A cute style digital drawing of a small cartoon cow in front of a whin bush. There's a blue sky with simple white clouds, a pink heart floating to the top left of the cow, and it says 'baby whin' along the bottom in the same yellow as the whin bush flowers.
Been coaching Joe through SNES Harvest Moon recently. It's going very well.
Sketchbook page, cropped so it's a wide aspect ratio. Pink pen says in capital letters across the top: ABANDONMENT IS INEVITABLE. In small black letters under "have you tried", then in green pen: "COPING using PRESENCE & GRATITUDE?". There is a face-on person on the left hand side in green pen looking askance to the right, where there in a person in pink pen in 3/4 profile, looking to the left. Both seem to be in a moment of mistrust, but perhaps about to bridge the gap.
sometimes my sketchbook pages can make me laugh and remind me to catch myself on (in a good way)
A banner image of covers from comics work dealing with Palestine and the genocide in Gaza.
One year ago today our Palestine comics resource list went live. Lots more additions to the list coming soon. www.brokenfrontier.com/resource-lis... #FreePalestine
A6 pencil drawing of myself, a short white person with dark hair and glasses. I'm wearing a long jumper, hands are hidden in the length of the sleeves. A shirt and a skirt underneath. Tights, socks, brogues. A backpack on my back. Hopefully the posture I've drawn conveys that the bag is fairly heavy. My eyes are closed, head titled to the side. I'm a bit tired but fairly peaceful looking. You can see my real life thumb and finger holding the sketchbook in the bottom of the pic.
A little airport drawing of myself from yesterday. I'm down home for a few days. Presently enjoying the sound of rain from the shelter of my old bedroom.
Here's some from @hmileeds.bsky.social 's event with David Johnson and Emilie Louise Gossiaux, talking about their work in the Beyond the Visual exhibition
(The top half of the page is not relevant doodles from Dec)
An A5 ish page of sketches. Along the top there is a baseball cap, someone with dark pigtails daydreaming about a smaller person with light pigtails, a larger head looking wistfully to their right, a cartoon of myself thinking "it was fun" and hearts and stars coming out of me while another bit of text says "I am tired of shaking so much", and there is a bird, maybe a pigeon, in a nest above me. Next there is a slightly drunk looking person with a big jumper with a skull on the front, wearing a scarf with lots of hearts. I have drawn a shape and and arrow pointing to it to say "this shape" because I was thinking that a lot of my drawings are tending towards this shape lately, like a wide but short big stone or rock. There is a crow and a person with crosshatched hair. Then finally the notes from the artist talk begin, though there aren't many notes, mostly I spent time trying to draw the artists' likenesses. David Johnson sits with his hands wrapped round his left knee, fingers interlaced. It says "INNER VISION" above his right shoulder, with kind of zaps coming out of it. A speech bubble comes from him saying "I like objects" and another says "shaped by debate, discussion and the occasional disagreement". Underneath him it says "afantasia? Aphantasia? Hyperfantasia? " and a reminder to myself to look up the sensational museum. Then "docent?" cos I didn't know that word either. A drawing of Emilie Louise Gossiaux's head and shoulders, viewed from the side. A speech bubble from her reads "I love smelling an artwork. But the Henry Moore piece, it's meta scent was so strong I could taste it in my mouth and it stayed with me throughout my visit". Underneath it says "I like to understand where the artist's hand was" and above "something about touch replicates the creative process". In the middle of these is a drawing of the mediator whose name I didn't note down, and he is saying "challenging ocular centrism". A note by gossiaux: acrylic = plastic, oil: more like skin
I've been to a couple of really great inspiring talks recently, trying to remember how to draw and take notes again after not having done it for so long.
This looks great! Ticket booked 🎟️ 🎟️
A digital pencil sketch of a sitting St Bernard dog in a fairly realistic style, with a small more cartoonish bird sat on its head. A musical note is in a speech bubble coming from the bird, and a heart shape is floating to the left of the dog’s head
Sketching 4 sanity
Three overlaid blue digital pencil sketches of a small child from the early nineties. The one on the right is petting a puppy, the one in the middle is in school uniform and holding a thumb up in front of their face, the one on the left is wearing one of those big sweet hats of the time, with a big bow on the band, and leaning over to the right.
Been trying to use my ipad for sketching more these days. I love being able to layer the drawings, but am less keen on being able to erase my lines. Layered Hannahs from sunny days
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
What a beautiful place to live 🌾🦆
Thanks to @genevievec.bsky.social for my first ever newspaper interview! www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2026/...
A six panel comic with varying sizes of panel. The first is a speech bubble saying "I know a place" with some sparkles and a heart, against a stripey background. The next is a drawing of a red kite in the sky (bird of prey) viewed from below. The third has a close up of some variegated holly leaves, and a speech bubble saying "I miss this variegated holly". The fourth shows four small figures entering a woods, with one figure pointing to the right, and a banner style arrow coming from them pointing to the right side of the panel, up through a path in the woods. The next panel isn't bound by a box, and shows a very small pond. The speech bubbles read: "Ugh, why've they cut it so far back??... There was so much here". There are rings circling the location of two clumps of rushes at the side of the pond and a word balloon reads "two little clumps!". A speech bubble at the side says "never to mind". The final panel sits on top of the previous one, and shows a woman crouching low to the clump of rushes, she also has some scissors in hand and a few rushes too. A free floating word, "gently", is above her. The speech bubbles read "We'll just take a small amount... Leave plenty for others & the bugs". A final speech bubble at the bottom of the page says "That was a bit like a pilgrimage <3"
Same as the 1st image but with digital green wash added
Had a nice time gathering rushes with friends in Geldhow yesterday. Beannachtaí na Féile Bríde 🐣
This is pure class 🐢❤️🔥
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Thank you so much Jen! 💐 I hope you like the zine, I am very excited that I've got this opportunity to expand on it and turn it into a bigger piece of work!
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
Hello! I'm 33 and feeling pretty fine about that! 🐢
Hannah McCann’s ST. BRIGID & ME wins First Graphic Novel Award 2025
Hannah McCann’s graphic memoir about abortion rights and folklore in Northern Ireland, St Brigid & Me, has been named the 2025 winner of the UK's First Graphic Novel Award
black and white skateboard from Welcome Leeds with rose motif says "Don't Mess with Yorkshire"
Hyde Park Book Club t-shirt, modelled by someone perched on a beer keg. "MEGA DEAL … LOW PRICES … £12.99"
Brudenell Social Club mascot pin badge is a happy dog face
someone wearing a Remember David Oluwale t-shirt
leeds gift ideas 🧵
(trying to focus on local creators and institutions, I'm sure I'll miss some classics)
I can't quite believe this, thank you!
Our @smallpressday.bsky.social event at The Brew Society was a big success! I had a mighty @leedscc.bsky.social team helping me out: @jackfallows.bsky.social , @hannahmccann.bsky.social , @mollypukes.bsky.social , Anna Readman & @fronkadoodle.bsky.social . Thank you so much to everyone who came!
Thank you so much 💌
Thank you so much! 😊😊😊
Wooohoo! We're putting on a @smallpressday.bsky.social in Leeds City Centre next month! Come along, tell your friends!💗
Had a wonderful time this evening doing an online workshop with the lovely Sarah Akinterinwa, all about drawing and connecting with your inner child. It was so good for my head and heart!
Picture of the Footprint Workers Cooperative 2025 calendar, front cover in pink and teal riso, showing footprinters getting squished in the riso drum
Photo of my contribution to the calendar, a pink, blue and yellow riso print of an illustration of a scene at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm. There is a cat sitting on a low brick wall, polytunnels, and some trees in front of a light pink sky
The front cover of Leeds Comics Collective's first anthology, Cryptids of Leeds. There are a bunch of classic crypid characters piling out of a pub, watched by people in fancy dress who we can safely assume are on The Otley Run
I have Footprint calendars, LCC comics anthologies and little riso prints available to buy on my shop 🏪
hannah-mccann.co.uk/shop/
Spread of sketchbook, black ink on white paper, some phrases "abolish the family" "psychic adulthood" some random faces out of my head, a little jesus saying 'suffer like me' and a poor portrait of Andy Bell
I like to sit in a pub, doodling and listening to @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social this was during an episode on pronatalism. Andy Bell has nothing to do with it I just love him
