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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! We’re excited to announce a new paid role with the Comics Cultural Impact Collective. We’re looking for SOMEONE to join us as a Non-Executive Director… Could that SOMEONE be YOU?? 🫵 Full info here: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/Join-Us

Fee: £1,800 paid 12-month appointment.
Commitment: Approx 8.5 days across the year.
Location: Primarily remote.
Eligibility: You must be resident in the UK.
First Board Role? Very welcome.
Application: Written, audio and video applications welcomed, with access support
throughout.

The Comics Cultural Impact Collective
(CCIC) is growing, and we're looking for someone who loves comics and the comics community and wants to help it flourish.
We want to broaden who has a voice and power in shaping CCIC and contribute to a stronger, fairer and more connected comics sector.
For this appointment, we welcome applications from Black, Asian, Brown, mixed-heritage and other racially minoritised people, whose perspectives are currently underrepresented within CCIC's governance.
You don't need previous board experience. There's no single route into this role, and we value lived, professional, creative, community and learned expertise.

Most importantly, we want somebody who cares about comics, believes in the people who make up our community, and is excited about helping the sector thrive.
This appointment is one part of our wider commitment to making CCIC more representative, equitable and accountable, and ensuring a wider range of knowledge, experience and perspectives meaningfully shape our decisions.

Applications open: Friday 2 October
Closing date: Friday 30 October, 5pm

This paid appointment has been made possible thanks to funding from
Supported using public funding by
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND

The Comics Cultural
Impact Collective

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😂 Still… top marks for the tops. 🙌

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exciting job opportunity coming soon. 👀👀👀

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who’s coming? We’re at table 1 so come find us. 🗯️💬💭

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Totes. This would be 99% in my pants or sweaty gym clothes for me.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Are you comics? Are you Scottish/in Scotland? WELL GUESS WHAT. We have a last roundtable, all for you! 📅 Weds 9th Sept, 7pm 📍 Online 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/scottish-c... 🤝 A collaboration between the Comics Cultural Impact Collective, @smallpress.scot and @chipcollective.bsky.social Join us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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kitsuneart 🦊🔜 MCM London F-22 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Small Press vs AI panel at @captioncomicfest.bsky.social was a blast!!! ⚔️🤖🔥 Thanks Amy Letts for being our chair and thanks to my fellow panellists @karriefransman.bsky.social @streakofpith.bsky.social & Kristina Stipetic (who joined last minute but rocked the stage)..we slayed!!

Picture of the small press vs AI panellist at Caption Comics festival. From left to right: Amy Letts, Kristina Stipetic, Karrie Fransman, KitsuneArt and Hannah Berry.

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Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Had a good time at (Pirate) Caption comic festival - one of the only non-capitalist motivated comic cons in the UK (as pointed out by @karriefransman.bsky.social ). Exhausted now. Will write more about it at some point. Well done to the committee. Lovely to see old friends & make new ones.

Pirate ship constructed of cardboard during one of the workshops.

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Come along to South London Comic and Zine Fair on the 19th July! You can find us there, plus AHP creators @katrionachapman.bsky.social, @donyatodd.bsky.social and Hannah Chapman (of Comic Book Slumber Party!) #comics

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

London's Gosh! comic shop have been working on some very exciting plans for August to celebrate their 40th anniversary and recently announced their Summer Festival event for kids – featuring some of the best talent and most popular artists working in kids comics

downthetubes.net

Gosh! Summer Kids Festival features signings with Jamie Smart and more

Four special summer signings in just one day!

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just updated: the Downthetubes 2026 and 2027 UK and Irish Comic Events Pages: downthetubes.net/british-and-... | downthetubes.net/british-and-...

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Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Our Micro-Bursary submissions are open! The Micro-Bursaries are open to early career, UK based: Comic Creators of Colour, Disabled Comic Creators, and/or Trans/Non-Binary Comic Creators. Find out more, and put your name forward here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Our third and final roundtable is the big one! 🔥This Mess Won’t Fix Itself: COMICS INDUSTRY ⏰Thursday 9th July, 7pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-mess-...

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thanks! I liked drawing my home town. 💙 Find it a bit ruthless how much you have to cut oral histories down for comics!

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Delighted to share my collab with @loladickinson.bsky.social on sex work and AIDs activism in the 80s. Working with oral histories from sex worker activists like Ruth Morgan Thomas of Scot-PEP was so inspiring- so many brilliant stories to choose from. Please read and share!

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Such an important comic and so beautifully drawn too. Those stats are just so depressing.

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

THIS a thousand times. Also true for hetero female partners of men in Hollywood movies.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This goes double if the best friend is from a minority group: if they don't have a life outside your protagonist, they're just a token (gay, trans, Black) character.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 170: If your main character's best friend has no life outside of the main character; no other friends; no hobbies; no ambitions, then you didn't write a person at all. You wrote a plot device.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Let's talk about YOU, shall we? As in the collective "YOU": the people who make comics, who filled in the UK Comics Creators Survey - ukcomicscreators.org.uk I hope you’re hungry for charts, because lunch is served! WHO ARE YOU? 🧵

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

Home - UK Comics Creators Survey

UK Comics Creators Research Report 2026 The most comprehensive overview of comics creators in the UK Drawing on the responses from nearly 700 creators to the UK Comics Creator Survey in autumn 2025, t...

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Who’s joining us to chat comics solutions? 👀

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Lovely to see you both! Wish there’d been more chatting and less clapping. Congrats to you all for such an awesome book.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Photos from last nights #britishbookawards: Nominees @rickardsisters.com for This Slavery with Emma Hayley of @selfmadehero.bsky.social, plus @paulcornell.bsky.social & @rachaelsmith.bsky.social for Who Killed Nessie; and judges me, @karriefransman.bsky.social @shanazir.bsky.social

People in what might be ‘cocktail attire’ standing in front of a British Book Awards stand: Hannah Berry, Emma Hayley, Karrie Fransman, Rachael Smith, Paul Cornell, Sophie Rickard, Scarlett Rickard, and Sha Nazir

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Really looking forward to watching this with a cuppa.

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Loving this graph @datacritron.Sky.social- this is the sort of image that makes me want to start a revolution 😅

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For anyone who doesn’t have a subscription to the Bookseller, the article is based on this report which launched today: ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Happy launch-day to the magnificent @myfanwytristram.bsky.social - I can’t wait to read all the protest stories in the Noisy Valley! See you at @goshcomics.bsky.social

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This extremely stylish visualisation was done by Julie Brunet @datacitron.bsky.social, by the way. (Sorry, I would’ve tagged but I missed that she was on here!)

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🔥The results of the UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 are in 🔥 STATS! Come get yer STATS! Fresh juicy STATS! ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The front cover of the UK Comics creators research report, by Joanna Rivera-Carlisle, Amanda Nicole Curtis and Hannah Berry May 2026

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

pinch o salt (or any other seasoning) and pumpkin seeds on top. Then 35 mins in the oven at 215. May need a bit longer if it's too wet. Remove the sweet corn and cook less long if you want it dryer.

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

If I can make corn bread ANYONE can make corn bread. cornbread recipe= 3 eggs, 1 cup of corn meal, 3/4 cup of flour (gluten free), 1 teaspoon gluten free baking powder, half a can of sweet corn, 1 cup o milk, 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda, big glug of oil (or butter),

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Walking around Oxford with my son for Phoenix Fest, & it really is astounding what the comics has achieved. Every street has multiple kids on it wearing Phoenix t-shirts (I know because my son wants to speak them all). I genuinely don’t know another kid’s publisher that’s created that community.

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Corn bread is delicious and so easy to make. Also I just lived on corn and oat crackers.

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

👀 Are you interested in historical sequential art and free all day in London on 2nd May? Got a couple of free tickets left for an event so DM me if so. 👀

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

So... #SmallPressDay is sponsored by @brokenfrontier.bsky.social this year. Or to put it more bluntly the entire running costs (hosting, app subs, payment to an artist for this year's poster, etc.) come from my pocket. On top of BF's running losses. So if you enjoy SPD please chip in if you can!

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Great to see a glimpse of your comic. Looks great!

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

From the #LondonBookFair, the #Manga is Mainstream panel, with @karriefransman.bsky.social, @mikemotoghosh.bsky.social and Nigel Twumasi from @mayamada.com :)

Four panelists, in white armchairs and backed by a screen

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Myfanwy Tristram @myfanwytristram.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I’m really pleased to be sharing a stage with @rickardsisters.com at @hayfestival.bsky.social on May 27th, where we’ll be chatting about the power of graphic novels & #comics to make change. Details: www.hayfestival.com/m-232-hay-fe... @selfmadehero.bsky.social

Sophie and Scarlett Rickard and Myfanwy Tristram - Placards and panels: graphic novels as protest. Pics of the three of us! I’m a drawing and they are photos. Just like real life.

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Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

To celebrate #worldbookday we have some fun facts to share via The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC). Join us to help raise the value of comics in the UK. thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/Join-Us

To celebrate World Book Day we have some fun facts to share to help raise awareness of the value of comics via The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC)

There is a 'Reading for Pleasure Crisis' in the UK amongst 8-18 with rates at their lowest since records began... but not amongst comics readers! Nearly twice as many young comics readers said they enjoyed reading compared with non-comics readers (58.6% vs.33.1%).
*National Literacy Trust Research

40.3% of 8-18 year olds read comics
27%of adults read comics once a month
31% of adults do/have read comics
The audience for comics in the UK is large and more diverse than for traditional artform in terms of class, ethnicity and neurodivergence.
*Research from 1. The National Literacy Trust 2. The Reading Agency 3. Professor Andrew Miles and YouGov/Manchester University

Comics are big business.
2025 was the biggest year for comics since accurate records began (£78.7m across adult and kids' via BookScan).
Waterstones reported tripling of sales and store mix for Manga & Adult
GNs combined from 2019 to 2024.

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