Very Tiny Comics Anthology #1: MONSTERS Debuts at Thought Bubble 2025
Very Tiny Comics Anthology #1: MONSTERS is the world's smallest comics anthology - packed with monstrous creativity from some of the UK's biggest comics talents. Featuring Jamie Smart (Bunny vs Monkey), Simone Lia (Fluffy), Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Hellboy), and more. This exclusive collection launches from a towering retro gumball machine at Thought Bubble 2025. What a way to release a comic!
The Very Tiny Comics Anthology is the quirky chrome, plastic and paper brainchild of Deadly Knitshade. It is a gargantuan tiny production, featuring an impressive hoard of 25 brilliant comics artists. The range runs from bestselling kids' comics authors, Eisner-nominated and award-winning graphic novelists, competition prizewinners, Dark Horse, Marvel, and DC comic creators, small-press heroes, to regular contributors to the New Yorker, Guardian, and Private Eye.
The idea is simple:
- 25 EXCLUSIVE limited edition 22mm (1 inch) Very Tiny Comics.
- 25 Comic Artists.
- 25 original new stories created specially for the anthology.
- 25 limited edition Very Tiny Comics to collect.
- Dispensed from a gargantuan double-height retro gumball machine.
The full artist list:
- Jamie Smart (Bunny vs Monkey)
- Karrie Fransman (The House that Groaned)
- Tor Freeman (Boss of the Underworld), Kristyna Baczynski (Retrograde Orbit)
- Becky Barnicoat (Cry When the Baby Cries)
- Sarah Gordon (Vicious Creatures)
- Ria Grix (Acid Box)
- Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Hellboy)
- Sofie Dodgson (Bitter Root)
- Matthew Dooley (Flake)
- Rebecca K Jones (Observer Graphic Short Story winner)
- Anna Trench (Florrie)
- Dan Berry (Rivers)
- Beatrijs Brouwer (Beastly Worlds)
- Mereida Fajardo (Zinezilla Comic Fair)
- KitsuneArt (Midnight Heart)
- Simone Lia (Fluffy)
- Lizz Lunney (Build Your Own Theme Park)
- Jenny Robins (Biscuits)
- Chloe Starling (2020 Manga Jiman Award winner)
- Ed Stockham (Swamp Eyed Jack)
- Donya Todd (The Witch's Egg)
- Nancy ArtMusic (2022 LDC REVEAL! award winner)
- Timothy Winchester (Frogendog)
- Deadly Knitshade (Very Tiny Comics creator and First Graphic Novel longlist 2025)
Stories range from the scary to the sweet, surreal, and silly. Each Very Tiny Comics story has been specially commissioned for the Monsters anthology. And it is a limited edition of 50. Once they're gone, they're gone.
Every 22mm comic is a thing of beauty. No bigger than a 50 pence piece; each Very Tiny Comic is individually cut and handfolded. They come with a custom dust jacket designed for each story. All served up in a clear gumball capsule bubble. You buy a token, feed it to the machine, and turn the dial. You won't know which comic you're going to get until it falls into your hand.
Where can you get a Very Tiny Comic from the anthology?
You can find the Very Tiny Comics Gumball Machine at Thought Bubble Festival, Bubbleboy Hall, F13. Future VTC Gumball Machine locations TBC.
Deadly Knitshade, Very Tiny Comics Gumball Machine wrangler and creator of various other weird, wonderful comics experiences, encourages you to take home a Very Tiny Comic before they run out. Or before the gargantuan gumball machine devours us all!
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