We seem to say this on a six-month cycle here at Broken Frontier but what a year it’s been, once again, for micropublishers Avery Hill. Their 2016 line-up to date has…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! A newer face on the small press comics scene, Ally Russell makes her Safari Festival debut with the print version of her Killer Klowns from Outer Space…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Safari is coming this weekend and festival organisers Breakdown Press have a bumper batch of new releases to celebrate. We’ll be previewing those titles this week at…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Combining old school space opera with re-imagined creation myth, Ed Cheverton’s One and the Dawn of Reality is an A4 landscape format comic published by Otto Press….
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Artzine Tiny Pencil debuted back in 2013 as a showcase anthology celebrating all things graphite. A handsomely packaged publication it combines illustration and comics and, to date, has included work from…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Three tales loosely connected by the interlocking existences of their protagonists – but all linked firmly in theme – make up Lizzy Stewart’s A4-sized comic It’s Not What You…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s almost a year to the day since I last covered Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl comics here at Broken Frontier. There’s no uncanny synchronicity involved in that…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Paloma Dawkins’ Summerland – one of the latest batch of releases for those who backed US micropublisher Retrofit’s most recent Kickstarter campaign – is a comic that…
After our belated review of the seventh issue of Dirty Rotten Comics yesterday here at Broken Frontier we’re looking forwards today at the upcoming eighth issue of the popular small…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Blurring the lines between catalyst and non sequitur, Laura Ķeniņš’ Alien Beings is the latest short-form offering from Latvian micropublisher kuš!’s line of mini kuš! comics. Its…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! With his long-running and influential zine comics series Smoo Comics having recently come to an end, and his new publication Minor Leagues taking his creative practice in…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Given that (aside from the odd sign or label) the strips in Mox Nox are wordless it may seem a touch odd to be talking about the…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival is coming on August 27th and at Broken Frontier we’re focusing on this essential celebration of new waves in contemporary comics and art with…
While many UK small press anthologies theme themselves around specific subject matter or topical material Dirty Rotten Comics has a more philosophical focus to its contents. Each and every issue…
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“Each panel of A Dark Forest is crammed with detail to the extent that every single image feels like a world unto itself.” That was how I described Kate-mia White’s…
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…
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With their mix of pop cultural homage and markedly darker humour, Craig Conlan’s minicomics have proven to be a consistent delight. Conlan was, of course, nominated for a British Comic Award in the…
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The Analogue Press are a smaller micropublishing outfit from the North East of England who have to date put out two copies of Radio On, an annual music-themed anthology. 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
