Nick Gonzo

@nickgonzo.bsky.social

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Doing a Phd in Zines, Comics, and Mental Health. Writer and Artist behind a bunch of comics. Arts educator and zine historian. Redefining niche.

The Osees live on stage at the Irish centre Leeds
A picture of Zohran Mamdani and the words: your closest match
A man stands in Venice. Bearded, stern faced, eyes hidden behind sunglasses, wearing a Panama hat, he holds onto the railing of a fence in an entirely un-acrobatic fashion
A photograph of Venice on the horizon from the boat from the airport.
A gif made up of jagged and abstract felt tip pen portraits of a bald man with a beard and glasses.
A hideous charcoal drawing of smoking figure of Patsy stone
A screen shot of the AFL app showing the Melbourne demons vs The Brisbane lions.
A vacant looking pale man
A man surrounded by animas bothers a sun dial
A knight looks a little perturbed at the agonies of war
A wizard looks a bit glum to find himself in hell, next to a demon on a stick and a green man who is sneezing
A photo of a scaley fish man walking out of the sea as a man made of tides yells at him
A painting of a man trapped in a painted maze yelling at a vulture that looks on
A painting of antlered stags running across a plain.
A boxed copy of the rpg Everway.
A little Lego model of the feet forwards motorcycle that Kaneda rides in Akira
A 30 second portrait where I did not take my pen off the page. It depicts a bald man with glasses, no eyes, a big nose and a beard.
A group of students stand around a huge collaborative zine
An ink illustration of a menacing looking bald man whose jacket is made of a shaded collaged political cartoon. He looks over his shoulder at the viewer. The illustration sits in a paint covered cutting mat with an ink pen next to it.
I pick up a single train ticket, rub it in some glue, and then affix it into a massive pile of train tickets
The fly sheet to the book “a complicated woman” by Rebecca Lucy Taylor that reads “Trans women are women. Kindly shut this book if you think that is up for debate”
A scene from the movie tron legacy where the antagonist, Clu asks Jeff Bridges’ character Flynn if he should still create a perfect system, to which Flynn says “Yeah” in an extremely weird way.
A mono black card called “Assemble the nonbo” the card reads “search your library for up to two cards that do not synergise, put them into your hand then shuffle”
The dedication page reads [Dedication to Come]
A tree stump absolutely covered in flat, tan coloured mushrooms.
A screen shot from a BBC News article that states “a person who is detained under schedule 7 of the terrorism act is legally obliged to provide the password or pin for electronic devices”
Headline from Apple Politics that reads: “BritCard digital ID will be made law for all adults in bid to tackle small boats”
Panel 1: I stand at the top of my stairs and see my front door at 1.35am. I get scared. Panels 2 and 3: I imagine a person wanting to be let in. Panels 4 and 5: I despair at the fact I would let the monster in even if it says it’s cold.
The cover to the Michael Moorcock book The Final Programme showing a burning skyscraper behind a giant woman with her mouth open. A horde of people are leaving her mouth and walking between her huge breasts and emerging was it deep into a body of water.
A photograph of vic and bob as who characters pointing
A photograph of me, a bald man in jeans and a grey t-shirt, sat on the floor arranging 500 zines with three collaged posters hanging from the roof of the gallery.
The poster for Stapled comic and zine fair hosted on Saturday the 6th of September from 11am until 5pm at Left Bank Leeds, LS6 1LJ
A screenshot of a Wikipedia page showing Norman Reedus’ name in the cast list for a movie where he is credited as “sextools delivery boy”
A picture of Pete Hornburger from 30 Rock captioned “Pete, Powerless Bald”
A screenshot of Wikipedia that reads “As well as being an author, Thompson also works full-time at St James' Hospital, Portsmouth, where he specializes in mental illnesses in people with physical problems. In July 2020, he told The Guardian that he could not imagine leaving medicine, saying: “The hospital work is a calling. I help people.””
A picture of the tripod from War of the Worlds against a background of flame
Me, a huge hairy white man stands next to a red headed lady in a black vest top holding a drum stick. Next to us is another white man wearing a black baseball cap and giving the camera the thumbs up. We stand in front of a stage where the band are packing up.
The Osees playing at the Leeds Irish centre.
The Magic the gathering card Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER.
The distracted boyfriend meme with the boyfriend labelled as CPUk looking away from his current boyfriend (frazer brown, the scumbag publisher of tales from the quarantine) and looking at a new lady labelled unbound (another scumbag publisher)
A Huffington Post headline that reads “Elon Musk’s newest project is Harming a black neighbourhood”
A subtitle from an article entitled “very bad utopias” that reads “with speculative futurism resulting in visions that make Kat Kitty think death might come as a relief, is t it time that digital artists up their game?”
A picture of some vines and what appears to be Alia Shawkat’s face
Two mandarin ducks sit in a stream.
Lurid colours pictures of a man’s skull pictured on a CT scan.
A photo of a ct scan showing the inside of a human nose in black and grey. Bits of the nose have sealed up and as a result are blocking the nostril.
A photo of me in a chequered shirt holding a tiny puppy that is so cute and fuzzy it doesn’t look real.
A picture of Stouffer, Harry Hill’s vomiting cat, sat next to a pot noodle container labelled “Tea Bags”
A photograph of my 127 year old map of the United States of America, featuring Alaska as neither state or territory, instead showing it as a district.
A prescription bag filled with sprays and creams, tablets and more tablets
A purple and green knitted sock that my girlfriend made
The dvd cover to the Mad Death a TV show about rabies that features a menacing looking fox.
A photograph of the Zineophilia zine shop, featuring wall shelves filled with zines and a large tiered display covered in zines