Fast Fiction was a market stall, magazine, mail order distributor, and news sheet that played a key role in the history of British small press comics (featuring work by rising stars such as Warren Ellis, SMS, Glenn Dakin, Phil Elliott, and Rian Hughes).
The name "Fast Fiction" was taken from a Classics Illustrated knock-off spotted in the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.
The Fast Fiction stall became the de facto social centre for small press publishers, along with the adjoining pub, The Westminster Arms.
The bimonthly stall and mail-order distributor continued, along with a regular information sheet listing titles available to order, and a new anthology featuring cartoonists they sold.
[citation needed] Ed Pinsent, another cartoonist who had been involved in the cassette culture music trading scene, subsequently took over from Elliott and continued to run things until 1990.