Tom Murphy
@tomeenmurphy
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
There are some fab panels about comics culture & community at SLCZF on Sunday - check them out here: www.instagram.com/p/DayJSHWiMMM/
RIP Penelope Keith. These were the very escalators in Preston Guild Hall on which I saw her in the mid-80s. She was the second person off the telly I'd seen in real life* *The first was William Roache, who had opened the new Granada TV showroom in Chorley some years earlier
Happy Staples Day (26/6) for all who celebrate (Can’t believe @presentcorrect.bsky.social weren’t reporting this)
Worth a reminder that the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London has a library you can visit for free qbcentre.org.uk/visiting-on-...
At @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social in Hammersmith this Thu & Fri: very thoughtful and highly recommend to anyone with a bit of skin in this game
Seeing our local kestrel chicks ready to fledge (pic by @janegibbensmurphy.bsky.social) reminded me of this nice French edition of Kes - cover by Adrien Bargin.
“Slightly apprehensive about your hospital appointment? No problem! Our carefully curated artwork is guaranteed to ease those anxiety levels and create peace of mind.”
Really enjoyed the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. Three varied exhibitions in neat spaces and a library that anyone can visit free (Also - 👍 for having copies of the published work near the originals on display, so you can see them in context - something most comics exhibitions miss)
I’m not the first to point this out, but the whole struggle of adding, subtracting, tweaking, trying to figure out what the question is and what an answer might be is what ‘writing’ is. It’s not an irksome chore that needs to be somehow ‘automated’. They’ll never understand that
Buy more #zines! (So you get things of beauty like this through the door, from splendid people like @anothersubculture.co.uk)
Back in one of my favourite hospitals (at some point I’ll try to find out the story behind this)
Revealed: the secret inspiration for David Seaman’s now legendary Euro 1996 kit
Pleased to pick this up for a quid yesterday. I wonder if there’s a matching edition of Funeral in Berlin
Saw Matisse’s version last week - made me think fondly of a 13yo’s planned album cover in the back of their geography book
I’ll be heading to Leipzig at the end of the month to talk about Croydon Spaceport at this event. Flights and hotel booked - exciting!
Can plebs like us do this with profile links (using the name rather than the full handle)?
For lovely contemporary equivalents, check out @designfortoday.bsky.social