Tales from Scene City #3
Rob Cureton’s Tales from Scene City is set in the eponymous locale of the title wherein each district is inhabited by devotees of a different musical movement. In the issues…
Author: Andy Oliver
iHero #1
What if apps for super-powers were as prevalent as all our other social media and downloading tools? What if we could access fantastic abilities at the touch of a tablet…
Biografiktion
The fantastic secret lives of ABBA and Eddie Murphy are revealed to the public at last in the Nobrow compilation of this cult European series. Berlin small press collective Edition…
Death & the Girls
Death & the Girls takes us to an eerie, hallucinatory world of violence, vomit and voyeurism, all infused with the distinctive imagery of Mexican folklore. Betsy, Bunny and Batstone –…
Playing Out
Playing Out combines Medway’s lively cartooning comedy with an incisive eye for slice-of-life observational analysis. It’s most appropriate to be reviewing Jim Medway’s Playing Out at this time of year…
Small Press Spotlight on… A J Poyiadgi
A J Poyiadgi is a creator with a deservedly growing profile on the U.K. small press scene. Coming to prominence when his comic Teapot Therapy was shortlisted for the Observer/Jonathan…
TEOTFW
Originally published via his minicomics imprint Oily Comics, Charles Forsman’s The End of the Fucking World was recently collected by Fantagraphics Books. Now, for a committed champion of SP books…
Long Lost Lempi
Adam Vian’s Long Lost Lempi is a whimsical piece of stylised fantasy that has most obviously been constructed as a true labour of love by its creator. When we join…
‘The Gigantic Beard that was Evil’ Wins 9th Art Award at Edinburgh International Book Festival
At the Edinburgh International Book Festival this afternoon the winner of Graphic Scotland’s inaugural 9th Art Award for the best full-length English language graphic novel of the last year was…
Fish Head Steve!
Ferocious slapstick, scatological silliness and surreal visual gags with a mischievous appeal for its young target audience. Welcome to Spumville, a small town where something rather curious has just occurred….
The Grinning Mask #1-3
Ryan Taylor’s The Grinning Mask is an intriguing fusion of (initially) the sensibilities of a past age of UK weekly comics with the more creepy overtones of the best of…
I Am Fire
Rachael Smith’s I Am Fire is a witty little sitcom of a comic combining disaffected, angsty teenagers, health and safety politics, and bitter rivalries in that ever cut-throat and competitive…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Small Press Spotlight on… Rebecca Bagley
Rebecca Bagley is a name that will be familiar to long-term readers of ‘Small Pressganged’. She’s the creator behind the contemporary fable Tick, much championed in this column here and…
Big in Japan
Big in Japan is Moogs Kewell’s diary comics account of her trip to Japan in April 2011 to attend her friends Masami and Taka’s wedding. It’s a whirlwind tour round…
Smoo Comics #7
Simon Moreton’s minimalist storytelling style in his Smoo Comics series has marked him out as a small press creator with a unique approach to the comics page. He’s been covered…
The Mire
Becky Cloonan’s Eisner-winning, self-published The Mire is a book that has been available for some time now, having originally come out in 2012, but I have a simple rule when…
Our Ever Improving Living Room
Kevin Budnik’s diary comic Our Ever Improving Living Room began life in 2010 as a college course exercise. Using a narrative structure familiar to fans of James Kochalka’s American Elf,…
T’sao Wei’s Windrush #2
Community-based super-heroics with a Morrison-style vibe are the order of the day in the second issue of T’sao Wei’s Windrush series… ‘Small Pressganged’ exists at Broken Frontier to promote all…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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