Gosh!Fest 2026 x Drink and Draw with Will Powers, Mark Stafford and Rachel Tubb

Sharpen your pencils! Pour a round! Drink and Draw is back in session! We're very excited for another evening of drawing at the pub, hosted by ourselves and our friends over at Broken Frontier. This month, we have a very special session to tie into our very own Small Press Festival, Gosh!Fest!

As always we'll be joined by our resident cartoonist Mark Stafford and this month we've invited two more Gosh!Fest artists Will Powers and Rachel Tubb! Join us on Friday 28th August 2026, from 6.30pm.

DIY culture and the small press comics scene have been an integral part of our DNA since the very first day we opened. We wanted to create a day to celebrates our love for self-published comics and the community that creates some of our favourite books. Gosh!Fest: Our very own Small Press Festival will be on Saturday 29th August 2026, kicking off right from 11am, and you can find out more about it by clicking the link here.

So, what is a Drink and Draw? Well, it's in the name! We'll host an evening of drawing with our guest comic artists, all while having a few drinks together, alcholic and non alcholic. Mark Stafford, our resident cartoonist, will be a regular face at the monthly event, being joined by two guest artists every time. We'll meet at Gosh! for 6.30pm, where they'll be a chance to mingle with the artists and check out their comics, before we head over to The Royal George for 7pm. Once everyone has grabbed a seat and a drink, we'll start three short rounds of drawing, with each guest artist setting their own drawing theme. Gosh! will have the artists work on sale and even have some prizes for their favourite drawings! We will aim to wrap up by 9.30pm, but staying afterwards to continue the fun is more than welcome.

Broken Frontier and ourselves have been running the Drink & Draws since 2015 and we've been lucky enough to have had over 200 guest artists attend! It will be hosted by Broken Frontier's wonderful Andy Oliver and Gosh's Will Humberstone.

Look forward to seeing you all on Friday 28th August, from 6.30pm. There will be limited seating available at the Royal George and seating will be prioritised to those who were at the shop first.

Keep up to date with all news over on our Facebook event page.