A Walk Around The South London Comics & Zine Fair 2023

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The South London Comic & Zine Fair took over the Stanley Hall near Croydon today, with a plethora of self-published comics filling tables.

The South London Comic & Zine Fair took over the Stanley Hall near Croydon in London today, with a plethora of self-published comic books filling the table, with guests from America and Europe joining the throng. Obviously, I bought lots and also reconnected with all manner of comic book folk. I also got a few bits of news to dig into over the next couple of weeks as well. There were talks, but long sold out, and I had comic books to buy… Special shout out to Martin Eden for creating a series about the Stanley Hall itself, and I picked up a bunch! As well as his Omen spinoff The Zeroes. The WIP Anthology oversized newspaper page anthology looks great with a new Kickstarter on the way, The Dog And The Cat by Dominique Duong, which I knew had been Ignatz-nominated but which I hadn’t read called out to me, as did the graphic novel Salamanca Blues but Alba Ceide as well as Lucy Sullivan and Fraser Campbell’s Ind-Xed, and Metal Saga by Rachel Tubb is a smorgasbord of colour. Oh and a Geezer badge from Shelly Bond to make things complete. Here are a few of those comics I picked up. I will probably have a last-minute runaround before I go as well. See if I can spend my last tenner.

Photo by Rich Johnston

Yes, having a London beer garden for any comic art fair is essential too.

Photo by Rich Johnston

With an all-ages comic and zine library and an adult comics/zine library with quiet spaces, there was fun for all the family. Here’s a little look at how the show appears for those of you who might like to make it along to LOndon next year… in gallery and photographs.

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Stanley Halls was built by London inventor, architect and industrialist William Ford Robinson Stanley in 1903 in order to “provide the district with a well needed public hall”. His background was engineering but he was also a painter, musician, photographer, author of plays, books for children and political treatises.

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