A photo of a handmade badge, showing a girl with a fun, holographic coating.

A photo of the Clore Learning Studio at The Cartoon Museum in London

A photo of a handmade shrinky dink keyring of a handdrawn cat.

A photo of the materials (beads and pens) used during the arts and crafts workshop.

Check out these cute keyrings and badges made during Bex's workshop at @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social!

Bex is an amazing artist, and today she hosted two arts and crafts sessions designed for autistic girls to get creative together.

It was a pleasure to assist! 🙌✨️

#CartoonMuseumUK
#AutismFriendly

A photo of my colouring art book, Mythic Monsters, and a selection of black and white postcards of mythical creatures in The Cartoon Museum's gift shop

My colouring art book and prints have a lovely prime spot in the @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social's gift shop! 🐲

You can also order these item direct from their website. You can search for the postcards by entering "Vanessa Knott" into the search bar.

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A young participant's 3 panel comic page, drawn during the Mythical Manga art workshop at The Cartoon Museum, London.

A young participant's 3 panel comic page, drawn during the Mythical Manga art workshop at The Cartoon Museum, London.

A young participant's 3 panel comic page, drawn during the Mythical Manga art workshop at The Cartoon Museum, London.

A young participant's 3 panel comic page, drawn during the Mythical Manga art workshop at The Cartoon Museum, London.

A special thank you to everyone who attended this afternoon's workshop at @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social! It was a genuine pleasure to deliver a second sold out Mythical Manga art session! 🙌

Everyone created amazing characters and comics!

#CartoonMuseumUK #LondonMuseum #ArtWorkshop #MythicalManga

Exciting! I believe there are only 5 spaces left! 🙌❤️

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#Manga #Dragon #Cartoons

The cover of Juliana Mahfouz's manga, Memory Sweethearts

A collection of products for sale with Juliana's Mahfouz's artwork on, currently available at The Cartoon Museum, in-store and online.

A close of of a manga girl drawn by Juliana Mahfouz's, printed on a t-shirt

Framed artworks on display at The Cartoon Museum by young Cartoonist Juliana Mahfouz

The inspiration for my recent art workshop came from Juliana Mahfouz's Memory Sweethearts, a comic which focuses on a world full of power, magic and characters with mysterious abilities!

Juliana's work is currently on display at the @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social.

#CartoonMuseumUK #Manga #Comic #Art

Magical Manga drawing workshop at The Cartoon Museum in London. Me drawing on a flipchart, as participants draw their manga character, following along with the demonstrations.

Me standing next to a flipchart, with drawings of "magical accessories" on a sheet of paper.

Eight pictures of different manga style characters, drawn on paper using HB and colour pencils.

A special thank you to everyone who took part in the Magical Manga art workshops yesterday at the @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social !

It was a real pleasure seeing everyone's manga characters come to life! 🧙‍♂️✨️🧝‍♀️🪄🔮

#CartoonMuseumUK #AustismFriendly #RelaxedMondays #ArtWorkshops #Manga

A line art drawing of a magical book, floating with stars and smoky effects surrounding it.

Join us Monday 16th February for the first Relaxed Monday of the year at @cartoonmuseum.bsk.social! Explore the museum under relaxed conditions or come to the timed art workshops, which I'll be leading! 🧙‍♀️🪄

To book, please visit:
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#AutismFriendly #CartoonMuseumUK

A photo of a flyer advertising The Cartoon Museum's half term workshops for kids

I'm delighted to be back at the @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social to lead Mythical Manga!

🗓 20/02/2026
🕚 2:00-3:30pm
📍 The Cartoon Museum
🙋‍♀️ Ages 8-14
🎟 £15 per child (plus small booking fee)

To book, please visit: www.cartoonmuseum.org/whats-on-eve...

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A photo of a happy, amazing person called Farrah who bought my colouring art book, Mythic Monsters, and postcard range from The Cartoon Museum shop in London. Farrah is holding a copy of Mythic Monsters and a postcard with a monster picture on it.

Thank you Farrah (instagram: @6220_fft) for your amazing support! It was really cool to hear you bought not just my colouring art book, but also each postcard design from @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social's shop! 🙌✨️ 

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#CartoonMuseumUK #ArtMuseum #MythicMonsters #GiftShop

A photo of Bryan Talbot's crime mystery graphic novel, The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor.

Bryan Talbot and guests enjoying the book launch of Talbot's new graphic novel at The Cartoon Museum.

A pile of graphic novels (The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor), by Bryan Talbot.

Bryan Talbot and guests enjoying the book launch of Talbot's new graphic novel at The Cartoon Museum.

Today @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social hosted the launch of Bryan Talbot's latest graphic novel, The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor!

I had fun running the bar for the first time with Helen, and everyone was so nice. It was a pleasure to see everyone having a good time! 🥂✨️

#CartoonMuseumUK #BryanTalbot

A photo of workshop attendees at The Cartoon Museum.

A photo of me drawing on a flip chart, as workshop participants draw along with me.

A close up of participants drawing mythical creatures.

A close up of participants drawing mythical creatures.

Thank you to everyone who attended today's workshop at the cartoonmuseum.bsky.social! It was my first ever SOLD OUT workshop - a genuine pleasure to teach so many enthusiastic kids (and adults too).

Thank you hollytburrows.bsky.social for taking these photos!

#CartoonMuseumUK #MythicalManga

A photo of ILYA's hardback graphic novel, Romo the Wolf Boy, on display for a private event.

Cartoonist ILYA (Ed Hillyer) dressed as a Ringmaster, giving a thank you speech to the supporters who funded his graphic novel kickstarter project.

A close up photo of ILYA's signature in the inside of his graphic novel, Romo the Wolf Boy

Cartoonist ILYA (Ed Hillyer) dressed as a Ringmaster, giving a thank you speech to the supporters who funded his graphic novel kickstarter project.

Cartoonist ILYA’s kickstarter celebration at @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social. It was lovely meeting him and his supporters this evening. Romo the Wolf Boy, a beautifully drawn hardback graphic novel will be published here in the UK in February!

#CartoonMuseumUK #RomoTheWolfBoy #ILYA #EdHillyer

A kid's drawing in pencil of a serpent-like monster with a large head and sabertooth fangs.

A kid's drawing in pencil of a long, Eastern style dragon firing lightening bolts from it's mouth.

A kid drawing a three panel comic in my Mythical Manga workshop.

A kid drawing a three panel comic in my workshop Mythical Manga

A fantastic group of kids attended my latest workshop at @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social, with guest Workshop Facilitator Haley from Westminster Libraries.

I saw creatures that could turn into constellations ✨️, aquatic monsters 🫧 and multi-limbed dragons 🐲. It was a lot of fun!

#CartoonMuseumUK

A photo of a TV screen, showing the BBC Broadcasting House in London

On this day last year, I had the amazing experience of chatting with Carrie and David Grant live on BBC Radio London.

It was with the lovely purpose of promoting @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social and @smallpressday.bsky.social

#CartoonMuseumUK #SPD #SmallPressDay #BBCRadioLondon

A photo of a small blank notebook by GF Smith Papers and a cute black cat pin, with sunflowers in the background.

Photo of handmade cat masks.

A photo of several handmade cat masks and a pile of card and craft materials

A photo of people enjoying a late night opening at The Cartoon Museum in London.

🙀 We've Been Mogged! 😸

A fun event I worked at @cartoommuseum.bsky.com

I didn't get many photos as I was working in the shop, but Pam and I set up the table for cat mask making activities.

Special thanks GFSmith for the book and to Farrah for the very cute cat pin!

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A photo of The Cartoon Museum gift shop in London

A screenshot from The Cartoon Museum’s online store

A screenshot from The Cartoon Museum's online store

My Mythic Monster art prints are now available at The Cartoon Museum, online and in their shop! 🎊

Shop online at The Cartoon Museum:

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#MythicMonsters #CartoonMuseumUK #TheCartoonMuseum #LondonMuseum #indieartist #supportartists #artbyphoenixgray #phoenixgray

A photo of me next to the Cats in Cartoons exhibition graphic at The Cartoon Museum

The curator hanging Simon Tofield's drawing of Simon's Cat

Installing framed artworks at The Cartoon Museum, London

Hanging framed artworks by Louis Wain, an English artist

It was a real privilege and honour to be so involved and hands-on with the exhibition install of Cats in Cartoons, now open at The Cartoon Museum! 😺🎊

We all worked as an incredible team. Everyone's been brilliant!👏

#CartoonMuseumUK #TheCartoonMuseum #CatsInCartoons #Cartoons #Comics

Thank you so much to everyone who came to The Cartoon Museum's Mythical Manga workshop last Friday.

Find out more about upcoming workshops and events at @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social

Photos by Amba Malekin-Goneni

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Mythic Monsters is now available at @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social, online and in their shop! 🎊

This beautiful paperback colouring art book contains 20 pages depicting monsters from different world mythologies, and they are ready for you to colour in!

#mythicmonsters #CartoonMuseumUK #TheCartoonMuseum

An digital artwork of an Eastern-style red dragon, advertising an art workshop at The Cartoon Museum in London

🐲 MYTHICAL MANGA IS BACK! ✨️

I'm excited to announce that I'll be delivering my art workshop at @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social!

Date: 21/02/25

Time: 11:00 - 12:30

For more info and to book online, please visit: www.cartoonmuseum.org/whats-on-events

#cartoonmuseumuk #artworkshop #phoenixgray

A special thank you to everyone who participated in Mythical Manga at The Cartoon Museum yesterday. Participants learnt how to draw Japanese yōkai and feature them in their very own story artwork. Everyone should be proud of the imaginative stories they drew!

#CartoonMuseumUK #artworkshop #comics

Small Press Day was such a brilliant event! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and said hello during my time slot! It was lovely meeting you all. 😊

Special thanks to...
#SmallPressDay
#Cartoonmuseumuk #GoshComics
#BBCRadioLondon

What an amazing experience! Thank you to everyone at BBC Radio London!! Carrie and David... thank you so much for being so warm and kind! It was brilliant chatting with you both to promote Small Press Day and The Cartoon Museum. Have a great day everyone! 📻💜

#SmallPressDay #CartoonMuseumUK

📻 BBC RADIO LONDON!! 💜 Tune in tomorrow at 9.20am and join me with Carrie and David Grant live as we chat about Small Press Day and The Cartoon Museum! So exciting!!

#BBCRadioLondon
#CartoonMuseumUK
#SmallPressDay
#CarrieandDavidGrant

A sneak peek inside Mythic Monsters!

Mythic Monsters is a beautiful paperback colouring art book depicting monsters and creatures from different world mythologies!

Mythic Monsters will be available at The Cartoon Museum in London for Small Press Day on the 17th!

#CartoonMuseumUK #SmallPressDay

✨️📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢✨️

I'm delighted that I'll be at The Cartoon Museum for Small Press Day! You will be able to buy directly from me and have a chat whilst you browse the museum's current exhibitions. This event is free with museum entry. My time slot: 12 - 13.30

#SmallPressDay #CartoonMuseumUK

It's been a real honour and privilege to have led three workshops at The Cartoon Museum this week, teaching school students how to create their very own comic strip.

All the students from @Salvatorian College did fantastic work! They should all be proud.👏

#cartoonmuseumuk #workshop