social Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · Sep 22
This is how much the price of food has risen in 5 years... 🤯

🥛Milk, eggs and cheese: +47%
🍖 Meat: +35%
🧈 Oil and butter: +60%
🍞 Cereal and bread: +34%
🍓 Fruit: +26%
🥦 Vegetables: +35%
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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pigeonface.bsky.social
LAST 45 HOURS of "Jenny D" Kickstarter!
Last final push, anyone?
Link below:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...
The Ecstasy of Jenny D - New original comic by Pigeon!
Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.
www.kickstarter.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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qzap.bsky.social
Woke up thinking about this sticker that we've got in the archive here:
archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...
Sticker depicting actor Divine holding a pistol. Text reads "Destroy Fascism - Eat Shit Nazi Scum" and has a rainbow flag and a black flag in the upper left with the words "Antihomophobe Action"
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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trusselluk.bsky.social
This is how much the price of food has risen in 5 years... 🤯

🥛Milk, eggs and cheese: +47%
🍖 Meat: +35%
🧈 Oil and butter: +60%
🍞 Cereal and bread: +34%
🍓 Fruit: +26%
🥦 Vegetables: +35%
September 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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darrencullen.bsky.social
2029 Wes Streeting LOTO: "Prime Minister Farage needs to get a grip on the construction of Britain's behind-schedule and over-budget concentration camp infrastructure"
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 22
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
The label says:

Date of birth: September 13, 2025

Date of death: September 14, 2025.

Because that’s Gaza.

(📸 Anadolu Agency)
A baby is shrouded in plastic wrapping with a white label on it and the stamp of the hospital. Shrouded infants who have passed away in Gaza lie on a surgical tray. There are six in blue and white wrapping.
September 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
jessmakescomics.bsky.social
This is the 3rd of my collaborative comics and Tom Wrigley has done an absolutely amazing job illustrating it! I drafted this back in May and the situation has changed since then - the benefits bill passed in a reduced state so I won’t lose as much. But others will. So we continue to fight.
A 6 panel comic. This image shows 4 panels. Panel 1: A wrapped bunch of peonies. Text: ‘I’ve been craving abundance’. Panel 2: The same bunch of peonies in a vase, they have opened into full bloom. Text: ‘I bought a bunch of peonies the size of my head’. Panel 3: A large box of fruit labelled Crowdfarming. The fruits are apricots and cherries. Text: I ordered 2.5kg of apricots and cherries for my birthday. Panel 4: A stack of library books, some of them look rather hefty. Text: I borrowed 6 hardback books to last me 2 weeks. The final 2 panels of a 6 panel comic are on this page. Panel 5: The bunch of peonies in a vase is shown from a different angle. There is a bowl of apricots and cherries next to it. Text: It seems to make no sense, with the PIP cuts coming. I’m set up to lose £3000 a year. Panel 6: The bunch of peonies is in the centre of the panel with the bowl of fruit on one side, and the stack of books on the other. Text: But it’s because of the PIP cuts. Abundance makes me feel safer, if only for a while.
September 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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goblinpurwin.bsky.social
Four Panel Comic Panel 1: Three overlapping flaming cat head in reds, purples and blues. Text: Ceding violently occupied land Panel 2: A crying cat, purple and red with yellow stripes. Text: To the aggressors Panel 3: A peacefully sleeping blue cat, covered in stars and surrounded by flames. Text: Is not Panel 4: A black cat with stars, also aflame, golden eyes staring out. Text: A peace deal.
September 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
jessmakescomics.bsky.social
I drew the young fox that’s been poking around my estate for a while. The adorable little shit has figured out how to open my fox-proof food waste bin.
Watercolour and pencil sketch of young fox sniffing the ground. Labelled Resident Fox
September 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
jessmakescomics.bsky.social
#cartoonistsforg4za @brokenfrontier.bsky.social
An 8 panel comic about Gaza. Panel 1 shows a woman holding her emaciated child. Text: What can I say in the face of these horrors Panel 2 shows a news feed on a mobile phone. It reads ‘Latest: Vatican News: Death Toll in Gaza nears 59000’, Al Jazeera: ‘Israel has killed nearly 19000 children’ Text above the image: Words are inadequate. They fail me. Panel 3 shows a hand drawing a heart on a piece of paper. Text: Instead all I can do is put my heart down on this paper. Panel 4 shows 2 hands folding the piece of paper with the red heart drawing clearly showing. Text: Fold it lovingly and with care The 2nd page of an 8 panel comic. Panel 5 shows a woman bending down to put a small paper origami boat into a stream. The boat has a heart drawn on it. Text: And release it. Panel 6 shows a wide river filled with origami boats with hearts drawn on them. Text: In the hope that if enough of us do the same something will change. Panel 7 shows an origami boats with hearts in the colours of the Palestinian flag. Text: From the river to the sea Panel 8 says in large letters FREE PALESTINE. The letters are in the colours of the Palestinian flag.
August 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."
August 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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goblinpurwin.bsky.social
Four panel comic Panel 1: Cosmic cat with three eyes. TEXT: They did nothing Panel 2: Black cat head covered in stars with a skull in their mouth moving through three triangles. TEXT: Violent Colonisation for 77 Years. The Government is complicit. Panel 3: A blue cat with yellow stripes and three eyes across it's body screams at a star in a red torn sky. TEXT: Palestine will be freed Panel 4: A cat with a flaming third eye in a fireball in the sky surrounded by stars. TEXT: By the people
July 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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rachelcdailey.bsky.social
The one thing that’s making me madder than anything else around disabled people’s fight to stop welfare cuts is that it’s only us fighting. We see allies standing loudly for trans rights and Palestine -as they should - but where are they in our fight? Why don’t we matter as much?

(I know why)
July 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
jessmakescomics.bsky.social
This is my 2nd collaboration comic, this time with the wonderful @claudiamatosa.com
I drafted this comic before the Benefits Bill passed but the message remains depressingly relevant.
‘Skivers vs strivers’ is back in the press and I just want to remind all disabled people, you are valuable.
A 7 panel comic in muted pastels and rich blues and burgundies. Panel 1 shows a dog and cat sleeping in a basket while a mouse sneaks past them. Text: “I love cats and dogs” Panel 2 shows the cat in close-up, opening one eye to look at the mouse. The mouse is sweating nervously. Panel 3 shows the cat and dog back asleep in the basket and smiling. The mouse is sleeping on top of the dog. Text: ‘Regardless of whether or not they catch mice’ Panel 4 shows a newspaper in a paper rack. The headline reads ‘skivers vs strivers’, there are two subheadings reading ‘benefit cheats’ and ‘make Britain great again’. Text: “Yet we are told that disabled people need to work to be of value” Panel 5: A disabled woman in a dress wearing glasses is lying on a sofa looking drained. A walking stick is on the floor. Text: “But many of us are unable to work. No matter what rhetoric the government uses.” Panel 6 has no images. Written in large white letters on a blue background it says “DISABLED PEOPLE ARE VALUABLE” Panel 7 shows the dog, cat and mouse asleep together in the same basket again. They look happier than ever. There is a puddle of drool under the dog’s mouth. Text: “Our value does not depend on our ability to work.” All 7 comics are watermarked @bookcoverdrawing and @claudiamatosa
July 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
jessmakescomics.bsky.social
Loose sketchy drawing of a pair of headphones with handlettered text underneath saying ‘I keep waiting for things to get better’
July 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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goblinpurwin.bsky.social
Four panel comic. Panel 1: A little cat is surrounded by lightning bolts. TEXT: Palestine action humiliated you and put paint on a plane Panel 2: The cat is bigger and wearing a red superhero eye mask. The lightning bolts have become flames. TEXT: You continue to aid and abet a genocide. Panel 3: The cat now has a flag cape and the flames reach across the panel behind them. TEXT: Exactly who is terrorising who? Panel 4: The cat's cape is a Palestinian flag and is shouting "Free Palestine".
June 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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francesryan.bsky.social
With just over a week to go to the vote to cut disability benefits, now is the best time to write to your MP to ask them to vote against.

@z2ktrust.bsky.social have created a helpful tool that enables you to enter your postcode and use a pre-written letter: z2k.eaction.org.uk/cuts-legisla...
Ask your MP to vote against dangerous cuts to disability benefits
z2k.eaction.org.uk
June 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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trusselluk.bsky.social
Food banks are at breaking point.

❗ 2.9 MILLION emergency food parcels were provided by our community of food banks last year.

This should be a huge wake-up call for the UK government. Read more in @newstatesman.com

www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/po...
Emma Revie: “In the face of growing hardship, food banks are at breaking point”
The chief executive of the Trussell Trust on tackling child poverty.
www.newstatesman.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
jessmakescomics.bsky.social
I have collaborated with my friend @hollycasio.bsky.social on this script about how the government’s planned benefit cuts make me feel like I’m going batshit crazy and THAT IS DELIBERATE
Holly has done an absolutely brilliant job bringing my script to life and I wish I had the hair she’s drawn me.
Page 1 of an 8 panel comic. There are 4 panels on this page and 4 on the next. The comic is beautifully coloured in delicate rainbow shades. Panel 1: text: “When I was in a long-term relationship, my partner and a mutual friend came to me” Image: a man with blonde hair and a woman with blue hair are walking in a park, gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes. The man is labelled ‘my partner’. The woman is labelled ‘not me’. The man is saying “We have fallen in love and we want to be together.” Panel 2. The blonde man is smiling slightly sheepishly. He is saying “But we’re not having sex out of respect for you.” Panel 3. I looking upset and scratching my head. I am wearing a yellow jumper and have amazing pink/purple streaked hair. I am thinking “But I don’t feel respected” Panel 4. Text: I was being gaslighted. I am clutching my head in both hands and frowning. Surrounding me are question marks. I am thinking “I feel like I’m going nuts.” Page 2 of an 8 panel comic. There are again 4 panels on this page. Panel 1. Text: “Now the government are talking in a familiar way”. Keir Starmer is shown. He is on television. He has his serious ‘let’s roll our sleeves up’ face on. At the bottom of the screen is a ticker tape that says “Breaking news. Keir Starmer: disabled people have it too easy” Panel 2. Keir Starmer is shown from a bit further away. He is standing at a podium that says Conservatives scribbled out with Labour written above that. He is still looking serious. He is saying “We are cutting your benefits for your own good” Panel 3. I am seen clutching my head again. I am wearing the same clothes as before. I am thinking “But I CAN’T work. So how will this help me?” Panel 4. Text: I am not falling for this shit again. Disabled people’s value doesn’t depend on their ability to work. The panel shows a protest against disability cuts. There are a variety of people sitting in wheelchairs and standing both with and without mobility aids. They are holding banners that say ‘Welfare not Warfare’ ‘Pip Fraud £0, Tax Evasion £5.5billion’ ‘Cuts Kill’, ‘If you want my benefits you can have my disability’ ‘Crips Against Cuts’.
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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amalelmohtar.com
Every time I’ve been forced against my will to see that stupid fucking photo of JKR & her cigar I’ve said “she looks like a cartoon villain” & I finally figured out which one
Madame Medusa, the redhaired, green-eyed villain of the 1977 animated film THE RESCUERS, looking wickedly gleeful as she clutches an enormous diamond she forced an orphan girl to excavate from a cave as the tide rolled in.
April 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
jessmakescomics.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits
We want the Government to halt all planned benefit cuts for disabled people unable to work. Instead of reducing benefits, we want them to rise in line with inflation. We want support, not hardship and...
petition.parliament.uk
April 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
The stock market just gained $4 trillion in value in 10 minutes.

How many of Trump’s billionaire friends, donors and inner circle just made a fortune?
A screenshot of rocketing share prices which include: NVIDIA 109.69 13:27:53 | NVDA +13.39 (+13.91%) Tesla 253.40 13:27:54 | TSLA +31.54 (+14.21%) Apple 194.07 13:27:53 | AAPL +21.65 (+12.56%) Amazon.com 185.89 13:27:54 | AMZN +15.23 (+8.92%) Palantir 87.87 13:27:53 | PLTR +10.55 (+13.64%) Meta Platforms 554.15 13:27:53 | META +43.70 (+8.56%) Microsoft 383.44 13:27:53 | MSFT +28.88 (+8.15%)
April 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM