Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego)
@englishmansdcc.bsky.social
Comics and comic con fanatic. I can't write, I can't draw, I can't colour, I can't edit. Therefore, *of course* I have a podcast, are you crazy??
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Lots of new followers lately: hello there, I guess!
A re-introduction: my name is Leonard Sultana, I'm a middle aged nerd based in Yorkshire, married to Caroline, currently looking after my dad who is not in a good way but we’re muddling on, I guess.
What’s with the San Diego thing? Well…
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A re-introduction: my name is Leonard Sultana, I'm a middle aged nerd based in Yorkshire, married to Caroline, currently looking after my dad who is not in a good way but we’re muddling on, I guess.
What’s with the San Diego thing? Well…
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Miles Teller para'ed so Timothee Chalamet could diddle.
No, wait...
No, wait...
*looks around*
Miles Teller was the first-generation Timothee Chalamet.
Miles Teller was the first-generation Timothee Chalamet.
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Miles Teller para'ed so Timothee Chalamet could diddle.
No, wait...
No, wait...
@rachaelstott.bsky.social You liking my post reminded me of your 'Star Trek TOS titles vs TNG titles' post rolling past on Reddit the other night, me laughing me bits off, and I have to reach out and say, bravo, work o' accurate genius, Rachael. 👏👏👏👏
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@rachaelstott.bsky.social You liking my post reminded me of your 'Star Trek TOS titles vs TNG titles' post rolling past on Reddit the other night, me laughing me bits off, and I have to reach out and say, bravo, work o' accurate genius, Rachael. 👏👏👏👏
2025 Trusisms:
Fuck ICE.
Joanne can go fuck herself.
Reform UK are never acting in your best interests.
Elon will never, EVER be funny.
Putin is out for us all, in one way or another.
There was nothing wrong with SUPERMAN, James did him right.
His passing cannot get here soon enough.
Fuck ICE.
Joanne can go fuck herself.
Reform UK are never acting in your best interests.
Elon will never, EVER be funny.
Putin is out for us all, in one way or another.
There was nothing wrong with SUPERMAN, James did him right.
His passing cannot get here soon enough.
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
2025 Trusisms:
Fuck ICE.
Joanne can go fuck herself.
Reform UK are never acting in your best interests.
Elon will never, EVER be funny.
Putin is out for us all, in one way or another.
There was nothing wrong with SUPERMAN, James did him right.
His passing cannot get here soon enough.
Fuck ICE.
Joanne can go fuck herself.
Reform UK are never acting in your best interests.
Elon will never, EVER be funny.
Putin is out for us all, in one way or another.
There was nothing wrong with SUPERMAN, James did him right.
His passing cannot get here soon enough.
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Hey, you there! eagerly downloading that new Full Cast version of those books by the mouldy bigot lady, this is YOU doing that. This is what you are funding, the needlessly cruel ripping up of trans people's lives
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Hey, you there! eagerly downloading that new Full Cast version of those books by the mouldy bigot lady, this is YOU doing that. This is what you are funding, the needlessly cruel ripping up of trans people's lives
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Day 3 of #ADVENTICONS, and who's this blasting a ten-hour mix of Feliz Navidad at a sliiiiiightly too-slow speed? It can only be life of the party, SOUNDWAVE!
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Day 3 of #ADVENTICONS, and who's this blasting a ten-hour mix of Feliz Navidad at a sliiiiiightly too-slow speed? It can only be life of the party, SOUNDWAVE!
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December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A very cold cup of coffee to start the day - the US is self-conditioned to thinking it's the Greatest Country In The World instead of realising it's the Biggest, Unstoppable Bully In The Schoolyard: one we should read to realise we can't stand up to them and one they should read to know we have to.
I think many, or most Americans see our country or did see our country as the biggest kid in class, there to shut down the 'bullies' when we could.
Most Americans know the term 'banana republic' without actually knowing the horrific history. I didn't learn it in school for sure.
Most...
Most Americans know the term 'banana republic' without actually knowing the horrific history. I didn't learn it in school for sure.
Most...
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A very cold cup of coffee to start the day - the US is self-conditioned to thinking it's the Greatest Country In The World instead of realising it's the Biggest, Unstoppable Bully In The Schoolyard: one we should read to realise we can't stand up to them and one they should read to know we have to.
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If you’re cold, they’re cold! Let them inside!
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
If you’re cold, they’re cold! Let them inside!
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Thank you! This is the whole 15 foot long 22 page continuous sequence it comes from bsky.app/profile/nsou...
Nonscientific poll: would folks be interested in the opening chapter to #Nostos in standalone accordion format, w/bonus behind the scenes, process stuff included before the book is finished (it’d be printed there as well in standard book format)? Hoping to finally make this happen! #Unflattening 2
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Thank you! This is the whole 15 foot long 22 page continuous sequence it comes from bsky.app/profile/nsou...
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broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to @pbrainey.bsky.social, Daniel @merlism.bsky.social Goodbrey, Zen @nodplus50pts.bsky.social K., and @lucysullivan.bsky.social about working on long & short form comics. Weds 3rd Dec, 5pm, Resonance 104.4 FM (London). More info: panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/t...
This Week’s show: The Long and Short (Form) of It
In the last Panel Borders of 2025, Alex Fitch talks to a quartet of creators about their work on long and short form comics. Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (Hypercomics), Paul B Rainey (No Time Like The Pr…
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December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to @pbrainey.bsky.social, Daniel @merlism.bsky.social Goodbrey, Zen @nodplus50pts.bsky.social K., and @lucysullivan.bsky.social about working on long & short form comics. Weds 3rd Dec, 5pm, Resonance 104.4 FM (London). More info: panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/t...
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I know there are some lit agents out there in my feed. Any of you cover contemporary romance and looking for new clients? Sounds like Jessica might have a winner on her hands (both literally and figuratively!)
The very last thing I expected when I submitted my first novel for a bit of feedback from The Black List was to win their inaugural UNPUBLISHED NOVEL AWARD!
Stunned, honored, and hopeful this means WE MEET AGAIN can find its way to you!
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Stunned, honored, and hopeful this means WE MEET AGAIN can find its way to you!
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Seven unpublished manuscripts have been selected for the inaugural Unpublished Novel Award!
The author of each manuscript will receive a $10,000 grant to support their work - read more about the selected projects in Lit Hub: buff.ly/6iXj0xY
The author of each manuscript will receive a $10,000 grant to support their work - read more about the selected projects in Lit Hub: buff.ly/6iXj0xY
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I know there are some lit agents out there in my feed. Any of you cover contemporary romance and looking for new clients? Sounds like Jessica might have a winner on her hands (both literally and figuratively!)
Ooh. Looks like the hierarchy of power is about to change in the DC Universe...🙄
DC COMICS PRESENTS #49 (September 1982, by Rich Buckler and Dick Giordano), by Roy Thomas, me, Buckler, John Calnan, John Costanza, and Gene D'Angelo.
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ooh. Looks like the hierarchy of power is about to change in the DC Universe...🙄
this looks awesome - time to give an indie creator a punt!
Down to 2 days to back Dime-Store Detective volume 1. The graphic novel is 130 pages! With bonus added pages! Grab your Appalachian mystery spanning forty years. Detective Donald Mackinder must uncover the connection between a killer and the reappearance of a malevolent entity.
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
this looks awesome - time to give an indie creator a punt!
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That’s from the latest Empire, which I also text-posted from yesterday. I wouldn’t normally do so, but this was too funny to resist. It’s from the McDowell interview with Chris Hewitt & all of it is great fun. I do believe Empire is actually improving with age, which gawd knows few enough things do.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
That’s from the latest Empire, which I also text-posted from yesterday. I wouldn’t normally do so, but this was too funny to resist. It’s from the McDowell interview with Chris Hewitt & all of it is great fun. I do believe Empire is actually improving with age, which gawd knows few enough things do.
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
Yeah, I'm not going to get the #LEGOStarWars Advent Calendar next year, they're clearly running out of ideas. A pre-'constructed' Babu Frik on Day 1? Whatever on earth this is supposed to be for Day 2?? What, is it Babu's workshop?! This had better improve soon...
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Yeah, I'm not going to get the #LEGOStarWars Advent Calendar next year, they're clearly running out of ideas. A pre-'constructed' Babu Frik on Day 1? Whatever on earth this is supposed to be for Day 2?? What, is it Babu's workshop?! This had better improve soon...
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Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
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Online store? I'm sure there are many out there that would love a piece of original CROWDED art...
Looking at this enormous stack of original art we have taking up space, and wondering how the fuck we can offload all of CROWDED before we need to just straight up burn it
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Online store? I'm sure there are many out there that would love a piece of original CROWDED art...
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It's official. Angoulême 2026 is canceled and will not take place.
The reviled festival prez Franck Bondoux is defiant, blames the various govt institutions for betraying him, and vows to remain in power.
Seems he wants to burn the festival to the ground if he can't have it.
The reviled festival prez Franck Bondoux is defiant, blames the various govt institutions for betraying him, and vows to remain in power.
Seems he wants to burn the festival to the ground if he can't have it.
BREAKING: ANGOULÊME 2026 cancelled, Bondoux defiant
BREAKING: ANGOULÊME 2026 cancelled, Bondoux defiant
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December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's official. Angoulême 2026 is canceled and will not take place.
The reviled festival prez Franck Bondoux is defiant, blames the various govt institutions for betraying him, and vows to remain in power.
Seems he wants to burn the festival to the ground if he can't have it.
The reviled festival prez Franck Bondoux is defiant, blames the various govt institutions for betraying him, and vows to remain in power.
Seems he wants to burn the festival to the ground if he can't have it.
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At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.
2026 Community Awards Eligibility Roundup
It's the time of year when I ask folks to share their awards eligibility with me! Send us your information using this form. We'll round up all the eligibility information people chose to share and wil...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.
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PAID WORK: Ringo Award Winners Lifeline Comics is opening submissions for the next volume of Bi Visibility!
DEADLINE: Jan 11th!
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DEADLINE: Jan 11th!
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December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
PAID WORK: Ringo Award Winners Lifeline Comics is opening submissions for the next volume of Bi Visibility!
DEADLINE: Jan 11th!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
DEADLINE: Jan 11th!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...