If you’re in London, there are performances of The Waste Land and Prufrock at Wilton’s Music Hall on 15 & 16 Dec arts-mail.co.uk/cr/AQjQgwQQk...
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If you’re in London, there are performances of The Waste Land and Prufrock at Wilton’s Music Hall on 15 & 16 Dec arts-mail.co.uk/cr/AQjQgwQQk...
Today! You might even be able to pick up a copy of Jeff’s stunning Colossive Cartography, Ghost Radio
BTW, did you ever frequent Malcolm’s Musicland in Chorley? Malcolm sadly passed away a couple of months back
One of my fave double A-sides (w/ Here is the News, of course)
Municipal guide cover of the day (possibly an all time great!): Croydon, 1971. Countdown typeface klaxon!
The heyday of the municipal space programme!
'Ghost Stories I Remember' has been one of my most popular ever tomes @colossive.com Thanks to all who have bought one or said nice things about it. Now on its third print run! Grab one for a £5 @goshcomics.bsky.social & @ colossive.com/product/ghos...
This doesn't really have anything to do with Bandcamp Friday, but here's a FREE look at our fantastic Colossive Records catalogue: bit.ly/ColossiveRec (BTW, Bandcamp is a great way to support artists and to find new music - and on Bandcamp Friday the platform waives its cut so artists get more)
We had a lovely time at the St Christopher's hospice Photography Appeal showcase on Wednesday. My photo of Zabou's amazing portrait of Dad for #sprayexhibition20 in #Penge is one of the pics chosen to decorate the newly refurbished hospice. Well, anything's better than a blank wall... 😉
PageMasters Zine Fair minus 36 hours… ⏱️
LANCASHIRE COAST (1957)
Yikes - I remember hurrying home excitedly from a funfair on the Flat Iron in Chorley to tune in 🌙 🚀
One satisfied customer! Here's the gorgeous Esme with her Lucky Feather™, endorsed by Professor Margaret Pye. Get yours for FREE when you buy a copy of our new #zine, Magpies: Sorrow or Joy?, at colossive.com
Are you over 16, based in the UK and make comics - or intend to make comics - for public consumption. If so, the UK Comics Creator Survey has some questions for you. All responses to the survey are completely anonymous and will help advocate for better support and more funding in comics.
As someone who loves the music but doesn't have a scooby about the technology, this exchange has been highly entertaining! (Hope you get your repair done)
NEW LAUNCH! Magpies: Sorrow or Joy? sees all your questions answered by celebrated folklorist corvidologists Professor Margaret Pye and Doctor James Crowe. Grab the #zine - including a FREE Lucky Feather™, endorsed by Professor Pye - for £4 at bit.ly/magpieszine (or just head to colossive.com).
The Haunted Paper exhibition has a special Saturday opening and book signing. This Saturday at Dorothy on Jamaica Street from 11 - 4. Ghost Town and Wild Twin book signing from 12 - 2. We hope to see you there!
Set your alarms for whatever time we roll out of bed tomorrow morning, folks. There's a brand new #zine on its way...
If you’ve got a library card (in the UK), there’s a fair chance you can access the current ish of the New Yorker free through the marvellous Libby app
www.economist.com/1843/2025/08... (Let me know if you need another gift link)
Here's one that I haven't shown for a very long time.: this is "The International Telephone Exchange, London" by John Cooper which was a poster design that was commissioned & printed for the GPO in 1935. #JohnCooper #EastLondonGroup
Programme for ZINEZILLA x ANIMINSPO I'm super stoked about the programme we've put together for Sunday, there's so much to get involved with alongside the 60 crackin' artists tabling. Everything is included in your £3 zinezilla ticket that you can get here xx hdfst.uk/e123090/
'When you're feeling down and all out of pesto* / Take a look at the Colossive Manifesto.' *Well, YOU try finding another rhyme for 'manifesto'... (There'll be a new #zine along tomorrow, by the way)
Still struggling to process the loss of Jonathan Main of Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace - a real presence in our lives (in person and online) for many years. Huge condolences to those closest to him. 🖤
#OnThisDay in 1942, Eric Ravilious became the first British war artist to die on active service in WW2, when the aircraft he was in was lost off the coast of Iceland. Frank Delaney re-visits the work of this understated, yet significant figure: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
If you’ve got a library card (in the UK), there’s a fair chance you can access the current ish of the New Yorker free through the marvellous Libby app
*We're legally obliged to point you in the direction of this disclaimer from lawyers representing Professor Pye's former colleague Doctor James Crowe...
Hold up - what's this? It's a Lucky Feather™, endorsed by world-renowned folklorist corvidologist Professor Margaret Pye. We'll be giving these good luck charms* away for FREE with our upcoming #zine, Magpies: Sorrow or Joy, which we'll be launching later this week...
“A slag with a saviour” is one way of describing Bertie and Jeeves, I suppose…
Don't forget it's Zinezilla on September 7th in Bristol! Details here! zinezilla.co.uk
Not for everyone
PS There are copies of Jeff's Colossive Cartography Ghost Radio for sale at Dorothy. Or you can buy the #zine online from us at bit.ly/Colossive33
Just back from a lovely 24-hour trip to Liverpool to see our award-winning friend/Colossive Cartographer @wildtwin.bsky.social's beautiful and multi-layered Haunted Paper show at Dorothy on Jamaica Street. It's on until September 19th - so do catch it if you can!
The Lowlife is doing me nicely. Such a treat to have an authentic and characterful narrator rather than more ‘Radio 4’. Really feels like it should have been a Woodfall film. www.londonfictions.com/alexander-ba...
Nice to see this Paul Nash for the first time at the Walker in Liverpool: Telecommunications, 1934
I think I might have CC’ed @odpomery.bsky.social with these before, but just in case…
I spent the summer making tiny b/w linocuts of the months, and finally printed the first six. Then came a thought (oh dear) - what if I added a little colour? Now, of course, I can’t decide - see what you think. Just when you think you’ve finished… #printmaker #linocut #blockprint #Londonartist
Support independent design history. Membership is less than a coffee designreviewed.com/membership/ #DesignHistory #Membership #PreserveDesign
I’ve been stuck in a bit of Disordered Reading over the past couple of weeks, so it was nice today to finish a Research Read (How Pleasure Works, Paul Bloom) and start a very enjoyable Personal Read (The Lowlife, Alexander Baron) Long train journey innit
Another weird thing about America: only certain members of staff are entitled to take orders. And what the hell is a Bell Captain? And why does he need a tip?
Discover the radical history of zines and create your own using materials from home. Join us online on 16 September to explore how humanists have used self-publishing for centuries. Book now! humanists.uk/events/zine-...
More wise words collected from the streets of #Penge by the one and only Cosmo Chancer. Our Penge Proverbs #zine is yours for just £3 at bit.ly/pengeproverbs
The FT’s arts coverage is 10 x broader and deeper than the Grauniad as well (Got sub through work)
Two anxiety dreams for the price of one last night: 1. About to do some comedy thing at Edinburgh but haven’t done any prep and have no idea what I’m going to say 2. Sitting naked on a park bench, minding my own business, when a van full of police pulls up and I know they’re going to hassle me
I still like to think I’m just on hiatus…
Very glad to hear it! Take care of yourself
Ellison Hoover (1888-1955)
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, The Soul of the Soulless City (‘New York - an Abstraction’), 1920 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129198
Ebs might be in for a bit of a shock at Arsenal after the ‘No Dickheads’ environment at #CPFC
Congratulations to our newest Colossive Cartographer @taran-draws.bsky.social, whose #comics have been shortlisted for not one but TWO @comicsyouth.bsky.social Changemakers Choice Awards. Don't forget! You can buy Taran's Colossive Cartography, Fleece and Fibre, for just £2 at bit.ly/colossive67
We sent out our latest newsletter yesterday - featuring something old, something new and a #zine fair to look forward to (yes, I'm a poet - and I know it). Still don't subscribe? I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU PEOPLE! Oh well, never mind. You can read it all here instead: bit.ly/colossiveaug25
František Hudeček (Czech, 1909-1990), Lamps in the Fog, 1946. Oil on cardboard
David Walker’s Paper Clip Collection. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/d... We recently inherited this collection from David’s daughter, who was sorting through his belongings before David moved home. He had collected clips all his life, we have more photos on our blog. 📎♥️
Good morning. I’ll be tabling at this today and tomorrow, in Weedon. Starts at 11.00am.
Sorry we can’t make it - have a good night!
The #magpie folklore #zine that @vjs411.bsky.social and I have been compiling is coming on nicely. We're hoping to include free Lucky Feathers™, endorsed by one of our experts, Prof Margaret Pye - but this is dependent on the outcome of a legal challenge from our other expert, Dr James Crowe...
Tristram Hillier, La Route des Alpes, 1937 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1114201
This is a neat little solo journaling game that provides an enjoyable workout for the’ imagination (available as PDF) In fact the open-source Firelights system might turn up in a Croydon Spaceport game before long… 🚀
The Comic Book (Series of 8 Drawings), 1978 #artbots #basquiat https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/826483
Today would have been Albert Turpin's birthday: he was born on 20th August 1900 in Ravenscroft Buildings. He served in the Rifle Brigade & Marines during WW1 & then worked as a window-cleaner. He served in the London Fire Brigade during WW2 & was Mayor of Bethnal Green in 1946. #botd #AlbertTurpin
Free link to Stramash issue 1 of the original series for no reason other than I still really like it. 1950’s Sweary Scottish gangsters, strange goings on and just what is in that hold-all. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kxy80...
Or - even better - subscribe to #ColossiveCartographies Series Twelve for just a tenner and get all six #zines delivered straight to your door as soon as they're published. Head to bit.ly/colossiveS12
AND WE'RE OFF! The first title in #ColossiveCartographies Series Twelve is Fleece and Fibre by comic artist and illustrator Taran Taylor. Taran's #zine introduces us to four UK sheep breeds and shows how their fleeces can be turned into usable fibres. It's yours for £2 at bit.ly/colossive67
it doesn't get mentioned all that much in books on drawing or comics, but i don't know any technique that's more useful than walking away for an hour
It's #WorldPhotographyDay so time to remind you about our books and #zines featuring the photos of the late, great Gordon Gibbens (or 'Dad', as I preferred to call him)… See the full collection at colossive.com/product-tag/gordon-gibbens - all titles include a donation to St Christopher's hospice ❤️
I’ve got a big soft spot for Powers: I drifted away from comics around the millennium, and Powers, 100 Bullets and L&R v2 pulled me back in
HUGE NEWS! This comic art exhibition will run at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate from 18th October 2025 til 26th April 2026. If you’re visiting the Thought Bubble Festival this autumn, be sure to pop in (it’s right across the street!) This is the incredible poster design by @kbaczynski.bsky.social!
DSTLRY comics: any good? (Thinking of taking a punt on the Humble Bundle)
Unusually coherent first thought the other morning: "Imagine being one of those people who have time to play video games"
You got there first!
KING OF THE ROAD (1986)
This popped up in an FT style piece about capacious man-bags, and I’m going to use it wherever possible: “butter is the car you can spread on your toast”; paint is the car you can apply to your bathroom ceiling” etc etc etc
My graphic novel, Adrift on a Painted Sea, has been nominated for an Ignatz Award! Winners are chosen by a ballot, which you can enter online. I’d really appreciate it if you voted for me!
In 2013, Chilean zinester Natalia Matzner (aka Ratalia Espigadora) rode her bike and mobile zine library / book library across Chile. She held workshops and exhibitions as she went, using her Biblioteca Nómade (Nomad Library) to engage local communities in zine-making & self-publishing... #ZineHero
I realize that most folks probably have not read #TheReUp202; hence, I am going to give away the digital issues for free during this voting period for the Ignatz Awards. Go ahead and read the first six chapters, gratis! Download The Re-Up #01-06 right here: mega.nz/folder/uE0Vg...
Papyrus, 48-point at least, I trust (Hope it all goes well - we’re at a wedding so can’t make it)
“THAT’S DOCTOR BROOKES TO YOU!!!”
youtu.be/TInk1BcbAMQ
My most cherished memory of Safari is how much my very existence irked the 'cool' barista at the adjacent coffee shop; the last thing she wanted was some saggy old memento mori blighting her vision
I’m so sorry to hear this Hayley - condolences to you and your family 🖤
This was mine youtube.com/shorts/3Vod3...
As a largely unsupervised kid, I couldn't get enough of the 'tough guy' Euston Films stuff - Fox, Out, The Sweeney. I only put together the Trevor Preston connection later.
NEW/OLD LAUNCH! Our sixth Colossive Cartography - The Grapple by the one and only @lucysullivan.bsky.social - is now available as a Turkish map fold. Finally. Get the #zine for just £2 at bit.ly/colossive6. Lucy is donating all her royalties - that's £1 per sale - to St Christopher's hospice
SE London railway cats of 2016: 🐾 An anonymous ginge at Anerley 🐾 Fanny, the famous Gipsy Hill cat (Going through old pics)
For all my slipping and sliding on the class continuum, my origins always become apparent when I try to refill the converter on my fountain pen
On a clear day you could see the spaceport...
Image boards and final production backgrounds for Akira (1988, Dir: Katsuhiro Otomo)
Save the date for Bristol Artist’s Book Event at UWE Bristol’s City Campus - Fri 26th and Sat 27th June 2026. Info on previous editions of BABE is at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2017/ If you would like to exhibit please email for a booking form to be sent to you in December: Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk 📚
François Avril
Oh yurr
Any noms for Stray Toasters?
Self-publishing is a power, it's a gift. You can put whatever you want into your little 'zines and minicomics, absolutely nobody can tell you no. Tell your story, don't worry if it's "good enough", make it anyway.
A Shelagh Delaney story turned into a film. The White Bus features a rum selection of characters, locations throughout inner city Manchester and Salford, an alienated heroine, and a message about how out of touch those in authority are. davehaslam.substack.com/p/shelagh-de...
Excited for zinezilla in Bristol next month, I’ll be tabling and running a collage workshop
Very much connected to my current comics reading project 🦡
All four now in my webshop! www.gbrookes.com
Pssst... @vjs411.bsky.social and I (Jane) have begun work on a new #zine, which may - but probably won't - include one or both of these pictures. Still, I thought you'd like to see the kind of stuff that's been turning up during our hours and hours of painstaking research... Watch this space! 🪶
