Silent Army Storeroom

A meeting place for small press art publications and related printed ephemera. Located inside a stud Currently closed until further notice.

Silent Army Storeroom is a tiny comic shop, reading room located inside a private Collingwood studio warehouse. The imprint Silent Army has published over 300 people, in comics anthologies, illustrated zines and artist publications. The anthologies often present work from artists and non-artists alike, aiming to engage the reader in the possibilities of artistic practice. Artists help us to see th

22/05/2024

This Sunday as part of my table at I will be launching a new edition of 'Global Liberal Media Please' by Kyle McGee of https://democraticmediaplease.net/ which I illustrated back in 2015.

This new hand finished booklet will be $20 with all monies from sales donated to https://para.org.au/ who help with ongoing living costs for newly arrived Palestinian migrants and refugees, including food and essential goods and services.

Remember also that all donations to PARA are tax-deductible.

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Below is an excerpt from 'Global Liberal Media Please'.

We hope to see you on Sunday!

23/01/2024

I am happy to be presenting a new talk with the New York Comics Symposium this month on Silent Army Projects and the Australasian comics scene.

https://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/michael-fikaris-jan-30-2024-at-7pm-est/

The talk will be a first hand account of working within a socio-cultural discourse of comic art in Australia, with a focus on artist anthologies made by the imprint Silent Army. There will be a focus on my practice in the independent comics scene as an editor and small press publisher over the last 20 years or so in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).

I will be showing images of activities in my hometown during this time and cover my involvement in the past 10 years with artist communities in South East Asia (one of which is this photo here of a mural made with friends in Yogyakarta in 2018).

12/12/2023

Trails 3058

Another fun little drawing session on the weekend at our last event for a while.

Thanks to everyone who came along before the 5-7pm session and everybody who stuck around to make some special pieces together.

Images will go up on the ol' http://www.silentarmy.org/trails.html as there is a makeover slowly taking place with A LOT of content being added for the future.

For now - we love you all and wish you all a safe and comics filled end of year time.

(Photo by Marc Pearson)

04/12/2023
Future Archives | The Coburg Conversation 25/11/2023

One last display for the year with the archiving project. This time we are part of this fine series of events in Coburg

Future Archives | The Coburg Conversation

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www.silentarmy.org

Silent Army is a non profit organisation that publishes, collects, studies and celebrates small press comic and art books through live events, workshops and on/offline projects.

Run by Michael Fikaris since 2010 it began in 2002 as a collective printing anthologies.



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