The Garage
Good cars.
Questionable plans.
Five friends, one workshop and a remarkable talent for making a simple job complicated. Welcome to The Society Garage, a full-colour comic series about cars, friendship and the plans that get slightly out of hand.
Original stories. Familiar garage logic. Very British humour.
Pull up a chair.
Every issue has a complete 25-page story, an introduction to the crew and a little more from the Auto Culture Society world.
Cars & Coffee
Forty cars. One kettle. What could go wrong?
Inside this issue
Miles opens the garage doors for a proper cars-and-coffee morning. Forty cars arrive. The kettle has other plans. With Rook organising the queue, Kit improving the wrong thing and Mr Briggs recording every decibel, a small meet becomes a very public test of friendship.
It's an Investment
One rare part. No car to fit it.
Inside this issue
Rook has found a rare intake manifold. It is valuable, desirable and completely useless to everyone in the workshop. He calls it an investment. The others call it a large box. Finding a buyer should settle the argument, until the search for a matching car begins.
The Budget Build
The car was the cheap bit.
Inside this issue
Hatch has bought a bargain project and promises a quick, affordable transformation. His budget is wonderfully simple: it leaves out tools, delivery, labour and almost everything that breaks. As the receipts grow, the crew must decide what finishing the car really means.
The Sponsor
They signed. Now they have to explain it.
Inside this issue
A sponsorship deal should be good news for the garage. There is only one problem: nobody can explain what the product does. Rolli is already filming, Rook is already negotiating and Kit has finally found the instructions. The demonstration can only improve from here.
The Sensible Daily
It was perfectly fine before they helped.
Inside this issue
Miles buys a practical silver estate. It starts, carries things and does exactly what he needs. The others find this deeply troubling. Their helpful intervention turns an ordinary journey into a lesson in why sometimes the best modification is leaving well alone.
The Midnight Meet
Big boost. Small clearance.
Inside this issue
Rolli promises Tokyo comes to Yorkshire. The cars arrive shining, the music is ready and the atmosphere is perfect. Then everyone meets the speed bump. Kit studies the angles, Hatch searches for timber and Rook spots a business opportunity. Getting parked is only the beginning.
Everyone brings
something.
Tools. Parts. Optimism. Occasionally a problem.
Choose a character to get to know them.
Miles
There is always room for one more.
Miles is the warm heart of the Society Garage: a road spirit with an explorer's curiosity and an open-door approach to life. He loves the journey, the unexpected stop and the people a good car brings together. If someone needs a hand, a place to park or a cup of coffee, Miles has probably already said yes.
That welcome is also his weakness. One favour becomes five, a small meet becomes forty cars, and his own plans drift to the bottom of the list. His friends mean well, but they have a talent for turning his practical decisions into workshop projects.
Miles keeps the crew together without needing to be the loudest person in the room. His real challenge is learning that a warm welcome can still have boundaries, and that a sensible daily is allowed to remain sensible.
- Superpower
- Hospitality, patience and finding the good in people.
- Blind spot
- Saying yes before checking the diary, the budget or the kettle.
Hatch
A few bits. Done by Sunday.
Hatch can see a finished car where everyone else sees an expensive collection of problems. Scruffy bodywork, missing parts and a suspicious noise are temporary details. The vision is what matters, and the vision always looks excellent.
He is happiest with a project in front of him and his friends within shouting distance. He will put in the work and get his hands dirty; he simply tends to forget how much work there is. His budgets are optimistic, his estimates are elastic and Sunday is more of a state of mind than a date.
Under the cheerful overconfidence is a loyal, practical friend. When the crew really needs something doing, Hatch stops talking about the finished result and starts finding the timber, tools or missing piece that gets them moving.
- Superpower
- Enthusiasm, practical improvisation and refusing to give up.
- Blind spot
- Budgets that stop at the purchase price.
Kit
Five minutes. Three days of improvements.
Kit is the garage's non-human inventor, fascinated by how things work and convinced they could work a little better. A simple problem is an invitation to examine the entire system. Why replace a part when there might be an opportunity to redesign the process around it?
The results can be brilliant. The route to them can be lengthy. Kit's curiosity sometimes turns a five-minute repair into three days of mechanisms, diagrams and new questions, while the others wait for the original problem to be fixed.
When the situation calls for careful thought, Kit earns that trust. Reading the instructions, studying an angle or recognising that the simplest answer is enough can matter more than a spectacular invention.
- Superpower
- Inventiveness, concentration and seeing possibilities others miss.
- Blind spot
- Improving everything before finishing the thing that mattered.
Rook
It is an investment. Obviously.
Rook is a magpie mechanic with an eye for a rare part and an even keener eye for a deal. He knows what something is, where it came from and why someone, somewhere, will want it. Whether anyone in the garage owns the right car is a secondary concern.
His collection is part workshop resource, part personal archive and part financial argument waiting to happen. Every purchase has a justification. Every box has potential. Selling a piece can prove his point, right up until the proceeds inspire the next acquisition.
Behind the negotiations is a useful friend with real mechanical knowledge. Rook's best moments come when he values what the crew needs more than what a part might fetch, though he would prefer not to make a habit of saying that aloud.
- Superpower
- Mechanical knowledge, a sharp eye and knowing where to find things.
- Blind spot
- Confusing a good price with a good reason to buy.
Rolli
Announce it first. Work it out afterwards.
Rolli is the tyre-bodied spark of the Society Garage, always ready with a bigger idea and a louder announcement. A casual evening becomes an event. A small opportunity becomes a campaign. If the crew needs confidence, Rolli can supply more than they ordered.
Details tend to arrive later: the budget, the instructions, the access route and the height of a speed bump. The gap between what he promises and what is physically possible is where the others usually find their afternoon disappearing.
His enthusiasm is infectious because he wants everyone to be part of the moment. Learning to listen before announcing, and to admit when a plan needs help, lets that energy become something the whole garage can enjoy.
- Superpower
- Energy, confidence and getting people excited.
- Blind spot
- Making the announcement before checking the small print.
Make yourself
at home.
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A few useful
details.
Where should I start?
Cars & Coffee is Issue 01 and the best introduction to the crew. Each comic tells a complete story, with friendships and running jokes that continue across the series.
How much story is in each issue?
Each issue includes 25 pages of story, plus the cover, crew introduction and Auto Culture Society advert pages. The books keep their original full-colour artwork.
Is this a children’s comic?
The plush crew have plenty of charm, but the humour is written for grown-up car enthusiasts: questionable purchases, ambitious projects, friendship and the everyday absurdities of garage life.
Are all six issues on Kindle?
Cars & Coffee, Issue 01, is currently available on Kindle. All six opening issues are available on Apple Books. We will add further Kindle links here as those editions become available.
Can I get a physical copy?
Cars & Coffee is also available as a paperback for £8.99 in the UK. View the paperback ↗