John Lees TB 2000AD C50
@johnlees.bsky.social
I write comics! ORLA!, SINK, GRAWLGORE & SHANKS, THE NASTY, THE CRIMSON CAGE, AND THEN EMILY WAS GONE, MOUNTAINHEAD, HOTELL.
Website/newsletter: johnleescomics.com
Online shop: johnleescomics.bigcartel.com
Patreon: patreon.com/johnlees
Website/newsletter: johnleescomics.com
Online shop: johnleescomics.bigcartel.com
Patreon: patreon.com/johnlees
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I see we're doing (re)intros here as more comics folk migrate to BlueSky, so here goes. I'm John Lees. I'm a writer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Credits include Sink, And Then Emily Was Gone, Hotell, The Crimson Cage, Mountainhead, The Standard, Oxymoron: The Loveliest Nightmare, TMNT and The Nasty.
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senate dems to chuck schumer vs senate dems to the american people
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
senate dems to chuck schumer vs senate dems to the american people
The ORLA! graphic novel is coming out 3rd March 2026, and I’ll soon be reaching out to bookshops about pre-orders. If you have a local bookshop you’d like me to contact about stocking ORLA!, let me know!
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The ORLA! graphic novel is coming out 3rd March 2026, and I’ll soon be reaching out to bookshops about pre-orders. If you have a local bookshop you’d like me to contact about stocking ORLA!, let me know!
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Heads up 😅
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Heads up 😅
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
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“Just ask yourself, would the BBC champion a presenter who was consistently asking robust questions about the effect of the recent Supreme Court judgment on trans rights?”
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“Just ask yourself, would the BBC champion a presenter who was consistently asking robust questions about the effect of the recent Supreme Court judgment on trans rights?”
Such sad news. One of the greatest actors of all time. Ran. Harakiri. Kagemusha. Yojimbo. High and Low. The Human Condition trilogy. The Sword of Doom. If you’re not familiar with his body of work, some of the greatest films ever made await you. RIP, Tatsuya Nakadai, and thank you.
hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Such sad news. One of the greatest actors of all time. Ran. Harakiri. Kagemusha. Yojimbo. High and Low. The Human Condition trilogy. The Sword of Doom. If you’re not familiar with his body of work, some of the greatest films ever made await you. RIP, Tatsuya Nakadai, and thank you.
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Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities
November 26, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities
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I’m going to be attempting to sell all of my ridiculous comics at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social !! If you are there this weekend please say hi, and talk to me about anime or taskmaster 😤 #thoughtbubbleuk
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I’m going to be attempting to sell all of my ridiculous comics at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social !! If you are there this weekend please say hi, and talk to me about anime or taskmaster 😤 #thoughtbubbleuk
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One more reason to loathe genAI is that it has marred one of the internet’s purest pleasures: funny animal videos. There are so many REAL funny animal videos we could be sharing, but now I have to second guess something which might have been a reprieve in the wall of misery in case it’s a fake.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
One more reason to loathe genAI is that it has marred one of the internet’s purest pleasures: funny animal videos. There are so many REAL funny animal videos we could be sharing, but now I have to second guess something which might have been a reprieve in the wall of misery in case it’s a fake.
Project: BUTTS! (Part IV)
Butt art by @sallycantirino.bsky.social, butt colours by @dearbhlala.bsky.social.
Butt art by @sallycantirino.bsky.social, butt colours by @dearbhlala.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Project: BUTTS! (Part IV)
Butt art by @sallycantirino.bsky.social, butt colours by @dearbhlala.bsky.social.
Butt art by @sallycantirino.bsky.social, butt colours by @dearbhlala.bsky.social.
This week's free Patreon update is my Halloween wrap-up, looking back at my seasonal festivities amid what was a tough October. I hope the two big takeaways from this are:
1. Halloween is magic.
2. John Lees has the best legs in Scottish comics.
www.patreon.com/posts/my-hal...
1. Halloween is magic.
2. John Lees has the best legs in Scottish comics.
www.patreon.com/posts/my-hal...
My Halloween 2025 Wrap-Up | John Lees
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November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This week's free Patreon update is my Halloween wrap-up, looking back at my seasonal festivities amid what was a tough October. I hope the two big takeaways from this are:
1. Halloween is magic.
2. John Lees has the best legs in Scottish comics.
www.patreon.com/posts/my-hal...
1. Halloween is magic.
2. John Lees has the best legs in Scottish comics.
www.patreon.com/posts/my-hal...
Well, it sure is a good thing that Chuck Schumer skilfully avoided making voters mad at Dems.
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Well, it sure is a good thing that Chuck Schumer skilfully avoided making voters mad at Dems.
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MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
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Customer service guidelines have been updated in the employee portal.
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Customer service guidelines have been updated in the employee portal.
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If you're going to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this weekend seek out @johnlees.bsky.social and get yourself a copy of The Nasty. It's a unique take on horror comics and is a great commentary on the video nasty scare started by ridiculous individuals in the 1980s UK. His table number is in the link.
It’s @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social week! I’m a guest this year alongside a phenomenal roster of supreme comics talent, and you’ll find me at Table C50 in 2000AD Hall repping Sink, Orla!, Grawlgore & Shanks, The Nasty and more! See you Saturday!
Get tickets: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets
Get tickets: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
If you're going to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this weekend seek out @johnlees.bsky.social and get yourself a copy of The Nasty. It's a unique take on horror comics and is a great commentary on the video nasty scare started by ridiculous individuals in the 1980s UK. His table number is in the link.
It’s @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social week! I’m a guest this year alongside a phenomenal roster of supreme comics talent, and you’ll find me at Table C50 in 2000AD Hall repping Sink, Orla!, Grawlgore & Shanks, The Nasty and more! See you Saturday!
Get tickets: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets
Get tickets: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It’s @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social week! I’m a guest this year alongside a phenomenal roster of supreme comics talent, and you’ll find me at Table C50 in 2000AD Hall repping Sink, Orla!, Grawlgore & Shanks, The Nasty and more! See you Saturday!
Get tickets: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets
Get tickets: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Every single Democratic senator that votes to cave on this should be immediately ejected from the party, and the national party should immediately start running primary candidates in their districts.
There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Every single Democratic senator that votes to cave on this should be immediately ejected from the party, and the national party should immediately start running primary candidates in their districts.
There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
I don’t have much of substance to add, but the Trump regime were grasping with “Democrats want to give all your healthcare money to immigrants and trans people!” Folding now is like saying, “You’re right, sorry we wanted to give all your healthcare money to immigrants and trans people!”
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I don’t have much of substance to add, but the Trump regime were grasping with “Democrats want to give all your healthcare money to immigrants and trans people!” Folding now is like saying, “You’re right, sorry we wanted to give all your healthcare money to immigrants and trans people!”
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
In terms of first time watches, Come and See. The viewing came from a desire to (re)watch the entire Letterboxd Top 20 that fell by the wayside as the year progressed. An emotionally devastating film that more than lives up to its formidable reputation.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In terms of first time watches, Come and See. The viewing came from a desire to (re)watch the entire Letterboxd Top 20 that fell by the wayside as the year progressed. An emotionally devastating film that more than lives up to its formidable reputation.
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Watched AFTER LIFE (1998) last night, and it floored me. It's a humanist fantasy-drama with a succinct and fascinating after-life scenario, which it uses to explore...Regular people. What matters to them. What matters to you? If you could only live in one memory forever, what would you choose?
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Watched AFTER LIFE (1998) last night, and it floored me. It's a humanist fantasy-drama with a succinct and fascinating after-life scenario, which it uses to explore...Regular people. What matters to them. What matters to you? If you could only live in one memory forever, what would you choose?
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The Gender Critical have moved the goal posts again.
It is now not enough for them to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. They are now complaining about trans people existing in any space with them [even a public space].
They're not protecting women. They're eradicating trans people.
It is now not enough for them to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. They are now complaining about trans people existing in any space with them [even a public space].
They're not protecting women. They're eradicating trans people.
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Gender Critical have moved the goal posts again.
It is now not enough for them to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. They are now complaining about trans people existing in any space with them [even a public space].
They're not protecting women. They're eradicating trans people.
It is now not enough for them to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. They are now complaining about trans people existing in any space with them [even a public space].
They're not protecting women. They're eradicating trans people.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶