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and a loose collective of U.K. based small press creators whose work is sold and displayed on the weekly stall. London
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International), a Bristol-based company specialising in mail order, comic mart service and publications, focused international attention on UK small pressers and helped a number go on to mainstream comics, including
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larger one-day events that took up an additional 1,000 square feet (93 m) of Camden Lock Market such as No
Barcodes in April 2008 and Low Energy Day in August 2008. LUC promoted their stall and events via
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featured a regular small press spotlight section between the years of 2007 and 2009, featuring columns by Matt Badham and David
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who operated on a small scale, often with a manual printing press in-house. They produced limited print-runs of publications that larger, more commercially inclined publishers would reject.
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in London in 1981. It later developed into an anthology, a mail order service, and a news sheet, lasting in various forms until 1990. Artists associated with this scene included
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British small press activity, including the now-online
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has won numerous awards for its long-running series of parodic comics, which pastiche the style of children's comics of the 1970s. The group publishes
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