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Tom Murphy

@tomeenmurphy.bsky.social
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Prole art threat. Something to do with @colossive.com. Guerrilla historian of Croydon Spaceport. Writing a memoir on class and culture. Mayo ☘️ / Chorley 🌹/ Penge 🔥 Colossive.com Profile pic drawn in 60 secs in the pub by Hannah Lee Miller

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James Corcoran @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social · 21h
Apologies Now with a working Free link to Stramash 63’ issue One please feel free to share if you like weird Glaswegian gangster sci-fi and liberal use of Scottish Mythology www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 5h
POINTS AND ASPECTS (1974)
An image captured from POINTS AND ASPECTS (1974)
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 4h
My first Fall album! 🎂
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The gruelling Colossivtober UK Tour is GO! Next stop, Penge East - sorry, KENDAL!
Suitcases on a station platform THE LAKES
INTERNATIONAL
COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL
2-4 OCTOBER 2026
Kendal, Cumbria
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can’t pass through Euston without giving Trim a lucky scritch
An elegant lady’s hand strokes a life-sized bronze sculpture of a stately cat
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 01/10/2026
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
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The gruelling Colossivtober UK Tour is GO! Next stop, Penge East - sorry, KENDAL!
Suitcases on a station platform THE LAKES
INTERNATIONAL
COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL
2-4 OCTOBER 2026
Kendal, Cumbria
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Saw this at a packed screening with Madness last night. It's very, very funny - A Hard Day's Night's scrappy, anarchic little cousin. And a great London film. Restored and on general release this month.
'Take It or Leave It - the Madness Film' poster
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Linocuts for utopia — the radical prints of the Grosvenor School
Works by the interwar British visionaries are enjoying a timely resurgence
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because I don't have quite enough interminable writing projects on the go, I've started another. And I'm at the alarming stage where I'm quite enjoying it. That won't last. Anyway, it's about this, this and me.
Joel Ward and Marc Guehi lift the FA Cup after Crystal Palace won the 2025 finalMayo captain Jack Coyne lifts the Sam Maguire Cup after the county beat Kerry in the 2026 All-Ireland Football Final
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I concur: a fun evening and a very enjoyable film. See the film if you can.
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/ee9a...
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Linocuts for utopia — the radical prints of the Grosvenor School
Works by the interwar British visionaries are enjoying a timely resurgence
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because I don't have quite enough interminable writing projects on the go, I've started another. And I'm at the alarming stage where I'm quite enjoying it. That won't last. Anyway, it's about this, this and me.
Joel Ward and Marc Guehi lift the FA Cup after Crystal Palace won the 2025 finalMayo captain Jack Coyne lifts the Sam Maguire Cup after the county beat Kerry in the 2026 All-Ireland Football Final
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Back from Boots, shaken, having undergone the ultimate humiliation for a man: needing to ask where something is located. I can never return.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Tube Station', Bank Station (c.1932) by Cyril Power
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy publication day to Latchkey! There’s a stack of signed copies in Liverpoo’s mighty News from Nowhere. They’re already selling fast so if you want one get down there! @sacredparasite.bsky.social
Image shows front cover of Jeff Young’s book Latchkey, signed copies in News from Nowhere, Liverpool
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 29/09/2026
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 ❤️💙
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I shall continue to go on about this, as it tickles me no end that my flapdoodle has been acquired by the Tate
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast.
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Jonathon Humphreys @godsteeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another animation made with some of my 35mm film photography. Lots of light leaks in this one.
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s always a pleasant surprise how well our (generally) flippant flapdoodle goes down at this fairly earnest shindig. An enjoyable day!
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Patrick Wray @patrickwray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My new book zine 'Aspects of Elle Fanning' printed soon and will be available in bookshops and gallery shops etc. More details to follow....
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 26/09/2026
A CHANGE OF PLAN! We have relocated to the fourth floor of Rich Mix (nr Shoreditch High Street station)
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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today's post of The Curse is a bumper crop of 5 pages which everyone can see at the link here: www.patreon.com/posts/169588...
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The Curse 060 - 064 (bumper free for everyone post) | Gareth A Hopkins
Here's more progress on pages from 'The Curse'. I'm working toward a sequel to the graphic novel I made with Choku Dawa back in 2017, Found
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 26/09/2026
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!
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seventeenth Bird Dream & Eighteenth Bird Dream.
Collage on paper - bird illustration, found paper, ink, charcoal, pastel, paint, fake gold leaf Collage on paper using found paper, woman’s face, fragments from a damaged Ruskin book, paint, ink, charcoal, pastel, bird wing illustrations
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Preparations afoot for the big retrospective in 2028
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Preparations afoot for the big retrospective in 2028
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 25/09/2026
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
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Breakfast in the Ruins Podcast @breakfastruins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New episode: It's release day for the ninth album by The Belbury Poly, so Jim Jupp dropped by Derry & Toms to talk about his love of Moorcock, genre fiction, electroica, hauntology and all that good stuff, as well as @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social and various other things. Join us!
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Sorcery by The Belbury Poly – a conversation with Jim Jupp
Jim Jupp drops by Derry & Toms to talk about his love of genre fiction, his path into making music as Belbury Poly, and the beginnings of Ghost Box Records, the label he founded with Julian Hou…
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Oh! Brother @ohbrothershow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Recorded live at Futures and Pasts, this special episode sees Paul and Steve joined by the Poet Laureate himself, Simon Armitage, who looks back on discovering The Fall as a teenager, his early gigs, and what it is about Mark E. Smith's lyrics that captivates so many writers. (+)
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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Patreon post. final page of ROBOT TOD 6 progress and other things. only $2 a month (pretty sweet deal) to read ALL the posts and get free PDFs of my books. www.patreon.com/fareldal/pos...
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James Corcoran @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Occasional reminder I have a store where you can get a ‘Big Auld Stramash’ bundle that has all the issues so far and small sketch jamescorcoran.bigcartel.com
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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Numbering... The 1st printing of @wildtwin.bsky.social's new novella Latchkey is an edition of 350 hand-numbered copies printed locally in Berlin. Official release date: 29.9.26. Pre-orderable TODAY at: www.sacredparasite.com
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John Coltrane. Born 100 years ago today. Acrylic, ink and pencil.
A painting of John Coltrane
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House of Harley @houseofharley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have a drink, Seamus - Ugly Mug 9 is OUT NOW... 88 pages of comics to amuse and confuse for just £9.99+p&p from our Etsy shop... www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4... #comics #undergroundcomix #Britishcomics #independentcomics #smallpress
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Patrick Wray @patrickwray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Aquarium'
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
(And remember to Adjust Donation, to boost the charity’s share from the tiny default setting)
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These two are coming round your house later with their ‘cheeky’ yoghurt product
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InQ! London's Queer Comic Fair @inqcomicfair.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🦋 SATURDAY 26/09 SQUAD for inQ! 2026 DAY 1! 🏳️‍🌈 📍 Where: The London LGBTQ+ Community Centre, 60-62 Hopton Street, Blackfriars, London, SE1 9JH ⏰ What time? 10:30am - 5:30pm ✏️ Who's it for? Everyone. inQ! is family-friendly and all are welcome! 🚀 Tickets: FREE! Check the 🧵 for the full list!
Image description: on a light pink background there are four rows of icons, one for each artist exhibiting at inQ! on Saturday 26th of September. You can find the list of the names and @ on the thread of this post. Text reads: inQ! Saturday 26 Sept exhibitors and guests. London's queer comic fair, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of September. London LGBTQ+ community centre.
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 21/09/2026
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
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oof
Steps
33,441 steps
& Walking +
Running Distance
19.5 km
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AIC: Modern Art (Bot) @aicmodernart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Out My Window www.artic.edu/artworks/234460
Through prior bequest of Mima de Manziarly Porter
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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)
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Your mum was just on Thunderbirds
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
(Still) looks like a milk thief #hmhb
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every time I go past a shop that's being renovated (or whatever) and there's a loose wire sticking out, I'm convinced that if I brush against it I'll go up in smoke like one of these poor young shavers ⚡☠️
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Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?"
Madeleine Lebeau singing La Marseillaise in Casablanca
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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BELIEF IN THE FUTURE (1976)
An image captured from BELIEF IN THE FUTURE (1976)
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