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A little bit of flight of fantasy fun today at BF based on a series of Twitter posts of mine from some years ago. We’ve probably all at some point…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! It’s been a few months since we last reviewed a Decadence book (Stathis Tsemberlidis’s Binary Decay last Autumn) but those perennial ELCAF favourites will be exhibiting again this…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! A drawing of a person is not a person. It might be recognisable as a representation of a person, but the complex systems of tissue and bone and…
ELCAF WEEK! Although I covered the last issue of the Decadence anthology here at BF last summer it’s been a couple of years since I last took a look at…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! For well over a decade Decadence Comics have been showcasing their own particular brand of socio-political sci-fi, with their eponymous anthology comic acting as the micropublisher’s flagship…
It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns this month on August 23rd. As ever, your co-hosts for the night are myself (Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief…
It’s exhibitions (and other events!) galore in February’s round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to, both within and without the world…
Published last year by Breakdown Press, Gardens of Glass – Lando’s retrospective collection of short story strips from the last few years of Decadence Comics – explores “ideas of human…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
It was billed as “a celebration of the new wave of alternative and art comics from the UK and beyond” and last weekend’s Safari Festival in London’s Shoreditch most assuredly…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
