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Scottish Creator Spotlight - Full Q&A With John Lees

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By David Barclay
| Comics Bulletin Magazine Verified
We recently sat down with Scottish comic book creator John Lees to discuss his career, the comics medium, and so much more. We’ve compiled the complete interview below. This article is a companion to our feature on John Lees, titled: Horror, Place, and the Quiet Longevity of Scottish Comics. You can read that feature here. But if you want to check out our entire interview, you can do so below! Do you remember when comics shifted from something you enjoyed to something you knew you wanted to make?
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John Lees: Horror, Place, and the Quiet Longevity of Scottish Comics

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By David Barclay
| Comics Bulletin Magazine Verified
There is a particular kind of horror that does not announce itself with spectacle. It lingers instead in atmosphere, in spaces that feel lived-in and neglected, in characters whose interior lives carry as much weight as any external threat they face. It is in this quieter register that John Lees has built his career.
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Essay: Why Collapse Stories Don’t Need Spectacle by David Barclay

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By David Barclay
| Solrad Verified
The term post-apocalyptic has begun to feel disposable. Once a genre marker loaded with existential dread, it is increasingly treated as visual shorthand: ruined skylines, abandoned cities, the familiar language of destruction rendered at ever-greater scale. The question that once sat at its core: what happens after everything ends? has been replaced by spectacle. Stories about the end of the world have existed for as long as storytelling itself.
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