Report! “It Oozed Creativity, Comics Community Spirit and FUN” – Yo Comics! Proves that Kids Can’t Get Enough of Comics. @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social looks back on the much praised South London @yocomicsfair.bsky.social comics fair for kids. www.brokenfrontier.com/yo-comics-fa...

The Yo Comics @yocomicsfair.bsky.social fair is MOBBED by children already and the doors only opened 30 minutes ago! (But they do get up early)

ATTENTION! @yocomicsfair.bsky.social is happening NOW @stanleyarts.bsky.social - come along for loads of fab comics and to laugh at the funny man with the sign… #downwiththiskindofthing

Brand new! And ready for @yocomicsfair.bsky.social tomorrow! "Oh No...Ghosts In Things" 24 new ghosts in 24 new things (sort of)

Set up at @yocomicsfair.bsky.social which is already heaving

We had an amazing day - sold out 'Oh No Ghosts In Things' and 'This Is Happening, Pal' (which sounds more impressive than it is - that's 15 comics altogether). More importantly the energy and excitement in the room was amazing, so many people actively interested in comics and zines.

Thank you so much to Hannah, @eggyhelen.bsky.social and @deadlyknitshade.bsky.social for organising, and also to all of the volunteers (including Team @colossive.com and @garethbrookes.bsky.social ) for making the day such a success.

🚨 YO COMICS IS TOMORROW! 🚨 Just one itty bitty day until Yo Comics Fair roars into South Norwood like an inky Godzilla! Are you ready for Yo? 🏫 Where? Stanley Arts, SE25 🗓️ When? 23rd March 2025 ⏰ What time? 11 - 5pm ✏️ Who's it for? Everyone 🚀 Tickets: FREE Just come along on the day!

🚨 2 DAYS TIL YO COMICS FAIR 🚨 Just two days to go until Yo Comics Fair appears in a cloud of comics at Stanley Arts. Woo! We're herding tables for our tablers today. We'll definitely have them tamed by Sunday. 🏫 Stanley Arts, SE25 🗓️ 23rd March 2025 ⏰ 11 - 5pm ✏️ Who? Everyone 🎟️ FREE Just come along

Don't forget to go to @yocomicsfair.bsky.social on Sunday!!

Important advice 💯🫡

This weekend! South London! It’s @yocomicsfair.bsky.social! So many amazing comics creators young and old, plus me and Logan with THIS Hot Fresh Nonsense:

🚨3 DAYS TIL YO COMICS FAIR 🚨 It's the final countdown! There are just 3 days until Yo Comics Fair crash lands at Stanley Arts! EEEK!!! 🏫 Where: Stanley Arts, SE25 🗓️ When? 23rd March 2025 ⏰ What time? 11-5pm ✏️ Who's it for? Everyone 🚀 Tickets: FREE Just come along on the day! No tickets needed

I'll be volunteering at this (attempting to keep the uneasy peace between the Girl Guides and the Woodcraft Folk)

SOON... 👀

Don't forget, pals, that this Sunday March 23rd is the very first @yocomicsfair.bsky.social Yo Comics Fair in London. A new event on the calendar aimed squarely at kids. www.brokenfrontier.com/yo-comics-ne...

We're enrolling for this course - 'Poetry, People and Places'. I look forward to meeting you and doing wonderful creative work on poems and places. clpe.org.uk/training/cou...

Print copies of MEGA ROBO VILLINOOS are here! And they look rather lovely, I have to say. (Thanks @comicprintinguk.bsky.social!) Available only at @yocomicsfair.bsky.social next Sunday!

1️⃣🗓️🎉 It's just one week until Yo Comics Fair! The countdown begins! Bring your comics-loving pals! 🏫 Where: Yo Comics Fair, Stanley Arts, SE25 🗓️ When? 23rd March 2023 ⏰ What time? 11-11:45am ✏️ Who's it for? Everyone 🚀 Tickets: FREE Just come along on the day! Entry is free!

Really excited!!

This is so exciting!

Announcing MEGA ROBO VILLINOOS, a special mash-up bootleg comic we’ve made specially for @yocomicsfair.bsky.social next weekend! Read all about it in this week’s newsletter at neillcameron.substack.com !

It's me! Eek!

💥TEAM YO COMICS INTRO! Say hello to Helen Jones @eggyhelen.bsky.social one of Yo Comics Fair’s creators and organisers. Helen works in education, and loves reading comics, and running comics clubs and workshops. As you can probably tell, she really is into comics. 🚀 Find Helen at Yo on March 23rd

So it's the @goshcomics.bsky.social and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw tonight online here on Bluesky. How does it work? How can you join in? The basic details are here: www.brokenfrontier.com/drink-draw-m... But here's a little thread on how to "play" if you've always fancied a go. #GoshBFDD

This looks like so much fun! 😊

💥TEAM YO COMICS INTRO! Say hello to Hannah Lee Miller, one of Yo’s creators and organisers. She's loved comics since she was a kid, and wants to bring comics joy to the kids in her Croydon community. By day she works in animation, making kid's TV shows. 🚀 Find Hannah at Yo on March 23rd 2025

👀 IT'S A SIGN! YOU SHOULD GO TO YO! 👀 We spent this weekend beavering away on loads of lovely signs so everyone will be able to find their way around Yo! Paint-covered high fives to the volunteers! 🚀 Find more comics chaos at Yo Comic Fair at Stanley Arts, March 23rd 2025 from 11pm to 5pm!

👀 YO COMICS THINGS TO DO 👀 There are sooooo many things to do at YO! We thought we'd list a few for you. Just drop in and join in! No tickets needed! Plus if you missed out on our workshops we now have wait lists! Link in bio! 🚀 Find all these activities at Yo Comic Fair at Stanley Arts, March 23

Lovely article in the Croydonist about Yo Comics! www.croydonist.co.uk/yo-comics/ @yocomicsfair.bsky.social

Swap table rules: * 1 comic for 1 comic (or 1 piece of comic art) * Your comic must be made by you or needs permission from the creator * Keep your comic content family friendly, inclusive and kind. The swap table is for everyone. * Remember to photocopy or photograph your comic before you swap!

🔄 YO COMICS FUN! The Great Comics Swap Table! Made a great comic? Want a great comic by someone else? We have the table for you! Bring along your kid-friendly comic, and our super cool Swap Table Team will help you swap for a comic someone else has made.

This Saturday! The Whitstable Children’s Festival of Books! Come along and make some awesome comics! In Whitstable! www.talesonmoonlane.co.uk/product/neil...

😌 YO COMICS CHILL OUT LIBRARY! Shhhhh! *whispers* Want a bit of quiet time with a comic? Yo are proud to offer our comfy Chill Out Comics Library. Get away from all the BANG POP WHEEEEE and curl up with a story. 🚀 Find the Chill Out Comics Library at Yo Comic Fair at Stanley Arts, March 23rd 2025

⏰ It's nearly workshop ticket time! ⏰ Our brilliant workshops go live in 1 day on Saturday 1st March at 12pm. Link in the Yo Comics bio! 🏫 Where: Yo Comics Fair, Stanley Arts, SE25 🗓️ When? 23rd March 2023 ✏️ Who's it for? Children aged 7-14 years old

Over the next couple of days I'll be preparing the third issue of Louie Cohen's Jimmy Hotdog for print (doing all the colouring, relettering etc). The aim is to get it ready for @yocomicsfair.bsky.social, since Louie is 10 and therefore making work more appropriate for the intended audience.

🎨 YO COMICS WORKSHOP! The Animal Jobs Game with @catdrawerjim.bsky.social! Play the animal job game! What kind of job would a dog be good at? Where would you find a croc clocking in? What kind of chore would a wild boar be best at? 🏫 Yo Comics Fair, Stanley Arts 🚀 Tickets go live on March 1st

⏰ It's nearly workshop ticket time! ⏰ Our brilliant workshops go live in 3 days on Saturday 1st March at 12pm. Link in the Yo Comics bio! 🏫 Where: Yo Comics Fair, Stanley Arts, SE25 🗓️ When? 23rd March 2023 ✏️ Who's it for? Children aged 7-14 years old

💥YO COMICS EXHIBITOR! Say hello to Comics Youth who will be bringing their comics and zines to Yo! Comics Youth is a Merseyside creative community organisation led by young people, for young people. 🚀 Find Comics Youth at Yo Comic Fair at Stanley Arts, March 23rd 2025

🎨 YO COMICS WORKSHOP! MAKING COMICS TOGETHER with Neill and Logan Cameron! If there’s one thing more fun than making comics, it’s making comics TOGETHER! Join @neillcameron.bsky.social and Logan for a fabulous comics workshop! Where: Stanley Arts When? 23 March 2023 🚀 Tickets go live on March 1st

💥YO COMICS EXHIBITOR! Flying Eye Books @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social is coming to Yo! Flying Eye specialises in illustrated books – including comics and graphic novels, focusing on storytelling to help young readers fall in love with books 🚀 Find Flying Eye at Yo Comic Fair at Stanley Arts, March 23

🎨 YO COMICS WORKSHOP! The 100% guaranteed guide to making a story with Woodrow Phoenix! A super simple, can't fail guide to making a story that works every time with wonderful @mrphoenix.bsky.social! 🏫 Yo Comics Fair, Stanley Arts, SE25 🗓️ 23rd March 2023 ⏰ 1-2pm 🚀 Tickets go live on March 1st

1️⃣🗓️🎉 It's just one month until Yo Comics Fair! Start counting down! We can't wait! Bring your comics-loving pals! Grab your best ideas for brilliant stories! Prepare for some top class scribbling! Store up your extra exclamation marks!!!!!!!! 🚀 See you all at Stanley Arts, March 23rd 2025!

🎨 YO COMICS WORKSHOP! Invent brilliant new comic characters with Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social ✏️ Learn comic skills from the weird and wonderful brain behind Derek the Sheep, Julius Zebra, and many other beloved, bonkers comic characters. 🗓️ 23rd March 2025 🚀 Tickets live March 1st

🎨 YO COMICS WORKSHOP! Let's Draw Toons with Tor and Marc! In this fun workshop you'll get the opportunity to create you own cartoon characters with comic legends Tor Freeman and Marc Jackson @marcmakescomics.bsky.social Where: Yo Comics Fair When? 23rd March 2025 🚀 Tickets live on March 1st

I think this week’s Donut Squad proves once and for all that I know what 7-year-olds want to read, and that that thing is ‘Fellini homages’.

On my website, at the 'Blog' button, are ideas for writing poems. At the bottom of each workshop, there's a link to the previous one, so you can scan through them all like that. www.michaelrosen.co.uk/blog/

We've teamed up with Kinship and @drlisacherry.bsky.social to bring kinship carers workshops all about using stories to discuss emotions and identity - and there are free books available for attendees! 📚 Book your free spot: 📅 26 March: bit.ly/4k1JmNG 📅 27 March: bit.ly/3QkPkeY

💥YO COMICS EXHIBITOR! Jim Smith is the keelest kids' book comma-putter and page-numberer in the whole wide world amen. Jim is also the genius behind the bestselling Barry Loser series and the brilliant Super Weird Mysteries series. 🚀 Find Jim at Yo Comic Fair at Stanley Arts, March 23rd 2025

💥YO COMICS EXHIBITOR! We are thrilled to have Kingsdale Foundation School joining us at Yo! On the day Kingsdale will be exhibiting zines from alumni students, and mini zine projects from Digital Explorers Club and Grapf Club. 🚀 Find Kingsdale at Yo Comic Fair at Stanley Arts, March 23rd 2025!