Reading the background information which arrived with my copy of London artist Darren Cullen’s Join the Army I wasn’t surprised to note the polarised reactions this most uncompromising of anti-war…
The old West as it really was. That’s the mission statement behind Caryn A. Tate’s western series Red Plains… When I was preparing to write this review I was rather…
Award-winning novelist Meg Rosoff, critic and blogger Andy Oliver, and cartoonists Woodrow Phoenix and Nicola Streeten are among the judges of the 2014 First Fictions First Graphic Novel Competition, launched…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! I reviewed the opening issue of John Lees and Iain Laurie’s And then Emily Was Gone a couple of months back in this column. It was…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Before I begin my reflections on Douglas Noble’s Youthful Attack I want to return to a soundbite from the great man himself about his comics from…
New at Thought Bubble! Fantasy role-playing meets retro video gaming meets anarchic fairy tales in Bell and Slorance’s witty all-ages offering. The first release from the Dogooder Comics stable, Dungeon…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! From the roaring Twenties to a life of self-imposed solitude, writer/artist Jessica Martin tells the story of actress Clara Bow, forgotten icon from another era. While…
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Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today we return to the environs of Scene City in the latest issue of Rob Cureton’s music industry satire… When last we left Rob Cureton’s Tales…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today’s column takes a look at Adam Murphy’s Fever Dreams, a collection dredged up from the darkest corners of his imagination… Adam Murphy is the creator…
The lives of travelling show people come under the spotlight in creator Abbey Massey’s look at 24 hours of a working circus. I ‘m (sort of) returning to the Comica Festival…
Katie Craven’s poignant twilight allegory is the first spotlighted book in ‘Small Pressganged’ from the attendees of the latest Comiket independent comics fair. The recent Comica Festival Comiket – the…
Daniel James Baldwin’s documentary on the self-publishing scene both needs and deserves your support! Today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ isn’t the usual review or in-depth interview piece. Instead I want to belatedly…
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“Anything can happen in the next half hour!” – it’s the tagline, of course, of Gerry Anderson’s cult ‘60s Supermarionation series Stingray but it’s one that could also quite easily…
One of the great joys of London’s Comica Festival – an event that I will be covering in greater depth with a full retrospective report here at Broken Frontier at…
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Broken Frontier’s ‘Small Pressganged’ column – our regular spotlight on the worlds of small press, self-published and micropublished comics – will be two years old this weekend and, at the…
Those mischievous masters of manic mirth the Etherington Brothers have announced on their blog that their previously uncollected 2011 series YORE! (from the pages of the late, lamented The Dandy)…
The Listening Agent is another laconic and beautifully understated collection of work from Joe Decie, underlining his undoubted status as one of the most unique creative voices on the current…
Jeff Smith Launches All New Free Webcomic TodayNovember 25, 2013Myriad’s 2014 First Graphic Novel Competition LaunchesNovember 25, 2013
Jupiter’s Legacy Redefines The Superhero AgeNovember 22, 2013
Comic Con India Brings Mingled Fun of Movies and Comics to fans with 2nd EditionNovember 22, 2013
PREVIEWS 2013 Holiday Gift Guide is OutNovember 22, 2013Happy Birthday ‘Small Pressganged’! Celebrating Two Years of Unearthing the Gems of the Small PressNovember 1, 2013Fever DreamsNovember 14, 2013
Inside Look: Scum of the Earth #1 – Southern Fried Sci-Fi by Mark Bertolini and Rob CroonenborghsNovember 21, 2013
Requiem for a Screaming PlanetNovember 5, 2013
