Mel Gale
@melgale.bsky.social
Mature s/e Artist, Illustrator and Printmaker. Unapologetically woke, liberal and always tries hard to be kind,empathetic and do the right thing. Loves cats, gardening and urban sketching.
The Colossive Cartography Series 12 is now complete including “A Fragile Obsession” by my own fair hand concerning what happens when an EBay studio glass habit gets out of control.
Or - even better - get all six #zines in the now-complete Series 12 for just a tenner at bit.ly/colossiveS12
January 9, 2026 at 8:35 AM
The Colossive Cartography Series 12 is now complete including “A Fragile Obsession” by my own fair hand concerning what happens when an EBay studio glass habit gets out of control.
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Here’s everything we published in 2025 - plus the #CroydonSpaceport CD with @tcfsr.bsky.social, of course, and our #ColossiveCartographies 5th birthday party @goshcomics.bsky.social.
Thank you all for being part of it. Have a Colossive 2026!
Thank you all for being part of it. Have a Colossive 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Here’s everything we published in 2025 - plus the #CroydonSpaceport CD with @tcfsr.bsky.social, of course, and our #ColossiveCartographies 5th birthday party @goshcomics.bsky.social.
Thank you all for being part of it. Have a Colossive 2026!
Thank you all for being part of it. Have a Colossive 2026!
Another Porto memory. My friend and travel buddy went back to the flat for some rest so I took a walk along the Gaia riverbank and stopped at the Sandeman Port Lodge and terrace bar. There were no spare tables and a very friendly Irish-Canadian lady called Mary offered me a seat at her table.
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Another Porto memory. My friend and travel buddy went back to the flat for some rest so I took a walk along the Gaia riverbank and stopped at the Sandeman Port Lodge and terrace bar. There were no spare tables and a very friendly Irish-Canadian lady called Mary offered me a seat at her table.
My latest work from my Porto project - Ribera Square. @visitporto @porto
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My latest work from my Porto project - Ribera Square. @visitporto @porto
Had a great time @cmyk.festival yesterday despite getting up at stupid o clock to catch three different trains. Lovely to see @stonelyonly and @mandyrolandsmith @colossivepress - got your inspirational advice cards on my stall to anyone who wants one.
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Had a great time @cmyk.festival yesterday despite getting up at stupid o clock to catch three different trains. Lovely to see @stonelyonly and @mandyrolandsmith @colossivepress - got your inspirational advice cards on my stall to anyone who wants one.
Currently watching The Pretenders on Top of the Pops - a timely reminder that a lot of good things come out from Hereford including @cmyk.festival where I will be tabling on Nov 6th. Get your spending trousers on and come and say “Hello”. #cmykfestival #hereford #herefordcollegeofarts #
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Currently watching The Pretenders on Top of the Pops - a timely reminder that a lot of good things come out from Hereford including @cmyk.festival where I will be tabling on Nov 6th. Get your spending trousers on and come and say “Hello”. #cmykfestival #hereford #herefordcollegeofarts #
For my architecturally minded friends. We’ve just bought Monty a new scratching post. I thought it looked modernist but where in modernism do you get flying buttresses? Asking for a friend….
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
For my architecturally minded friends. We’ve just bought Monty a new scratching post. I thought it looked modernist but where in modernism do you get flying buttresses? Asking for a friend….
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👀 We're just a couple of weeks away from launching our 70th (!) Colossive Cartography. Among its many talking points, this one has the longest title yet.
Want to be among the first to get your hands on a copy? Subscribe to Series Twelve for £10 at bit.ly/colossiveS12
#zines #colossivecartographies
Want to be among the first to get your hands on a copy? Subscribe to Series Twelve for £10 at bit.ly/colossiveS12
#zines #colossivecartographies
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
👀 We're just a couple of weeks away from launching our 70th (!) Colossive Cartography. Among its many talking points, this one has the longest title yet.
Want to be among the first to get your hands on a copy? Subscribe to Series Twelve for £10 at bit.ly/colossiveS12
#zines #colossivecartographies
Want to be among the first to get your hands on a copy? Subscribe to Series Twelve for £10 at bit.ly/colossiveS12
#zines #colossivecartographies
A collage inspired by my recent holiday in Porto, Portugal - a lively and beautiful city of amazing coloured buildings and street art. It’s great to get back into collage again, finding a use for all the old photocopies I made at art college. So look forward to a few more porto images to come.
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A collage inspired by my recent holiday in Porto, Portugal - a lively and beautiful city of amazing coloured buildings and street art. It’s great to get back into collage again, finding a use for all the old photocopies I made at art college. So look forward to a few more porto images to come.
I’m very happy to announce that I will be tabling at the Christmas Edition of @cmyk.festival Hereford on Dec 6th. Looking forward to seeing my Hereford friends there. #herefordcollegeofarts #hereford #cmyk
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I’m very happy to announce that I will be tabling at the Christmas Edition of @cmyk.festival Hereford on Dec 6th. Looking forward to seeing my Hereford friends there. #herefordcollegeofarts #hereford #cmyk
All settled in at @winchcomics. Made one sale already!
November 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
All settled in at @winchcomics. Made one sale already!
So looking forward to tabling at Winchester Comics Fair tomorrow. See you there!
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So looking forward to tabling at Winchester Comics Fair tomorrow. See you there!
Now in @handmadeinboa I have added to my purely digital work with a selection of my colourful watercolour and pen paintings comprising beautiful garden scenes, holiday memories and exotic images of Morocco with added cats. Come and have a look…
October 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Now in @handmadeinboa I have added to my purely digital work with a selection of my colourful watercolour and pen paintings comprising beautiful garden scenes, holiday memories and exotic images of Morocco with added cats. Come and have a look…
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We sent out ANOTHER newsletter yesterday - which began with a plug for a lovely event that happened today.
See? That's the kind of thing you miss if you don't subscribe.
But you can still read the rest of it and find out about our THREE new #zine launches here: bit.ly/colossive1810
(Also: #cats)
See? That's the kind of thing you miss if you don't subscribe.
But you can still read the rest of it and find out about our THREE new #zine launches here: bit.ly/colossive1810
(Also: #cats)
October 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We sent out ANOTHER newsletter yesterday - which began with a plug for a lovely event that happened today.
See? That's the kind of thing you miss if you don't subscribe.
But you can still read the rest of it and find out about our THREE new #zine launches here: bit.ly/colossive1810
(Also: #cats)
See? That's the kind of thing you miss if you don't subscribe.
But you can still read the rest of it and find out about our THREE new #zine launches here: bit.ly/colossive1810
(Also: #cats)
I’m ecstatic to say that my second cartography has just been published by the amazing team at Colossive Press. It is about what can happens when an EBay habit gets out of control - mine never did to the extent that it did to the protagonist here but I do have a wonderful collection of studio glass!
NEW LAUNCH! Our 69th Colossive Cartography, A Fragile Obsession, sees returning Cartographer @melgale.bsky.social revisit her old habit of bidding for vintage glassware on eBay - and never* spending more than she'd intended.
*OK, maybe sometimes. 😉
Grab the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive69
*OK, maybe sometimes. 😉
Grab the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive69
October 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I’m ecstatic to say that my second cartography has just been published by the amazing team at Colossive Press. It is about what can happens when an EBay habit gets out of control - mine never did to the extent that it did to the protagonist here but I do have a wonderful collection of studio glass!
What a wonderful response to our “Brutal Bristol” exhibition documenting Bristol’s Brutalist Architecture which closed yesterday. Great footfall and the walking tours were sold out. @eberlin @tom8enjamin @elliottsargent2112 @lmalyondraws @brutalismincolour @susantaylordesign
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
What a wonderful response to our “Brutal Bristol” exhibition documenting Bristol’s Brutalist Architecture which closed yesterday. Great footfall and the walking tours were sold out. @eberlin @tom8enjamin @elliottsargent2112 @lmalyondraws @brutalismincolour @susantaylordesign
My new Colossive Cartography on the subject of dangerous studio glass obsession is out soon!
Pssst… We've got two new #ColossiveCartographies lined up and ready to launch VERY soon - and No.70 landed in our inbox this morning.
Don't want to miss out? Of course you don't. Subscribe to get all six #zines in Series Twelve for just a tenner at bit.ly/colossiveS12
Don't want to miss out? Of course you don't. Subscribe to get all six #zines in Series Twelve for just a tenner at bit.ly/colossiveS12
October 4, 2025 at 7:08 AM
My new Colossive Cartography on the subject of dangerous studio glass obsession is out soon!
I’m ecstatic to say that I will be tabling at The Winchester Comics Fair in Saturday Nov 1st. Drop in if you are in the local as there will be loads of tasty small press and print stuff going on #zinefest #zinefair #zinefestival #comicsfair @zinezilla_bristol #shakebristol #artholecardiff
September 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’m ecstatic to say that I will be tabling at The Winchester Comics Fair in Saturday Nov 1st. Drop in if you are in the local as there will be loads of tasty small press and print stuff going on #zinefest #zinefair #zinefestival #comicsfair @zinezilla_bristol #shakebristol #artholecardiff
Get ready for “Brutal “Bristol”, an exhibition of art and photography about Bristol’s brutalist architecture to which I am contributing. Sparks Bristol 8-12 October 2025
September 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Get ready for “Brutal “Bristol”, an exhibition of art and photography about Bristol’s brutalist architecture to which I am contributing. Sparks Bristol 8-12 October 2025
My haul from a wonderful day out at @artholecardiff for Small Press Day. I sat in on some really inspiring discussions, panelists included @beastlyworlds @r.e.burke and @piggyhammer. If you look closely at the second photo you may recognise some of my zines for sale.
July 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My haul from a wonderful day out at @artholecardiff for Small Press Day. I sat in on some really inspiring discussions, panelists included @beastlyworlds @r.e.burke and @piggyhammer. If you look closely at the second photo you may recognise some of my zines for sale.
One of our favourite eateries are @thelounges. The Porto Lounge in Fishponds, Bristol was our regular haunt when we lived there and a Lounge is always a great, yet dependable venue. Here are a few of the wonderful dishes we have eaten whilst enjoying the ambiance of kitsch art and fringed lampshades
July 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
One of our favourite eateries are @thelounges. The Porto Lounge in Fishponds, Bristol was our regular haunt when we lived there and a Lounge is always a great, yet dependable venue. Here are a few of the wonderful dishes we have eaten whilst enjoying the ambiance of kitsch art and fringed lampshades
I'm delighted r#to announce that I have now joined and am selling at @handmadeboa Handmade in Bradford on Avon. Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire is a truly beautiful town and I can't wait to spend more time here.
July 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I'm delighted r#to announce that I have now joined and am selling at @handmadeboa Handmade in Bradford on Avon. Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire is a truly beautiful town and I can't wait to spend more time here.
My zines are now @mikescomicsbristol in the wonderful St Nicks Market. He has a lot to say about “Slugs on Tour” which was originally intended to be a serious attempt to portray the liminality and hauntology associated with underpasses them lockdown happened. If you can’t get to Bristol please Dm me
May 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My zines are now @mikescomicsbristol in the wonderful St Nicks Market. He has a lot to say about “Slugs on Tour” which was originally intended to be a serious attempt to portray the liminality and hauntology associated with underpasses them lockdown happened. If you can’t get to Bristol please Dm me
This watercolour and pen painting of a home in the beautiful Georgian terrace of Richmond Place, Bath has just been delivered to a delighted client. The remaining three paintings are still available and if you would like me to paint a picture in this style wherever you live please get in touch
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This watercolour and pen painting of a home in the beautiful Georgian terrace of Richmond Place, Bath has just been delivered to a delighted client. The remaining three paintings are still available and if you would like me to paint a picture in this style wherever you live please get in touch
We're here and all set up for CMYK Festival @herefordarts . Loads to see and buy so come down with your spending trousers on. can Martin, my husband has selflessly accompanied me here today instead watching TV seeing Leyton Orient get thrashed.
May 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
We're here and all set up for CMYK Festival @herefordarts . Loads to see and buy so come down with your spending trousers on. can Martin, my husband has selflessly accompanied me here today instead watching TV seeing Leyton Orient get thrashed.