Newcastle says no to fascism. The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance. Newcastle united.

I was recently a guest on the podcast What Makes You Tick? featuring creative people in NE England talking about influences/creative processes etc. Had a fab chat about stand-up, comics & Star Trek, listen below 🙂 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6xYB...

Take the money you would spend on creating, implementing, and analysing this test and use it to just give every single Year 7 kid a free £10 book token so they can buy something that they're interested in, you data-obsessed ghouls.

I was recently a guest on the podcast What Makes You Tick? featuring creative people in NE England talking about influences/creative processes etc. Had a fab chat about stand-up, comics & Star Trek, listen below 🙂 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6xYB...

MR James, cask ales, Sherlock Holmes, roast dinners. Oh and steam trains.

Nice! Fingers crossed for the next Sequential Scotland 🤞

Don’t buy “smart” appliances that don’t need to be “smart”, unless you enjoy (a) being shown ads, (b) being pushed towards subscriptions, (c) having your data harvested, & (d) taking on an extra job/hobby dealing with more tech problems

On the plus side, I find people finally seem to have shut up about their air fryers in the last six months or so, so that's a positive at least

Prog 347 How many other teenage comic covers at the time were referencing: tyrannosauri, old Hollywood sex comedies, the drummer from The Beatles and somebody completely battered making a Face Time call to the Feds? Go on, name one other!

It's giving early 90s Mick McMahon does 40K art (aka my dream combo)

My subscribers copy arrived this morning, Henry Flint's art once again takes my breath away.

I've bitten the bullet & reactivated my DMs on Bluesky so you can contact me that way if you'd like, but if you don't want to mess around with that (valid) I've added a contact form to my Linktree page: linktr.ee/leo_healy Available for comics/comics criticism/prose WFH projects!

I've bitten the bullet & reactivated my DMs on Bluesky so you can contact me that way if you'd like, but if you don't want to mess around with that (valid) I've added a contact form to my Linktree page: linktr.ee/leo_healy Available for comics/comics criticism/prose WFH projects!

On holiday n that

Oh gosh, RIP Chris Bidmead. A long time favourite Classic Who writer.

In the post today 📬 My first purchase as a direct result of an article in @wyrdscience.bsky.social, I doubt it'll be the last tbh

I had the PAL release of this, which was weirdly retitled Digimon World 2003? (possibly because DW2 never made it over here) Worth quite a bit now, I probably traded it in at Gamestation for about £2 credit, as was the style at the time 🙃

Buzzing for this one! I tried to start collecting Action a few years ago but trying to buy copies of it on eBay proved difficult what with that whole Superman comic also being called Action.

My English teacher and my gym teacher at school DID get married actually. They were both very boring.

It's probably been over two years since I did any wargaming stuff, so it feels good to get back into it, even if I'm just putting together a couple of EM4 Miniatures' Sci-fi Troopers (paint will come later)

There’s such a lot of Galaxy to explore, and Cyd Finlea is determined to chronicle it all! Today we’re heading into the staggering universe of THE OUT, by Dan Abnett and Mark Harrison >>>

Aw cheers Steve 😊 This was a fun one to write, still now three years later I love talking about The Out, it's just so good

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie"

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

R.E.M were bloody great man www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBS6...

ONLY WRESTLING IS REAL

Reposting this mainly to bookmark it for myself but you guys read it too it's good!

I'm waiting for the Gen Z equivalent of this with Labubus Won't be long now surely

Leave no room for terfs in comics. Pay and platform trans creatives instead

If you've got any interest in tabletop gaming at all (wargames, RPGs, board games, etc) you should be reading Wyrd Science. You're almost certain to find something that matches your interests, as well as some new games/stuff to try or learn more about. It's fab

Never had an artist call a comic script of mine 'professional' before, I'll take it! 😇 High praise from my collaborator on our upcoming story in the Beyond the Black Void anthology, coming soon from Jackrabbit Comics 👀 jackrabbitcomics.com

Dredd with a big gun: It's a go-to 2000AD cover for a reason

Today's post! 📬 In The Land of the Sundering Flood, @nic-the-mammoth.bsky.social's new tabletop miniatures game inspired by the work of William Morris. The book is beautiful, and the game (from my brief scan) sounds fascinating, q. different from a normal wargame. Looking forward to exploring more!

Realisation: Did Placebo already do this to The Cure??

The Last Jedi is probably the best Star Wars film.

I think an AI author just started following me on Instagram, so that's... gross

Watching videos of police dragging away grannies for holding an anti genocide bit of card, thinking about the time the Met buried reports that one of their officers was a predator, then after he used police ID to kidnap, rape & murder a woman, they then arrested women for holding a vigil for her.

Alexey Pajitnov brainstorming a Tetris sequel: We gotta think outside the blocks!

Hello! @shelfdust.bsky.social is a comics website where amazing critics write about any comic they want - sometimes positive, sometimes negative, often both! The site needs support, and I’d love if you could follow it on Bsky; on Wordpress; or even through Patreon if you enjoy it! www.shelfdust.com

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Quote this with a performance that stole a film #FilmSky📽️ #MovieSky Phil Hartman in Jingle all the Way. Effortless sleezebag

The Knight Shift is a dark-fantasy comic with plenty of action and twice as many laughs. Skeletons, Puppies, Necromancers - we've got 'em all! Written by Ryan Twyford Art by Luke Hormsan (#2000AD, Oathbound). #comics #comicbooks #comicart #fantasy #darkfantasy #comedy #cartoon

Good combo in the post today 📚 As my friend described it: "Serious literature, and John Keats"

Pure jonesing for a can of like 90s/00s Lilt

Finished The Helltrekkers - great book, but on the Wagner/Grant scale of wacky comedy (Ace Trucking Co.) to horrifyingly depressive (Apocalypse War/Letter from a Democrat) this is very much tipping the darkness scale, & might even break through to be the new benchmark. MAN some harrowing stuff here

BOXES from @thirdbearpress.bsky.social is a great magazine always full of brilliant UK indie creators (am I biased having written for them? maybe) give this a go! I just backed BOXES Comic Magazine #4 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

Had a brilliant time at @sequential-scot.bsky.social Gorgeous venue, so much space, and a lovely vibe 🙂 Thanks so much to the amazing Sequential Scotland team, absolutely smashed it, great convention 🥳

All set up at Table 86 at Sequential Scotland @sequential-scot.bsky.social ! Here until 5pm at the Double Tree Hilton in Glasgow, pop along!

Tomorrow!! I'm at the train station now! I've got a bag full of comics and zines to sell! I've bought a Greggs for lunch! Stay tuned for further updates!

TOMORROW! Glasgow? Indie comics? SEQUENTIAL SCOTLAND! We'll be there - look for our table & @mducked.bsky.social & @ellaitch.bsky.social! And loads of other great comics creators! And Alex is running a comic-making workshop- with INVENTIVE AND INTERESTING NARRATIVE/STRUCTURAL COMCS CHALLENGES!