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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 1h

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/

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

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

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

The beautifully illustrated retro-futuristic cover to the 1970s Ladybird book “How it Works: The Telephone”

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 4h

Happy 60th Birthday to the BT Tower!

Built 1961-65 to the designs of Eric Bedford, Chief Architect at the Ministry of Public Works, the 582ft telecommunications tower is one of Britain's most distinctive post-war buildings and after being sold in 2024, is set to be converted to a destination hotel.

BT Tower, Fitzrovia, London - Eric Bedford, Chief Architect at the Ministry of Public Buildings, 1961-65
Image credit: James Burbs (@londonfromtherooftops)

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

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

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 19h

The track list of Vic Mars’s beautiful The Land and the Garden LP on @claypipemusic.bsky.social reads like a poem that perfectly complements the music.

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 7h

Or - even better - subscribe to Series Twelve for just a tenner and you'll get all six #zines in the set delivered straight to your door as soon as they're published.

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 7h

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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John Porcellino @johnporcellino.bsky.social · 19h

Hi Folks,

King-Cat 84 is at the printer and will be in hand soon! If you would like to pre-order a single copy, instructions are here:

johnporcellino.blogspot.com/2025/10/king...

Thank you!
John P.

#comics #altcomics #comix #zines #johnporcellino #kingcat #spitandahalf

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 20h

LANCASHIRE COAST (1957)

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Tim Pilcher @timpilcher.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that there's a massive #cartoon #comics fair at #BrightonOpenMarket in 10 days on Sat. 18 October! LOADS of creators including @streakofpith.bsky.social @zaraslattery.bsky.social @frasergeesin.bsky.social Sara Kenney, Danny Noble, Dan Locke, Paul Garner, Ilya & many more! #Brighton

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

This prime day, why not make a zine from bits of paper around the house and bits of thought around the head

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go - my @brokenfrontier.bsky.social review of #1 & #2 from 2015

www.brokenfrontier.com/the-weight-m...

Review: The Weight #1 & #2 (Melissa Mendes)

In The Weight, her spare and moving story of depression-era childhood, Melissa Mendes offers intimate comics storytelling at its best

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m looking forward to this: it used to be a real thrill to come across the early mini-comics when they appeared (and meeting Melissa at Safari - 2017!)

The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social · 1d

The Weight by the much beloved Melissa Mendes (Drawn & Quarterly, 2025) reviewed by Richard Pound www.tcj.com/reviews/the-...

The Weight - The Comics Journal

The Weight by Melissa Mendes (Drawn & Quarterly, 2025) reviewed by Richard Pound.

www.tcj.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
The Trimphone
(How it Works: The Telephone, 1972)
Artist: BH Robinson

Photo realistic illustration of a green trimphone on a beige background.

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 2d

"Mark paid careful attention to the small things in the world around him and he made each of us complicit in his process."

Erica Van Horn on the much-missed artist Mark Pawson, a mainstay of the Fair, who passed away earlier this year. Read more about Mark:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/mark-pawson-...

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

I remember being a bit baffled by this in a hairdresser’s window

A notice in a shop window: GHOST
Full time
Apprentice required
Enquire within

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

The highlight of any trip to the PRU hospital in Locksbottom

A brass plaque declares “In the foundations beneath this plaque
lies a time capsule containing artifacts of 2001
The capsule was buried here on 13 June 2001
by Uri Geller. Author and Paranormalist”

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Aww - I’d forgotten about poor old Sid

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

The spaceport spirit lives on! 🚀

Croydon girls school builds satellite to put into orbit

The group hopes the satellite will be able to take readings of wavelengths in the atmosphere.

www.bbc.com

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 3d

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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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

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The Fall "The Leauge of Bald Headed Men"

YouTube video by BVMemoTV

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

Another of those albums that I think of as “one of the new ones I should get to know a bit better”

(See also The Fall and Tom Waits, although I’ve been a bit more diligent with TW)

R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 4d

Released 33 years ago—Oct. 5-6, 1992. Share your favorite track in the comments!

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

Iain Sinclair would get 30,000 words out of that sign

Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · 4d

No Loitering please around the Blackfriars ruins in Ipswich

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve never watched an episode of The Simpsons (very late adopter of pay TV)

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

It’s disappointing when HIGNFY lets the mask slip - eg sneering and tittering about the Greggs pub being in the North

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