A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s zine-making collective/distro One Beat Zines burst onto the small press scene at the end of last year with their well-received multi-creator…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Keep an eye out for Darren Cullen because whether it’s via the comics page or another artistic medium I suspect you will be hearing a lot…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! In terms of whimsical UK small press fantasy, Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl loosely sits somewhere between Colin Bell and Neil Slorance’s Dungeon Fun and Adam Vian’s Long Lost…
One of acclaimed micropublisher (and Broken Frontier 2014 Award nominees in the Best Publisher category) Avery Hill’s most overlooked projects, the anthology Reads is a wonderfully eclectic collection of complete stories and serials…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Wai Wai Pang’s rather straightforwardly titled Itinerary April 2015 is her travelogue comics account of a trip to Japan she took in the Spring of this year, with…
In her second blog this week on community arts projects, graphic memorist Wallis Eates talks about the school and charity collaboration she was involved in that saw Year 9 students recreating…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! For anyone with an interest in the international small press comics scene there are few more important micropublishers out there at the moment than Latvian outfit kuš!….
The self-published work of graphic memoirist and Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition shortlisted creator Wallis Eates has featured here in ‘Small Pressganged’ a number of times this year. Her zines…
Those who do the rounds on the UK small press comics circuit, particularly those in London, will need no introduction to prolific cartoonist Zoom Rockman. Broken Frontier is, of course,…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! With Latvian micropublisher kuš! making a welcome appearance at London’s Safari Festival on August 22nd it seems an appropriate time to take a look at the…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “This was the Nineties. Music wasn’t considered free and we played our purchases until they worked for us.” Around a year ago I covered Babak Ganjei’s…
Describing your mission statement in the terms of the lyrics of cheesy ‘80s pop group Bucks Fizz may seem something of an eccentric way to introduce a small press comic…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “It’s not often I get the opportunity to describe a creator as a true original but in Donya Todd’s case it would be criminal not to…
The first act of Owen Michael Johnson’s Reel Love was a heady tale of a young boy’s growing love affair with the big screen – a coming of age story…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Breakdown Press have been steadily developing a deserved reputation for publishing comics with a distinctive vision and philosophy.” – Broken Frontier Mutiny Bay review It’s…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! In terms of sheer unbridled escapism, there are few creators on the UK small press scene who offer such an unrelenting sense of fun as Jack…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Quite simply, Simon Moreton is one of the most important and intelligent creative voices in current UK small press comics” – ‘Celebrating 2013: Ten UK Small…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! A mix of comics, illustrated stories and single images, Grace Wilson’s Eyes Peeled has a slightly zine-like feel to its collection of fragmentary but evocative slice-of-life…
“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
