Hitsville UK #1
Surreal music industry send-up Hitsville UK was one of the earliest books to be covered in ‘Small Pressganged’ so I was particularly pleased when I heard that Adam Cadwell and…
Author: Andy Oliver
Etherington Brothers Announce Once-in-a-Lifetime Monkey Nuts Auction
We’ve always been big fans of the all-ages work of those fraternal fictioneers the Etherington Brothers here at Broken Frontier. If there’s such a thing as a national treasure in…
Régis Loisel’s Peter Pan
Soaring Penguin Press’s exquisite repackaging of this extraordinary reinterpretation of the timeless children’s favourite is undoubtedly one of the most essential graphic novel collections of the year. London, 1887, and…
Jonah and Seven Blows to the Head
“The sunny side of sinister” is the tagline EdieOP uses to describe her work on her website and I can think of no more appropriate soundbite to describe this wickedly…
Chris Smith and the Nazi Zombies from Hell #1
A future dystopia, a likeable loner who can talk to God, and the re-animated corpses of the Nazi undead all feature in the first offering from Dapper Chimp Press. There…
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Sky in Stereo #2
The North of England in the Nineties and teenage student Iris’s life is fast becoming defined by her experimentation with drugs in Mardou’s slice-of-lifer from Yam Books… Last year I…
Tickets Available for Rutu Modan in Comica Conversation with Hannah Berry
Rutu Modan in Comica Conversation with Hannah Berry! Rutu Modan will be speaking with Hannah Berry at Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London on August 21st, 6.30-8pm, tickets £6 –…
Deep in the Woods
Two young women, two quests, and two entrancingly menacing takes on the folk tale tradition make up Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman’s double header Deep in the Woods from…
Pancakes
A household chat over the breakfast table may not seem the most dynamic of starting points but all is not as it seems in Kat Leyh’s Pancakes from Yeti Press,…
Lou #1-15
Melissa Mendes’s Lou follows the adventures of the titular 9-year-old tomboy, her two brothers – the younger John and older Eddie, and an extended cast of friends and family. Published by…
Bimba #1
In her own words British comics artist Donya Todd created the anthology Bimba as a showcase for “kick-ass female artists”. The first issue features not just Todd’s work but also…
The Complete Rainbow Orchid
Well over a decade in the making, to call Garen Ewing’s The Rainbow Orchid a labour of love would be an understatement of the most epic proportions. It’s 1920s Britain…
The Grinning Man
Andrew Warwick’s The Grinning Man is a true embodiment of the traditions of the Victorian ghost story, but set firmly in a near contemporary Britain. In this grimly foreboding tale…
Swear Down
Part walking diary, part social observation, part slice-of-life, and part love letter to landscape and architecture, Oliver East’s books have that rarest and most inspiring of all things in the…
Cocoon Motel
German small press creator Sharmila Banerjee’s Cocoon Motel is a darkly comic 14-pager detailing the life cycle of the Atlas moth. It’s published under the Salmiak imprint, part of the…
Nobrow 8: Hysteria
A perfect entry point to the Nobrow outlook and a reminder that it’s not hyperbolic to state that the publisher continues to produce some of the most beautiful examples of…
Beginner’s Luck
RJ Casey and David Alvarado’s Beginner’s Luck takes that old story of a small-time loser coming good only to squander his lucky break, and adds an ostentatiously surreal, aquatic twist to…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
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