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    Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 1 – “Nothing it Offers Has Any Tangible Value or Originality”

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 28, 2025

    AI “art” is already encroaching on our comics spaces. There have been allegations of its use on well known mainstream properties; popular digital platforms host AI comics regardless; AI art…

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    You Get What You Get – David Robertson’s Fred Egg Comics Provides Another Showcase Platform for a Whole Host of UK Indie Creators

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 17, 2025

    David Robertson has been one of the most prolific creators on the UK self-publishing scene for many years, with his short story comics anthologies seeing him collaborate with a huge…

    Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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    That Comic Smell #2 – The Eponymous Podcast Team’s Second Anthology Has an Enthusiastic, DIY Culture Appeal

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 5, 2022

    Small press anthologies just don’t seem to have the prevalence they had several years ago when they seemed to almost swamp the self-published shelves in UK comics stores. That Comic…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    The Tay Bridge Disaster – David Robertson Takes Us Back to the Infamous 1879 Railway Tragedy in His Latest Minicomic

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 13, 2021

    The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 is something that has stuck with me from my childhood holidays in Dundee staying with my grandparents. I can vividly remember my grandmother pointing…

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    The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, March 25th with Guest Artists Josh Hicks and David Robertson

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • March 23, 2021

    Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, March 25th with a couple of likely lads who…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Break the Cake – An Eclectic Mix of Styles and Subject Matter in David Robertson’s Grassroots Small Press Anthology

    • by Andy Oliver
    • December 26, 2018

    David Robertson’s regular comics collections always compile an interesting mix of subject matter between their covers. The Dundee-based artist’s strongest offerings are usually those based in autobio work but his…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    Celebrating 5 Years of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier – Creators and Publishers Pick Their Inspirational Artists!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 3, 2016

    Can it really be five years ago today that we launched ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier with a stated mission to “unearth the gems of the small press” and a promise…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Dirty Rotten Comics #5 – Another Affordable, Accessible and Indispensable Anthology Introduction to a Host of Small Press Talent

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 13, 2015

    Describing your mission statement in the terms of the lyrics of cheesy ‘80s pop group Bucks Fizz may seem something of an eccentric way to introduce a small press comic…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    A Bit of Undigested Potato – Keara Stewart’s Dream Anthology Features Karrie Fransman, Matilda Tristram, Gareth Brookes, EdieOP, Danny Noble, Rozi Hathaway and More!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 21, 2015

    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…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    State of the Small Press Nation – Are Higher Quality Printing Opportunities for Self-Publishing Squeezing Out Traditional DIY Small Press Values?

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 4, 2015

    Is the easier availability of high quality printing options for self-publishing having a negative knock-on effect for small press comics work presented in a traditional zine or DIY culture format?…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    State of the Small Press Nation – Is Self and Micro Comics Publishing in the UK Growing Faster than its Potential Audience? (Part 1)

    • by Andy Oliver
    • December 15, 2014

    For those of us involved in the world of independent British comics – whether directly as creators and publishers or more tangentially as commentators and observers – it’s easy to…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    David Robertson’s Dump #2 – An Anthology Celebration of Grassroots Publishing from Fred Egg Comics

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 22, 2014

    David Robertson’s Dump anthology is one of those refreshingly old school small press publications that embody the DIY culture of self-publishing with an unashamedly eclectic collection of shorts. Published under…

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