Tom Murphy
@tomeenmurphy.bsky.social
Prole art threat. Something to do with @colossive.com. Guerrilla historian of Croydon Spaceport. Writing a memoir on class and culture. Mayo ☘️ / Chorley 🌹/ Penge 🔥 Colossive.com Profile pic drawn in 60 secs in the pub by Hannah Lee Miller
Oh, before I go though: if you sign up to my Patreon, even just for free, you can read the PDF of my new comic 'The Curse' which is actually really good. www.patreon.com/cw/grthink
Gareth A Hopkins — Creating Experimental Comics (constantly) (good ones)
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Gareth A Hopkins@grthink.bsky.social · 20h agoAnyway, I said I wasn't only going to come here to moan so I'll be off again.
London Radical Book Fair, Stanley Halls, free entry, Sun Sep 6 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/31/l... #Croydon #Events #SouthNorwood @stanleyarts.bsky.social
London Radical Book Fair, Stanley Halls, free entry, Sun Sep 6
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T
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Illustrations scanned from The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集), Ars, No. 11, 1929 designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #graphicdesign #designhistory
PUBLISHING BLOG: Today a new Temporary Services booklet will go to print (with @doormouse12.bsky.social! Interviewing Zine librarians working in public libraries!) and on Thursday a new Public Collectors booklet is due to arrive from the printer. The never-ending cycle of publishing continues.
Two Comedians (1966) was Hopper's final canvas. It shows Hopper and his wife, Jo, on stage taking a bow. After decades spent spotlighting American life, he ends by stepping into the scene to say a quiet goodbye to the world he painted.
Morning! We sent out our latest newsletter yesterday with details of THREE new #zines - plus something for the weekend... Still don't subscribe? Suit yourself, pal. You can read it hear instead: bit.ly/colossiveaug26
Remember when every primary school kid got a free commemorative Silver Jubilee brick? Who’s still got theirs?
Remember when every primary school kid got a free commemorative Silver Jubilee brick? Who’s still got theirs?
One of my favourite Stramash pages I was drawing loads everyday and everything was pretty much straight down in ink making it up as I went along on 2 A4 Moleskine watercolour pages. Not sure I have recovered the confidence since having to wear glasses but it’s something to aim for.
Anywhere near @southlondongallery.bsky.social? Stop what you’re doing and come down before 6 for the PageMasters #zinefair! Further away? You’re in luck. We’ll all be here from 11-5 tomorrow, too 😊😸📚
On today. The days events are just kicking off. I'll be on at 5 @goshcomics.bsky.social Brave the rain and join us for comics and japes.
New #zine! Ten notable player exits from #CPFC, ranked from best to worst… Grab it for £3 at colossive.com (go on - treat yourself for #TransferDeadlineDay 😊🦅)
Happy reading on Jack Kirby Day: really hope to get over and pay tribute once “things are back to normal”
NEW LAUNCH! A Colossive thank you to Edgar Longbottom for letting us publish an eight-page extract from his upcoming book, Hooray for Pollywood: When Penge Entertained the World. The #zine tells a little-known tale from the twilight years of #Penge Studios - and it's yours for £2 at colossive.com
New video/song I collaborated on with The Legendary Mark Peter Savage taken from his forthcoming album 'Art is Embarrassing'. 'Make Art!' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGD3...
The Legendary Mark Peter Savage & Patrick Wray- Make Art!
YouTube video by Patrick Wray
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The Lies of the Saints is a new 160 page book by Douglas Noble - a family history built on a legacy of deceit. Spanning the centuries from 1660 to now, The Lies of the Saints is each instant of falsehood that defines the members of the Saint family. stripforme.bigcartel.com
Made by eight different Japanese printmakers, the prints from One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (1928–1932) show a city rising from the ashes of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/aftershock-of-the-new/
Excellent: as a mostly unsupervised kid I was very into the Euston Films tough-guy stuff (I only paid enough attention to put together the Trevor Preston connection later.)
Talking Pictures TV@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 6d agoComing Soon! FOX (1980) Premiering Sunday 20th September at 9pm starring #PeterVaughan #RayWinstone #LarryLamb #BernardHill #CindyOCallaghan Classic 13-part drama series #TPTVsubtitles
OUT NOW: BERG 10 The tenth collection of tracks recovered from the archives of the British Experimental Rocket Group (BERG). It seems to be slightly more 'experimental' in tone. tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/berg-10 #newrelease #netlabel #newmusic #originalmusic #bandcamp
BERG 10, by British Experimental Rocket Group (BERG)
19 track album
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The Book Arts Newsletter No 174, September – October 2026 is available for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 58 pages of exhibitions, courses, lectures, opportunities, fairs and events, new artists' books, reports & reviews, and stop press! Cover artist: @paullaidler.bsky.social
Kusama's Self-Obliteration (1967), a short film by Yud Yalkut in which Yayoi Kusama applies polka dots to everything in the world in space: a horse, a tree, a lake, herself, the usual late-60s hippy groovers, etc. With music by The CIA Change, whoever they were. www.ubuweb.com/film/kusama_...
My favourite Yayoi Kusama story is about Mrs Cornell throwing a pan of water on her and Joseph when their canoodling started to get too heated. RIP
"Zines allowed those who may have been socially isolated or who couldn’t play an instrument an avenue to contribute to the scene just as much as those in bands. There really WERE 'no rules' when it came to fanzines!" The Story of Early ’80s Anarcho-Punk Fanzine:
Guilty of What: The Story of Early '80s Anarcho-Punk Fanzine
Punk veteran Chris Low shares the story of his first teenage attempt at producing an anarcho-punk fanzine.
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Still thinking about the Cool Cat on #UniversityChallenge t'other week who was studying electronic music production at Guildhall School of Music & Drama but had never heard of Massive Attack