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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 20h

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

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 22h

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...

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

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 2d

NEW LAUNCH! Fancy getting away from it all? Hit Escape by Michelle Kent is a little holiday you can carry in your pocket.

Michelle writes things, draws things and makes things - and we're so pleased that she's written, drawn and made this #zine for us.

It's yours for just £2 at bit.ly/colossive68

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 2d

👀 Keep ‘em peeled tomorrow morning for the launch of a brand new Colossive Cartography…

#zines #smallpress

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 5d

LISTEN UP, CROYDONAUTS! Ever wished you could get your hands on a (space) capsule collection of five super-stellar #CroydonSpaceport stickers? You're in luck!

Grab your sticker pack - including our brand new South Side of the Moon design - for just £6 at bit.ly/spaceportstickers

Croydon Spaceport Sticker Pack • Colossive Press

Five Croydon Spaceport stickers celebrating the London Borough of Croydon's bid to put the first South Londoner on the moon

bit.ly

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 7d

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

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Jane Gibbens Murphy @janegibbensmurphy.bsky.social · 8d

All set in The Pawleyne Arms in Penge 🦅

#cpfc #luckysocks

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 8d

Happy #NationalPoetryDay from Penge’s very own Cosmo Chancer.

Buy Cosmo’s first-ever poetry collection for just £3 at bit.ly/cosmoxyoko

#zines #penge #shoppingtrolley

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 10d

Don't forget you can buy Taran's Colossive Cartography, Fleece and Fibre, from us for just £2 at bit.ly/colossive67.

Or subscribe to Series Twelve at bit.ly/colossive12 and get all six #zines as soon as they're published for just a tenner (the next two are coming VERY soon)... 😁

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 10d

Colossive congratulations to @taran-draws.bsky.social for winning the @comicsyouth.bsky.social Changemakers Choice Best Short Comic Award for A Dream of One's Own. 👏👏👏

Taran's bittersweet meditation on loneliness was created for Boxes Vol. 3, available from @thirdbearpress.bsky.social

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 12d

Every copy of Magpies: Sorrow or Joy? comes with a FREE Lucky Feather™ - endorsed by Professor Margaret Pye and plucked from the streets of Penge.

To ensure great fortune forever*, grab the #zine for £4 at bit.ly/magpieszine

*Please see the disclaimer from lawyers representing Doctor James Crowe

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Jane Gibbens Murphy @janegibbensmurphy.bsky.social · 13d

No, really - thank YOU!

bit.ly/gladalloverzine

#cpfc

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 13d

Happy 'heavenly' birthday to Pat Gibbens, whose lust for life and love for her family and friends always shone through - even at the darkest times...

bit.ly/aboutmum

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 15d

Coming soon (hopefully)...🚀🃏🎲

A photocopied dummy version of Croydon Spaceport: Mission Control - a Solo Journaling Game of Municipal Bureaucracy

A poster for Goblin Market - a comic and zine fair taking place at Stanley Arts, London SE25 6AB, on October 19th.

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Jane Gibbens Murphy @janegibbensmurphy.bsky.social · 18d

Dad’s done something different with his hair today…

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 18d

Here’s a thing: after a bit of a derivé from the David Bowie Centre to Wapping yesterday, we spotted a seal in the Thames (from the Capt Kidd) 🦭

Pics by @janegibbensmurphy.bsky.social

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 20d

It’s going really well… 🙄

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 20d

We’re all set up at the Anarchist Book Fair on Leake Street - surrounded by #graffiti, #zines and anarchy. (So what else is new?)

Here until 6! Come and see us!

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 22d

TOMORROW! We'll be tabling at the #AnarchistBookFair in the legendary Leake Street Tunnels.

The second pic is from last year's fair in Shoreditch - just to give you an idea of what to look out for. But this time we'll be surrounded by graffiti. Busman's holiday innit.

See you all there!

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 22d

Oh, and don't forget you can buy @hayleygullen.com's two #ColossiveCartographies from us for just £2 each at colossive.com/product-tag/...

(Yeah - back off, Bloomsbury. We published her first!)

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 22d

Congratulations to @hayleygullen.com for last night's launch party for This Might Surprise You: A Breast #Cancer Story at Barts Pathology Museum.

Hayley spoke so eloquently about her reasons for doing this vitally important book. You MUST read it.

Pre-order it now from linktr.ee/ThisMightSur...

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 24d

Long story short: #bookarts legend/Colossive Cartographer Liver & Lights has produced a 'Beano homage' 2026 annual featuring work from lots of storytelling and #comics greats - plus four pages of fun and games from us!

Fancy backing it? Of course you do! Head to www.kickstarter.com/projects/liv...

The Liver & Lights Annual 2026

Liver & Lights number 71.

www.kickstarter.com

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 26d

Bittersweet seeing so many people enjoying the penultimate weekend of the #Penge Rooftop Gallery - such a wonderful achievement by Ldn Calling Blog and all the artists

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 26d

FUNDRAISING UPDATE! We've just made our latest donation to St Christopher's hospice - £116 - from sales of our books and #zines, bringing out running total up to £5.525.01. Thank you all!

We're not stopping there, of course. Help us raise more by heading to bit.ly/ourhospice

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 27d

We’re all set up at #Pengefest! (Tom’s gone home to get the tablecloth but I really can’t be arsed to move everything again when he gets back 😉)

Come and see us on #Penge high street until 6. It’s all in aid of St Christopher’s hospice ❤️

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