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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
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Moin @altona93fanzines.bsky.social , our order with paper tressures from London-Penge arrived on Xmas Eve🤩🎄 Thanx to @colossive.com for these wonderful zines and the fast & well packed delivery🫶 Have a good new year and please keep making fanzines🙏 #printisnotdead
December 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Happy Christmas, Colossiveers!
December 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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2025 has been a funny year with various ups and downs, but one thing that delighted me was some of my flapdoodle becoming the basis of a wonderful album. Check it out, if you haven't already!

Huge thanks to all at @tcfsr.bsky.social

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The Croydon Spaceport Tapes, by British Experimental Rocket Group (BERG)
14 track album
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December 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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We've just made our first donation to Kids Saving the Rainforest from sales of Hit Escape by Michelle Kent.

Michelle's Colossive Cartography is a little holiday you can carry in your pocket. Grab the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive68 - all royalties go to this wonderful Costa Rican wildlife rescue
December 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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We've just made our latest donation - £15 - to @friends-earth.bsky.social from sales of our 62nd Colossive Cartography, The School Run by Harriet Merry

Harriet is donating all her royalties (£1 per sale) to help protect the planet and everyone on it. 😊

Grab the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive62
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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ICYMI: The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace is launching the South London Writing School, offering a scholarship in tribute to the late co-owner Jonathan Main and monthly masterclass Sundays featuring Diana Evans and Evie Wyld 👇 #BookSky
The Bookseller Crow launches South London Writing School with weekly course and monthly masterclasses
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December 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Oh, how lovely! Penge artist-in-residence Cosmo Chancer has written a special poem to mark the time of year...

For more of Cosmo's nonsense, head to colossive.com/product-tag/cosmo-chancer/

#cosmochancer #penge #zines
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The ghosts of an eighties childhood Christmas past in 'Ghost Stories I Remember' @colossive.com
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December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Don't forget! We have signed copies of The Magic Farm and Other Queer Tales by@alfleflo.bsky.social - three moving and inspiring oral histories from #queer pioneers in south-east England in the 1970s and 1980s - for just £7 at bit.ly/magicfarmbook

Everyone you know would love it for Christmas! 🎅
December 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Here's a quick reminder that our photo books and #zines by the late, great Gordon Gibbens - or 'Dad' as I tend to call him - are available at bit.ly/gordongibbensbooks

They're all sold in aid of St Christopher's hospice - and make very nice Christmas presents. Just saying...
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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We sent out our latest newsletter yesterday with details of THREE new launches and various other flim-flam and flapdoodle.

Still don't subscribe? Suit yourself, pal. You can read it all here instead: bit.ly/colossivedec25

#croydonspaceport #zines #colossivepress
December 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Happy #Caturday everyone!

Our joint CEOs Gertie and Gracie are well chuffed with their new #CroydonSpaceport CD (and definitely not just because we've hidden some kibble behind it).

Find out how to grab your copy at colossive.com.

In association with @tcfsr.bsky.social. Kibble not included.
December 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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(Almost) everything CROYDON SPACEPORT, including the new CD by British Experimental Rocket Group is available in the ULTIMATE FUN PACK from @colossive.com
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We've also assembled the ULTIMATE FUN PACK - our biggest-ever collection of Croydon Spaceport goodies!

What could be nicer for the municipal-space-programme enthusiast in your life?

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The Croydon Spaceport ULTIMATE FUN PACK!!! • Colossive Press
The ultimate collection of Croydon Spaceport goodies! Zines, a print, a CD, stickers - THE LOT!!!
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December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Tom and the team working hard to get the truth about CROYDEN SPACEPORT out to the public
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It's a huge day for every devotee of Croydon Spaceport!

After years of rumour, the legendary CROYDON SPACEPORT TAPES have finally been made public, thanks to our colleagues at @tcfsr.bsky.social

To pick up a copy (CD and/or download), head to TCFSR on Bandcamp: tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/the-cr...
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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It's a huge day for every devotee of Croydon Spaceport!

After years of rumour, the legendary CROYDON SPACEPORT TAPES have finally been made public, thanks to our colleagues at @tcfsr.bsky.social

To pick up a copy (CD and/or download), head to TCFSR on Bandcamp: tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/the-cr...
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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2 cartographies I made. 'The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs.....' (2025) and 'Mirror Mirror' (2021) £2 each @colossive.com with proceeds donated to St Christopher's Hospice Charity. You can grab em ere....!
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December 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Has anyone else heard those strange, otherworldly sounds that have been coming from #CroydonSpaceport over recent weeks?

It sounds like something really quite incredible is on its way...

All will be revealed tomorrow morning! 🚀

#BERG #committeeforsonicresearch #croydon
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Has anyone else heard those strange, otherworldly sounds that have been coming from #CroydonSpaceport over recent weeks?

It sounds like something really quite incredible is on its way...

All will be revealed tomorrow morning! 🚀

#BERG #committeeforsonicresearch #croydon
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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I had a lot of fun writing this new single-sheet Public Collectors zine: "Why Aren't People Buying Your Books and Zines at Fairs?" Reprinted in full here. It's free if you ask for it when you order from halfletterpress.com or you can get it in this set I made: halfletterpress.com/3-single-she...
In November 2025, I started an open editable document titled Art Book Fair / Zine Fest Public Sales Transparency. You can find it here: https://l1nk.dev/ArtBookFairSales. It gives publishers a space to share events they were in, what it cost to participate, how much they sold, and more on how it went, Event organizers often survey participants to gather this information on their own but the data they collect is not shared with the public. I wanted to make something everyone could see, use, and learn from. Book fair and zine fest costs can include travel, table fees, food, lodging, shipping and other expenses, The more data publishers add to the doc, the better others can try to understand if an event is worth the time and expense. There are many non-monetary benefits and reasons for participating in events (meeting people, sharing your work, visiting a new city, and building community). But this document should help others think about the economic dimension with care as they plan for fairs and think about what publishing means for them. In a discussion about Art Book Fair / Zine Fest Public Sales Transparency, some people commented that they sell very little at fairs, possibly because they are just starting out or finding their audience. I wanted to give them a pep talk, but there are so many factors involved with selling books and zines. Everyone has fairs that go badly or publishes things that don’t sell as easily as they had hoped. Still, there are some themes that emerge. As a fun way to try to diagnose why things don’t always work out, I created this list of possible reasons that attendees aren’t buying books. This text is informed by many years of tabling at book fairs and zine fests in the US as well as internationally. I hope people will take it in stride and think of this list as something lighthearted by a member of the community, for the community. Now go out there and find your readers! — Marc Fischer / Public Collectors Excerpt (the whole left page): Possible Reasons Why People Aren't Buying Your Books and Zines at the Art Book Fair / Zine Fest They are also publishers and have little money for other people’s books and zines. You left your table to go look at other publishers’ stuff or buy lunch because you didn’t pack enough snacks. You are looking at your phone too much. Or, you are busy reading someone else’s book and need to look up from it. You aren’t talking to them and are passively waiting for someone to understand your work, care, and buy it with no effort on your part. There are too many other people with tables at the fair/fest and not enough attendees to justify having so many participants. The economy sucks and no one has money, but they attended anyway because they love books, zines, and people who make them. Your prices are too high, and the books/zines feel like they are a poor value compared to other publications with similar qualities and production values. You made something that is a weird format or too large and no one wants to carry it around. They want to pay for your books and zines with some version of money that you don’t accept because every publisher is now expected to take about five different forms of payment. They came to the event to be seen and you are just scenery. There is a DJ, you are close to the speakers, and the music is too loud to have a conversation about your work. The vibes are bad. The light is bad, The breath/B.O. is bad. They are holding four cups of coffee, a glass of wine, and three tote bags filled with books. They are too burdened with stuff to handle or buy any more things. They only came to trade their books and zines with other publishers. Selling isn’t everything, you capitalist jerk! The last page of the main text: They’re a librarian and blew their budget too early in the fair. They are nervous about buying your last copy. Your work is great but your tone or content don’t fit the fair. They already have 93 different zines about the same subject that your publications are about. You have failed to offer a different take on whatever your thing is. Your type is small and hard to read. Your materials are fragile and will get destroyed in transit. You made the cover of your zine as graphic as possible, and no one wants to be seen carrying around a publication with a giant penis, dead body, or photo of Ted Cruz on the front. Apparently they came to the book fair/zine fest to buy plants, ceramics, stuffed animals, toys, chocolate, jewelry, clothes, and 3-D printed tchotchkes, not books and zines. They are distracted by the dazzling pattern on the tablecloth that you have placed under your books and zines. They are afraid of knocking your books and zines off the elaborate display structures and scaffolding that you are using to display 175 titles on a 3 foot wide table surface. You are still in the process of assembling your books and zines at your table and they don’t want to get in the way of your stapler, bone folder, cutting board and collating station. The super desirable thing you made ten years ago is out of print and your new stuff just isn’t hitting like the thing you are tired of and don’t want to reprint for the rest of your life even though it was profitable. Public Collectors www.publiccollectors.org Publication #110, December, 2025
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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We really don't want to be those "Ooh, secret project!" bores, but a couple of things might be coming up in the new year that will take us in a very unexpected direction...

(And that's on top of what we're announcing on Friday)

Exciting!
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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'Round and round and round he goes. Where's his hat gone? Nobody knows...'

Yes, it's new Colossive Cartography time again! The 71st in the series, AUTOLOOP, is by the amazing illustrator, designer and #comics creator Matt Canning - and it's yours for just £2 at bit.ly/colossive71

#zines #bookarts
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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👀 Keep ‘em peeled tomorrow morning for our SECOND new launch of the week…

#colossivecartographies #zines #smallpresscomics
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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NEW LAUNCH! Hydrology is a hardback, handmade, double-sided leporello book from our Sausage Fingers.

It features photos of reflections from the docks and waterways of the Isle of Dogs - and it's yours for £6 at bit.ly/hydrologyzine

#colossivepress #zine #bookarts
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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My patreon is back from its hiatus, now officially following progress of The Hollow Work. Art's already done for the sections 'Silksoft Mass', 'Archean' and 'Caves 1&2'. 'Ghost Gaze' and 'Junk Jet' (wip from which is posted here) are under way. Sign up for free (or for money) at patreon.com/grthink
Two comic pages in a notebook. The page on the left is incomplete, the one on the right looks finished. Both are made from tight swirling black ink work, some of which has been completed on toen pink and yellow post-it notes. The right-hand page has a large brown painted section as well as a smaller yellow one on the left of the page, and a grey one to the upper right of the centre.
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The original Colossive Cartographer!

(We knew @averyhill.bsky.social would get on the bus eventually)
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM