Brighton & Hove Comic & Zine Fair

Screenshot from Cartoon County’s Facebook Group post. Details for this month’s meet up are Monday 24th June at The Walrus, Ship Street, Brighton. Doors open 6:30pm - Talk from 7:30pm Online booking via: facebook.com/groups/cartooncounty

Panels & Cover Art for SHELTER: Early Doors. A folk horror tale set in West London 1969 amongst the Irish immigrant community. Created in Watercolour & Carbon line art.

Panels & Cover Art for BARKING (Avery Hill Publishing). A take of grief, mental illness & the ghosts that haunt us. Created with Carbon & Biro in B&W.

Panels from BETWIXT, BETWEEN an original Black Hammer short story for Jeff Lemire. Written & Drawn by Lucy Sullivan. Available to read for free at: https://jefflemire.substack.com/p/black-hammer-madame-dragonfly-short

Delighted to get back to @cartooncounty.bsky.social
soon! I’ll be chatting to @panelborders.bsky.social about SHELTER, BARKING (AHP), projects inc. my Black Hammer short + how I inadvertently hatched a Comics & Zine fair: @bhczf.bsky.social

Join us on 24/06 from 6:30pm in person or online!

No that was on Twits (just dark mode)
I’m (Lucy) only on CARA for my own work. I probably won’t run a BHCZF account there. Got enough socials to manage!

Check out the Comics Cultural Impact Collective if you haven’t already. We want to shout that - about how comics can be applied to science, and everywhere - loud and clear. One important strand will be lobbying govt. thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/Join-Us/

New name thanks to the ever brilliant @jambookshopuk.bsky.social

We are now BHCZF!
(Still pronounced BHUKZUF!)

🚩REMINDER! 🚩 Frazer Brown AKA Red Cabin Comics is a fraudulent con artist.
He tricked dozens of creators to supply free work & hundreds of backers to support TFTQ for charity donations.
It’s been years, no books have been printed or shipped & he has taken the £37K given in good faith.
Be warned!

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Now @bhczf.bsky.social !
With added HOVE!

Yeeeeaaaahhhh!
(My kid came up with it. She’s a bit clever)

Ahhh!! I may well need to pick your skills for advice as PCZF is very much the vibe I’m hoping for.
Thanks for the good wishes!!!

New name thanks to the ever brilliant @jambookshopuk.bsky.social

We are now BHCZF!
(Still pronounced BHUKZUF!)

Screenshot of a blog post by Bristol Comic & Zine Fair in 2019. Title Text reads FAREWELL FROM BCZF

Just realised why BCZF sounded familiar & had to lament again the demise of Bristol Comic & Zine Fair.
Never made it before the end but it sounds like everything this Brighton fair hopes to be.
This is now a memorial fair.

Long live BCZF 🖤
BCZF shall be reborn ❤️‍🔥

Whoop! Nice to have you here. Love the table setup. Might have another place for you to table one day…

Finally joined the blue butterfly app! Here’s me last Saturday doing Arthole in Cardiff! Had a fun fun time!

I posted this yesterday but it was a bank holiday so I post again, comics return to badmachinery.com on June 17th with a new Solver story, "100% Cuddles".

Beauty personified.
Oh to be so elegantly long.

This is incredible work & should be read by everyone. Big recommend.

A poster advertising the comic convention Stapled happening on Sunday the 25th of August and Monday the 26th. The event is happening at Left Bank Leeds, between 11am and 5pm

It’s Monday and once again I am telling you about the Comic con I am running in August in Leeds.

Spread the word

If you’re a comic creator please consider filling out this form and joining my artistic celebration:

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Couldn’t agree more Kieran. We’re aiming for inclusive, accessible & a focus on Small Press / Local & Marginalised Creators.

There will be info soon on how to get involved. Any suggestions on creating safe environments will be greatly welcomed.

Pretty unimpressed by a con this weekend with, what looks like, only 3-4 guests that are not male & an average age of *55.
3-4 Out of 34 Guests.
In 2024.

BCZF will be the opposite of this.

*Being extremely generous here

Realising more & more that this will take a village to make it work for more than a one-off.

Please follow @bczf.bsky.social for updates & news on how you can get involved in a new Comic Fair!
📚✨🌊

Myself and @leahmoore.bsky.social are still on the look out for new projects. Editors, publishers, people who want stuff writing: get in touch.

Captain: one nation Tory / Fanny: Conservatives / Thomas: Guardian media elite Labour / Pat: SDP / Mary: potato Green / Julian: Reform / Kitty: Hufflepuff / Robin: Independent

As requested, the UK party system explained, through Ghosts.

#BBCGhosts

Exactly how this all started! I mused a desire to run a fair & that I’m moving… kinda snowballed!
Send them my way Mark! x

@bczf.bsky.social Excitin! 💥

Byrne David Dancing GIF Alt: David Byrne dancing in a wiggly fashion

Also eeeekkkk but mostly squeeee

Appreciate Richard!
Very early days yet but all welcome!
(👋Lucy)

Did a thing, starting a thing, lots to plan… *BCZF coming in ‘25 (🤞)

*Pronounced BUKZUF

Screenshot: Tweet of Talking Heads video Text: And you may ask yourself… how dix I get here? (1 tweet, that’s all it took to start a fair)

Screenshot: Tweer reads… Lucy Sullivan @LucySullivanUK · May 15 We’re thinking Brighton Comic & Zine Fair… Bookzuf in honour of the mighty SLCZF (Slukzuf) My kid is designing the logo apparently. Just FYI. Reply reads: Not gonna lie I’ve already got some epic people wanting to be a part. I’m getting ridiculously excited so watch this space… (No breath holding. Have to move yet!) Image is a gif of cute Ghibli-esque white little creatures running & smiling

Screenshot, text reads: Well this idea has legs! It’s very early days. I was thinking ‘room above a pub’ but with the offers of help & exhibitor requests it could be much bigger. I’ll start researching funding! ✨New Comic Fair… ’25?!✨ Bear with me. Got to move towns yet & we own A LOT of books.

It’s getting bigger by the day… Graphic Brighton X BCZF! ✨📚✨ (This could be something very special indeed!) Reply Tweet by Alex Fitch of Cartoon County & Graphic Medicine: I co-run Graphic Brighton, and would love to combine it with some kind of more substantial zine and comics fair, but don’t have any budget for a venue… Happy to combine our efforts unless you’d prefer to have BCZF as a seperate thing?

Went on Twits & inadvertently started a Comic Fair…
More soon!