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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · 22h

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Voices and sails raised — Goblin Purwin

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · 6d

Feral September reflections

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Goblin Library Dispatch September 2025 — Goblin Purwin

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · 9d

Little's story is beginning to take root in my head. I have a feeling these three panel scraps are the beginning of something big...

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Stories from The Fault — Goblin Purwin

Little 7 . Power Up!

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · 23d

Casting spells for the coming dark season

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Spell for the Blood Moon — Goblin Purwin

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · 26d

Louder

Four Panel Comic
Panel One: A cat runs along holding a fountain pen dripping red ink.
Text: Free The Press
Panel Two: A cat runs along holding a branch with green leaves
Text: Free The Land
Panel Three: A cat running beneath the moon wearing a keffiyeh
Text: Free The People
Panel Four: Three cats, running with a red, a white and a green kite
Text: Free Palestine

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Sep 7

For Palestinian journalists...
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Nassr Hospital, Khan Younis. August 2025. — Goblin Purwin

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Four Panel Comic
Panel 1: Three overlapping flaming cat head in reds, purples and blues.
Text: Ceding violently occupied land
Panel 2: A crying cat, purple and red with yellow stripes.
Text: To the aggressors
Panel 3: A peacefully sleeping blue cat, covered in stars and surrounded by flames.
Text: Is not
Panel 4: A black cat with stars, also aflame, golden eyes staring out.
Text: A peace deal.

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happy Birthday for yesterday, Leslie Feinberg

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A portrait of Leslie Feinberg in pink watercolour and blue pencil

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Sep 2

goblins in the streets

A goblin protest featuring little creatures holding many flags. The flags from left to right are: Welcome refugees, a rainbow pride flag, a peace flag with dove and olive branch, a trans pride flag, a Palestinian flag, a Ukrainian flag, an anti-fascist flag, a disability pride flag, a flag that says ACAB

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Sep 1

The joy, rage and sleepy-headedness of the Goblin Library August Dispatch is upon us...

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Goblin Library Dispatch August 2025 — Goblin Purwin

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 24

6 Little tales in one. Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you're filled with coffee, sunshine and just enough rage to keep you plotting hopeful resistance.

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Stories From The Fault — Goblin Purwin

To mark the halfway point of Little’s adventure, I’ve collected together the story so far! Read them with a cup of tea and biscuit of your choice. Little . Parts 1 - 6 .

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 23

Little things done all together make big things happen. Draw together for G4za #cartoonistsforgaza

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 17

An accidental love letter to the sounds I've spent many years drawing to...

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What do you listen to while you're drawing? — Goblin Purwin

Illustrator Astrid Jaekel asked me this once when I was doing a talk for students at ECA. A chance encounter in a graveyard last week made me give it some serious thought…

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's official! The Shenk, as The Book of Murmurs, is in the Winter 2026 Fantagraphics Catalogue. Thank you to everyone who is still talking to me despite having not seen anyone but my girlfriend, some neighbourhood cats and 248 comic pages since 2023.

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Catalogs

Winter 2026 Catalog Fall 2025 Catalog

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Running out pens in appreciation of the Book Fringe and everything they do. I watched the livestream of a reading and Q&A with Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller yesterday and there's so many more things to see.
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · Aug 12

ALT BOOK FRINGE Presents: STORIES OF PALESTINE ✨🌍
TODAY | 1pm
📚 Life & Culture from Gaza to Jerusalem 🏙️

What does it mean to resist through storytelling? To preserve culture amid destruction? Join Mahmoud Muna & @matthewteller.com as they dive into the heart of Palestine’s resilience and culture.

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 12

hopeful cats in troubled times

A four panel comic in ink and primary coloured watercolours.
Panel 1: A blue point ragdoll on a starry background. TEXT: If you loved me... Panel 2: A red, purple and blue cat with two comets. TEXT: You would... Panel 3: A ginger and white cat with a shooting star TEXT: plant... Panel 4: A fluffy grey cat on a red stream of yellow stars. TEXT: A garden.

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 10

L A G O O N S

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Lagoons — Goblin Purwin

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 7

This post train is leaving tomorrow. Visit the shop if you want to be on it! I'm only shipping to the UK at the moment which is why Biscuit the cat looks a bit sad...wistful? Hungry? How would you describe that expression?

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Watercolour and pen illustration. A toy train with three cars. Two of the cars are full of letters. The last has a big fluffy cat (blue point ragdoll) sitting in it and surrounded by letters discarded on the ground.

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you to everyone who bought these comics at Sequential last Saturday (and those of you who have bought them from my shop since!). We were able to give £130 ($172) to Animator Haneen's GoFundme today.

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 5

Notes and picture exploring The Majazz Project...

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Palestine Sounds Like Resistance — Goblin Purwin

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank you @sequential-scot.bsky.social. This drawing was begun but never finished because it was such a busy day. So many new artists and good humans! I'm utterly tuckered out.

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Aug 2

@sequential-scot.bsky.social is today! I'll be at Table 4 and on the panel No Stupid Questions at 3pm. Come and say hi!

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Jul 31

July July

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Goblin Library Dispatch July 2025 — Goblin Purwin

July has been a time….

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Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Four panel comic
Panel 1: Cosmic cat with three eyes. TEXT: They did nothing
Panel 2: Black cat head covered in stars with a skull in their mouth moving through three triangles. TEXT: Violent Colonisation for 77 Years. The Government is complicit.
Panel 3: A blue cat with yellow stripes and three eyes across it's body screams at a star in a red torn sky. TEXT: Palestine will be freed
Panel 4: A cat with a flaming third eye in a fireball in the sky surrounded by stars. TEXT: By the people

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