Small Press Day events in-store and in venues across the UK and Ireland on Saturday 25th July.
Listings have come from our submissions page except for those marked as coming via Instagram/Facebook. Please note in those cases we have done our best to be as accurate as possible but have had to piece together those events from multiple social media posts.
Thanks to all organisers for putting together such a great line-up. Happy Small Press Day everyone!
Scotland
Forbidden Planet International Glasgow
Details from Instagram: Guests include Davidt Dunlop and Connor Tierney.
@ Forbidden Planet International, 122 – 126 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH
Asylum Books and Games
Details from Facebook: Guests include Gustaffo Vargas.
@ 29 Adelphi, Aberdeen, AB11 5BL
Wales
The Workers Gallery
Open Social and Share event alongside an exhibition of artwork from the graphic novel – Noisy Valley The Art of Protest by Myfanwy Tristram. Artist in Residence Gayle Rogers – sharing her zine work in progress about her ancestor and footballing legend Duncan Edwards. Community Graphic Novel library focus – with donations invited!
@ The Workers Gallery, 99 Ynyshir Road, Ynyshir, RCT, Wales, CF39 0EN
Ireland
Forbidden Planet Dublin
Details from Instagram: Guests include Morayah Paper, Liriel McMahon, Lliana Moreira, Sunny Stories, Tree Crow, Jason Browne and Buttonpress Productions, Ghostcat Comics, Dustbunny Studios, Netizen, Paul Carroll, 10 Cups Comics, Peter Harte and Balor Comic, Conor Carroll, Dee Blackstone and Barry O’Sullivan.
@ Forbidden Planet Dublin, 5-7 Crampton Quay, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 VX56
England
Travelling Man York
Zine making event 11am-2pm. Come along and make zines All materials provided!
@ Travelling Man York, 74 Goodramgate, York, YO1 7LS
Leeds Comics Collective
After great success last year, Leeds Comics Collective is doing another Comics & Art Market at The Brew Society! From 11am to 5pm on Saturday 25th July you’ll be able to find 30 mini stalls of comics, zines, and art from local creatives in the back room of this beautiful Leeds city centre bar — just a very short stroll from the train station. Keep your eye on LCC’s instagram posts for the guest list!
@ The Brew Society, Aireside House, 26 Aire Street, Leeds, LS1 4HT
Ground Gallery
A daytime event – 11am-3pm at Ground – where there will be a comic jam and zine + comic stalls.
@ Ground Gallery, 60A Beverley Road, Hull, HU3 1YE
Travelling Man Manchester
Details from Instagram – Guests include Inky Millie, Dark Cloud Comics, Jelly Art and Devon Short.
@ 4 Dale St, Manchester M1 1JW
Zine Freak
Zine Freak, probably the UK’s smallest small-press comic and zine shop, is celebrating Small Press Day in a smaller way than usual this year!
Only one creator will be there, and it’s the same one who is always there (me, Matt Simmons). You can Q me on instagram and I will A, I guess. Or even better, you can come in for a real meet and greet, and check out the new selection of books, comics and zines, and for SPD only, get a free “make your own zine” kit with your purchase, while stocks last (I should have lead with that, it’s the best bit imo)!
@ Zine Freak, Assembly Rooms Emporium, King Street Lancaster LA1 1JN
Crosby Library Zine Club
Learn about zines, flip through our zine library or make your own zine. 10.30am-1.30pm
@ Crosby Road North in Waterloo, Merseyside L22 0LQ
Comics Youth at Kraken Comics
Zine-making workshops at 11-12.30 and 1.20-3.00
@ Kraken Comics, 4B Church Road, Bebington, Wirral, CH63 7PH
Strange Magic Contemporary Print, Zine and Book Arts Fair
The Strange Magic Print Fair brings together artists working with contemporary and traditional printmaking, zine and book-arts methods to build community and showcase their work. We aim to spotlight experimental, radical and the unusual.
@ Lewes Town Hall, Lewes BN7 2QS
Waiting Room
The Hants Comics Club are launching their debut anthology on the theme of travel. It includes work by local creators – some have been making comics for a number of years, for others this is their first piece of published work.
@ 38A Stockbridge Rd, Winchester SO23 7BZ
The Mysterious Bookcase
Comics creator Annabel Hewitson will be signing between 11.30am and 2pm.
@ 6 Westbourne Arcade, Bournemouth, BH4 9AY
Close Encounters Northampton
The Two Pyramids is a new short comic by Giorgio Pandiani and it will be out on Small Press Day 2026! On Saturday 25th July, from 1 PM to 4.30 PM, the author will be at Close Encounters Northampton, to launch the book and do sketches/signing.
@ 29 Abington Square Northampton NN1 4AE
Forbidden Planet International Leicester
Details from Instagram: Guests include Joe Burden, CTXNS, Drew Sumner, Ryan Button, Millie Mae, The Greased Pig, Jon Attfield, Narrator, meg.on.toastt and Dave Nolan.
@ Forbidden Planet International Leicester, 23 Silver Street, Leicester, LE1 5EU
The Cartoon Museum
We are offering everyone 15% off zines and small press publications from The Cartoon Museum Shop with the discount code ZINEFIFTEEN and this can be applied both in-person and online. Anyone visiting over the weekend of the 25th and 26th July (afternoon only on the 25th) will also be able to create their own zines in our Clore Studio as a free drop-in activity included in our entry price. (And don’t forget – Under 18s are FREE!)
@ The Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells Street, London W1A 3AE
Gosh! Comics
Small Press Day, the annual event celebrated across the country returns! We’ve got some very exciting plans this year to commemorate the special day to show our love and admiration for DIY culture and the self-published comics scene. Small Press Day will take place on Saturday 25th July 2026, from 12pm.
We’ll be joined by two phenomenal comics groups with a handful of local artists signing in the shop throughout the afternoon. At 12-2pm, we welcome artists behind the Very Tiny Comics Gumball Machine Anthology! Spearheaded by the amazing Deadly Knitshade (who illustrated this beautiful poster for us), 25 artists from all aspects of the comics community each drew a comic that is smaller than a 50 pence coin! Each comic was lovingly handfolded and packed into a transparent sphere to be distributed via a retro gumball machine! The gumball machine will be in the shop along with the following contributors of the anthology who will also be selling their own wares: Nancy Artmusic, Mereida Farajdo, Rebecca K Jones, Deadly Knitshade, Simone Lia, Jenny Robins and Ed Stockham. This is such an endearing idea and represents the small-press scene beautifully, making this a perfect signing for day.
At 2-4pm, we welcome back Camberwell Comic Club from Camberwell College of Arts! The Camberwell Comics Club is a student-led (and staff supported) club for those studying at Camberwell who have a passion for comics. They joined us for our Small Press Day celebrations last year and we had an absolute blast hosting them! This year, they’ll be launching two new comics at the event, Mirrors and Outbetween, and joined by the following artists: Gimmick Ainouche, Mark Berry, Issy Lazeris, Mengya Li, Merceded Lundy, Lina Maria Marrow, Pascaline Ruhana, Daisy Tee, Francis Todd, Sammy Walkey, Paige Williams-Malone, Madison Williams-Malone and Tricia Wong.
Small Press Day exists thanks to its creators Broken Frontier, Alternative Press and David Ziggy Greene. It’s a wonderful way to celebrate DIY culture and the amazing indy comics community, something that has been integral to our DNA since we opened 40 years ago.
We can’t wait to celebrate Small Press Day again with everyone on Saturday 25th July! See you there.
@ Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London, W1F 0DR
Oxfam Blackheath
The first ever Small Press Day event in an Oxfam shop will see the debut of the zine Blackheath Folk: Local History and Folklore with the opportunity for signing in the store by contributors like Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Beatrice Mossman.
@ Oxfam Blackheath 68 Tranquil Vale, Blackheath, London SE3 0BN
USA
The Floating Bookshop
12pm-3pm guests include Lucky Jo Rabbit, Regular Candy, Tanglman.
@ The Floating Bookshop, 3 NW 9TH ST, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA