Tom Murphy

Happy #NationalBlackCatDay from our feline CEOs Gertie and Gracie… 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Thanks! original @brokenfrontier.bsky.social review is ere.... www.brokenfrontier.com/ghost-storie...

The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 175, November 2026 is available for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 57 pages of artists' books news. Cover: LIVRES ! BÜCHER ! developed by artist and curator Marie-Pierre Bonniol. Next deadline: 14th November for the Dec 2026 – Jan 2027 newsletter.

More Halloween reading. My popular ghosty tome 'Ghost Stories I Remember' @colossive.com Illustrated true accounts of my own paranormal encounters can be grabbed for a fiver here.... colossive.com/product/ghos...

Some Halloween reading. My short story 'The Humming Trick' was published in 'Peculiar Tales 3' published earlier this year. Two urban explorers get more that they bargained for when they enter the grounds of a derelict school with a dark history. wisdomtwinsbooks.weebly.com/peculiar-tal...

This perked up the spirits a little, anyway: a lovely display of our @colossive.com goodies in the wonderful @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace #KeepFightingEvil

On Friday 30th October I'll be at the Bank Of England Museum's 'Dark Emporium' event along with @scarygorgon.bsky.social and @marxtafford.bsky.social and a bunch of other people, including coffee company Lavazza

Sure does

Sigh: the disappointing journey of making something (book arts in this case) - at every stage it gets further from the ideal in your mind until all you can see is the cock-ups and you can’t bear to even look at it any more

RAILBUS FOR THE 80'S (1978)

I really enjoyed The Purple Feather - Rob’s comics are always shot through with wit, charm and imagination

YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s

Fun drawing of They Might Be Giants performing 'Minimum Wage' backward last November at the Roundhouse from an ongoing project of concert drawings I am slowly working on...

Stoner has affected me more than any book for a long time. Approach with caution if you’re a bloke approaching the final act of a life characterised by regret and unfulfilled potential!

I remember doing Steve Whitaker’s workshops with Andy Roberts at @captioncomicfest.bsky.social in the mid-90s. Two great talents taken way too soon

Bad Cat Drawing

I remember doing Steve Whitaker’s workshops with Andy Roberts at @captioncomicfest.bsky.social in the mid-90s. Two great talents taken way too soon

Stoner has affected me more than any book for a long time. Approach with caution if you’re a bloke approaching the final act of a life characterised by regret and unfulfilled potential!

For Science & Magic 35 I wrore about small things, sacred technology and photographs of strangers on holiday. You can read it here alongside lots of other great stuff: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Stramash Hardback is now live on Kickstarter kck.st/3W1atAZ

On Nov 12th, 19th 26th and Dec 6th I am doing four art workshops at Soho Poly in central London. The classes are subsidised by Westminster University and low priced at £8 each and a season ticket for £22. Each workshop has a different theme. sohopoly.co.uk/events/paint...

South Norwood Library, Croydon 1968 Hugh Lea

The 26th Bird Dream and the 27th Bird Dream

Unpredictable results, use against the enemy with caution! For more of these Hex Patterns, as uncovered by Ed Pinsent, see the latest issue of Ugly Mug, our anthology of comics to amuse and confuse... houseofharley.net/ugly-mug-9/ #comics #undergroundcomix #spells #magic #curse #Halloween

(Not all of our books are on shelves)

Bernie Krigstein

last day of Kickstarter for this. Not just pictures. It has some complete stories and plenty of reading. www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...

We've got you covered for Experimental Comics Fall! Four new mini kuš! about to drop by Anna Malicka, @maggieumber.bsky.social, Lucie Lučanská, and @reneefrench.bsky.social! Find out more:

The need to be a Proper Comics Man, so you can hold your own in comic shop chat and suddenly pipe up, “Yeah, didn’t he ink the uncredited back-up story in JLA #97?”

Hmm… probably need to go back to Three Sisters for the ‘making of Maria M’ stuff innit? The compulsion to ‘master’ the post-Palomar stuff can be a bit maddening

Next stop: South Norwood! Tomorrow! Goblins! #comics #zines #goblins

Oops! Forgot to say earlier… we’re at Winchester Comics Fair until 4.30 today. It’s all going swimmingly. You should come. #comicfair #comics #zines

I was resistant to the tweedy hype for years, but I started reading Stoner on the train down to Winchester this morning and I’m loving it. Very nice antidote to stuff that’s ‘oppressively lyrical’ (phrase I saw in the FT that rang true - Orbital etc). shop.penguin.co.uk/products/sto...

With Agnès Varda's 'Cleo from 5 to 7' on BBC Four tonight, and Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' next Saturday, it's almost like the golden days of BBC2's 'World Cinema' have returned. Bravo, BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Thinking, for some reason, of the ads on RTE back in the day, when they were just a still image with the continuity announcer reading the copy. There was one for sweets, and the bloke mumbled, with a deflated lack of enthusiasm that has stuck with me for 50 years, "Boy... Do they taste zingy."

Asking the big questions: it’s Friday night chez Sausage Fingers

How has Borna Sosa ended up with a better haircut in the Bundesliga than he had at #CPFC?

Pencil sketch....

Seven tickets left for this. Move swiftly, London weirdies...

Thinking, for some reason, of the ads on RTE back in the day, when they were just a still image with the continuity announcer reading the copy. There was one for sweets, and the bloke mumbled, with a deflated lack of enthusiasm that has stuck with me for 50 years, "Boy... Do they taste zingy."

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE: THE DIRTIEST BUSINESS (1977) Mike falls in love with a young Russian telepath, but the KGB have other plans for her... blimey, what an ending there!

After years of bouncing off it, I’m suddenly deep into Beto’s Fritz stuff. Pretty much caught up with L&R and Psychodrama Illustrated, so I’ve headed back to High Soft Lisp. Great stuff to whip out on the commute

TOMORROW! And THE DAY AFTER THAT!

COLOSSIVE CARTOGRAPHY 0 IS HERE! Yes, it's a Colossive Cartography about how to make a Colossive Cartography from our format-hacking hero @willconway.bsky.social How to Make a Turkish Map Fold is yours for just £2 at colossive.com #zines #bookarts #colossivecartographies

The only acceptable way to leave #CPFC... a masterclass from #JoelWard. From Player Out! Ten Notable Exits from Crystal Palace FC - our little zine that's yours for just £3 at colossive.com (And now, if you'll excuse us, we've got a football match to watch 😱🦅❤️💙)