2 hours from now - our own @myfanwytristram.bsky.social is talking to @ldcomics.bsky.social this evening, as is Bruna Martini (last seen in @acesweekly.bsky.social which our founder David Lloyd publishes) and Fionnuala Doran
Get along
ldcomics.com/product/ldco...
Please repost if you hit like. Without a repost nobody else will see the thing you liked
if you have a little spare cash SPD would be glad to take it off your hands. They put a lot of unpaid work in to help promote comics
Small Press Day is back on Saturday, July 25th, 2026. #smallpressday #smallpressday2026
Let's make this the biggest one yet after last year's triumph!
smallpressday.co.uk
Mon 27 April
@jamcreative.bsky.social & @terrytoon.com tell @panelborders.bsky.social about promoting marginalised voices & protecting the rights of cartoonists from censorship & incarceration around the world
The Walrus
Ship St
Brighton BN1 1AD
7:30pm
Live stream www.youtube.com/@panelbordersvideo
Not 1 but 2 live events in the County this month
A lunch date for your diary:
1pm Fri 24 April
Presuming Eds
London Rd
Brighton BN1 4JG
@panelborders.bsky.social hosts a discussion and screening with animator/comic artist Majid Adin
www.outsavvy.com/event/34721/...
www.goodchance.org.uk/majid
Join us in person/online tomorrow evening.
This ‘skymonkey read the book last night and it is a real treat (not really a surprise as @katrionachapman.bsky.social has long been a favourite in the County)
Sad news this morning - long-time County artist, writer and playwright, Peter Poole passed away on the 4th March after a serious illness
Peter was a genuinely nice person with a gentle air to him and a great and busy artist - I always enjoyed finding him in the library
Our love to all who knew him
A great chat between @rickardsisters.com and @panelborders.bsky.social recorded recently at @cartooncounty.bsky.social event in Brighton.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OKht...
ahh - actually Tim IS on Bluesdky and we follow him... d'oh!
Contact him this way if you want some good good reading
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
a pile of graphic novels
County pal/former Vertigo editor Tim Pilcher is not on Bluesky but he's having a big clear out
"No reasonable offer turned down. Bulk buyers especially welcome. Collect in the Brighton area, otherwise we'll work out postage . EVERYTHING MUST GO"
Find him of Facebook or we can pass on your contact
Huh. It was Great not Greta
(a personal observation by this ‘skymonkey rather than a County ruling)
Terry Pratchett’s ‘A Slip of the Keyboard’ reminds us that every critic and publisher expects a putative author to be a reader of books. But that clearly does not hold true for Comics. Shouldn’t it?
Hot on the heels of his greta @ldcomics.bsky.social talk last night (and how great was it o hear from their new enlarged team!?!) we've got the video of @ilyagraphic.bsky.social chatting to @panelborders.bsky.social at our February meet-up online from this morning:
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
On the cover of Katriona Chapman’s new graphic novel The Pass -published by Fantagraphics- a young chef watches parakeets fly up and away through an industrial sky
Very excited!
@katrionachapman.bsky.social returns for another @panelborders.bsky.social interview
Mon 30 March
The Walrus
Ship St
Brighton
live stream: youtube.com/@panelbordersvideo
Hear about The Pass (from Fantagraphics) and her work marketing @averyhill.bsky.social
katrionachapman.com
Cover of my graphic novel, Noisy Valley
Cover of Oracles by Olivia Sullivan
@cartooncounty.bsky.social moves to @waterstones.bsky.social (Brighton branch) for a special one-off this May - and ooh look, it'll be me and @zebko.bsky.social interviewed by @panelborders.bsky.social! Whoohoo! Join us!
It would be remiss of me not to mention that for March, the @cartooncounty.bsky.social meet-up will be in the Walrus (Ship St #Brighton) as usual, with the wonderful @katrionachapman.bsky.social talking about her new book The Pass. #comics
18 May 6:30 pm Cartoon County at Waterstones Brighton, with Myfanwy Tristram and Olivia Sullivan. Drinks, chat and signing
WATERSTONES BRIGHTON (18 May) is a @cartooncounty.bsky.social event where I & @zebko.bsky.social will both be interviewed about our new books by comics academic @panelborders.bsky.social. Reserve your place: www.waterstones.com/events/carto...
broadcast: Alex Fitch talks to the @rickardsisters.com re: @selfmadehero.bsky.social's This Slavery, & to Liza Cooper re: Meems & Feefs #comics publ. by @simonandschuster.bsky.social 5pm 5th Mar @resonancefm.bsky.social rec: @cartooncounty.bsky.social info: panelborders.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/n...
Word for our friends at Rose Tinted Spectacular:
Spring Zine Fair at the Rose Hill Taven in Brighton on 26 April 12-5pm
Tables are already filled to waiting list, but if you majke or read zines it's always a fun afternoon out
UNDER PRESSURE Report on the situation of threatened cartoonists around the world (2023-2025) Front cover artwork by Zehra Ömeroğlu (Türkiye) depicts a female figure holding an oversized brush and shield made of pencils, standing over puddles of ink, surrounded by firearms pointing at her. Released March 2026, the report is published by Cartooning for Peace, co-authored by Cartoonists Rights in partnership with Freedom Cartoonists, Forum for Humor and the Law (ForHum), Global Freedom of Expression ay Columbia University, and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with support from UNESCO’s Global Media Defence Fund (GMDF) and Centre Français de exploitation du droit de Copie (CFC).
In one week’s time we will be in Lyon for the Ça Presse festival alongside @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social & @rsf.org to discuss UNDER PRESSURE, the new report on threats to cartoonists’ freedom of expression. Sign up now to receive a copy by email on release.
cartoonistsrights.org/under-pressu...
The Sisters are great guests. Come in person this evening or watch the improved live stream on www.youtube.com/@panelborder...
British Experimental Rocket Group - The Croydon Spaceport Tapes
tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/the-cr...
🔭🚀📈
#Research #Laboratory #Nuclear #Technology #Transit #Point #Rocket #Programme #Orbital #administrative #nuns #maths #physics #Convent #Girls #School
(Thank you @spacediscojeff.bsky.social! 🙏)
People of West Sussex!
Next Monday night (23rd) we’re coming to see you, at The Walrus in Brighton, at @cartooncounty.bsky.social
People of the rest of the world can join in ✨LIVE✨ if you fancy it, just follow the links www.cartooncounty.com
Mon Feb23
@rickardisisters.com talking with @panelborders.bsky.social about their new graphic novel This Slavery - a radical tale of love, loss, poverty and politics set in a Lancashire Mill.
rickardsisters.com
The Walrus, Ship St Brighton 6:30pm
Livestream from 7:30 youtube.com/@panelbordersvideo
Cover to David Robertaon’s For The Record zine
A quick recommendation for a comic we just loved from @fredeggcomics.bsky.social
Enjoy the artist’s memories and be sent off reminiscing yourself: c120s recording John Peel; tape-2-tape; picture discs; a life in vinyl.
Happy days.
fredeggcomics.bigcartel.com/product/for-...
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