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Jordan Collver
@jordancollver.bsky.social
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Eisner-nominated comic artist with an MSc in science communication. Posting about comics, illustration, science, nature, history. www.jordancollver.com

My books:
PETS TELL TALES - https://shorturl.at/gjT9P
HOCUS POCUS - https://shorturl.at/nYyXd
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RAIN CHEQUE!

This event was cancelled due to flooding but has been rescheduled for THIS SATURDAY 29th Nov. Hope to see you there.
Poster featuring the cover of Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt with the following (updated) information: Book signing with Jordan Collver Bookish, Abergavenny Saturday 29th November 1pm Free entry, books available www.book-ish.co.uk or call 01873 811256
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Gooey Gus from the Ghostwriter show! Holy cow.
Image of Gooey Gus - with a face like purpl melted slime, wearing a leather jacket - creeping up on an afraid young person on the telephone
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Cats, dogs, action, poop, you name it!
Illustration of a cat flicking kitty litter into piles the shape of pyramids. Illustration of a dog eagerly following a very bored girl Illustration of the gods Set and Horus fighting Illustration of dung beetles exploding forth from a pile of dung balls and crawling all over a shrieking man.
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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A reminder that "Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt" makes a great gift for the little history buffs in your life.

Over 200 pages of fun, educational comics, narrated by cartoon animals. Ask for it at your local bookshop and be the cool aunt/uncle etc. this Christmas! 🎁
Photo of the book Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt surrounded by a festive Christmas wreath and satuettes of the baboon god Thoth and a cat.
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I offer this truly wonderful moment of animation for comfort and strength to anyone who needs it.

(from Fleischer Studios' 1940s Superman series)
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The lil' f's are backwards because he's sucking IN!
From Jason Lutes' masterpiece "Berlin".
Comic panel of a man taking a drag on a cigar.
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Love seeing everybody's amazing Aurora photos these past few days.
Still from LOTR of a flying Nazgul perched atop its fortress on the border of Mordor, which illuminated with an eerie green glow as orcs pour forth.
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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In love with these Crane Wizard Monks I feel compelled to draw sometime, unless you beat me to it.

Found in an issue of RSPB Magazine: "Carers dressed as Cranes take part in a predator aversion training exercise."
Two scientists dressed in muted gray garb and holding sticks mimicking crane necks/heads stand in a field amidst cranes (the bird, not the building equipment).
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Some great suggestions in this list! My daughter and I enjoy this one: www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/who-ma...
Book cover for "Who Makes an Ocean" by Sally Nicholls & Carolina Rabei
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Illustration of Jesus clearing the temple of money changers.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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A few in here I hadn't seen before!
Art by MC Escher of a closeup of a leaf with a dewdrop in the middle, which magnifies the fractal pattern of the leaf at the same time it reflects its surroundings.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Amen. Where the speech bubbles/captions go often determines my layout for the overall page. Sometimes they're the most prominent (and fun) design feature of the panel. I'd have no idea how much space to leave otherwise, and I'd hate for part of my art I'd taken time to draw to get covered up!
Original comic art showing blue pencils under ink linework, with the dialogue pencilled into the speech bubbles, which are drawn onto the page itself. Original comic art showing blue pencils under ink linework, with the dialogue pencilled into the speech bubbles, which are drawn onto the page itself, notably obscuring parts of a busy crowd scene.
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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It was this time last year that I was wholly distracted from pressing project deadlines by making this ragtag troupe. Currently resisting the pull to add new recruites...
Illustrations of Medieval helmets resembling the faces of Muppets characters Gonzo, Kermit, Piggy, Animal, Fozzy, and Sam Eagle (as an Aztec, being truly American).
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Ooh lovely. This is how @rikworth.bsky.social & I end our upcoming comic on animals in Rome (with mild spoiler cropped out)...
Comic page showing a dog and human in the distance walking away on a Roman street from wet clay in the foreground, imprinted with the dog's footprints.
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Regrettably @rikworth.bsky.social & I won't be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social ourselves this year, BUT our new kids comic Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt will be at the @hachettechildrens.bsky.social table in BUBBLEBOY HALL K18.
Map of Bubbleboy Hall indicating where Pets Tell Tales will be available at table K18
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Boromir meme saying "One does not simply encounter Fraser Campbell"
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Scan of original inks for the Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt cover, with blue pencil visible underneath.
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Good grief look at this beauty I picked up for SIX POUNDS! It's hard to capture in a photo but the cover has this lovely transluscent vellum dust jacket. Over 200 pages filled with greats new and familiar.
Cover of the book "Famous American Illustrators" by Apri Ermoyan featuring a life drawing covered by a transluscent dust jacket. Lush gold paintings by Maxfield Parrish Ink caricatures by Hirschfield Optimistic space art by Robert McCall
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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It gives the fullness of loose pencil and the precision of ink all at once. Almost makes the ink glow.
Illustration of the Colosseum, ink drawing with blue pencil underneath. Illustration of a chariot race with the "Akira slide", ink drawing with blue pencil underneath.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I really like the look of blue under-pencil. Almost a shame to remove it.
Scan of original ink linework with blue pencil visible underneath. The image is of a wolf and a dog growling at each other, with an elephant smashing through a line of Roman soldiers - the cover to the forthcoming comic Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Evolution of another cover...
Rough sketch of cartoon animals, lead by an elephant with a little mouse atop his head, bursting through a line of Roman soldiers. A wolf and dog growl at each other in the foreground. Coloured artwork of the previous sketch, with the elphant changed from an Asian elephant to an African elephant. Same as the previous artwork but with the mouse now on the elephant's trunk and a Roman emperor clinging on top of the elephant's head. One of the soldiers who was being knocked back by the elephant has now been replaced with a gladiator. Final artwork where the emperor is now riding rodeo-style atop the elephant, who now also has great big eyebrows. The gladiator's armor has been adjusted and recoloured, along with other minor changes to colour and character position.
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Evolution of a cover, for those who love seeing a bit of process as much as I do.
Rough pencil drawing of a bunch of cartoon animals bursting out of an Egyptian sarcophagus. Ink drawing of a bunch of animals making shadow puppets of Egyptian characters on the wall as the shadow of large dog-like Set creature extends overhead, becoming the night sky. Rough sketch of an alarmed pharoah, legs akimbo, in the jaws of a equally alarmed hippo, surrounded by various animals in the reeds. Final coloured version of the previous sketch, now with pyramids and stars in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Been feeling this heavily lately.
Comic panel of a distressed man with his head in his hands. "For once in my life, my obnoxiously endless optimism had run dry. I felt powerless..."
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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My spookiest cover?
Cover for the comic Hocus Pocus issue about Ghosts, depicting a praying nun in front of a full moon, creating the illusion of a human skull.
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Happy Halloween from Ancient Rome! Got to draw a fun werewolf and joke by @rikworth.bsky.social on this page.
Comic page of a man turning around in fear to reveal a howling werewolf in Roman soldier's armor. In the next panel the werewolf is eating messily at a banquet table and the man is trying to ignore him.
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM