Colossive Press

Hello new followers! We're a two-person, two-cat nano-press working from a dining table in sunny South London. We publish an insanely eclectic range of books, comics and zines, including our Colossive Cartographies series (73 titles and counting). (And thanks to the mighty @ironspike.bsky.social)

Happy #NationalBlackCatDay from our feline CEOs Gertie and Gracie… 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

This is very good.

More Halloween reading. My popular ghosty tome 'Ghost Stories I Remember' @colossive.com Illustrated true accounts of my own paranormal encounters can be grabbed for a fiver here.... colossive.com/product/ghos...

This perked up the spirits a little, anyway: a lovely display of our @colossive.com goodies in the wonderful @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace #KeepFightingEvil

Next stop: South Norwood! Tomorrow! Goblins! #comics #zines #goblins

Oops! Forgot to say earlier… we’re at Winchester Comics Fair until 4.30 today. It’s all going swimmingly. You should come. #comicfair #comics #zines

The 25th Bird Dream

‘Take the protagonists of Withnail & I, make them aspiring poets and transplant them to a squat in 1980s Liverpool…soak the whole thing in the sad eternal beauty of the Blues…’ LATCHKEY by Jeff Young From Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social www.sacredparasite.com/product/jeff...

I will be on at this in November at Voce Books in Birmingham just over a months time. Storie also with Lara Pawson, Ammad Butt & Charlie Hill.....Free to attend but wise to reserve a place. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storie-exp...

TOMORROW! And THE DAY AFTER THAT!

COLOSSIVE CARTOGRAPHY 0 IS HERE! Yes, it's a Colossive Cartography about how to make a Colossive Cartography from our format-hacking hero @willconway.bsky.social How to Make a Turkish Map Fold is yours for just £2 at colossive.com #zines #bookarts #colossivecartographies

The only acceptable way to leave #CPFC... a masterclass from #JoelWard. From Player Out! Ten Notable Exits from Crystal Palace FC - our little zine that's yours for just £3 at colossive.com (And now, if you'll excuse us, we've got a football match to watch 😱🦅❤️💙)

Hold up! What’s going on here? 👀 #colossivecartographies #tradesecrets

NEXT WEEKEND! It's the Big Comics Double Header the whole world's been waiting for - and you're ALL invited... #WinchesterComicsFair poster by @lucyr-art.bsky.social #GoblinMarket poster by Mo Morrell (www.momorrell.com) #comicfair #zinefair #smallpresscomics

All set up at #SCARF - Sheffield Comic ARts Fair - alongside lots of lovely, talented comics people. We’ll all be at Trafalgar Warehouse until 5 - see you later? 😊 #comicfair #smallpresscomics #zines

Sheffield! We are HERE FOR IT!* *Watching telly in bed at 8.30pm in the Premier Inn…

Jane deserves a medal for her efforts in describing the origins and provenance of this to the Tate, who bought a copy and are trying to catalogue it (The emails themselves are a @colossive.com zine in the making)

It's the full line-up for SCARF 2026! Far too many people for me to tag in this post but WHAT A CROP 😙🤌✨ October 10th 2026 at Trafalgar Warehouse, Sheffield, S1 4JT - completely free entry, and we'll have some freebies for the first 50 punters through the door! Put it in your diaries 📒

Next stop: Sheffield! We'll be heading up to the inaugural Sheffield Comics Arts Fair on Saturday, alongside loads of amazing #smallpresscomics people. Colossive thanks to the unstoppable @chrismole.bsky.social for making it all happen. 😁📚 #comics #zines #comicfair

The Astorical Gap - new comic by me available now from the link. It opens sideways, like most of us do nowadays. Nothing to do with the Astorial Hotel. Not a normal comic. https://comics.edpinsent.com/2026/10/04/the-astorical-gap/

If you can’t find us, keep going…

As is traditional, we’ve jiggled stuff around on our table for day two of @comicartfestival.bsky.social - in the hope it will lure EVEN MORE of you to visit us at the comics marketplace in the Westmorland Campus at Kendal College… 🤞😄 Here until 5, folks! #licaf2026 #comics #zines

We’re all set up on Table 85 @comicartfestival.bsky.social - shoulder to shoulder with lots of Very Important Comics People. Here all day today and tomorrow - come and see us/them/the whole damn thing! #comics #zines #morecomicsandzines

Hurrah - it’s a lovely morning for Day One of LICAF! We’re at table 85. Just think of how much anticipation you’ll have built up by the time you get to us! See you later!

Things I saw on my walk today…

Can’t pass through Euston without giving Trim a lucky scritch

The gruelling Colossivtober UK Tour is GO! Next stop, Penge East - sorry, KENDAL!

Happy #NationalPoetryDay from Penge artist-in-residence/occasional rubbish poet Cosmo Chancer, who'd like to remind you all that his poetry #zines are available at colossive.com

I shall continue to go on about this, as it tickles me no end that my flapdoodle has been acquired by the Tate

It's 47 years to the day since #CPFC went top of the league and Mum danced round our garden in celebration. It's a scene recounted at the start of our #zine, Glad All Over - which is yours for £5 at bit.ly/gladalloverzine. £1 from every copy goes to St Christopher's hospice in memory of Mum ❤️💙

Here's a lovely thing for Saturday, a hardback version of Colossive Cartography No.8 .There's only two left on the @colossive.com webstore. So move fast and support small presses!

A CHANGE OF PLAN! We have relocated to the fourth floor of Rich Mix (nr Shoreditch High Street station)

We’re all set up at the Anarchist Bookfair: it’s taking place across a number of venues - we’re downstairs at Oxford House in Bethnal Green (E2 6HG). Come and join us!

We've just made our latest donation - £10 - to cancer support charity Maggie's Cambridge from sales of these #zines by @vjs411.bsky.social and @implausible17.bsky.social No doubt you've already bought all three of them. But if you haven't, you can put that right IMMEDIATELY at bit.ly/welovemaggies

Blimey - this has crept up on us… We’ll be heading up to Kendal for @comicartfestival.bsky.social next week - and sincerely hope you will too. (Pics from last time we were in the Lakes in 2023) #licaf #comics #zines

Happy #TelegraphPoleAppreciationDay to all those who celebrate. (And no, we're not making this up. Honestly!) To mark the occasion, here's a poem by #Penge artist-in-residence Cosmo Chancer, as featured in his latest #zine, A Year in Penge - which is yours for £3 at bit.ly/yearinpenge

(This a kind-of-second edition, having taken in some of the points in the review) colossive.com/product/croy...

A splendid magazine that also includes, unexpectedly, a review of my Croydon Spaceport solo journaling game (which I never anticipated anyone even trying to play, never mind apply critical thought to)

I don’t know what the hell we were thinking on National Potato Day this year but we somehow neglected to post Cosmo Chancer’s poem on the topic. 🫢 Cosmo’s rightly furious - but you can cheer him up by buying his #zines at colossive.com/product-tag/...

Hmm… something’s afoot at l’Atelier de Sausage Fingers 🤔

Wrighty! Wilf! Ebs! You know, we still can't believe we managed to persuade reclusive genius Tracey Pitcher to do all the illustrations for our latest #CPFC zine... Player Out! - a little #zine about 10 notable exits from the club - is yours for just £3 at colossive.com

NEXT UP! We'll be tabling @bookfairldn.bsky.social on Saturday 26th September. It's taking place across a few East London venues - and we're at the lovely Oxford House in Bethnal Green. See you all there?! #anarchistbookfair #zines #bookfair #zinefair

Our invitation was obviously lost in the post 😾 It *does* sometimes seem there's some sort of conspiracy to pretend Croydon Spaceport never existed. There's lots we could have shared

After Saturday's triumphant #Pengefest, we've just made our latest donation to St Christopher's hospice from sales of our books and #zines - £222, bringing our running total up to a whopping £5,851.36. Colossive thanks to everyone for your support! Check out our St C's titles at bit.ly/ourhospice

All set up and ready to rhumble at #Pengefest - come on down to #Penge high street for beer, food, music, stalls and a man dressed as a sausage… It’s all to raise money for #StChristophersHospice - and we’re here until 5… 🌭🍻🎵❤️

TOMORROW! PENGE! Be there. Or be somewhere else. But if you’re somewhere else, you’ll regret it…

NEXT UP! Saturday afternoon sees the triumphant return of #Pengefest to #Penge High Street. There'll be beer, food, stalls, live music and people in lederhosen. It's all in aid of St Christopher's hospice - and we'll be there, selling our books and #zines, too... See you all there!

Poor Tracey Pitcher. She was up all night drawing an uncanny likeness of Ismaila Sarr to add to our #CPFC notable exits #zine - but it turns out he’s still a Palace player. Whether he likes it or not… Grab Player Out! for £3 at colossive.com