Purgatory 22/12/2025 Bit of a year-end review for @littledeercomics.bsky.social Here’s to many more comics and hopefully a warmer shop. And well, I only get an odd shift now and then, so you should support my work too linktr.ee/detectiveken

Happy Christmas everyone! Thanks for keeping us in business another year. Will write up my annual year-in-review sometimes this week. (If you need an impromptu gift these days, I put the voucher link at the top of the webshop) littledeercomics.ie

Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".

Happy Christmas Stoneybatter! That’s a wrap for Little Deer in 2025. Back open January 6th. I put the gift cards and subscriptions at the top of the webshop because you can buy and give those electronically.

End of year recap link. I don't want to look at it anymore i spent too long on it, so if there is spelling or grammar mistakes dont @ me. This is just a casual 2025 recap. - Digital Disk Division Updates - 2026 release roadmap - Festival report - Other things peow.studio/blog/2025-re...

Last day open in 2025! Only going to close the shop briefly around 2 for a last post office run of the year. But otherwise open until 5! littledeercomics.ie

Love to wander around the shop and find new gems I've never heard of. Today I'm cracking up at Joe Brainard - comics on comics!

took a drive from the midlands to visit @littledeercomics.bsky.social for the first time and oh my godddd i need to come back every single time i'm in dublin 💖

Just another few minutes and @detectiveken.bsky.social is done for the year. There’s just two more days left and we close for the holidays. For Ken, it’s been good being here the odd time, here’s to brighter days and a (hopefully) better world.

Called into @littledeercomics.bsky.social to say hello to @detectiveken.bsky.social and he wouldn't let me leave until I bought all this.

It’s big recommendation day! Starting with the ever popular Sacred Bodies by @verface.bsky.social A brilliant little book about finding connection with an unknown partner, overcoming and embracing troubled pasts and just a fantastic snapshot of a larger world. littledeercomics.ie/products/sac...

Morning one and all. @detectiveken.bsky.social is here one final time this year ready to provide comics on this winter solstice. Too dark out? Cold? We've got the webshop for you too. littledeercomics.ie

Updated Google so people can see we’ll be closed from Wednesday the 24th until January 6th. @detectiveken.bsky.social will be Guest Shopkeeping Sunday 10:30-4 And Kat will be Guest Shopkeeping Monday Then I’m back Tuesday to close out the year! littledeercomics.ie

No Stoneybatter Christmas is complete without a panettone from Sorrento Take Away! When you shop local the money stays local! In this case two streets over! littledeercomics.ie

Music new arrivals! Logging movies next! littledeercomics.ie

Logging Not-Comics and making inroads on January rent! Having January rent made would make for a very Happy Christmas indeed! Here until 4 and online all the time! We have loads of comics, music and movies in stock! littledeercomics.ie

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

Open this last Saturday before Christmas 10:30-4 and reminding you about our subscriptions! The December subscription went out long enough ago that I hope I’m not spoiling any surprises as subscribers should have received theirs by now!

New Arrivals! Friday night party night logging books and doing tax stuff. Woooo! Shop will be open Saturday 10:30-4 and until then you can shop all night at littledeercomics.ie

Surprise! It’s a postcard of our shopfront by Kat! €2, or if your order is more than €100 I’ll toss one in! littledeercomics.ie

A family member pointed out that all my kid subcategories weren’t in the webshop menu so I fixed that! Next year I’ll sort out the Kiddos section properly, Past Matt used to put everything in the Kiddos section! littledeercomics.ie

Just one last BIG bill left to pay for 2025, our annual Dublin City Council rates! After that just a few tiny bills, oh and January rent. And maybe after that a paycheck for myself? The dream! Made great inroads yesterday to ending the year debt free! Five shopping days left! littledeercomics.ie

Pulling the overnight orders and highlighting our serials! If you’ve followed Little Deer for years, you know I don’t have the shelf space or budget to maintain serials (much to the disappointment of young manga fans)

RTÉ Lyric FM playing the Christmas cartoon hits! Here until 1 & 3-5 this fine last-Friday-before-Christmas! littledeercomics.ie

Wanted to recommend a selection of comics set at Christmas, but Cassandra Darke was the only one I could think of! So then I thought, what selection COULD it be part of? So I present: masterclasses in cartooning! Perfect gifts for the cartoonist in your life or the inner artist in yourself!

Classic impromptu review with shopkeeper Kat! This time it's The Sickness Vol. 1 by @jennacha.bsky.social & @lonnienadler.bsky.social

Not-Comics Restocks! Some of which already hoovered up by Christmas shoppers! Open until 7 and online all the time! littledeercomics.ie

We’re in the ‘Batter today for Slice café’s Guinness-braised beef cheek sandwich, with a carrot and cranberry sauce, ranch, gravy and an amazing Brussels sprout kimchi. My favourite thing about going to Slice is stopping into @littledeercomics.bsky.social next door for a few bits afterwards.

Pulling orders here on our last Thursday of 2025! Reminder that our last day is Tuesday the 23rd and then we’ll take a break while the kids are off school and reopen January 6th. littledeercomics.ie

we want your art all over our printers. submissions are open for work NOW for our 2026 publishing year docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A Christmas miracle! I wasn’t expecting this book until January, but here it is! The latest @peow.bsky.social release! In store and online and as always, because we’re too small a shop to handle the mad Peow rushes, Ireland-only! littledeercomics.ie

Deliveries! Including one surprise I wasn’t expecting until next year! Last deliveries of the year maybe? I think there might be another small one. littledeercomics.ie

ACK, lines at the post office, will be back when I’m back! Until then! littledeercomics.ie

Well done to the Little Deer and @dublincomicarts.bsky.social gang for getting to the #savethecomplex march!

Also sprach Zarathustra littledeercomics.ie/products/lit...

I’m no Holly Pereira but we gotta do SOMETHING! Thank you to everyone marching right now to #savethecomplex I can’t afford to close the shop which kind of underlines how precarious the arts are in Dublin!

Putting away restocks and then logging new arrivals! Here until 1 & 3-5! But fine to shop online instead if you’re attending the #savethecomplex march at noon!

That’s my decision made easy! Last day open for Little Deer will be December 23rd If you think I’m opening Christmas Eve without a coffee and mince pie from Slice you’re mad!

Wildboars and hay bales 🐗 #sciart

Hiii everyone I'd love to get up to 550 a month on my Patreon by the end of the year so if you could share this post...much appreciated <3 Im a freak and I make comics

One last big Restock to close out 2025! One week left! -ish! Haven’t decided which day is my last day, hopefully it’ll be like a bakery and when there’s no more bread left it’s time to close: littledeercomics.ie

New Arrivals from Banzaï Editions! Closed for lunch but back 3-5 and the webshop doesn’t require sustenance! littledeercomics.ie/collections/...

This wonderful made video by Rón Maguire highlights how integral The Complex has been for DCAF's growth #SaveTheComplex

Restocks from Banzaï Editions! In store and online! Here until 1 & 3-5! littledeercomics.ie/collections/...

Restocks for our Local Comic Creators section! In store and online! littledeercomics.ie

Delivery Day! And two last boxes of the year due tomorrow! Logging as fast as I can! littledeercomics.ie

Waking up to the news today that now AnPost says TODAY is the last day they’re guaranteeing parcel posting before Christmas?? Sorry for the short notice! I’m having a hard time believing that’s true littledeercomics.ie

Using my time behind the desk to finish my letter to Jack Chambers TD imploring him to help #savethecomplex - please write your own or use the wonderful example on their website. Also, come to the rally on Wednesday! @dublincomicarts.bsky.social needs this space, and so does the city! -Kat

No sandwich was found got a veggie burrito instead. Anyway we are back open! Here until 4!

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