Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Comic art festival celebrates the stubborn British small press
Tables of photocopied hope and graphic novels that outgrow the stall.
A comic art festival put small-press tables at the centre rather than as a side alley, giving illustrators equal billing with big-publisher booths.
Several zines sold out by Saturday noon—always the best kind of problem.
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