Last Saturday, August 31st, saw Small Press Day return to venues across the UK and Ireland with its ninth edition, as over 100 self-published artists grabbed the opportunity to sign their work and chat with readers new and old. Founded by cartoonist David Ziggy Greene (Jam Bookshop) in 2016 as an event designed to bring together shops, small press creators and readers, Small Press Day was co-organised this year by original team members Amneet Johal of the Alternative Press and Andy Oliver of Broken Frontier (that’s me!), alongside newcomer to the SPD crew Ellie Egleton (Power Punch Boot Camp).
Every year at Broken Frontier we like to run a photo round-up of SPD events for posterity and we have some great images below showing some highlights from the day. We’d like to host a lot more here though so there’s a permanent record of this year’s fun that is more reflective of the national face of Small Press Day and less London-centric. So please, if you are a store, an attendee artist or a reader who was at events outside of London, Lancaster and Glasgow and have some pictures to share then do get in contact with our Andy Oliver (that’s me again!) at the e-mail address here. We’d love to hear from you.
Here’s to Small Press Day 2025 – the landmark 10th SPD!
Forbidden Planet International Glasgow
FPI Glasgow hosted Sidney McLeod AKA HesitantDoodle, Becky Thornton AKA Becky T Arts, Iain Jenkins (creator of The Hiptastic Hedgehog Boy), Coin-Operated Press, Faye Stacey AKA Pppond, Mitra Ganeson AKA Mits Makes, Claire Liddell AKA Swanlid, C-Jay Quigley, Elias Bevan, Richard G Mooney and Nytastic.
You can also watch a short video of the event on Instagram here courtesy of Coin-Operated Press.
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Photos courtesy of FPI Glasgow
The Cartoon Museum, London
The last selection of artists at the Cartoon Museum for the final Small Press Day shift featuring Yuxuan Zhou, Peter Morey, KitsuneArt, Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph, Rebecca K. Jones, Mark Stafford, and (front) Kristina Stipetic and Bee Poole.
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Photo credit: Andy Oliver
Gosh! Comics, London
Joe Stone, Rebecca K. Jones, Peter Morey, Mereida Fajardo, Ed Firth and Rachel Tubb
Philippa Rice, Joshua Spiller, Jim Hemmingfield, Shane Melisse, Mollie Ray and Takayo Akiyama
Yetunde Ekuntuyi, Bex Ollerton,, Clio Isadora, Beck Kubrick and Will Humberstone
Ferry Gouw, Peony Gent, Emilia McKenzie and Esther McManus
Photo credits: Mauricio Molizane de Souza
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Zine Freak. Lancaster
Matt Simmons and Harry Deane Willmott
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London After-Party
It was packed. ‘Nuff said.
Photo credit: Andy Oliver
