Next stop: Peckham! (Again!) See you all at the end of the month for the PageMasters Zine Fair @southlondongallery.bsky.social - along with lots of other lovely zinesters and publishers... #zines #zinefair #smallpress #bookarts
Colossive Press
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Wildly eclectic small press/zine publisher, based in Penge, SE London; keepers of the Gordon Gibbens photo archive; guerrilla historians of Croydon Spaceport; proud to support St Christopher's hospice
And It Will Be Beautiful - the title of my little #zine about #CPFC winning the FA Cup - is a quote from defender Maxence Lacroix, who's now RUINED ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING by sodding off to Chelsea. Palace fans! Other nice people! Please cheer me up by buying it for £2 here: bit.ly/colossivecpfc
See these books and #zines? We're very proud of them all BUT we only have a few copies of each left and because storage space is limited in our already-held-up-by-books house, we won't be getting them reprinted. Want to grab one before they're gone? Head to colossive.com/product-tag/nearly-gone/
We've just made our first donation - £26 - to The Outside Project (lgbtiqoutside.org) from sales of our 40th Colossive Cartography, You Are Safe Here by @rachaelhouse.bsky.social Rachael is donating all royalties - £1 per copy - to this important cause. Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive40
Happy #caturday and happy @smallpressday.bsky.social to all those who celebrate - which is ALL of you, right? 😸
Good morning Last night’s Queer As Comics panel at Quentin Blake Centre. With my friends old and new- @margaretgalvan.bsky.social Seena Shamsavari and @hollycasio.bsky.social Photo by Muffin Hix
Casual, nebulous thoughts on reviving Found Forest Floor: www.patreon.com/grthink/post...
Gareth A Hopkins: It's 9 years since 'Found Forest Floor' by myself and Eric Blagsvedt came out. A lot has changed since then (I have a slightly better sense
It's 9 years since 'Found Forest Floor' by myself and Eric Blagsvedt came out. A lot has changed since then (I have a slightly better sense
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I will be at @goshcomics.bsky.social for this tomorrow, can’t wait. To hang out in Gosh! But also if you want to come and say hi and/or buy a comic that would be a bonus please do that.
Deadly Knitshade@deadlyknitshade.bsky.social · 2w agoSmall Press Day is this Saturday July 25th and the ever so shiny Very Tiny Comics Gumball Machine and I will be at @goshcomics.bsky.social from 12pm to 2pm to celebrate! Woop! We will also have a gaggle of Very Tiny Comics artists with their own small press! @smallpressday.bsky.social
If you're near a @smallpressday.bsky.social event tomorrow, go along and say hello. 'Communicate and collaborate', as the Now Legendary Colossive Manifesto says! www.brokenfrontier.com/whats-happen...
What's Happening for Small Press Day 2026? - Check Out Events Around the UK and Ireland this Saturday – Broken Frontier
It's Small Press Day this Saturday, July 25th with around twenty events happening across the UK and Ireland.
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You are warmly invited to my exhibition ‘Pledge of Allegiance’, opening 6-8pm, 31.7.26, Oast Northdown Rd., Margate. Words on this platter are my rewriting of a pledge it was suggested the public should recite during Charles’s coronation ceremony. The exhibition is part of Margate Pride Art Map
Meet Monty, Stumpy and Sleepy - just three of the foxes who feature in our 75th Colossive Cartography, Find the Fox by @soundprojector.bsky.social... ...and then buy the #zine for just £2 at colossive.com 🦊
Hey you! If you know what’s good for you, get down to #SLCZF26 NOW! (It’s more fun than Tom’s making it look in this photo) #comics #zines #comicfair
We sent out our latest newsletter this morning - with details of TWO new #ColossiveCartographies, a reminder about tomorrow's #SLCZF26 and loads of other stuff you'd already know about if you subscribed. Still haven't signed up? Suit yourself. You can read it here instead: bit.ly/colossivejul...
Colossive thanks to Ed for putting so much thought and talent into his fox-tastic new Colossive Cartography 🦊❤️
Ed Pinsent@soundprojector.bsky.social · 3w agoNew blog post about "Find The Fox", Cartography #75 from @colossive.com https://comics.edpinsent.com/2026/07/18/find-the-fox-new-cartography/ "For once, I’ve managed to create a Cartography for Colossive that actually resembles a map, and incorporates map elements too. Maps of real locations."
The best show in town is back! ✅ Panels ✅ Workshops ✅ Communal table ✅ Talented, attractive and charismatic exhibitors
Colossive Press@colossive.com · 3w agoOnwards! See you all at South London Comic and Zine Fair @stanleyarts.bsky.social from noon on Sunday. It's going to be good. Actually, it's going to be better than good. It's going to be comicsful and zine-tastic. 😊 #comicfair #zines #comics #smallpress (Poster by @momorrell.bsky.social)
ANOTHER NEW COLOSSIVE CARTOGRAPHY! Find the Fox by small-press legend @soundprojector.bsky.social takes us on a vulpine tour of South London. But no matter how hard you try to count the foxes, you'll arrive at a different number every time. 🦊 Get the #zine for £2 at colossive.com.
Hold up! What's small-press legend @soundprojector.bsky.social got in his hands? Find out tomorrow morning! 🤔🦊 #zines #bookarts #foxes
Chins up, everyone! Onwards! (Image by Tracey Pitcher from Your Actions Are Pointless If No One Notices: colossive.com/product/trac...) #zines #colossivepress #stupidfootball
I’m running a free workshop on creating a #comics community in your area at #SLCZF - and we have worksheets! Book your space (free, but there’s a 60p booking fee) billetto.co.uk/e/create-you...
Looking Back at ARC Festival 2026 @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social – A Truly Triumphant Celebration of Contemporary Comics in South East London. www.brokenfrontier.com/arc-festival...
Looking Back at ARC Festival 2026 - A Truly Triumphant Celebration of Contemporary Comics in South East London – Broken Frontier
So that was rather spectacularly good wasn't it? A quick look back at ARC Festival 2026 from a BF perspective.
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IT'S NEW COLOSSIVE CARTOGRAPHY TIME! Quiet State sees recently retired Grae Me reflect on his working life and the things he learned along the way. The #zine comes with its very own eclectic playlist and costs just £2 - including a £1 donation to St Christopher's hospice - at colossive.com
Onwards! See you all at South London Comic and Zine Fair @stanleyarts.bsky.social from noon on Sunday. It's going to be good. Actually, it's going to be better than good. It's going to be comicsful and zine-tastic. 😊 #comicfair #zines #comics #smallpress (Poster by @momorrell.bsky.social)
Day two @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social - and the strain is starting to show… Sorry, I mean… And we can’t wait to see you all! Here until 5. Come on down!
There we go! All set up and ready to rhumble @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social - alongside loads of other lovely #comics people. Come and see us! It’ll be good!
Woo-hoo! We’re on our way to @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social in sunny Peckham! See you all at Unit 08, Copeland Park, from 11am today and tomorrow… #comics #zines #etc
For the first event in a while, I'm excited about @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social as much as a punter as an exhibitor The BF coverage is a useful foundation for your shopping list (incl Matt Canning's mindblowing @colossive.com Cartography, AUTOLOOP, natch) www.brokenfrontier.com/tag/arc-fest...
arc festival 2026 Archives – Broken Frontier
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Colossive thanks/Danke to Berlin-based @chrizmagic.bsky.social for his lovely review of This Is Not About You Dying in Issue 12 of Trail Magic #zine (an English-language special)! This Is Not About You Dying is yours for £4 - £1 of which goes to St Christopher's hospice - at bit.ly/aboutmum
