Fast Fiction

A cornerstone of the UK small-press scene, Fast Fiction ran for 33 issues from 1982 to 1990, providing a vital platform for emerging alternative cartoonists. Published by the collective of the same name, the series is most closely associated with the distinctive, lo-fi work of Phil Elliott, Ed Pinsent, and Glenn Dakin, who wrote and drew the bulk of its pages. It stands as a key document of the era's self-published, black-and-white comics movement, capturing a raw, inventive energy that preceded the wider explosion of British independent comics.