This is great stuff from our Zara!

Spend your Winter Nights brushing up on your art. Brighton based graphic novelist @zaraslattery.bsky.social runs a 5 week course to improve your rendering techniques. £10 / hour, a great opportunity to learn from a master visual storyteller. Starts 3rd Nov: www.tickettailor.com/events/inksp...

Come along to our monthly meet-up tomorrow

Cartoon County is a national (even international) space so we tend to fixate on the Cartoon more than the County, but in this case we really are asking for locals’ attention: Please look at this survey on what our home town’s cultural needs www.bhculturealliance.org.uk

Our pal Ilya had a lovely book launch for Romo the Wolf Boy at the Cartoon Museum this evening. If you’ve not bought your copy yet, you are only hurting Future You.

Oh look. Join us on Monday

Next Monday 27 October 6.30pm @panelborders.bsky.social chats live with Liza N Cooper (www.siberianlizard.com) about top webcomic Memms & Feefs and her work with Simon Tofield on 360° videos of Simon’s Cat Q&A from 7:30 The Walrus Ship St Brighton BN1 1AD in The Hideaway at the back of the pub

Many of our chums are exhibiting and visiting today's Goblin Market comic fair in Norwood Hill. This 'skymonkey wanted to train up and partake of some comicky comestibles, but is creme crackered after our own market yesterday Can you go and tell us about it, please? stanleyarts.org/event/goblin...

Yesterday’s Autumn Fair was a delight. Lots of happy stallholders and shoppers. Many good chats on the floor/in the pub. Thank you, friends. We hope to run seasonal Markets 2026 if the debrief is as positive as the vibes were yesterday. Adding activities and promotion now we’ve Proof of Concept

🔥Yay! All set up for the @cartooncounty.bsky.social comics take over of Brighton’s Open Market. Come say hi. 👋

Brighton Open Market. Buy my wares. I brought too many wares down the hill and I’m not looking forward to the journey home!

Myf’s comics are bound to sell fast to the more general audience passing through the market than we tend to get at comics fairs - so come early to avoid missing out on your copy

Can we get a signal boost this evening or in the morning from comics sites like @downthetubes.bsky.social and @brokenfrontier.bsky.social maybe? There may be comic readers who fancy a day trip to Brighton…

Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. SATURDAY OCT 18 20+ comickers and cartoonists selling their wares The Open Market London Road, Brighton (a short walk from the train, multiple bus routes, undercover in a food and drink oasis) Meet us Buy our wares (we have so many wares) Pick up some fruit and veg

This is a beautiful comic!

As with all these things, I am up in London away from this amazing event. You should go though as it will be awesome!!

I’ll be selling my own comics at this and I found a box of friends’ comix from a previous event so will be selling them on the community table (and sending the money to the creators of course) There really are some great comics to discover

You’re spoiled for choice this weekend #comics folk If you can’t come to Brighton, #Inkblot Festival is happening on Saturday in Manchester And on Saturday South London has the first #Goblin Market Both look absolutely amazing

This Saturday October 18, Cartoon County is in residence at the undercover Open Market on London Road, Brighton Meet over 20 great cartoonists and comickers and pick up some great reading 10am till 5:30pm #comics #brighton

This Saturday come along to the first, #free #Brighton @cartooncounty.bsky.social #comics fair at The Open Market. Local creators will be there to sell their work, inc. @streakofpith.bsky.social, @danbellcomics.bsky.social, @trumpton.bsky.social, and more. Info at tinyurl.com/brightoncomics

very cool #CCIC #comics activity over on Insta www.instagram.com/reel/DPEB1c6...

This is a delight to wake up to see

Come along on Monday (a week earlier than our usual schedules), because this will be great (and personally because this skymonkey has to miss it for some personal duties, and would love to hear how the evening goes!)

Sorry that @cartooncounty.bsky.social has (for now, anyway) been defeated by zoom bombers. We’ve stopped streaming in the face of hardcore p*rn! Although thankfully all the interviews are later broadcast on @panelborders.bsky.social

🔊JOIN US 22/09! 🪶💬 Dylan & I will chat lifelong comics addictions, book to film adaptations & collaborating on (frankly terrifying) art for his debut feature film THE THING WITH FEATHERS with Benedict Cumberbatch @cartooncounty.bsky.social Brighton (My new home town 🥳)

September Cartoon County 1 week early Mon 22 The Walrus Ship Street Brighton BN1 1AD @panelborders.bsky.social talks to @lucysullivan.bsky.social and film director Dylan Southern about the new film The Thing With Feathers (Benedict Cumberbatch 'draws' Lucy's nightmarish crow who haunts his dreams)

Set up at Railway Approach, Newhaven BN9 0DF (1 minute walk from Town station in a tent near the kids’ playground) Here 3-7pm

Packed and ready to take my wares to #Newhaven Town to sell this afternoon Who knew I had so many wares… #zines and #comics and #prints are heavy! Come along and see all the great zinesters and enjoy reading them at the #microbrewery next door @rtszines always pull together an eclectic mix

I'll have a table at this on Friday (I've not shouted about it before, because I am calendar blind and didn't realise it was THIS FRIDAY!)

Our pals at the Rose Tinted Zine Fair have another pop-up event in Newhaven this Friday (29th) #zines #newhaven #art Newhaven Sidings 3pm til 7pm Fri 29th of August 2-minute walk from Newhaven Town station and bus stop Bar and café next door

Cartoonists for Gaza – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham. Check out this amazing gallery of work here: www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoonists-... #cartoonistsforg4za

Cartoonists launch Cartoonists For #Gaza to respond to the humanitarian crisis in #Palestine. The artwork protests violence, calls for awareness, and demands action through visual storytelling and dissent. #cartoonistsforg4za

Artists include @martinrowson.bsky.social, @hotelfred.bsky.social, Bryan and many others! Organised by cartoonists @krentable.bsky.social and Rachael Ball Broken Frontier will be showing the work on their website in the next week at www.brokenfrontier.com #cartoonistsforg4za

#cartoonistsforg4za Please consider signing: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-isr...

A couple of smaller organisations doing great work getting aid into 🍉 allourrelations.co.uk supporting families & getting food to community kitchens, & www.pc4r.org providing phone credit. And for any of my locals, brightonpsc.org are campaigning here. #cartoonistsforg4za

The past 22 months have been educational to say the least. 'Things I understand now...' is my piece for #cartoonistsforg4za Use this hashtag to find other artists taking part and please support, donate and share @medicalaidpal.bsky.social @gazasoupkitchen.bsky.social @naamoduk.bsky.social

I stand in unity with my UK colleagues, follow #cartoonistsforg4za

#cartoonistsforg4za @brokenfrontier.bsky.social

#cartoonistsforg4za I was asked to participate today to make art supporting Gaza, & it's brave people. I decided I wanted to make a design supporing Gaza Skate Team. The original art is on paper, A3 sized. Available for 300 pounds, funds to the Gaza skate team. Free Palestine! Save Gaza!

Today I join other cartoonists in action, solidarity and hope that these atrocities will end v soon. #CartoonistsForG4za

Today, many #comics artists are standing up for 🍉 - see their images by following the hashtag #cartoonistsforg4za. If you feel strongly about the atrocities happening as we speak, tell your MP via writetothem.com.

UK cartoonists launch “Cartoonists For Gaza” to respond to the humanitarian crisis, including Martin Rowson, Rachael House, Kate Evans, The Rickard Sisters, Roger Langridge, Bryan Talbot, James Sturm, Nick Abadzis, Lauren Weinstein, Hannah Berry, and Darryl Cunningham #cartoonistsforg4za

Just stop. #cartoonistsforg4za

#Comics artists are standing up for 🍉 - check out #cartoonistsforg4za. One action group has been proscribed, meaning it is illegal to show support for them. But there are always ways to raise your voice.

Follow the hashtag... #cartoonistsforg4za spelt just like that on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, Substack, Threads and Bluesky as they go up.