John Riordan
@johnnyriordan.bsky.social
Comic artist, illustrator, co-creator of Hitsville UK and trustee of the Blake Society, currently creating a graphic novel about Blake
Almost forgot about my most successful 'collaboration' with #WilliamBlake. This was the intro to a Blake quiz on zoom in 2020, when we were trying to figure out how to keep the @blakesociety.bsky.social going during Covid.
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Almost forgot about my most successful 'collaboration' with #WilliamBlake. This was the intro to a Blake quiz on zoom in 2020, when we were trying to figure out how to keep the @blakesociety.bsky.social going during Covid.
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
And yet more Blake-inspired artwork on his birthday (and #nationalillustrationday as it happens). I made these all for VALA, the journal of @blakesociety.bsky.social blakesociety.org/vala/ #williamblake #BlakeFriday
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
And yet more Blake-inspired artwork on his birthday (and #nationalillustrationday as it happens). I made these all for VALA, the journal of @blakesociety.bsky.social blakesociety.org/vala/ #williamblake #BlakeFriday
More artwork inspired by #WilliamBlake. Collaborations with my then 2-year old daughter from 2020. #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
More artwork inspired by #WilliamBlake. Collaborations with my then 2-year old daughter from 2020. #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
More Blake stuff for #WilliamBlake 's birthday. From 2007-2009 I did a weekly cartoon for Time Out London called William Blake, Taxi Driver, in which Blake was reincarnated as a visionary London cabbie. The full-page one was to celebrate his 250th birthday in 2007! #Blakeoff #Blakefriday
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
More Blake stuff for #WilliamBlake 's birthday. From 2007-2009 I did a weekly cartoon for Time Out London called William Blake, Taxi Driver, in which Blake was reincarnated as a visionary London cabbie. The full-page one was to celebrate his 250th birthday in 2007! #Blakeoff #Blakefriday
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM BLAKE!
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM BLAKE!
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
First pic is me succumbing to FOMO cause I’m not at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this year 😭 But you CAN buy the first issue of LOS, my comic about William Blake from @mindlessones.bsky.social table, B30-31, 2000AD hall. And/or help me draw the bloody thing by subscribing to loshighway.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
First pic is me succumbing to FOMO cause I’m not at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this year 😭 But you CAN buy the first issue of LOS, my comic about William Blake from @mindlessones.bsky.social table, B30-31, 2000AD hall. And/or help me draw the bloody thing by subscribing to loshighway.substack.com
Spoooky things happening in LOS, my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Spoooky things happening in LOS, my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
A bit late for Halloween, but here’s young William Blake’s brother fulfilling the age old duty of big siblings everywhere by freaking him out
More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory
More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A bit late for Halloween, but here’s young William Blake’s brother fulfilling the age old duty of big siblings everywhere by freaking him out
More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory
More in the latest part of my work-in-progress graphic novel about Blake
loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#williamblake #graphicnovel #comic #ghoststory
Young William Blake meets God! (or does he?)
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Young William Blake meets God! (or does he?)
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
New pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel up at loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-4
#WilliamBlake #graphicnovel #comic
What’s that a-tapping William? 🤔
Sneak preview of next week’s new pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
#graphicnovel #williamblake
Sneak preview of next week’s new pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
#graphicnovel #williamblake
October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What’s that a-tapping William? 🤔
Sneak preview of next week’s new pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
#graphicnovel #williamblake
Sneak preview of next week’s new pages from my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
#graphicnovel #williamblake
In case I haven’t already mentioned it, I’m serialising LOS, my graphic novel about William Blake, on substack.
First 12 pages are free, then each month I’ll add more pages for paid subscribers, fresh from the drawing board.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
First 12 pages are free, then each month I’ll add more pages for paid subscribers, fresh from the drawing board.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In case I haven’t already mentioned it, I’m serialising LOS, my graphic novel about William Blake, on substack.
First 12 pages are free, then each month I’ll add more pages for paid subscribers, fresh from the drawing board.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
First 12 pages are free, then each month I’ll add more pages for paid subscribers, fresh from the drawing board.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
It’s #nationalpoetryday here in the UK. My fave poet (printer, painter, visionary etc) is William Blake, and I love him so much I’ve embarked on an ambitious graphic novel about his life! If that sounds up your alley you can follow and support the project at open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It’s #nationalpoetryday here in the UK. My fave poet (printer, painter, visionary etc) is William Blake, and I love him so much I’ve embarked on an ambitious graphic novel about his life! If that sounds up your alley you can follow and support the project at open.substack.com/pub/loshighway
A good week for delivery of absurdly beautiful (sonically and visually) albums - Cardiacs’ long awaited LSD and Cate le Bon’s dreamy Michelangelo Dying
September 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
A good week for delivery of absurdly beautiful (sonically and visually) albums - Cardiacs’ long awaited LSD and Cate le Bon’s dreamy Michelangelo Dying
Here's my latest substack malarkey, in which I catch up on some recent 'Blake Bollocks' and then describe how I printed the chapter titles of my WIP Blake graphic novel on a replica 18th century printing press in Houston.
Read and subscribe! etc.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
Read and subscribe! etc.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
September 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Here's my latest substack malarkey, in which I catch up on some recent 'Blake Bollocks' and then describe how I printed the chapter titles of my WIP Blake graphic novel on a replica 18th century printing press in Houston.
Read and subscribe! etc.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
Read and subscribe! etc.
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
I’m 3/4 of the way through this brilliant, sprawling behemoth of a book, all about Blake and the artists, writers and weirdos who followed in his wake. I’ll be talking to @philiphoare.bsky.social next Wednesday 10 Sept on zoom with @blakesociety.bsky.social Join us!
blakesociety.org/product/phil...
blakesociety.org/product/phil...
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I’m 3/4 of the way through this brilliant, sprawling behemoth of a book, all about Blake and the artists, writers and weirdos who followed in his wake. I’ll be talking to @philiphoare.bsky.social next Wednesday 10 Sept on zoom with @blakesociety.bsky.social Join us!
blakesociety.org/product/phil...
blakesociety.org/product/phil...
Holiday reading at the Cornish seaside. Looking forward to talking to @philiphoare.bsky.social about his remarkable book on 10 September
August 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Holiday reading at the Cornish seaside. Looking forward to talking to @philiphoare.bsky.social about his remarkable book on 10 September
Today I will mainly be correcting Georgian windows
August 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Today I will mainly be correcting Georgian windows
Looking forward to being part of Gosh!Fest 2025, along with a plethora of talented indie comics folk. Come along to London’s (the world’s?) best comic shop @goshcomics.bsky.social on Saturday 30 August
August 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Looking forward to being part of Gosh!Fest 2025, along with a plethora of talented indie comics folk. Come along to London’s (the world’s?) best comic shop @goshcomics.bsky.social on Saturday 30 August
When he was 8 or 9 young William Blake saw a tree filled with angels on Peckham Rye.
This weekend I’ll be selling a print of this angelic encounter, and the 1st issue of my Blake comic, just up the road at our Open Studios, Bussey Building, Copeland Park, Sat & Sun 28-29 June, 11 - 5. Come say hi!
This weekend I’ll be selling a print of this angelic encounter, and the 1st issue of my Blake comic, just up the road at our Open Studios, Bussey Building, Copeland Park, Sat & Sun 28-29 June, 11 - 5. Come say hi!
June 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
When he was 8 or 9 young William Blake saw a tree filled with angels on Peckham Rye.
This weekend I’ll be selling a print of this angelic encounter, and the 1st issue of my Blake comic, just up the road at our Open Studios, Bussey Building, Copeland Park, Sat & Sun 28-29 June, 11 - 5. Come say hi!
This weekend I’ll be selling a print of this angelic encounter, and the 1st issue of my Blake comic, just up the road at our Open Studios, Bussey Building, Copeland Park, Sat & Sun 28-29 June, 11 - 5. Come say hi!
I’m taking part in the Open Studios at the Bussey Building in Copeland Park, Peckham next weekend, Saturday and Sunday 28-29 June, 11am-5pm
I’ll be selling comics about William Blake as a child and prints of him looking at angels (on Peckham Rye no less) and other things.
See you there?
I’ll be selling comics about William Blake as a child and prints of him looking at angels (on Peckham Rye no less) and other things.
See you there?
June 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I’m taking part in the Open Studios at the Bussey Building in Copeland Park, Peckham next weekend, Saturday and Sunday 28-29 June, 11am-5pm
I’ll be selling comics about William Blake as a child and prints of him looking at angels (on Peckham Rye no less) and other things.
See you there?
I’ll be selling comics about William Blake as a child and prints of him looking at angels (on Peckham Rye no less) and other things.
See you there?
In Matt Berry voice please
June 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In Matt Berry voice please
I don’t make any claims to be a great photographer but I’m rather pleased with this snap from today’s London Marathon. Full credit should go to the person who made that excellent sign of course (and to be fair, the guy running the London Marathon)
April 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I don’t make any claims to be a great photographer but I’m rather pleased with this snap from today’s London Marathon. Full credit should go to the person who made that excellent sign of course (and to be fair, the guy running the London Marathon)
God I wish Kurt Vonnegut was alive in the age of Trump (not that I expect he would agree)!
April 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
God I wish Kurt Vonnegut was alive in the age of Trump (not that I expect he would agree)!
Thought I was taking a Blake break with this Vonnegut book, but he always turns up in the end anyway!
April 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thought I was taking a Blake break with this Vonnegut book, but he always turns up in the end anyway!