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CELEBRATING BCZF! “Everything happy seems to happen without me…” Such simple, plaintive, but heartrending words positively abound in Rabbit Thoughts, the debut solo print comic from rising star Kim Clements. In…
CELEBRATING BCZF! Last week here at ‘Small Pressganged’ I previewed a number of the solo print projects debuting from Big Brown Eyes – a collective comprising sisters Emily Rose, Karis…
CELEBRATING BCZF! Comics and community. It’s something we’ve spoken about a lot in this column in 2015 whether it be in terms of graphic memoirist Wallis Eates’s outreach work taking…
CELEBRATING BCZF! A chance encounter and a bond formed. One woman’s relationship with her canine companion provides a cathartic escape from the rigours of daily life… If you’re a fan…
When the London incarnation of popular monthly comics meet-up Laydeez Do Comics returns after its summer break in October it will do so with a new team at the helm…
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CELEBRATING BCZF! Experiment is the first collection of comics by Stray Lines who describe themselves as “a collective of Irish and Irish based illustrators and comics artists dedicated to incubating…
CELEBRATING BCZF! If you picked up the latest issue of free street press anthology Off Life then you will be no stranger to the distinctively hued work of Ellice Weaver. Should…
CELEBRATING BCZF! Big Brown Eyes is a collective of three sisters – Emily Rose, Karis and Freya Lambert – who will be debuting a number of comics and zines at…
With her flowing visuals, ever inventive layouts and a chameleon-like ability to adapt her style to any number of genres, Jess Milton was always going to be a certainty for…
The phenomenon that is Tillie Walden burst onto our comics consciousness this year with her breathtakingly assured first graphic novel The End of Summer. The book – brought to us…
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CELEBRATING BCZF! The Autumn months in the UK are synonymous with festival season for comics enthusiasts with LICAF, Thought Bubble and the Comica Festival programming all being regular calendar fixtures at…
One angry little girl, her brave and resilient dog, and the constant threat of werewolves, ghosts and alien conquerors. Welcome to the world of Cindy and Biscuit. If you’re a…
Remaining age appropriate while avoiding patronising your audience is one of the great tests of children’s literature. It’s a difficult line to walk but in UK comics, at least, we…
A true minicomic in terms of presentation and physicality as well as narrative lifespan, Ellen Montelius’s Rock Paper Scissors centres on Max, a housebound pensioner, as he reaches his life…
What marked out Richy K. Chandler’s first Tempo Lush Tales – a selection of multi-genre stories that were all written by Chandler (below right) and tailored to the strengths of…
For enthusiasts of small press or micropublished work the problem of cross-continental distribution is one that will always intermittently resurface. International postage costs can often prove prohibitive, and in the UK…
Part graphic narrative and part pure sequential art, Sarah Ingram’s The Deep utilises potent visual metaphor to immerse the reader in the world view of a teenage girl suffering from…
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It’s been something of a Rachael Smith celebration over the last two weeks here at Broken Frontier as her second graphic novel The Rabbit from Avery Hill Publishing launched to great…
“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
“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
