Looking Back on Small Press Day 2026 – 20 Events Across the UK, Ireland and the US as the Community Comes Together to Celebrate Comics Self-Publishing

With no less than twenty events taking place in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and even the US, this year’s Small Press Day built on the foundations of last year’s reinvigorated tenth anniversary event with another day of enthusiastic love for all things self-published in comics. SPD 26 was brought to you this year by the Broken Frontier editorial team of Lydia Turner and myself, Andy Oliver, after inspirational original co-organiser Amneet Johal stepped back after a decade, and it once more captured its creator David Ziggy Greene‘s vision of a day where connections were formed between local comics creators and their communities. You can see a list of all the participating venues here on the Small Press Day site. SPD 2026 poster by Kamila Krol, aka Pigeon There are too many highlights to list here but it was wonderful to see events take place in places like Northampton and Liverpool who haven’t held Small Press Days before; to have SPD make it to an Oxfam store for the very first time (make sure to pick up the Oxfam Blackheath team’s Blackheath Folk anthology because it’s excellent); and for us to have an event in the States again thanks to The Floating Bookshop (having to resch...