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We’re a small press publisher from Leyton, in east London. You can find our books here: https://gurucomics.etsy.com

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Sal Buscema, beloved comics artist, passes away Sal Buscema, a veteran comics artist and part of the famed Buscema family of Marvel artists, has passed away. He was 89 years old when he died on Friday, and the news broke today, on what would have been his 90th birthday.

Sal Buscema, beloved comics artist, passes away

Sal Buscema, a veteran comics artist and part of the famed Buscema family of Marvel artists, has passed away. He was 89 years old when he died on Friday, and the news broke today, on what would have been his 90th birthday.

26.01.2026 23:26 👍 851 🔁 418 💬 9 📌 96
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Why are kids getting into comics and is their timing spot on? What is driving a surge in enthusiasm for comics among children and how may it benefit their future?

This is worth a read as comics are apparently getting out there again!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

15.12.2025 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tomorrow we’ll be at the Star of Kings at City Con! Pop down for some live music & comic book goodness!

[Available here!] (www.tixr.com/groups/break...)

25.11.2025 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you to everyone that popped over our table this weekend @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social especially those that bought comics! Great to see some familiar faces & meet some new ones! 🙌🏽

17.11.2025 21:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s Day 2 of @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social & you can find us in the Redshirt Hall table C6! #thoughtbubble #smallpress

16.11.2025 10:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our Diversity Spotlight Maps highlight Disabled Creators, Creators of Colour and LGBT + Queer creators exhibiting at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025!

Check out all three maps here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/diversityspotlight

28.10.2025 12:02 👍 24 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
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Hi all! The Guru Comics crew will be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social next week! We’re in the Redshirt Hall, come say hi! 😀

#thoughtbubble #comics #smallpress

03.11.2025 20:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NOTHING in your comic will work if you mess up the timing. The jokes, the dramatic reveals, the cliffhanger, the convincing argument... NONE of it works if you mess up the timing. Here's a little excerpt on the subject from my How To Draw 2026 book now on Kickstarter. Much more on this in the book.

03.11.2025 19:31 👍 43 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
someone should go to jail for this
someone should go to jail for this YouTube video by voidzilla

OpenAI needs to die and their CEO Sam Altman belongs behind bars.

The company’s new Sora video app is an IP infringement slop factory that furthers our descent into a creatively bankrupt post-truth nightmare.

Via @coffeezilla.bsky.social

youtu.be/illZ-7aA7iQ?...

05.10.2025 10:04 👍 48 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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"We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics" - Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene – Broken Fron... Talvinder Sehmbi of London-based small press publisher Guru Comics talks to BF about their range of genre fiction comics.

Last week at Broken Frontier...

“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics @gurucomicbooks.bsky.social on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene.

www.brokenfrontier.com/talvinder-se...

28.04.2025 04:10 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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"We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics" - Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene – Broken Fron... Talvinder Sehmbi of London-based small press publisher Guru Comics talks to BF about their range of genre fiction comics.

We are delighted to have been featured & interviewed in @brokenfrontier.bsky.social please check out the article here:

www.brokenfrontier.com/talvinder-se... Thank you to Broken Frontier & @andywpoliver.bsky.social for the opportunity! Let’s make some #comics #smallpress #indiecomics

24.04.2025 17:55 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for the opportunity @andywpoliver.bsky.social & Broken Frontier! It’s much appreciated!

24.04.2025 12:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics" - Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene – Broken Fron... Talvinder Sehmbi of London-based small press publisher Guru Comics talks to BF about their range of genre fiction comics.

Interview!

“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics @gurucomicbooks.bsky.social on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene.

www.brokenfrontier.com/talvinder-se...

24.04.2025 12:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The Comics Cultural Impact Collective has proposed a UK Comics Fund to support the nation’s comic community.

It only takes a moment to sign the report and help give the UK comic industry the support it deserves👇

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

23.04.2025 09:07 👍 16 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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The Comics Cultural Impact Collective Makes the Case to the UK Government for £1.5 Million Funding for Comics – Broken Frontier More news of the work of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective who are pushing for adequate funding for comics in the UK.

News! The Comics Cultural Impact Collective Makes the Case to the UK Government for £1.5 Million Funding for Comics. www.brokenfrontier.com/comics-cultu...

17.04.2025 06:41 👍 73 🔁 53 💬 2 📌 10
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Preview: Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine - An Extensive Advance Look at the New Charity Comics Anthology to Support the Palestine Red Crescent Society – Broken Frontier 'Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine' is a new comics anthology featuring work from Iasmin Omar Ata, Mohammad Sabaaneh and more.

Check this out, folks! Really important project and the very first place to see these pages is at BF.

Preview: Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine – An Extensive Advance Look at the New Charity Comics Anthology to Support the Palestine Red Crescent Society.

www.brokenfrontier.com/samidoon-pre...

12.04.2025 15:56 👍 20 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
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Because apparently it bears repeating. GenAl is theft. Please don't use it.

05.04.2025 21:48 👍 236 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 3
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As promised, here is the cover to TOOTHPICK issue 3! The comic will be released later this month but if you need to catch up, issues 1&2 are available here:

gurucomics.etsy.com

Support small press comics! Thanks!

06.04.2025 21:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We will be revealing the cover to Toothpick issue 3 by Talvinder Sehmbi this evening but here is a few pics of the process from outline to pencils & full inks!

Support small press comics!
#smallpress #smallpresscomics #comiccover #indiecomics #smallpresspublishing

06.04.2025 12:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alright, alright alright! We’re delight to be heading back to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this November!

03.04.2025 12:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
World Record The Most Guests A Podcast  Nugget 4
World Record The Most Guests A Podcast Nugget 4 YouTube video by The Martin Talk Show

The founders of Guru Comics had the great opportunity to be on The Martin Talkshow podcast in his attempt to break the record of most guests on a podcast (achieved! 🙌🏽) & raise funds for St Clare’s Hospice (achieved! 🙌🏽) listen, give a like, repost or drop a comment! 🙌🏽

youtu.be/Pk2oCQ4FvUo?...

23.03.2025 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Very cool sequence from The Church in Yellow by Alfie Griffiths! This is our first horror comic & available here: gurucomics.etsy.com/listing/1817...

20.03.2025 10:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Donate to Bring Becky Home!, organized by Jade Upshall Hey everyone, We need your help to bring our amazing Becky Burke home. Becky, a 28-year-old artist … Jade Upshall needs your support for Bring Becky Home!

Comics People! R.E Burke (Becky of @brokenfrontier.bsky.social ) has been detained unreasonably by ICE - 11 days & counting - Please share / Donate or help raise coverage & get her home to the UK. Thank you!

gofund.me/1b0a8622

11.03.2025 22:41 👍 73 🔁 56 💬 2 📌 0
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WIP Lettering on Toothpick 3 by TalvsToons (on instagram). #smallpress #smallpresspublishing #indiepublishing #wip #smallpress #smallpresspublishing

27.02.2025 21:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every artist I know is really struggling right now. Financially, emotionally, their confidence, in general.

If you like an artist's work, support them any way you can. Buying their stuff or subscribing to their Patreon is great, but words of encouragement are also incredibly helpful.

22.02.2025 20:57 👍 11996 🔁 4663 💬 58 📌 125

Question for fellow comic creators, when you’re lettering a series, do you stick to the same font throughout each issue? #comiccraft #lettering #comiccreators #comicbooks #comiccommunity

30.01.2025 22:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Once again...
spent lockdown illustrating on a important book about the true story of the rise of Nazism in 1938 seen through the eyes of a real family.

Please read uk.bookshop.org/a/11494/9780...

and always speak up against fascism & Nazism.

20.01.2025 22:50 👍 242 🔁 82 💬 4 📌 3
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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

This is going to be disastrous, on an incomprehensible level.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

13.01.2025 14:48 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 3
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Guru Comics co-founder Talvinder Sehmbi braving the chilly Sunday in the Dudio working on Toothpick issue 3 😅🥶 #comics #smallpress #cartoonist #inker #comicbookinker #smallpresspublisher

12.01.2025 20:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Little reminder given review requests today that we do not cover comics created by AI theft, nor do we link to that popular digital comics platform that hosts them. It’s an instant block if you use AI “art”. Don’t waste our time with requests for coverage if that’s your thing.

05.01.2025 17:26 👍 74 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 4