Moin @altona93fanzines.bsky.social , our order with paper tressures from London-Penge arrived on Xmas Eve🤩🎄 Thanx to @colossive.com for these wonderful zines and the fast & well packed delivery🫶 Have a good new year and please keep making fanzines🙏 #printisnotdead

Happy Christmas, Colossiveers!

2025 has been a funny year with various ups and downs, but one thing that delighted me was some of my flapdoodle becoming the basis of a wonderful album. Check it out, if you haven't already! Huge thanks to all at @tcfsr.bsky.social tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/the-cr...

We've just made our first donation to Kids Saving the Rainforest from sales of Hit Escape by Michelle Kent. Michelle's Colossive Cartography is a little holiday you can carry in your pocket. Grab the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive68 - all royalties go to this wonderful Costa Rican wildlife rescue

We've just made our latest donation - £15 - to @friends-earth.bsky.social from sales of our 62nd Colossive Cartography, The School Run by Harriet Merry Harriet is donating all her royalties (£1 per sale) to help protect the planet and everyone on it. 😊 Grab the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive62

ICYMI: The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace is launching the South London Writing School, offering a scholarship in tribute to the late co-owner Jonathan Main and monthly masterclass Sundays featuring Diana Evans and Evie Wyld 👇 #BookSky

Oh, how lovely! Penge artist-in-residence Cosmo Chancer has written a special poem to mark the time of year... For more of Cosmo's nonsense, head to colossive.com/product-tag/cosmo-chancer/ #cosmochancer #penge #zines

The ghosts of an eighties childhood Christmas past in 'Ghost Stories I Remember' @colossive.com colossive.com/product/ghos...

Don't forget! We have signed copies of The Magic Farm and Other Queer Tales [email protected] - three moving and inspiring oral histories from #queer pioneers in south-east England in the 1970s and 1980s - for just £7 at bit.ly/magicfarmbook Everyone you know would love it for Christmas! 🎅

Here's a quick reminder that our photo books and #zines by the late, great Gordon Gibbens - or 'Dad' as I tend to call him - are available at bit.ly/gordongibbensbooks They're all sold in aid of St Christopher's hospice - and make very nice Christmas presents. Just saying...

We sent out our latest newsletter yesterday with details of THREE new launches and various other flim-flam and flapdoodle. Still don't subscribe? Suit yourself, pal. You can read it all here instead: bit.ly/colossivedec25 #croydonspaceport #zines #colossivepress

Happy #Caturday everyone! Our joint CEOs Gertie and Gracie are well chuffed with their new #CroydonSpaceport CD (and definitely not just because we've hidden some kibble behind it). Find out how to grab your copy at colossive.com. In association with @tcfsr.bsky.social. Kibble not included.

(Almost) everything CROYDON SPACEPORT, including the new CD by British Experimental Rocket Group is available in the ULTIMATE FUN PACK from @colossive.com

Tom and the team working hard to get the truth about CROYDEN SPACEPORT out to the public

It's a huge day for every devotee of Croydon Spaceport! After years of rumour, the legendary CROYDON SPACEPORT TAPES have finally been made public, thanks to our colleagues at @tcfsr.bsky.social To pick up a copy (CD and/or download), head to TCFSR on Bandcamp: tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/the-cr...

2 cartographies I made. 'The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs.....' (2025) and 'Mirror Mirror' (2021) £2 each @colossive.com with proceeds donated to St Christopher's Hospice Charity. You can grab em ere....! colossive.com/product/badl...

Has anyone else heard those strange, otherworldly sounds that have been coming from #CroydonSpaceport over recent weeks? It sounds like something really quite incredible is on its way... All will be revealed tomorrow morning! 🚀 #BERG #committeeforsonicresearch #croydon

Has anyone else heard those strange, otherworldly sounds that have been coming from #CroydonSpaceport over recent weeks? It sounds like something really quite incredible is on its way... All will be revealed tomorrow morning! 🚀 #BERG #committeeforsonicresearch #croydon

I had a lot of fun writing this new single-sheet Public Collectors zine: "Why Aren't People Buying Your Books and Zines at Fairs?" Reprinted in full here. It's free if you ask for it when you order from halfletterpress.com or you can get it in this set I made: halfletterpress.com/3-single-she...

We really don't want to be those "Ooh, secret project!" bores, but a couple of things might be coming up in the new year that will take us in a very unexpected direction... (And that's on top of what we're announcing on Friday) Exciting!

'Round and round and round he goes. Where's his hat gone? Nobody knows...' Yes, it's new Colossive Cartography time again! The 71st in the series, AUTOLOOP, is by the amazing illustrator, designer and #comics creator Matt Canning - and it's yours for just £2 at bit.ly/colossive71 #zines #bookarts

👀 Keep ‘em peeled tomorrow morning for our SECOND new launch of the week… #colossivecartographies #zines #smallpresscomics

NEW LAUNCH! Hydrology is a hardback, handmade, double-sided leporello book from our Sausage Fingers. It features photos of reflections from the docks and waterways of the Isle of Dogs - and it's yours for £6 at bit.ly/hydrologyzine #colossivepress #zine #bookarts

My patreon is back from its hiatus, now officially following progress of The Hollow Work. Art's already done for the sections 'Silksoft Mass', 'Archean' and 'Caves 1&2'. 'Ghost Gaze' and 'Junk Jet' (wip from which is posted here) are under way. Sign up for free (or for money) at patreon.com/grthink

The original Colossive Cartographer! (We knew @averyhill.bsky.social would get on the bus eventually)

Three Colossive launches set for one week? The nay-sayers insist it can't be done. But we're determined to prove them wrong. Keep 'em peeled for: 🔥 Our 71st Colossive Cartography 📘 A new #bookarts beauty from Sausage Fingers 🚀 Something VERY exciting from #CroydonSpaceport #zines #morezines

Back on it for another day at Brighton Art Book Fair. Come and see us - and lots of inspiring #bookarts people - at Phoenix Art Space until 5pm today. #colossivepress #zines

Good morning from our joint CEO Gracie…

Don’t forget to ask if you’d like to see the special stuff we keep behind the counter at the #Brighton Art Book Fair 🦅 😉 #cpfc #zines (Or just head to bit.ly/cpfczines)

All set up at Brighton Art Book Fair - with minutes to spare until opening! Come and see us - and lots of lovely #bookarts people - at Phoenix Art Space from 11-5 today and tomorrow… #zines #brighton

Happy #Caturday! Our joint CEOs Gertie and Gracie were less than impressed to see us leaving the house with a suitcase this morning. But it’s OK: we’re just commuting to Brighton Art Book Fair all weekend. We’ll be back for a mid-fair scritch tonight… #zines #bookarts #brighton

This weekend! I’ll have a new thingy, along with old thingies and thingies by other people. It’ll be a hoot!

Michelle Kent is donating all royalties from her Colossive Cartography, Hit Escape, to Kids Saving the Rainforest. Michelle visited this wildlife rescue in Costa Rica with her much-missed partner Jamie and witnessed first-hand the amazing work they do. Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive68

My new cartography 'The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the drawing and runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station' @colossive.com Thanks to all who have supported it so far. £1 from each goes to St Christopher's Hospice Charity. £2 & fits into an Xmas card. colossive.com/product/badl...

Our Sausage Fingers has been working on a brand new #bookarts project which launches at #BrightonArtBookFair at the weekend - and online next week. Water lovely piece of work! He's very clever, isn't he? #colossivepress #zines

@patrickwray.bsky.social @colossive.com 👍

NEWS JUST IN!* The wonderful @patrickwray.bsky.social is now donating all royalties - that's £1 per copy - from sales of both his #ColossiveCartographies to St Christopher's hospice. Grab the #zines for £2 each at bit.ly/colossivepatrick *Actually, it came in on Thursday. But we're not CNN...

We sent out our latest newsletter this morning with details of our 70th #ColossiveCartography, an upcoming book fair and more - all of which you would already know if you subscribed. Still can't be bothered? Read it here instead: bit.ly/colossivenewsnov25 #zines #bookarts #croydonspaceport

No bloodshed so far…

We sent out our latest newsletter this morning with details of our 70th #ColossiveCartography, an upcoming book fair and more - all of which you would already know if you subscribed. Still can't be bothered? Read it here instead: bit.ly/colossivenewsnov25 #zines #bookarts #croydonspaceport

Below is the ‘Black Friday Deal’ from all small businesses: - we care - we have fun - we bring originality - we are more sustainable - we love our customers - we pay tax - we create - we still exist

My new cartography @colossive.com 'The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the drawing and runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station' aka TBDGCOOTDARITEOTLS. £2! Perfect size to slide into an xmas card. My royalties go to St Christophers Hospice Charity. £2!!!!!!! colossive.com/product/badl...

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I’ve got a little book arts-y sort of thing in the pipeline that should be making its debut here… (Planning to be a bit more careful with the craft knife this time round 🩸)

SPARE-TIME DINING-TABLE NO-BUDGET DIY SMALL PRESSES: with the arse falling out of social media, how are you getting your stuff out there? We're very proud of what we're making, but feel like we're shouting into a void (usually single-digit engagement on here, not much more on IG)

IT'S NEW COLOSSIVE CARTOGRAPHY TIME! The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station is the second contribution to the series from @patrickwray.bsky.social. And yes, that is our longest title yet. Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive70

IT'S NEW COLOSSIVE CARTOGRAPHY TIME! The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station is the second contribution to the series from @patrickwray.bsky.social. And yes, that is our longest title yet. Buy the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive70

Review! Colossive Cartographies #67 – Sheep, Wool and Crafts Are the Basis of Taran Taylor's ‘Fleece and Fibre’ Zine. @colossive.com www.brokenfrontier.com/colossive-ca...

Pssst… keep 'em peeled tomorrow morning for the launch of our latest Colossive Cartography. This one has the longest title to date, and features a guest appearance from Turnpike Lane Tube Station. What more could you ask for? #colossivecartographies #zines #bookarts

Next stop: #Brighton! We'll be tabling - alongside lots of #bookarts greats - at Brighton Art Book Fair on December 6th and 7th. See you all there! (PS We'll keep the #CPFC #zines under the table - tip us the wink if you want one... 😉🦅)