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Goblin Purwin
@goblinpurwin.bsky.social
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Comic book artist, writer and illustrator
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This line was scrawled in the margin of a notebook as I watched the news after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica. COP30 is bringing it to mind again...
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The zine I failed to finish for EZF is finally in my shop! Printed in two colour riso by the wonderful folks @footprintcoop.bsky.social.

CATCOPHONY!
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November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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There are a thousand comics half finished in this notebook. These flags are joyful when joy is hard to find...
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Thanks to everyone who stopped by on Saturday to say hello. See you next year @edinburghzinefair!
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Edinburgh Zine Fair is tomorrow! I spent all month writing and making a thing that couldn't possibly be finished in time. I regret nothing. Come along and enjoy new lino cuts, old Shenks and awkward conversation! #edinburghzinefair

EZF image by @tomhumberstone.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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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
September 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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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.
September 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Happy Birthday for yesterday, Leslie Feinberg

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A portrait of Leslie Feinberg in pink watercolour and blue pencil
September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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
September 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Little things done all together make big things happen. Draw together for G4za #cartoonistsforgaza
August 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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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August 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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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.
August 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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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.
August 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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.
August 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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.
August 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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@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!
August 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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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
July 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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From February 2024 and now more than ever...
Single panel of a comic. Animals hold protest signs reading: Peacekeepers on the ground! Stop the weaponised starvation. Ceasefire Now. End the Occupation.
July 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Thoughts, thoughts on country walks...
Four panel comic. Panel 1: A cat with butterfly wings against a starry background. TEXT: The insects... Panel 2: A cat with be stripes and wings against a spotty background. TEXT: Will go first... Panel 3: A cat with ladybird wings against a comet background. TEXT: And we shall follow... Panel 4: A cat with Deaths Head moth wings against a skull backdrop. TEXT: Quickly after.
July 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Four panel comic. Panel 1: A little cat is surrounded by lightning bolts. TEXT: Palestine action humiliated you and put paint on a plane Panel 2: The cat is bigger and wearing a red superhero eye mask. The lightning bolts have become flames. TEXT: You continue to aid and abet a genocide. Panel 3: The cat now has a flag cape and the flames reach across the panel behind them. TEXT: Exactly who is terrorising who? Panel 4: The cat's cape is a Palestinian flag and is shouting "Free Palestine".
June 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Hope Cats Rising Up.
Four panel comic. Panel 1: A cat is resisting a fireball surrounded coloured stars. Text: You'll come for us with your Lawless Deportations. Panel 2: A cat beneath a cloud with falling fireballs. Text: And starvation blockades. Panel 3: A cheeky cat. Triangles and stars surround. Text: and we will give you... Panel 4: A joyful cat with rainbow and stars Text: Inexhaustible Resistance
June 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Stop it. You're making the kittens cry...
Four panel comic. Panel 1: A cat exploding out of space. Text: We will lose... Panel 2: A screaming cat. Text: This World... Panel 3: Three crying kittens. Text: To the arrogance, avarice and egos... Panel 4: Cat skull on a blue and red background. Text: of violent men...
June 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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f r u s t r a t i o n c a t s
May 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Stop Arming Israel. Free Gaza. Free Palestine.
May 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Battle Cats
Four panel comic Panel 1: A blue cat with two tiny howling red creatures and a head full of stars. TEXT: Sometimes I am filled with hope Panel 2: A screaming red cat with flaming eyes, crying lightning bolts. TEXT: And sometimes I am filled with rage Panel 3: Two cat jelly beans, the blue star filled hope cat and the flaming red rage cat meet in a fiery blue and red blaze. TEXT: And sometimes I am filled with both Panel 4: The two cats inside a cage of yellow flame devour one another. TEXT: And they are fighting to the death
May 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM