Goblin Library Dispatch November 2025

I love November. I enjoy the darkness and the toothy weather. The sunrises are dramatically bloody and the sunsets, soft and ethereal.

It has been a busy month for workshops and commissions. Comics on Palestine and exploring my days through panels remains vital.

The darkness of the winter and the very real global horrors that ricochet around the inside of our blue marble drove me to record some absurd joy this month. Do you remember that full moon? She was magnificent.

Always, always: drawing to process and drawing to breathe.

Notebook Cats 22/11/25

The first week of November was filled with Tuna Sandwiches, a wonderful commission which I have already talked about here.

The following three weeks were draped around zine workshops I was running with S1s at an Edinburgh High School. It was such a pleasure to have multiple sessions with the students. Both the engagement and my facilitating benefit tremendously from time to build relationships and trust with those present.

The work these pupils began, their imaginations and their spark was an inspiration.

Notebook Cats 25/11/25

I was able to make a little time this month for writing but never as much as I would like.

Catcophony!, the cat comic who ate October, was finally unleashed on the world. You can pick up a copy for yourself or the cat lover in your life in the shop! Unfortunately I’m still only shipping to the UK. I haven’t had the capacity to unpick the international post snarls that have been forming over the past year.

I also, of course, have wild and ambitious plans on where I would like this little book to go and what I would like it to become but more on that as we get deeper into December.

Amidst all of the unpredictable freelance chaos, Little has kept me grounded. These three panel micro-stories help me to stay in the world of The Shenk, and keep me thinking about other stories fighting to emerge from my brain.

Notebook Cats 4/9/25

I will end with a word on the Notebook Cats.

I have a red work book which has become a place to make scrappy, angry or simply observational comics as the month progresses. I can usually measure how busy I’ve been by seeing how many of these I’ve had time to make. They are notes, records, snapshots from the month as it flies past me. Previously I’ve posted them on BlueSky and forgotten about them, but I wanted to start keeping them here as well. Collected as part of the Goblin Comic Library.

Everything in this post was pencilled from October or earlier which means, the last two months have been wild.

I hope November treated you well. What have you been up to?