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SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! In January of last year we told you all that Ellice Weaver was an artist to keep the closest of eyes on and we weren’t wrong!…
SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! It seems particularly appropriate to be covering Emily B. Owen’s zine-style minicomic Brain Shoodles in the week of Small Press Day not just because it…
Myriad Editions are a publisher we have long admired here at Broken Frontier. We do, of course, have our own associations with the Brighton-based outfit given that I was a…
SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! If you’re already a fan of John Cei Douglas’s meditative and poignant comics then Badger Vs. Tiger! may come as a surprise. Douglas has made…
CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE BROKEN FRONTIER SMALL PRESS YEARBOOK! It’s Small Press Day this coming Saturday July 8th so what better occasion to mark the publication of our second…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! One of our 2017 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ at Broken Frontier, Anja Uhren has a lyrical artistic style that lends itself to all manner…
It’s nearly here! Small Press Day 2017 – the second annual day of celebration of all things self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY culture in the UK and Ireland – is back…
It’s so easy to overuse the superlatives when it comes to describing some of the work on show on the current UK small press scene but in the case of…
While it’s another excellent year for high-profile London comics festivals like ELCAF and Safari Festival, 2017 was looking to be a quieter one for more grassroots events, with both CECAF…
“I am so proud to be included in the collective of women artists… a validation not only of my work but the status of the feminine voice in comic art….
All regular visitors to Broken Frontier will be aware of our annual ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ initiative here on the site. In case you’re coming in new to…
It’s nearly 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, the…
It’s been a rather busy week at Broken Frontier Towers and with no let-up in our ever packed schedule in sight over the next month or so either. Let’s catch…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Safari Festival Fortnight has been a major piece of event coverage here at Broken Frontier over the last two years as we’ve sought to support Breakdown Press’s celebration of new waves…
ELCAF WEEK! Since their emergence as one of the most pivotal anthology projects on the small press scene in 2014, Dirty Rotten Comics have given a platform to dozens of…
ELCAF WEEK! “When I said goodbye to my mum and dad at the airport, I had no idea it would be the last time I’d see her with no wires,…
ELCAF WEEK! Because there were just so many ELCAF debuts that they would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks we decided to cover just the tiniest handful of…
ELCAF WEEK! Where to even begin with the absorbing and often deeply disquieting brilliance of Theo Ellsworth’s An Exorcism? The third and latest book in Latvian publisher kuš!’s mono series…
“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
