Earlier this year we previewed the Alternative Press Takeover here at Broken Frontier – a small press comics and zine fair that included a whole host of exhibitors familiar to…
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It’s been a while since I last covered the work of Noah Van Sciver in this column. On that occasion it was Deep in the Woods – also from the folk…
Ryan Cecil Smith’s BLOCKS minicomic began life as an explanatory design for the Loop de Loop Animation Challenge – the cyclical reading experience inherent in its distinctive physicality mimicking the creation…
We are currently living in a Golden Age of comics self-publishing in the UK. Anybody active in any of those hubs of small press activity, in both our major cities…
Henny Beaumont’s graphic novel-in-progress A Hole in the Heart was one of the six projects earlier this year to make it onto the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition’s prestigious shortlist….
Over the last two years the “street press” anthology Off Life has firmly established itself as a vital showcase for the indie side of the UK comics scene, proactively bringing…
Graphic journalism, cartoon reportage… however you want to describe it, the power of comics to efficiently communicate the central issues of a given topic in a way that is both…
I’ve focused on the comics travelogues of small press creator Moogs Kewell in the past in ‘Small Pressganged’ back when I reviewed her self-published offering Big in Japan here last…
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John Riordan and Dan Cox’s animated music industry parody Hitsville UK was one of the very earliest self-published comics to be featured in this column, and one I described at…
Of all the variations on autobiographical comics – one of the enduring thematic mainstays of comics self-publishing going all the way back to the early days of photocopied and stapled…
I was rather taken with Adam Vian’s first issue of Long Lost Lempi when I reviewed it here at Broken Frontier last year. Delightfully whimsical, the series follows the adventures…
Chris Kent is a man of many artistic talents, working not just in comics but also in a number of disciplines in the world of fine art. To date he…
One thing that always make the output of Latvian publisher kuš a welcome read is that, whether it’s in their digest-sized anthology š! or the mini kuš series of minicomics,…
It’s important to mention from the outset that today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ choice – The Man Called Uncle Tim #1 – is not so much a comic book as a zine that employs…
Over a Safari Festival weekend in which desirable comics treasures were in abundant supply, and attendees could be forgiven for lapsing into sequential art sensory overload, there were nonetheless a…
Admirers of the comics output of Myriad Editions will be pleased to know that the Brighton based publisher has announced a major new graphic novel in their schedule for 2015….
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For those outside of the world of comics Jessica Martin will be best known as a versatile performer on both stage and screen – whether as star of musical theatre,…
The first two issues of Tim Bird’s Grey Area – psychogeographical comic narratives that are a perfect complement to the work of creators like Oliver East and Simon Moreton –…
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“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
