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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute bargain in British Heart Foundation in Penrith today. Love a bit of gonzo 70s Marvel

Marvel Comics/Panini Pocket book Deathlok the Demolisher: Origins for £1.

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 6d

Filled in!

Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 6d

🚨FINAL FEW DAYS!🚨

The UK Comics Creator Survey will close forever at midnight on Monday 6th! Have you submitted your response yet? Or were you, like me*, waiting for the last minute? The last minute is now, lads! Get in there!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

*I thrive** on pressure
**Exist painfully

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 6d

I'm constantly amazed that you can still do this on Windows Media Player like I used to in 2003, here in The Year of Our Lord 2025

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 6d

Dame Jane Neutrall once again does nothing

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Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 13d

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...

Leo Healy: Comic Books, Stand-Up Comedy and Communication!

Podcast Episode · What Makes You Tick? · 09/24/2025 · 53m

podcasts.apple.com

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 12d

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.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 13d

Exclusive: The government plans to introduce a mandatory reading test for year 8 pupils in its upcoming schools white paper, amid fears poorer children are disengaging in the early years of secondary school

schoolsweek.co.uk/year-8s-to-s...

White paper to usher in year 8 reading test

Move to ensure poorer pupils are not shut off from wider curriculum

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 13d

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...

Leo Healy: Comic Books, Stand-Up Comedy and Communication!

Podcast Episode · What Makes You Tick? · 09/24/2025 · 53m

podcasts.apple.com

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 15d

Actually yeah! We can get steam trains easy, just point out they were made by people in UNIONS OOOH SCARY

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 15d

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

The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 16d

What’s the most Tory-coded thing you actively love?

Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 18d

Nice! Fingers crossed for the next Sequential Scotland 🤞

Sequential Scotland Comic Con @sequential-scot.bsky.social · 18d

SAVE THE DATE

Sequential Scotland 2026 will be happening on Saturday August 8th!

As with 2025 we will be going for Creative Scotland funding to make this possible.

To stay up to date sign up to the mailing list at the website below. And keep your fingers crossed for us!

sequentialscotland.co.uk

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 20d

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

The Verge @theverge.com · 20d

Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

buff.ly

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 22d

All the best Lew ❤️

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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 22d

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!

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 24d

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

Jack Teagle @jackteagle.bsky.social · 24d

Getting back into watercolour for fun.

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 25d

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

2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 26d

2000 AD Prog 2450 is out on 17th September - featuring JUDGE DREDD: AND TO THE SEA RETURN by:

📝 Script: @robwilliams71.bsky.social
✏️ Art: @henryflint.bsky.social
💬 Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Subscribe now and get zarjaz free gifts ➡️ bit.ly/2Ws04uc

Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return, by Rob Williams, Henry Flint and Annie Parkhouse

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · Sep 8

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!

Leo Healy | Instagram | Linktree

Comic/Prose/Zines writer

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 29d

Itchy & Scratchy Mini Golf is a pretty fun little game if a bit fiddly and I will die on this hill!

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · Sep 8

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!

Leo Healy | Instagram | Linktree

Comic/Prose/Zines writer

linktr.ee

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · Sep 5

On holiday n that

My feet on the end of a sunbed, looking out over the Ionian Sea from Kefalonia.

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · Aug 31

There's an argument to be made that all the best jokes are

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social · Aug 30

Christopher H Bidmead : a warm, engaging and hugely intelligent man who enjoyed putting the cat among the pigeons on interviews. In real life though, he was approachable and kind: and made the nicest coffee I’ve ever had. Here is is at home in Dec 2013 when he kindly asked me round.
RIP Chris x

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · Aug 28

I've got one in mind, I'll be in touch soon once I've put it together properly!

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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

A physical copy of the solo RPG Notorious by Jason Price.

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