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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 Profile pic drawn in 60 secs in the pub by Hannah Lee Miller

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 47m

If you’ve read the first two issues of Fractures, you’ll know what an amazing visual imagination Wolf has

If you haven’t… colossive.com/product-tag/...

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A Wolfgang Crowe @awolfgangcrowe.bsky.social · 10h

FRACTURES WIP'S

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JohnMBurnsArt @dortmunder6040.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Sweeney is 50 years old this year. John M Burns did this illustration for an article in the UK magazine Reveille in 1978.

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 14h

It’s like darts - but interactive! 🤯

Ideal for parties, date nights & group hangouts.
INTERACTIVE DARTS
Experience high-tech, competitive fun with friends.

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James Corcoran @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social · 21h

Stramash ‘63 my weird 60’s Glaswegian crime/ sci-fi comic is available here in print and digital

jamescorcoran.bigcartel.com

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

@vjs411.bsky.social 👋

Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 1677 Cornelius Vermuyden died in London, a Dutch-born engineer who had been tasked with draining the watery fens and levels of eastern England.

As I wrote last year, Vermuyden’s fenland exploits provide a cautionary tale for those wading into unfamiliar landscapes.

A cautionary tale from an unfamiliar landscape

Cornelius Vermuyden and the draining of the Fens

northseanexus.substack.com

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 1d

We sent out our latest newsletter this morning with details of our latest #ColossiveCartographies, #CroydonSpaceport news plus upcoming #zines and events.

If you already subscribe and opened the email, you'll know this already. But if you don't, you can read it here instead: bit.ly/colossiveoct251

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

No easy games at this level

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 2d

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

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Not mixing cross-plies and radials? Or polishing a floor and putting a rug down?!

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

LIKE SPLIT INFINITIVES!!!!!

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 2d

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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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Making the most of my day off for Mental Health Day

The front page of Jago Hazzard’s YouTube channel, showing “I really like the London Trams, and here’s why”

Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

What time are they coming on?

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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”

Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

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

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

LANCASHIRE COAST (1957)

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Tim Pilcher @timpilcher.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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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