The indie comics fair Comica Comiket returns this Saturday 14th May as part of the final weekend celebrations for the House of Illustration’s Comix Creatrix exhibition with one of its great traditions…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this month featuring…
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Rozi Hathaway, Broken Frontier 2015 ‘UK Small Press Creator to Watch’, and contributor to our very first Small Press Yearbook, is kickstarting her new comic Njálla here this week. It’s a…
Creator Rozi Hathaway has announced on her website today that the first meeting of the London chapter of the popular Laydeez do Comics group (hosted by Wallis Eates and Keara Stewart)…
Last week in this column I recommended three comics-related Kickstarter campaigns that, for various reasons, I felt deserved your attention. One of these was for the Art Aid Nepal anthology…
In the aligned worlds of self-publishing and DIY culture there’s a fertile cross-pollination between zine-making and comics creating. This column has never been shy about covering work that straddles both…
Rozi Hathaway’s Sneaky Business could best be described as a mini-anthology of work; one that embraces a refreshingly old school philosophy of self-publishing. I doubt I need to mention it…
Wonderfully inclusive UK small press anthology Dirty Rotten Comics is a project that feels like a kindred spirit to the philosophy and aims of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier. Like…
Rozi Hathaway first came to prominence in 2014 as one of the artists involved in Ravi Thornton’s acclaimed graphic memoir HOAX Psychosis Blues, alongside the likes of Bryan Talbot, Karrie…
For London-based lovers of small press and indie comics tomorrow’s Crouch End Comic Art Festival (organised by that stalwart of the scene, Sean Azzopardi) will, of course, be a must-attend…
Available at CECAF! The niggling night terrors of 40 creators bubble balefully to the surface in Keara Stewart’s unsettling anthology collection mixing comic strips and single illustrations to bring to disturbing…
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One of my ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’, Rozi Hathaway first came to prominence last year as part of the amazing line-up of artists on Ravi…
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Unearthing the gems of the small press. That was the tagline of ‘Small Pressganged’ when it debuted at Broken Frontier back in 2011. As a mini-mission statement it was designed…
Simon Moreton, 2D Cloud, Rozi Hathaway, Impossible Books and more feature in January’s round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to, both…
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Rozi Hathaway’s work originally came to my notice last year in the Broken Frontier Award-nominated graphic novel HOAX Psychosis Blues. Hathaway was one of ten creators – including names like…
It seems hard to believe that it’s a whole four years ago to the very day that the first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw debuted at the…
“In over ten years of writing for Broken Frontier, there have been few comics I have reviewed that have come close to matching Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Psychosis Blues in terms of…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Alex Hahn has been a regular presence on the UK small press circuit over the last few years with a diverse back catalogue of work and a versatile…
