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Recommended by Candy Gourlay

I'm a Brit who spends a lot of time volunteering in Ukraine, especially the east, which is worst affected by the war. I travel, conduct interviews, dodge missiles and try to see the situation with minimal filter so I can help people back home do the same.

Zoe Sees

By Zoe Si

Words & Cartoons by Zoe Si

The Guilty Writer

Trying to be a successful writer and feeling guilty about that.

My friend Kathryn ought to blog more.

- Candy Gourlay

Margreet’s Comics

By Margreet de Heer

My life in comics: Germany/Holland; my mom, my husband, my cats; about reinventing myself (and my marriage), and about the many projects I do (crowdfunding! children's books! sex work activism! philosophy! comics!!!).

The Invisible

By Maureen Tai

A Malaysian writer, wandering the earth, listening to the universe and writing the stories behind my photographs.

Abracadabra

By Joy Watford

Abracadabra is a series of reflections on life, writing, literature and art, with a little bit of cat occasionally mixed in.

Eloquent, emotional. Book and life.

- Candy Gourlay

The Ancients

By Joe Berger

Ah, so you've found us. Well then... I suppose you'd better come in.

Catriona Andrews- Inklinations

Artist, illustrator and mother in no particular order. Living in Scotland, inspired by nature and my boys

Fionn's Comics Newsletter

By Fionn McCabe

Comics, comics exercises, and a few rambling thoughts on visual storytelling.

A must read for all who do comics

- Candy Gourlay

Tara's Timeout

By Tara Tayyebi Fard

Illustrated column in a cool imaginary magazine

Charming day by day comics. I want to read the book.

- Candy Gourlay

Bonus Content

By Debi Gliori

Your backstage pass to where book ideas come from.

Funny, emotional, witty. Love it.

- Candy Gourlay

Story Street

By Jane Porter

A monthly newsletter from award-winning author and illustrator Jane Porter, all about making picture books, comics and community art - and all things fiddle-related

Joy is in the making. Jane is an example to us all

- Candy Gourlay

The ReposiTORy

By Tor Freeman

Sketches, ideas and works-in-progress.

Delightful, hilarious and unmissable comics from a one of a kind artist

- Candy Gourlay

FQ Yeoh

Hidden Brain

By Shankar Vedantam

News from Hidden Brain about ideas, events and community

Nicola Morgan's Brain

Brains, Books and Building Better Lives. 100+ books (some about the brain) and still writing!

I really admire Nicola Morgan's brain.

- Candy Gourlay

Tales of Humanity

By Sarah Towle

As I illustrate in Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, there IS a better way to respond to Forced Displacement and Global Migration: Welcome with Dignity. Because hope knows no borders. Cruelty is not okay. And there is no "right" way.

My brave friend Sarah

- Candy Gourlay

The Artists' Child

By Bridget Marzo

A patchwork of graphic stories, paintings, memoir and reflections about my life and work and the two outsiders, an artist and a maker who helped make me

An utterly beautiful memoir Substack mixing paints and graphic novel style storytelling

- Candy Gourlay