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The intersection between place, time and memory has been an integral part of Tim Bird’s Grey Area series from Avery Hill Publishing over the last few years. In Grey Area:…
When a small press publication is as consistently excellent as Katriona Chapman’s very personal and individual series Katzine it’s sometimes easy to focus attention elsewhere on books that aren’t getting…
Wildly imaginative and constantly surprising, Todd Oliver’s Boxes is strangely reminiscent of the elastic visuals of some of the greats of the British weekly comics traditions of yesteryear …but ramped…
As Christmas beckons the Broken Frontier team will be taking a few days of well-deserved time off to recharge our batteries before we come into the New Year. There’s lots…
There was a time when dramatisations and readings of the stories of M.R. James seemed almost a staple of festive programming on British television. James himself is said to have…
Earlier this month at Broken Frontier we ran the collected version of Broken Frontier Award-nominated artist Wallis Eates’s #30DaysComics November. A vast, sprawling visual metaphor, ‘November’ was something of a departure…
Craig Collins is a creator whose dark wit is equalled only by his propensity for experimenting with narrative construction. In the years that ‘Small Pressganged’ has been following his work…
For someone who enjoys the (admittedly often twee) sentiments of Christmas comics as much as I have over the years I’ve still ended up specialising in an area of publishing…
Christmas is coming! And with the end-of-year celebrations imminent I asked some of the small press artists we’ve featured in this column in the last year or two to share…
Broken Frontier proudly presents the nominees for our 13th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our staff have selected five nominees for each of the 12 categories that comprise the BF Awards,…
As the year draws to a close, and we enter the lull period between the UK Autumn festival extravaganza and the next flurry of events in the Spring, it’s time…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
If you’re reading this article then the chances are high that you’re already an advocate of the unique storytelling power of biographical comics – that powerful ability to so empathetically immerse…
November always sees a flurry of artists taking part in the #30dayscomics challenge and – just as we did earlier in the year when we collected the #hourlycomicday strips of…
It’s the end of the year again and that means it’s time for our respected colleagues at the Forbidden Planet International blog to ask the assembled masses of the comics…
He may be one of the most genial gents in comics that you could meet in the flesh but the artist known to the public as Krent Able (aka…
It’s payday and what better way to celebrate than by pre-ordering the ninth issue of the ever essential and popular small press anthology Dirty Rotten Comics from Throwaway Press? For our…
The humble nature of a pair of Y-Fronts is a recurring theme in Alex Potts’s Underpants, a comic with a name that was no doubt designed to cause sniggering guffaws in…
From the very outset, with its fond and droll wordplay on the melodramatic mainstream mystery mags of the 1950s and ‘60s, Paul B. Rainey’s Tales to Diminish signals its intent…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“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
