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This is What Left-Wing Comics Look Like – Lydia Wysocki's Everyone with a Nose Should Picket at Thought Bubble

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Some folk complain about left-wing politics in mainstream comic books. But, as I've pointed out, there's hardly any. Where are the comic books about strikes, about collective pay bargaining, about unions, the very centre of left-wing politics? When have mutants ever picketed the Mansion over pension rights? Never.

In contrast, Lydia Wysocki has been creating a webstrip about just that. Or close.

Everyone with a Nose Should Picket is a printed collection of daily comics from the 2018 university and college staff strikes against pensions cuts.  Solidarity! Snow! The fight against spin and neoliberalism! And a must for anyone who cares about fair working conditions and/or wobbly diary comics. Any profits – if such a thing can exist – will go to the Newcastle branch of the University and College Union.

You can find the 36 page comic for £2.50 in the comiXology Marquee net weekend. Here's a little preview of how the comic begins…

This is What Left-Wing Comics Look Like – Lydia Wysocki's Everyone with a Nose Should Picket at Thought Bubble This is What Left-Wing Comics Look Like – Lydia Wysocki's Everyone with a Nose Should Picket at Thought Bubble This is What Left-Wing Comics Look Like – Lydia Wysocki's Everyone with a Nose Should Picket at Thought Bubble This is What Left-Wing Comics Look Like – Lydia Wysocki's Everyone with a Nose Should Picket at Thought Bubble This is What Left-Wing Comics Look Like – Lydia Wysocki's Everyone with a Nose Should Picket at Thought Bubble This is What Left-Wing Comics Look Like – Lydia Wysocki's Everyone with a Nose Should Picket at Thought Bubble

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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