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I’ve said this before in this column but Richy K. Chandler is one of the great facilitators of the UK small press scene – a creator who, through his various…
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Last night saw the opening of Burnt Roti magazine’s ‘The Beauty of Being British Asian’ at the Old Truman Brewery on London’s Brick Lane – an exhibition that includes new…
Earlier this summer, as part of the ELCAF programme of events, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to sit with four promising new artists at the festival’s Springboard…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! As the profile of Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival has grown and evolved since its inception three years ago it has become known as much for the notable…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Outside of a a couple of upcoming festival appearances, Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s feminist zine micropublisher and distro One Beat Zines are currently on hiatus until the…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! One of the most exciting new releases available at Safari Festival this weekend, Dokudami Tenement collects the first volume of Takashi Fukutani’s 1980s Japanese cult manga series…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I’ve probably expressed similar sentiments before at Broken Frontier over the years but for those about to discover micropublisher 2dcloud for the very first time at this…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Impenetrable yet eerily familiar, indefinable yet focused, unique in delivery but soaked in the standards of pop culture, metaphysical and still fundamentally human… Alexander Tucker’s work is…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Stathis Tsemberlidis is one half of the Decadence Comics team alongside artist Lando (Gardens of Glass, Stones in Focus) – a micropublishing duo who have put out…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! New Disa Wallander work is always worth checking out and this weekend’s Safari Festival sees the debut of Wallander’s new comics zine published by João Sobral’s Glasgow-based micropublishing…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes helplessness is the greatest horror of all. Matthew Pettit’s The Fields Beyond – a book that debuts this weekend at the fourth annual Safari Festival – bills…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! This Saturday the focus of the London comics scene will once again be on the east side of the capital as Safari Festival returns for its fourth…
An extra supplement to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner articles today at Broken Frontier to give you all a heads up on a tangentially comics-related project that has just a handful…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The ever experimental Minneapolis micropublisher 2dcloud are on the exhibitor line-up at this year’s Safari Festival and we’re previewing some of the new books they’ll have on show…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The many nuanced layers on which sequential art can connect with its audience ensure that work that is indistinct and minimalist in presentation can be just as…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s always exciting when international publishers with an ethos that you especially respect and admire make a rare festival visit to the UK. The inclusion of the ever…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! For the last ten years micropublisher kuš! has been bringing us a truly international body of work via its signature digest anthology comic, its mini kuš! minicomics and its…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei is a man of diverse artistic practice. UK small press comics aficionados may know him from his humorous strips in Hilarious Consequences – described by the…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
