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Comps day! Check this out next week! It was a HUGE honour to be asked by @whatthe-shea, and to share a space with the awesome Kelly Thompson and @anniewu.

(One note - reviewers, despite the credit, our story was lettered by wonderful @gofrankgo)

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Just look at these cuties!

Some Escabella for your troubles

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It is the best feeling in the world seeing someone cosplay a character you designed!!

HeroesCon 2023 was incredible!! Moderated a panel for the first time and met a ton of awesome fans and creators.

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This weekend we decided to work up the character designs for a rejected DC short, because they wouldn’t leave our heads. Say hello to the bridge crew of the Batfleet vessel Manterprise.

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Heeeyyy, the news is out!! We were invited by @whatthe-shea to contribute to the awesome new Harley anthology HARLEY QUINN: BLACK + WHITE + REDDER, wherein we got to make our stupidest dreams come true and invent an all-animal supervillain team for our story GREAT PETSPECTATIONS!

From the top we have:

Harley herself, the Maiden of Mischief

Barkseid, scourge of the Armakennels and chewer of Father Boxes

Ares’ Kowarla, the master of disaster, the Passive Aggressor

The Squiddler, Eddie Nygma’s Eight-Armed Bandit of Knowledge

Dex-Starr, the terrifying and fickle Red Lantern

And last but definitely not least, the Best Boys Bud & Lou!

We had the most fun time with all of this, and really hope you check it out when it drops in august!

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(Source: https://twitter.com/kaludiasays/status/1653261997163569152)

There will hopefully be a lot of info circulating on here about how to support the strike, and I don't want this to go unnoticed.

Stop using ChatGPT, or any "AI" that can be trained to replace artists.

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a quick word about the writers guild strike, for those of you who currently AREN'T guild members but would like to be one day: the WGA has always strongly enforced its right to ban from future membership any non-member who crosses the picket line and engages in scab writing, aka writing for any of the struck companies during the WGA strike.

so if you're seeing job openings for screenwriters at places like netflix, amazon, paramount, etc and you're thinking "hey, maybe i'll apply and get my foot in the door," just know that you WILL be scabbing and you WILL be barred from ever obtaining WGA membership. permanently.

learn more about the strike on the WGA contract site.

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Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

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I’m getting dragged on reddit for talking about this fuckin character so I wanna pitch her here. In my most recent dive into the backpages of the Marvel catalogue I have discovered a cool ass chick.

This is Shela Sexton, AKA Escapade.

Escapade is a trans mutant who’s got a kind of platonic life partner, best friends for life thing going with another trans mutant named Morgan Red. Together the two decided to use their powers to become supervillains, “but a supervillain that helps people and only hurts people who deserve it”.

But the fun doesn’t stop there. Beyond being a trans Robin Hood and actually coming away with a cool name and a sick design, there’s a handful of interesting things about this character. For one, despite being a mutant she doesn’t actually like to rely on her mutant power, instead she considers herself a tech fighter, utilizing random gadgets that she’s stolen on previous heists.

And what is her mutant power you ask? Well that’s also pretty fun, she has the ability to swap “circumstances” with anyone for a limited number of time. Not only trading places with them, but also switching things like physical condition, social status, skills and abilities. If she’s getting the hell beaten out of her, she can swap places to make herself the one coming out on top, though the injuries will come back later.

And she’s good at infiltrating enemy bases, since she can switch places with a guard and no one will question her presence for as long as the swap persists.

Now, as for her story, things have not been going well for Shela. She’s recently been visited by Destiny and Emma Frost, who claim that a future visions portends that Shela will end up unintentionally killing Morgan, and this has her shook. A large part of why she’s so hesitant to use her powers is because they play a part in his foretold death. Now, both Shela and Morgan can figure that Emma wants something from her, but to what end and how much of the story is a lie is still up in the air.

If you’re interested in reading, the story begins in the 2022 edition of “Marvel Voices: Pride and carries over into the most recent run of New Mutants issues #31-33. It’s actually a very emotional arc, hitting on a lot of themes that make both trans narratives and X-Men stories work so well, feeling powerless against malicious systems that seemingly only exist to hurt you and standing up anyways, the dread of an oncoming “bury your gays” and the enraged fight against what you’ve been told is your ultimate fate. And, don’t worry, there is a happy ending. I’d highly recommend.

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This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

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Happy International Asexuality day, chums. We see you.

🤍💜🖤

Probably the most salient moments of our story Think of Me, from DC Pride 2022, written, drawn and coloured by us, lettered by the amazing Frank Cvetkovic.

It meant a huge deal to us when @whatthe-shea​ asked us to be the ones to bring Connor Hawke out of the closet as asexual. We’re both asexual ourselves, so having the chance to broaden representation in superhero comics was absolutely great.

The monologue was really important to us; not only was the letter format our way of referencing Connor’s old habits of writing letters to his mom from his adventures, but it was also the most elegant way to thread a bunch of different needles in terms of establishing Connor’s current continuity, bring him out of the closet, and try to explain at least one of the ways being asexual can feel in an allosexual society to help readers who might have little experience with asexuality feel like they could relate a bit more.

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contemplates writing a detailed guide to deradicalizing republican evangelicals for the billionth time

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after not drawing for a while

I finally had some time to explore anything I wanted for a little community exhibition in London later this month

so naturally I finally can fulfil my dream of drawing Brunnhilde from 1936 

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You’re going to want to get a copy of this! Preorder with confidence!

AHHH! Super excited to announce DEATH DROP, a brand new series by myself David Hazan, Lucas Gattoni and @scoutcomics will be hitting comic shop shelves this summer! I couldn’t have asked for a better pair of Co-creators for my first industry rodeo and we can’t wait to get this into your hands. Apologies it advance for absolutely not sitting up about this till issue #1 drops this Pride 😅 Death Drop: Drag Assassin #1 (of 5) is due out in stores and digitally on Wednesday, June 14th. available to preorder from previews world now! 

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We’ve had a sneak peek at this, and it’s gonna be a fun time!

i am DEATHly excited to say there will be some rather exciting news DROPping this week oh ho ho

(if you’d like this and other me-centric news delivered straight to your inbox my newsletter might just be the thing for you; https://alexmooreillustration.substack.com)

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towards the end of last year @timmerzzz77 got in touch to ask if i’d like to do a variant cover for @DanielKalban’s turn-of-the-century superhero story AMERICAN DREAMS. issue #3 has just gone live on the @bandofbards store so is available for pre-order now! diamond preview codes; CVR A (Alex Moore) : APR231241 

CVR B (Dody Eka): APR231242