Sal Buscema, beloved comics artist, passes away
Sal Buscema, a veteran comics artist and part of the famed Buscema family of Marvel artists, has passed away. He was 89 years old when he died on Friday, and the news broke today, on what would have been his 90th birthday.
This is worth a read as comics are apparently getting out there again!
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Tomorrow we’ll be at the Star of Kings at City Con! Pop down for some live music & comic book goodness!
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Thank you to everyone that popped over our table this weekend @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social especially those that bought comics! Great to see some familiar faces & meet some new ones! 🙌🏽
It’s Day 2 of @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social & you can find us in the Redshirt Hall table C6! #thoughtbubble #smallpress
Our Diversity Spotlight Maps highlight Disabled Creators, Creators of Colour and LGBT + Queer creators exhibiting at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025!
Check out all three maps here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/diversityspotlight
Hi all! The Guru Comics crew will be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social next week! We’re in the Redshirt Hall, come say hi! 😀
#thoughtbubble #comics #smallpress
NOTHING in your comic will work if you mess up the timing. The jokes, the dramatic reveals, the cliffhanger, the convincing argument... NONE of it works if you mess up the timing. Here's a little excerpt on the subject from my How To Draw 2026 book now on Kickstarter. Much more on this in the book.
OpenAI needs to die and their CEO Sam Altman belongs behind bars.
The company’s new Sora video app is an IP infringement slop factory that furthers our descent into a creatively bankrupt post-truth nightmare.
Via @coffeezilla.bsky.social
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Last week at Broken Frontier...
“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics @gurucomicbooks.bsky.social on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene.
www.brokenfrontier.com/talvinder-se...
We are delighted to have been featured & interviewed in @brokenfrontier.bsky.social please check out the article here:
www.brokenfrontier.com/talvinder-se... Thank you to Broken Frontier & @andywpoliver.bsky.social for the opportunity! Let’s make some #comics #smallpress #indiecomics
Thank you for the opportunity @andywpoliver.bsky.social & Broken Frontier! It’s much appreciated!
Interview!
“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics @gurucomicbooks.bsky.social on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene.
www.brokenfrontier.com/talvinder-se...
The Comics Cultural Impact Collective has proposed a UK Comics Fund to support the nation’s comic community.
It only takes a moment to sign the report and help give the UK comic industry the support it deserves👇
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News! The Comics Cultural Impact Collective Makes the Case to the UK Government for £1.5 Million Funding for Comics. www.brokenfrontier.com/comics-cultu...
Check this out, folks! Really important project and the very first place to see these pages is at BF.
Preview: Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine – An Extensive Advance Look at the New Charity Comics Anthology to Support the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
www.brokenfrontier.com/samidoon-pre...
Because apparently it bears repeating. GenAl is theft. Please don't use it.
As promised, here is the cover to TOOTHPICK issue 3! The comic will be released later this month but if you need to catch up, issues 1&2 are available here:
gurucomics.etsy.com
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We will be revealing the cover to Toothpick issue 3 by Talvinder Sehmbi this evening but here is a few pics of the process from outline to pencils & full inks!
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Alright, alright alright! We’re delight to be heading back to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this November!
The founders of Guru Comics had the great opportunity to be on The Martin Talkshow podcast in his attempt to break the record of most guests on a podcast (achieved! 🙌🏽) & raise funds for St Clare’s Hospice (achieved! 🙌🏽) listen, give a like, repost or drop a comment! 🙌🏽
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Very cool sequence from The Church in Yellow by Alfie Griffiths! This is our first horror comic & available here: gurucomics.etsy.com/listing/1817...
Comics People! R.E Burke (Becky of @brokenfrontier.bsky.social ) has been detained unreasonably by ICE - 11 days & counting - Please share / Donate or help raise coverage & get her home to the UK. Thank you!
gofund.me/1b0a8622
WIP Lettering on Toothpick 3 by TalvsToons (on instagram). #smallpress #smallpresspublishing #indiepublishing #wip #smallpress #smallpresspublishing
Every artist I know is really struggling right now. Financially, emotionally, their confidence, in general.
If you like an artist's work, support them any way you can. Buying their stuff or subscribing to their Patreon is great, but words of encouragement are also incredibly helpful.
Question for fellow comic creators, when you’re lettering a series, do you stick to the same font throughout each issue? #comiccraft #lettering #comiccreators #comicbooks #comiccommunity
Once again...
spent lockdown illustrating on a important book about the true story of the rise of Nazism in 1938 seen through the eyes of a real family.
Please read uk.bookshop.org/a/11494/9780...
and always speak up against fascism & Nazism.
This is going to be disastrous, on an incomprehensible level.
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Guru Comics co-founder Talvinder Sehmbi braving the chilly Sunday in the Dudio working on Toothpick issue 3 😅🥶 #comics #smallpress #cartoonist #inker #comicbookinker #smallpresspublisher
Little reminder given review requests today that we do not cover comics created by AI theft, nor do we link to that popular digital comics platform that hosts them. It’s an instant block if you use AI “art”. Don’t waste our time with requests for coverage if that’s your thing.
