Longbox

[ Est. 2015 · creator-owned · bag & board ]

Ink first. Apologise never.

Longbox is a small independent press printing creator-owned graphic novels — halftone-and-proud, on paper that yellows on purpose. No cinematic universe. No variant of a variant. Just the panel, the page, and the person who drew it.

See the titles How we print →

[ The press ]

Six panels, one promise.

We make books the slow way, in the order a page is actually built. Here's the whole operation — read it like a strip.

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    A creator brings us pages, not a pitch deck. If the ink's alive, we're already halfway in.

  2. 02

    We letter by hand where it matters and set the rest in metal-era faces. Balloons are drawn, not stamped.

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    Colour is halftone, four plates, slightly out of register on purpose. Perfect print is a different hobby.

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    Riso and offset, short runs, uncoated stock. The paper is chosen to age — it should look read.

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    Every copy ships bagged and boarded, signed if the creator's in the room, numbered if it's a first.

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    The creator keeps the rights, the film option and the sequel. We keep the joy of having printed it first.

[ The titles ]

On the shelf now.

Four books we'd press into your hands at a con. Creator-owned, every one — the name on the spine keeps everything that comes after.

Night Shift

by R. Okafor

A hospital cleaner who can see what the machines dream. Ninety pages, two colours, one very bad Tuesday.

graphic novel · £16

Tin Kings

by M. Vega & L. Brandt

Automatons unionise in a rusting empire. An ongoing serial; three issues out, bagged and boarded.

serial · £6/issue

Salt Road

by D. Amari

A silent 200-page western about the last woman to walk a trade route. Not a word of dialogue. None needed.

OGN · £24

Housefiles

by the Longbox Collective

Our annual anthology — twelve creators, one prompt, riso'd in a garage. This year: "the last quiet room."

anthology · £14

[ The studio ]

A back room and a good printer.

We started Longbox because the books we loved kept going out of print the moment they stopped trending. So we set up a risograph in a back room in Peckham and started keeping them alive — short runs, reprinted whenever the box empties, sold direct so the creator gets the bigger half.

We publish maybe eight books a year. That's not modesty; it's the ceiling of what two people and a temperamental drum can do well. When a book sells out we don't chase the hype — we just print another box, because a good comic doesn't have a release week.

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[ The pull list ]

Get one box a season.

Four times a year we mail a box: whatever we printed, plus one thing we think you specifically should read. Cancel whenever; keep the comics.

  • New issues + one hand-picked backlist book
  • Bagged, boarded, and stickered by hand
  • First dibs on numbered firsts

Demo form — nothing is sent. See the README.