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Tom Murphy
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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
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THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! Spite – @joestone.bsky.social Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley’s New Flipbook Comic is a Darkly Comedic Delight. www.brokenfrontier.com/spite-stone-... @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social #ThoughtBubbleatBF25
Spite - Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley's New Flipbook Comic is a Darkly Comedic Delight – Broken Frontier
A new flipbook comic from Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley is a Thought Bubble tradition. This year it's 'Spite'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Last week at Broken Frontier… THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review!All the Effort You Are Making Will Ultimately Pay Off – A Year of Moments Collected by Peony Gent @peonygent.bsky.social in Yet Another Striking Poetry Comic. www.brokenfrontier.com/all-the-effo...
All the Effort You Are Making Will Ultimately Pay Off - A Year of Moments Collected by Peony Gent in Yet Another Striking Poetry Comic – Broken Frontier
BF's Andy Oliver reviews Peony Gent's latest poetry comic 'All the Effort You Are Making Will Ultimately Pay Off'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Here's hoping that the rest of I'm a Celeb is better than the photoshopping of Martin Kemp's head
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Another birthday boy. (I'm currently reading D for the first time - about halfway through Crime & Punishment)
Born #onthisday in 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Celebrate with a look at his 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 birth, how he survived the pantomime of his own execution to be “reborn into a new form” — @alex_christofi with a “reconstructed memoir” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reborn-into-a-new-form
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Happy birthday KV!
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Most importantly, this includes a link to a review I wrote in 2015…
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I was going to comment at the time that Sausage Fingers had become Carpaccio Fingers, but then thought that was the sort of thing some unspeakable bloody nuisance would say on a Radio 4 panel game
Despite spending much of yesterday in the minor injuries unit after discovering that craft knife injuries and blood thinners don’t mix well, we’re on our way to Winchester Comics Fair (details on poster).

Please come and see us - and lots of other lovely #comics people…

#WCF25 #bookartsinjuries
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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New #CroydonSpaceport sticker incoming!

Want one? Just buy anything from colossive.com/product-category/croydon-spaceport/ and we'll send you one with your order...

Keep fighting evil, Croydonauts!

#croydon #penge #zines #smashthefash
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Don't forget the Folkestone Illustration Festival is this weekend!

If you come in and show us any ticket to any session then we'll give you 10% off your entire order!

Have fun!
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It’s always a bit of a buzz when an envelope with @johnporcellino.bsky.social’s writing turns up in Penge
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! All the Effort You Are Making Will Ultimately Pay Off – A Year of Moments Collected by @peonygent.bsky.social Peony Gent in Yet Another Striking Poetry Comic. www.brokenfrontier.com/all-the-effo... @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social #ThoughtBubbleatBF25
All the Effort You Are Making Will Ultimately Pay Off - A Year of Moments Collected by Peony Gent in Yet Another Striking Poetry Comic – Broken Frontier
BF's Andy Oliver reviews Peony Gent's latest poetry comic 'All the Effort You Are Making Will Ultimately Pay Off'.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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It was nice to see SIGNED COPIES of This Might Surprise You by our unstoppable friend/Colossive Cartographer @hayleygullen.com in @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social today - sandwiched nicely between Ozzy and Cat, as you can see.

Can't get to Sydenham? Buy it here instead: linktr.ee/ThisMightSur...
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Tuesday inspo!

Penge Proverbs - Cosmo Chancer's collection of wise words and sayings from the streets of SE20 - is yours for a mere £3 at bit.ly/pengeproverbs

#penge #zines #cosmochancer
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Had a little time at the end of a hectic day so did a better version of the sketch I messed up last week. Ink , white acrylic , toothbrush and fingerprints you could probably unlock my phone with.
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Poor Tom did THIS to his finger while making the usually-very-popular #CroydonSpaceport Historical Maps & Guides last week - and then nobody even bought one at Winchester Comics Fair. 😱

If you'd like to right this terrible wrong, you can grab the #zine for a fiver at bit.ly/croydonspaceport 🚀
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is always a very nice event in a lovely venue

www.eventbrite.com/cc/2025-bloo...
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
OFFICIAL!
A star-studded favourite for our ☕ brew and 🍪 biccies matinee today at 2:40pm!

🚛 HELL DRIVERS (1957) ⭐ #StanleyBaker #DavidMcCallum #SeanConnery #HerbertLom #WilliamHartnell #SidJames #PeggyCummins #PatrickMcGoohan action drama #TPTVsubtitles
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Out now - 'On the Track of Discovery’ - an anthology recorded 2019-2023, featuring tracks inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula, ancient alien theories, the Rendlesham forest UFO encounter, alien broadcast interruptions on UK TV and the art of psychometry.

thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com/album/on-the...
November 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
After another trip to Minor Injuries, my finger dressing has had a definite downgrade
November 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I've made a new book with the very funny and clever Matthew Dooley, the fourth in our Split series where we both do 50% of it and slap it together. It will be available at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in the Bubbleboy Hall on table F12, or you can pre-order it here: splitcomic.bigcartel.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Not much of a Bob Peck anecdote, but it’s the best I’ve got: we saw him in a double bill of Arthur Miller one-act plays at the Young Vic, and by the time we got out and into the pub next door (The Windmill?) he was already in situ, blowing the froth
The mighty Edge of Darkness is on BBC4 tonight at 9.15 and also on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

You can get yourself in the mood by watching our video podcast up to the spoiler warning. Lots of stuff about Troy Kennedy Martin and other prime movers behind this fantastic series.
Join us as for our latest episode as we watch Edge of Darkness. Audio version available wherever you get your podcasts. youtu.be/YShw_4yO03I?...
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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The mighty Edge of Darkness is on BBC4 tonight at 9.15 and also on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

You can get yourself in the mood by watching our video podcast up to the spoiler warning. Lots of stuff about Troy Kennedy Martin and other prime movers behind this fantastic series.
Join us as for our latest episode as we watch Edge of Darkness. Audio version available wherever you get your podcasts. youtu.be/YShw_4yO03I?...
World of Telly Episode 2: Edge of Darkness
YouTube video by World of Telly
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November 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM