Back in the early days of this column, when I originally wrote about Simon Moreton‘s Smoo Comics, there was no question in my mind that I was shining a spotlight on a unique…
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…
Exploring our relationship with the natural world is a regular staple of Gill Hatcher’s comics and zine work. Hatcher, of course, is the founder of the acclaimed Scottish creative collective…
When a comics shop is older than a significant section of its clientele you know it must be doing something right! London’s Gosh! Comics reached the grand old age of…
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…
100 pages. 18 creators. Boundless talent. Unless you boarded, bagged and packed yourself away in a longbox at the end of last year then you’ll be aware that the debut…
Clear your social calendars, save up your pennies, and get ready to celebrate two of the most eagerly anticipated anthology releases of 2016! On Friday April 29th, at London’s acclaimed…
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Rozi Hathaway, Broken Frontier 2015 ‘UK Small Press Creator to Watch’, and contributor to our very first Small Press Yearbook, is kickstarting her new comic Njálla here this week. It’s a…
It was all about the awards when it came to our fantastic foursome of celebrated guest artists at last night’s Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw… To start with,…
Revisiting the heady days of childhood – and that abundant sense of awe and wonder as we discovered the world around us – is, of course, a rich and fertile…
Fedor Jeftichew, otherwise known as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, is one of the more recognisable symbols of that era when unusual medical conditions were paraded as “freakshow” entertainment for the masses….
The next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is coming on Monday April 4th (full details here) and, once again, we have another fantastic line-up of artists involved….
We’re back! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on April 4th, this time at The Royal George pub at 133 Charing Cross Road. Our second meet-up of 2016 is…
With Will Volley’s The Opportunity out this month – plus the eagerly anticipated For the Love of God, Marie! by Jade Sarson and Henny Beaumont’s Hole in the Heart coming in…
Hot on the heels of the announcement of their new publishing venture Throwaway Press, the Dirty Rotten Comics team are gearing up for the launch of the latest issue of…
A reminder that tonight at the British Library Paul Gravett – author/co-author of Broken Frontier Award-winning books Comics Art and Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK – will be in conversation with…
It was a pleasure to see Katriona Chapman’s profile rise as significantly and deservedly as it did in 2015. Her self-published autobiographical series Katzine gained widespread critical acclaim, and her…
The role of the micropublisher has become a vital one in recent years as a stepping stone for creators between the worlds of self-publishing and the bigger outfits in the industry….
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