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…
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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…
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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…
If there’s one thing I have wanted to see more of in the nevertheless always very worthy free anthology Off Life in its short life to date then it’s been a greater…
Back in 2012, Paula Knight was one of the shortlisted creators for the very first Myriad Editions First Graphic Novel Competition and – like a number of the finalists from…
Fairs, submissions and Kickstarters feature in our latest round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to, both within and without the world…
Today I’m continuing my discussion with Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition Finalist Wallis Eates about her comics work, with a particular focus on her graphic memoir Mumoirs. The first part of this…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“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
