Small Press Fair 19th October 2025 at Travelling Man

On Sunday 19th October, downstairs (sorry, no accessible access) at Travelling Man Newcastle, 11.30-4.00ish, there will be a tremendous SMALL PRESS FAIR - with comics, zines, art, merch, prose, poetry, games, etcetera available from some local creators from Paper Jam.

Free to get in, everyone is nice, there'll be a load of fantastic stuff, probably some freebies. Come along and support local arts.

Featuring:

the perennial Paper Jam Comics Collective (themed anthology comics), the jovial Jennifer C. Wilson (historical fiction/romance novels, writing 'how-to' books, North Tyneside Writers' Circle anthologies), the awful Alexi Conman (comics, illustrated puzzles, one-page RPGs, terrible drawings of pikachus), the mercurial Mike Duckett (likes drawing and makes zines; there is a scary wolf in one of them), the luminous Lucky Moth Studio (black and white artwork: zines, pins, stickers, tote bags etc)

... AND MANY MORE TBC

Small Press Day 2025 - Jam With The 'Jammers

 For Small Press Day this year (Saturday 19th July), some of us will be hanging out in our birthplace, TRAVELLING MAN NEWCASTLE from 1pm encouraging the drawing of comics - focusing on collaborative jams, but it's not obligatory if you want to do your own thing.

No skill required, no booking required, if you feel like it, just turn up whenever and help make some daft comics, for a laugh.

Maybe see you there?

Better Late than anything

Newcastle's annual delightful culture crawl THE LATE SHOWS is upon us once again. If you're unfamiliar, you really owe it to become familiar. Loads of interesting, fun stuff to do, largely free, places to visit you can't get to other times of the year, supporting local art and creativity? YES. Very good.

Paper was actively involved in it eleven years ago when we were launching Newcastle ...And That (at the Holy Biscuit as was - Sheildfield Art Works now). We had a lovely time. The fact we haven't been involved doing stuff since then is more a testament to us not being organised enough (to partner with a venue in time to pitch an event etc etc), rather than any lack of enthusiasm.

Well, we are remedying that in 2025, when we'll be helping (haranguing people to make comics, as we do) at an event organised by Make & Mend Market at St Oswald's Hospice's THE SPACE venue in Ouseburn on Friday 16th May 6pm-10.30pm. All the details are here. We'll also be hawking our comics and usual ephemera if anyone feels like making a purchase.

If you're doing the Late Shows, come and say hi, do some drawing, no skill required. If you're not doing the Late Shows, change your plans so you're doing the Late Shows.

New anthology launch - The Great Jam Parade ...And That

 

They said it couldn't be done, but it HAS BEEN DONE. Paper Jam has put out a second anthology in 2024. This one is an all-ages parade of fun.

In The Great Jam Parade ...And That we aimed to do comics that are more aimed at younger readers than our other anthologies are (less swearing and miserableness etc) resulting in a real mix of comics across a huge variety of genres!

Featuring work by Andrew Gardner, Andy Houghton, Ben Clark, Bex Foster, Britt Coxon, Chris Longstaff, Danny Gaffney, Dylan Lloyd-Davies, Franklin Von Cole, Jack Waugh, James Kerry, Jennifer C. Wilson, Masked Emerald, Michael Dodsworth, Michael Duckett, Oscillating Brow, Paul Thompson, Rowan Lee, Schrödinger’s Kitten, Sid Phoebus, Torgo Wells, and Yewberry. The delightful cover (above) is by Andy Houghton (compiling drawings by various dafties of Paper Jam). It's all cheery chaotic fun.

We're launching this fine publication with a party - Saturday 30th November, 11am-3pm, at Newcastle City Library. It's free in, there'll be a load of daft drawing games (no skill necessary), you can pick up the new anthology, our older ones, and loads of great comics and zines from members of the collective. It'll be fun! Drop by anytime!

If you can't make it to the launch, you can get your hands on it if you see us at one of our upcoming stalls, or we'll have copies in Travelling Man comic shop, or we'll have it for sale through our bigcartel webstore!