The third 2016 gathering of the ever popular Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw nights takes place this week on Tuesday 24th May at Soho’s BrewDog pub on…
Electricomics – the “digital comics self-publishing ecosystem” project managed by Leah Moore – are asking for the input of the small press scene as they look to provide a digital community…
Youth in Decline’s Frontier series of self-contained one-shots continues to spotlight some of the most compelling and diverse voices in contemporary indie comics across the globe. Its distinctive ethos has…
It’s been a long while since our last roving round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene have been up to, both within and outside…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on May 24th and this time our venue is the BrewDog pub on Soho’s Poland Street. Our third gathering of 2016 sees two biting purveyors…
The indie comics fair Comica Comiket returns this Saturday 14th May as part of the final weekend celebrations for the House of Illustration’s Comix Creatrix exhibition with one of its great traditions…
This brief but always touching read brings us into its characters’ world with a warmth and sincerity that belies its fleeting page count. Singing Dragon have been building up a most…
The first Comiket independent comics fair since 2014 comes to the House of Illustration and London’s Central Saint Martins college on Saturday May 14th as part of an extensive Comica Weekender…
From tentative first-time small presser to published graphic novelist, it’s been a remarkable couple of years for Jessica Martin. In 2014 Martin was a finalist in the Myriad First Graphic…
Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this week featuring…
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One of the new 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’, Kim Clements came to prominence last year with her autobio comic Rabbit Thoughts, a beautifully poignant piece…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this week featuring…
Gareth Brookes is understandably most associated with his debut graphic novel The Black Project, a darkly witty tale of youthful DIY love. The book won the 2012 Myriad First Graphic Novel…
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There are two standard approaches to the concept of the comics anthology and both have experienced conflicting fortunes in recent years. While the one-shot anthology compilation of complete, “told in one…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this month featuring…
“Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” – Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2 On the 400th anniversary of the bard’s death UK micropublisher Dead…
There can be few experiences in comics quite as delightfully, deliciously and dizzyingly bizarre as a Donya Todd offering. From her self-published The Burger Boys to Death & the Girls…
“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
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
