← back to /shopDrop 01 · Print run pendingIvor's Compass.
In print.
The graphic novel and workshop record — bound, printed, brought home.
A Black queer man at the heart of the British civil service. The 1940s and 50s. He met the Empire Windrush at Tilbury — and the men who arrived with it. He ran West African student welfare. He hosted the parties where the first generations of Black queer London learned each other.
His name was Ivor Cummings. You weren't taught about him. That was the point.
Ivor's Compass is the graphic novel we made to put him back. Seven directions through one man's life — home, night, fire, threshold, shadow, silence, return. Workshop panels, prompts, the names that came up across four sessions in Croydon.
The journal binds it. The version you can hold. The version you can hand to someone.
Sample spreads from the seven-directions panels and the Croydon workshop record. Final design and pagination still in production.
Seven directions. One man's life. A way back to ourselves.
Compass · workshop record · 2026
Estimated price
£15–25
Format
Softbound · ~80 pp · A5
Threshold
~150 copies
Aiming for
Pride 2026
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Read all 19 panels online, free, at compass.blkoutuk.com →