My short film Keith is nominated for the Best of British Award at the Iris Prize 2026. The event will take place in Cardiff in October 2026, with a screening as part of a short film programme on Friday 16 October. Keith is the Scottish nomination, after winning the FIlmhouse Queer Film Prize 2026. This will be the second time I have been nominated for the Iris Prize, after Dix Pix in 2019.
Keith will now go on to screen on Film 4 and be available to watch online at Channel 4 until October 2027.
A new mini-zine is now available on my Etsy store. It is called Spiral. I have some info on this zine below.
Spiral is a mini-zine that takes an illustrative and pensive look at mental health and identity.
The zine features 8 small pages that present the inner emotions and feelings of different characters. The words and images look at what spiralling means. Spiralling upwards and downwards.
This mini-zine would appeal to people who are interested in experimental comics, zines, outsider art and graphic medicine.
You can buy Sprial here.
Two of my zines are at the Design and Disability exhibition at the V&A Dundee. The exhibition runs from 5 June to 4 October. The zines Coming Out Autistic and Uncomfortable Sex with Total Strangers are on display in the resources section towards the back of the exhibition. This is the second time I have displayed my work at the V&A Dundee, after the month long screening of Prosopagnosia during June 2025.
My short film Keith has won the Filmhouse Queer Film Prize 2026. The award was presented in June after a screening of queer short films made in Scotland. This means the Keith will be the Scottish nomination for the Iris Prize 2026. I am delighted to have won this award and was not expecting it. This is the fourth award that Keith has picked up.
I will be tabling at the Sequential Scotland comic art festival at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Glasgow. The event takes place from 10am – 5pm and I will have some new(ish) comics and zines for sale.
My latest short film Keith was screened and won an award at the Marvels of Media Festival in New York. This is the 5th edition of the festival and I was delighted to go back for the third time to visit the Museum of Moving Image to collect the award.
How About I Am Outside Of Your Window takes a selection of lyrics and puts them out of context to emphases the weird, problematic and strange lyricism contained within the songs. The zine is not making fun of the songs or bands, in fact it is a funny, engaging and thought provoking celebration of emo lyrics and songs.
How About I Am Outside Of Your Window – A zine about creepy emo lyrics, embraces the DIY nature of zines to celebrate the genre of emo. It does not debate whether the bands or songs with the zine can or should be considered emo. Instead it asks questions on whether we, as fans of emo music, should take the music literally, or give some leeway to the creative talents of the musicians.
You can buy this zine here.
Milo Goes to Diversity and Equality Training takes a personal look at punk rock lyrics, attitudes and the exploitation of DIY art spaces. It is a perzine where memory and personal experiences are explored in order to look at how people take advantage of the open nature of DIY art, as a way to hide behind their ignorance and homophobia.
The zine uses illustrations, comics and text to present different ideas around DIY art and spaces. It’s not a comprehensive guide, it doesn’t present a solution and I am pretty sure lots of people will disagree with the concept and ideas within.
You can buy this zine here.
Milo Goes to Diversity and Equality Training comes with a massive content warning for homophobia.
You’ll enjoy this zine if you like indie comics, perzines, Descendents and queer comics.
In April 2025 my short film Prosopagnosia was chosen to screen in the V&A Museum in Dundee. The screening was for Autism Awareness month and the short screened on a loop in the Jupiter Auditorium. I lived in Dundee for many years and left just before the museum was built. It was a very special experience to go back and see the film in a city that means a lot to me. Some photos from the exhibition are below –
Two of my short films are streaming on the ReelAbilities channel for UK Disability History month. ReelAbilities is a New York based disability focussed film festival. The festival has screened several of my films, but is streaming What It Feels Like and Coming Out Autistic specifically for UK Disability History Month. I am delighted that both those films were chosen and honoured that they are being highlighted during an important month.
Steven Fraser 