Ste Pickford

@stepickford.bsky.social

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Full time video game developer. Some time comic artist. Not won an award since Primary School.

An original Amiga Deluxe Paint disk.
34 flippin’ degrees in London this afternoon. Christ.
Two ducks outside our back door at Center Parcs, doing their best impression of the painting from Goodfellas.
The cover of the mahoosive Charlie’s War Apex Edition. What a beauty.
A hardback copy of Alan Moore’s new novel, I Hear A New World.
A black and white, framed A1 (ish) sized brush drawn comic strip. Too complicated to explain every panel, but a man chooses to sell his house for a low price, then harasses the new owners so much they give him their life savings to fuck off for good, yet this man seems to be presented as the hero of the tale. What a twat.
The food shop of Tomodachi Life with a perfectly accurate Beans on Toast as a daily special. Only £1.50 too, which is good value. The caption reads “A true British classic that’s a student staple. Helps you parp louder than your friends.”
A crumpled flyer for Akira at The Cornerhouse cinema in Manchester from March 1991.
A display of tote bags with the three word slogan - Stockport Isn’t Shit.
A pen sketch of the news photo of ex-prince Andrew, sweating in the back of his car after a 12 hour police interview, with the flames of Hell roaring behind him, entitled Great Moments In History.
The packaging for a carton of Alpro Oat milk looks like it says Qat due to an oat placed below the letter O. Hilarious!
Me and Chun sat in the Rain Bar in Manchester, both looking amazing, really, with cassette copies of Zub and 180 that I’d just signed for him. I forget to bring my copy of The Getaway for him to sign.
Our fancy new Mario ornament on our Christmas tree.
The glasses case I question!
The Demonschool icon on my Switch Home Screen, downloading…
A twin stick joystick with the Cecconoid artwork printed on it.
Some say that it takes two people to make a successful pen-and-ink drawing - one to use the pen, and the other to stand by with an axe to kill the penman at the proper moment.
A light pink circle on a light bluey green background. The top third of the circle (between the ‘ten to two’ clock face positions) is a pale yellowy colour.
My dog, Luna, asleep next to me on the sofa.
A side / back close up of Judge Dredd, with the bulk of his chiseled rock of a chin all that is visible protruding from the profile of his helmet, rendered as a single uneven line, but you can somehow see the whole expression on his face.
A view from Teg’s Nose Country park down a valley below, filled with clouds.
Luna, asleep next to me on the sofa, half covered with his blanket. He’s very content.
A car parked near my house with lots of inexpertly painted scenes and slogans from Japanese cartoons.
Loads of signs outside the chippy: National Chip Shop Awards Top 10 2023, Voted #1 Fish and Chips in Greater Manchester, Bronze Award for best pies, etc.
A panel from a Future Shock in this week’s comic. Can’t be coincidence, surely?
A Union Flag hanging from the window of an old folks home in the background, and in the foreground two Palestinian flags attached to a sign at the entrance to a park.
Star of Ill-Omen by Dennis Wheatley, an Arrow paperback, originally costing 3/6 (whatever that means). A great cover painting shows three flying saucers over a desert, with the biggest one looking like it has a red eye.
Five framed posters on a pub wall of city- wide rules for a good time when out on the town. #1 Out Together Home Together, #2 Call It Out, #3 Don’t Be A Creep, #4 Respect Every One, #6 Take It Easy.
Half a pint of rhubarb cider. Who knew?
Some rooftops in Bristol. Christmas Steps, I think. View from a microbrewery called Zero Degrees.
Scoreboard at a football match showing Buxton FC 1 - Man City FC 0
A standing stone with a perfectly round hole burrowed through it.
The sign for a local coffee shop with the motto “Where Craft meets Caffeine”.
A bunch of old retro game junk. Actually, quite an impressive looking wall of megadrive and gameboy boxes and stuff like that, with a ‘do not take photos’ sign in the middle.
A pint of French beer in a pub with a screen showing the PSG game behind.
A recommendation on the BBC iPlayer app saying if you liked ‘Glastonbury’ then you’ll probably like ‘Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing’. On the face of it a show about two old men going fishing and telling jokes to each other doesn’t seem to have much in common with coverage of a massive music festival, but I like them both.
Two upselling pop ups, over the top of the football, DURING THE GAME!
Football coverage on the DAZN app on an LG tv, with a massive ‘upgrade to premium’ banner in the middle of the pitch.
A sign on the door of a small bar. Dogs [tick] Cash [cross]
Four panels of paving stones of the same size that can be lifted up and placed back down. Is the pattern correct?
A Carlsberg glass full of beer. I ordered a Tuborg Classic. Fingers crossed…
A half drunk pint of Tuborg in Copenhagen Airport.
Me happily holding half a litre of Hoegaarden in a massive glass.
A sign outside a shop saying “Sorry, we don’t have the Zlatan Perfume.”
A cute sign in a shop window saying ‘Life is better with a dog’ next to a prohibitive sign saying ‘No dogs except guide dogs.’
A bleached white animal skull on a dry stone wall. Maybe a sheep?
The massive pile of Rice Crispies is much reduced.
A pile of Rice Crispies on the grass in a park.
Alan Moore’s tomes next to Bob Mortimer’s lovely, daft little novel.
[fan whooshing]
What the hell happened, Macklay?
[soft whooshing]
A close up of the Leeds scarf I’m wearing on my way back to Manchester from Martyn Brown’s funeral in Wakefield. I’m a big Man City fan, but I loved Martyn. Proud to have stolen a scarf from his wake.
Me at Martyn Brown’s wake, in Wakefield. Unfortunately not administered by Wakey Wakey as we all hoped. Not my cap. Somebody plonked it upon my head during a game of Perudo, as is traditional. Goodbye Martyn you star.
The skull of Elizabeth Johnson, executed York 1800, then it looks like it says ‘Utticana Soreery’ whatever that means. In the Golden Fleece pub.
Horizon at the bottom, interesting. Horizon in the middle, boring as shit.
Twin Peaks The Return blu ray box set cover. Evil Coop / Dougie.
Frost on leaves and ranches on the park, looking like spikes of electrical charge.