From my review of her nature-based slice-of-lifer Brockley Foxtrot in the early months of this column through to her time as one of the guiding lights of graphite artzine Tiny…
Adam Vian is the man behind the delightful all-ages fantasy Long Lost Lempi, a series that I first covered here in ‘Small Pressganged’ back in 2013. I described the comic…
Elizabeth Querstret is something of a phenomenon on the UK small press circuit. A prolific graphic diarist with a larger than life personality – both on and off the comics…
In 1969 Mr. Oliver Reed met Mr. Alan Bates in the film Women in Love. When they wrestled naked in front of a roaring fire the frisson was so great that…
If you’re an aspiring self-publisher or just interested by the inner workings of the small press scene then the next Gosh! Comics Process Group evening represents a not to be…
In one of those galaxies that are, no doubt, far, far away, the evil Reptoids – lizard-like space plunderers – invade a world of rock and mineral beings. There they…
https://vimeo.com/98798114 Polish creator’s Mateusz Skutnik’s Blacky: Four of Us may feature a central character with an eerily supernatural-looking visual aesthetic – part Uncle Fester from The Addams Family and part…
Hepatic Portal collects seven short stories by Emix Regulus, a creator whose work you may be familiar with from anthologies like the free street press paper Off Life or acclaimed…
RAV 1st Collection compiles the first five issues of Mickey Zacchilli’s previously self-published minicomic series, and comes to us via San Francisco-based micropublisher Youth in Decline, whose books I’ve been…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Today at Broken Frontier we have something a little special for you to tie in with the publication of the first print edition of Danny Noble’s Was it… Too Much…
Gary Clap and Kirk Campbell’s Dirty Rotten Comics is a small press anthology that champions creators of all levels of technical ability and experience, from established names in UK comics through…
The back cover blurb to Andrew Waugh’s A Bunch of Amateurs describes the book as “comic vignettes about the boffins, tinkerers and inventors who changed scientific history from their kitchen…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
One of my ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’, Rozi Hathaway first came to prominence last year as part of the amazing line-up of artists on Ravi…
Small in form but breathtakingly diverse in output, Soaring Penguin Press have become renowned for their eclectic publishing catalogue. From Régis Loisel’s Peter Pan to Howard Hardiman’s The Lengths, through…
Coverage of poetry in comics is hardly unheard of here at Broken Frontier – in the last year I’ve given mention to projects like Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Psychosis Blues and…
Our ongoing series of reports on the current state of UK comics self-publishing – grouped together under the banner term of ‘State of the Small Press Nation’ – have certainly…
The recent publication of Paul B. Rainey’s sprawling time-travel epic There’s No Time Like the Present by Escape Books gives much deserved recognition to one of the true mainstays of…
A celebration of the sprawling possibilities of comics as a form? A dissection of the fundamental nature of a creator’s relationship with their audience? Or a slice-of-life drama about growing…
“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
“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
