Comic shops helping the small press (More updates!)

I've read some comments online recently expressly stating that UK comic shops do not support or stock small press indie comics. Anyone saying that is misinformed. While it's true that some comic shops refuse indie comics, there are thankfully stores with a better attitude who are more than happy to stock small press / independent titles. 

My own Brickman Returns! comic is currently on sale in Nostalgia and Comics, as are several other small press comics. Even more encouraging is the fact that Nostalgia and Comics give 100% of sales back to the creators. That's right; the shop makes no money on selling small press comics. They do it because they're good people and to support the creators. 

I haven't visited many comic stores in recent years but I know that London's Gosh! Comics and Orbital Comics definitely stock small press / indie titles. Here's comics creator Jessica Martin a couple of years ago in Gosh! Comics proving that point with her first self-published comic It Girl. Behind her are shelves full of small press comics...

Below is a list of shops that I've been informed stock small press and indie comics. If you run a comics shop that sells small press comics please get in touch and I'll be more than happy to add you to the list. I'll also be adding a permanent sidebar to this blog soon that will list shops that stock small press comics. (UPDATED 15/3/2016 with a lot more shops. Thanks for your input, everyone!)


NOSTALGIA AND COMICS

14-16 Smallbrook Queensway, 

Birmingham B5 4EN

0121 643 0143

GOSH! COMICS
1, Berwick St, London W1F 0DR

020 7636 1011

ORBITAL COMICS

8 Great Newport St, London WC2H 7JA

020 7240 0591



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9 Market St, City Centre, 

Nottingham NG1 6HY

0115 950 8045

TRAVELLING MAN

32 Central Rd, 

Leeds LS1 6DE

0113 243 6461

FIRST AGE COMICS

3 Moor Lane,

Lancaster

DEADHEAD COMICS

30 W Nicolson St, 

Edinburgh EH8 9DD

07982 859922

FORBIDDEN PLANET INTERNATIONAL

40-41 Southbridge Street, 

Edinburgh EH1 1LL

0131 558 8226

LITTLE SHOP OF HEROES

8 Maygate, 

Dunfermline KY12 7NH

01383 734605

OK COMICS

19, Thornton’s Arcade, 

Briggate, 

Leeds LS1 6LQ

0113 246 9366

DAVE'S COMICS

5 Sydney St, 

Brighton and Hove, 

Brighton BN1 4EN

01273 691012

EXCELSIOR COMICS

48 Bond St, 

Bristol BS1 3LZ

0117 930 0621



ATOMIC COMICS

1 Glovers Walk, 

Yeovil, 

Somerset BA20 1LH

01935 432639

RAYGUN EAST

70 Clapton Square, 

London E5 8HE

020 8985 1141

INKY FINGERS COMICS

38 Cowley Rd, 

Oxford OX4 1HZ

01865 421776

DEAD UNIVERSE COMICS

Friars Square Shopping Centre, 

5 Bourbon St, 

Aylesbury, 

Buckinghamshire 

HP20 2PZ

01296 706500

BATCAVE

Lower Cockcroft, 

Blackburn BB2

01254 667488

CARTOON MUSEUM

35 Little Russell St, 

London WC1A 2HH

020 7580 8155

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