Tom Murphy

Under the malign influence of ‘the sevenpenny nightmare’

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

Would it be immodest to point out that 60%* of the delegation are Colossive Cartographers? (With at least three more in the catalogue.)

Knock ‘em dead, kiddos!

* At time of writing

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"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

Project Talk: Why Comics? Telling Survivor Stories through Graphic Novels - The Wiener Holocaust Library As part of its engagement with the international Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, the Wiener Library will host a talk exploring how graphic novels have proven to be a powerful medium for…

➡️ Project Talk: Why Comics? Telling Survivor Stories through Graphic Novels
🗓️ 23 October, 6:30 - 8pm

Join us next month as we host a talk exploring how graphic novels have proven to be a powerful medium for sharing stories of the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities:

This Saturday October 18, Cartoon County is in residence at the undercover Open Market on London Road, Brighton
Meet over 20 great cartoonists and comickers and pick up some great reading
10am till 5:30pm
#comics #brighton

Was the comic in landscape format?

A black and white photograph of me as a toddler, with long blond curls

Spend hours looking for a photo of you as a young person that suggests you were cooler or more interesting than you really were

Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th – Broken Frontier Details on exhibitors and events at the Goblin Market small press comics fair at Stanley Arts in South London.

News! Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th. www.brokenfrontier.com/goblin-marke...

Calle Malaga (d Maryam Touzani) is a lovely bittersweet drama about old age, community, family and agency. Incredibly touching performance by Carmen Maura 2/2

YouTube video by BFI ULTRAS trailer | BFI London Film Festival 2025 – 8-19 October

Didn’t do much Ldn Film Festival this year, but enjoyed what we did see…

Ultras (d Ragnhild Ekner) is a wide-ranging and eye-opening look at supporter culture around the world, from Indonesia to Eastbourne 1/2

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Ugh! Monday! Anyone else wish they could get away from it all - even if just for one minute?

Well now you can. Sort of. Our new Colossive Cartography - Hit Escape by Michelle Kent - is a little holiday you can carry round in your pocket.

Buy the #zine for just £2 at bit.ly/colossive68

If you’ve read the first two issues of Fractures, you’ll know what an amazing visual imagination Wolf has

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FRACTURES WIP'S

The Sweeney is 50 years old this year. John M Burns did this illustration for an article in the UK magazine Reveille in 1978.

Ideal for parties, date nights & group hangouts. INTERACTIVE DARTS Experience high-tech, competitive fun with friends.

It’s like darts - but interactive! 🤯

Stramash ‘63 my weird 60’s Glaswegian crime/ sci-fi comic is available here in print and digital

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@vjs411.bsky.social 👋

We sent out our latest newsletter this morning with details of our latest #ColossiveCartographies, #CroydonSpaceport news plus upcoming #zines and events.

If you already subscribe and opened the email, you'll know this already. But if you don't, you can read it here instead: bit.ly/colossiveoct251

No easy games at this level

#WorldMentalHealthDay innit. So just in case this is of use to anyone, here's a quick reminder...

Not mixing cross-plies and radials? Or polishing a floor and putting a rug down?!

LIKE SPLIT INFINITIVES!!!!!

A vintage photo of a scientist in a white coat fiddling about with some complicated-looking apparatus

ATTENTION CROYDONAUTS!

We've had a frankly astonishing email from the archivist at the Committee for Sonic Research. (@tcfsr.bsky.social)

Our researchers are looking into it, but if true, it could blow open a whole new chapter in the history of #CroydonSpaceport.

Watch this space...

The front page of Jago Hazzard’s YouTube channel, showing “I really like the London Trams, and here’s why”

Making the most of my day off for Mental Health Day

🥁 💥

What time are they coming on?

An image showing an exhibitor at the Books on Photography Festival.

This weekend is BOP – Books on Photography – the annual photobook festival by Martin Parr Foundation held in Bristol, 11-12 October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events etc. Free entry. bopbristol.org/bookfair/

The PO Tower has been a bit of a fixation for me since borrowing this on my first trip to Chorley Library c1974

Exactly what I was just listening to on the train (my default choice) - lovely stuff.