A poster for the Sheffield Comic ARts Fair - a girl with a wooly hat wearing a big purple and yellow scarf gazes at a comic book with hearts in her eyes. Her scarf curls up and round to frame text that confirms the date of the event (10th Oct 2026), that it's Free entry, and the location (Trafalgar Warehouse, S1 4JT).

The final poster for SCARF 2026!

Art by the wonderful Bex Ollerton (@schnumn.bsky.social), "Scarf Girl" designed by Liam Hill.

With huge thanks to @gnrr.bsky.social, SHU Illustration and @averyhill.bsky.social for supporting the event.

10th October 2026, Trafalgar Warehouse, S1 4JT!

Here's a quick reminder about our two hand-bound, double-sided leperello #zines...

💦 Hydrology is Tom's collection of reflections from the docks and waterways of the Isle of Dogs.

🌻 Sunflower has photographs by Dad and an accompanying text by me.

They're £6 each at bit.ly/leperello

#bookarts

Life imitates art! ...I produced this mini-comic for @colossive.com in January last year. Note the "Extra Eel Injection" feature. You can still get copies at colossive.com/product/astorial-shower-...

Exciting: we’ve booked trains and hotel* for Glasgow Zine Fair! Our most northerly event so far

* Thus ensuring that we didn’t come close to breaking even in 2025/26. But money isn’t everything…

Central Croydon, UK (OC) r/brutalism

I now have a grudging respect for what they do! 😆

Think you’ve got the Right Stuff? 🚀

colossive.com/product/croy...

...which means it's also time to dig out this old chestnut...

#zinefair #funnylittlebooklets

ATTENTION! After a long period of hibernation, we'll be at the RTS Spring Spectacular Zine Fair at The Rose Hill in Brighton on Sunday 26th April, tabling alongside lots of other lovely zinesters.

See you all there! 😊

#zinefair #zines #rtszines

More things I saw on my walk today...

Illustrated poster for inQ! London's Queer Comic Fair. At the top, the text says "London's Queer Comics Fair is Back" There is a circle on the top-right corner that says "Free Entry" in it. The image has a person with their back us, wearing a leather jacket. The leather jacket has inclusive, LGBTQ+ and progressive patches on the sleeves. On the back of the jacket it has the text "26 + 27 Sept 2026. inQ! London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. 60-62 Hopton St. SE1 9JH. 10:30am to 5:30pm. The person is reading a comic. In the background is the London landscape.

London’s Queer Comic Fair is back with a WHOLE WEEKEND of queer comics joy this September 26th and 27th 2026. Double the comic fair fun!

Entry is FREE. We’re family friendly so bring all your friends. Tell everyone! Get excited! inQ! is BACK!

[Poster by the brilliant @kitsuneart.bsky.social]

It's great to see space exploration capturing the world's imagination again.

But let's not forget that more than half a century ago, an unfashionable borough on the southern fringes of London raised its eyes to the heavens and dared to dream... 🚀

colossive.com/product-cate...

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I'm in this one!
I've reviewed Croydon Spaceport: Mission Control, the solo journalling RPG from @colossive.com. The other features and articles look great as well, check it out!

Happy April Fool's Day from #Penge artist-in-residence Cosmo Chancer, who's working on a new poetry #zine. Watch this space! 👀

Ways to Kill My Mother’s Lover (With Limited Pocket Money and Minimal Mess) - Judy Powell's Account of Dysfunctional Family Life is a Poignant Character Study – Broken Frontier 'Ways to Kill My Mother’s Lover (With Limited Pocket Money and Minimal Mess)' is Judy Powell's book from Quindrie Press.

Review! Ways to Kill My Mother’s Lover (With Limited Pocket Money and Minimal Mess) – Judy Powell’s Account of Dysfunctional Family Life is a Poignant Character Study. From @quindriepress.com. www.brokenfrontier.com/ways-to-kill...

A good point well made by the late, great, one-man production line Mark Pawson.

Read more books, rage against the machine - and have a good week, everyone. Onwards!

#bookshopsnotbombs #markpawson

Happy birthday to the late, great Gordon Gibbens, who would have been 95 - but doubtless still out and about with his camera - today.

Read his story here: bit.ly/dadgraffiti

And remember... #bemoregordon

We've just made our first donation to Palace For Life from sales of our #CPFC FA Cup print.

Every sale includes a FREE copy of the #zine in which the design first featured - and includes a £5 donation to the club's wonderful community charity.

Get the print and zine for £15 at bit.ly/A3cpfcprint

Bar Delicious - Blaise Moritz Examines the Oppressive Hold of Late Stage Capitalism in this Conundrum Press Collection – Broken Frontier Blaise Moritz contributes 'Bar Delicious', a collection of zine work, to Conundrum Press's 'Conundrum 25' series.

Another older but still relevant @brokenfrontier.bsky.social review.

Bar Delicious – Blaise Moritz Examines the Oppressive Hold of Late Stage Capitalism in this Conundrum Press Collection.

www.brokenfrontier.com/bar-deliciou...

Coming on here a little late to say what an absolute triumph @yocomicsfair.bsky.social was on Sunday. Even more of a triumph than last year - and that's saying something...

(Now, imagine how amazing it would be if it got some proper community arts funding 😉)

#comicsfair #comics #kidscomics

One for #WorldWaterDay

I’ve been making a bit of progress on that new #zine

Crystal Palace FA Cup Final 2025 A3 print with zine • Colossive Press A3 giclée print charting the build-up to Crystal Palace's winning goal in the 2025 FA Cup Final at Wembley - plus FREE zine

Feeling relieved - sorry, we mean GLAD - all over today, #cpfc fans?

Then you may be in the market for an A3 print of the build-up to Palace's winning goal in the 2025 #FACup Final.

Buy it for £15 - including a FREE #zine and £5 donation to the Palace for Life Foundation - at bit.ly/A3cpfcprint

Oh, and here's our joint CEO Gertie - named for her saint, obviously... 🐈‍⬛

Here's great-granny Gertrude and her cat Toots to wish you all a very happy St Gertrude's Day.

St Gertrude is, of course, the patron saint of cats - having initially got a couple of moggies to ward off disease-ridden rats while caring for the sick in 7th-century Belgium.

Wonder how that turned out

Four years on, we still miss our magnificent Vince and talk about him all the time.

You can read his story in our inventively titled #zine. It's a lot about a magnificent #cat and a little bit about #grief. Price £4; £1 goes to @celiahammondchat.bsky.social

bit.ly/magnificentvince

Working on a new #zine. Here’s some of the preparatory artwork…

(Yes, really) 😉

We sent out our latest newsletter this morning - with details of our new #CPFC print, plus other stuff about #comics, #zines and unmissable events.

You'll know that already if you subscribe, of course. But if you don't, you can read it all here instead: bit.ly/colossivenew...

Sometimes you DO know what you’ve got before it’s gone… ❤️

Happy Mother’s Day to all mums, mammies, nans and mother figures - in this world and the next…