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Ernesto Priego

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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Co-organised @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Sep 5

A quick LinkedIn post about @comicsandai.org yesterday- basically thanking everyone- you guys rock. www.linkedin.com/posts/ernest... #ComicsAndAI

💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London! A heartfelt thank-you to… | E...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23h

🚨 🙏 First limited printing now sold out! Thanks to everyone who ordered one.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

An experimental, very limited first numbered printing of Mechanical Comics can be purchased by human beings of exquisite and curious taste while stock lasts manzanamaspress.bigcartel.com/product/mech...

Mechanical Comics, by Ernesto Priego (2025)

Mechanical Comics is a 16-page comic book including a set of 15 wordless one-page comics by Ernesto Priego, created with Public Domain images from...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23h

🚨 🙏 First limited printing now sold out! Thanks to everyone who ordered one.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23h

🚨 🙏 First limited printing now sold out! Thanks to everyone who ordered one.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23h

🚨 🙏 First limited printing now sold out! Thanks to everyone who ordered one.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1d

Thanks Martin! Glad it reached you so promptly.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

First exciting item in the post today is Mechanical Comics by @ernestopriego.com! A set of wordless one-page comics created from the British Library's Mechanical Curator - like a digital oulipo. Enabling constraints.

A picture of some men climbing a precipe. This is the cover to Mechanical Comics.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d

Happy Monday. Week 2 of 11 teaching term weeks. 2/11.

a man without a shirt is writing on a calendar which shows the date as sunday

Alt: a man without a shirt is writing on a calendar day after day

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Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell CPsychol AFBPsS @sarahthesheepu.bsky.social · 3d

Reimagining Education: Beyond Bullet Points and Certainties ernestopriego.com/2025/04/30/r... @ernestopriego.com We should write something together on this as a social scientist teaching STEM I agree

Reimagining Education: Beyond Bullet Points and Certainties

A reflection on teaching and learning.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 3d

Got your order, thank you very much indeed! And very happy to hear that :)

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

Haha don't think that will ever happen, cheers.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

Thanks for the coverage John! Appreciated. 🙏

John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 4d

Ernesto Priego, an advocate for comics studies since the early 1990s, has announced the release of his first very limited edition in print of his Mechanical Comics.

Mechanical Comics makes limited edition debut from comics advocate Ernesto Priego

An experimental, numbered, (very) limited run!

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

Correction, Comics Forum is 13-14 November 2025!

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

For free in-person delivery at Comics Forum on 14-15 November 2025, Leeds Art Gallery and Central Library (UK) you will need to click on the 'edit' link in the shipping option to edit the shipping method in order to choose the free in person delivery at CF2025.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

If you are having issues at the checkout please make sure you have completed all the shipping information fields (county!) so the checkout can progress.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

Looks like Big Cartel is having issues at checkout but hopefully just temporary hiccups. Sigh.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

Of course, if you want to!

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

Unfortunately only UK shipping at this time (thanks, tariffs)

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

Mechanical Comics, by Ernesto Priego (2025)

Mechanical Comics is a 16-page comic book including a set of 15 wordless one-page comics by Ernesto Priego, created with Public Domain images from...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

And this is the leadership model adopted nearly everywhere.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

Introduce, then consult "on details". Great.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

2,753,098 signatures to the Do not introduce Digital ID cards petition.

Government responded:

We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon."

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d

Not to say the effect of this constant drip drip drip, ringing, buzzing, hissing on non-migrant citizens heads and ears, and particularly on children and the young, growing up listening to this constant angry chatter blaming the Other for everything, taking it for granted, accepting it as real...

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d

Or maybe like tinnitus, a constant ringing, buzzing, or hissing, gradually getting louder louder and increasingly more and more distracting, becoming painful...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d

Every morning waking up to news about how migration is Bad, Very Bad, Very Bad for the UK. That it's ruining this country. Picture it like water from the roof of a cave, falling on the head of every migrant who's made their home here: drip, drip, drip, every second, for years, making a hole...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d

(You can add Starmer and Labour to this headline: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... )

Tory and Reform politicians endanger trials with immigration ‘hysteria’, say former ministers

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve among those criticising politicians for risking contempt of court