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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

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Keep your Stovold's dry
paintingsoflondon.bsky.social Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 5d
Tube Rain 1', Mornington Crescent Station (2015) by John Duffin
johnduffin.co.uk
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🎵 'Mornington Crescent' by Belle and Sebastian
youtu.be/1dVoliKbeng?...
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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marc-fischer.bsky.social Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 21h
People are possibly not buying your books/zines at the fair/fest because:

They are afraid of knocking your books and zines off of the elaborate display structures and scaffolding that you are using to display 175 titles on a 3 feet wide table surface.
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Next stop: #Brighton!

We'll be tabling - alongside lots of #bookarts greats - at Brighton Art Book Fair on December 6th and 7th. See you all there!

(PS We'll keep the #CPFC #zines under the table - tip us the wink if you want one... 😉🦅)
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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There’s not much to be said for winter in London, but at least you get to wear grown-up clothes again (including my trademark Reclusive Jazz Legend outfit)
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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With a bonus painting within a painting (by Joyce Treasure, over the door)!
paintingsoflondon.bsky.social Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 6h
'Launderette, Sydenham' (2019) by Michelle Heron
michelleheron.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Happy birthday to architect Richard Seifert, BOTD in 1910, who put a roof over the head of Croydon's municipal space programme

#croydonspaceport

(colossive.com/product/croy... - and we'll throw in the AFA one)
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Nous, attendant "Train de nuit dans la Voie lactée" par Adrien Demont, d'après Kenji Miyazawa...
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Six Time Machines.
Six Time Machine assemblages in tobacco tins, domino pieces, shells, found objects, fragments of poems, buttons, tea cards, chess pieces, scrabble letters
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Yikes - missed this while we were away last week. I remember picking up this and Unknown Pleasures (on cassette) on my first visit to Record & Tape Exchange in 1986 🕶️
birmingham81.bsky.social Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 8d
Happy 40th birthday to Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, which was released on this day in 1985
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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'Night Lights of Piccadilly'
(from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
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🎵 'Kinky Reggae' by Bob Marley and the Wailers
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November 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We also have a PDF version of Booksellers Reflect on Self-Publishing for $3.00, by the way. halfletterpress.com/booksellers-...
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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If you self-publish and still haven't seen this thick booklet that Temporary Services made earlier in the year, check it out! It provides a lot of useful insights from the perspective of stores that sell and distribute self-published artist books and zines. halfletterpress.com/booksellers-...
The cover of Booksellers Reflect on Self-Publishing, compiled by Temporary Services. For this booklet we reached out to book stores and distributors that we have worked with—in some cases for just a couple years, and in others for almost the entire time that we’ve been making and selling booklets and books. We sent everyone this description of the publication we wanted to produce: Artist publishing is thriving. As printing continues to become more accessible, and subjects like zine-making become part of college and high school curricula, the number of self-publishers is exploding. There are an ever-increasing number of art book fairs, zine fests and events for self-publishers, but distribution of the countless titles people produce remains a challenge as the number of participants in the field surges. Many people that work in bookstores that carry artists’ books and zines are also publishers themselves. We invited some of the booksellers we work with to reflect on the state of self-publishing as they experience it at the stores they work in, manage, or own. What insights can they share about the state of self-publishing? What advice can bookstores offer to self-publishers? How can artist publishers and bookstores work together in mutually supportive ways? What approaches are working and where are there weaknesses in the publisher and distributor relationship? This collection provides a detailed and generous array of observations, stories, and advice. We hope it is valuable to anyone that is interested in publishing, and wants their work to be in stores and other spaces for books. There are so many other great shops we couldn’t include; readers should talk to them too.
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
tomeenmurphy.bsky.social
Taking the scenic route into Heathrow
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Hoping the Lucky Socks can weave their magic from Johannesburg airport ❤️💙✨ #cpfc
A woman with red hair sits in an airport terminal. She’s got her shoes off, revealing the Now Legendary pair of FA Cup-winning red and blue socks
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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We should have brought the stickers! 🚀
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Great day coming up at Bookseller crow! 6th Dec. Lots of authors visiting crystal palace to sign books! Info here booksellercrow.co.uk/event/christ...
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Ernst Graf (1909-1988)
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Georgiy Nisskiy (1903-1987)
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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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
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THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! Seasons – Moments of Love, Loss and Quiet Change by Rebecca K Jones. @rebeccakjones1.bsky.social. @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social #ThoughtBubbleatBF25 www.brokenfrontier.com/seasons-mome... Review by @lydiaturner97.bsky.social
Seasons - Moments of Love, Loss and Quiet Change by Rebecca K Jones – Broken Frontier
Broken Frontier's Lydia Turner reviews 'Seasons' by Rebecca K Jones featuring a collection of comics short stories.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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
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Another birthday boy. (I'm currently reading D for the first time - about halfway through Crime & Punishment)
publicdomainrev.bsky.social The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15d
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
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Happy birthday KV!
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this in't nice, I don't know what is." - Kurt Vonnegut
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