THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Something a little different launching at Thought Bubble for those who like a tactile edge to their comics. Deadly Knitshade’s Very Tiny Comics Anthology #1: Monsters will be debuting as a series of minicomics available from a retro gumball machine! Full details in the press release below.
VERY TINY COMICS ANTHOLOGY #1: MONSTERS
Introducing the world’s smallest comics anthology from some of the UK’s biggest comics artists – Jamie Smart (Bunny vs Monkey), Simone Lia (Fluffy), Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Hellboy), and many more. Launching from a retro gumball machine at Thought Bubble 2025.
The first ever Very Tiny Comics Anthology #1: MONSTERS, is being loaded into a double-height gumball machine, and will be stomping over the hills to land at Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival on November 15th, 2025.
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 of artists featured runs from bestselling kid’s 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 is limited to just 50 copies of each artist’s story. 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, with a custom dust jacket designed for each story, all served up in 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!
Deadly Knitshade will be at Table F13 in the Bubbleboy Hall at Thought Bubble.
Thought Bubble 2025 runs from November 1oth-16th with the convention weekend taking place on the 15th-16th. More details on the Thought Bubble site here.
Read all our Thought Bubble 2025 coverage so far in one place here.
Poster by Ng Yin Shian
