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One of the great delights of every four-issue batch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! range is you never know quite what you’re going to get from its series…
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Lilly Williams’ Scaredy Cat Gets Pregnant Part 1 is another reminder, if we needed one, of the breadth of approaches to capturing personal experience over the last two years of…
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Another entry in the vitally important and ever growing area of pandemic comics, Grandad Reg tell a story that is deeply personal and yet, sadly, simultaneously all too recognisable. Issue…
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If, like me, your perception of time has become so skewed since March 2020 that a few months ago can seem simultaneously like years ago and also yesterday afternoon, then…
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Trinidad Escobar’s rising profile over the last few years has been a testament to her artistic versatility. I can’t remember exactly where I first came across the Filipina cartoonist’s practice…
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To date, Feff Silvers has produced two print volumes of her supernaturally themed webcomic The Final Lullaby, with a third currently crowdfunding. This manga style story follows protagonist Penelope “Horos”…
When we lost Alison Brown last year we lost one of the friendliest faces on the UK comics scene. Alison was for many the public face of London’s Cartoon Museum…
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Thirty or so years ago, beginning in the late ‘80s, Ugly Mug was a British small press anthology that featured a number of creators who are now considered legends of…
Let’s go into the weekend with a preview of some gorgeous pages from Passenger Press and Floating World Comics’ upcoming reprint of Caza’a Kris Kool… “Kris Kool has known the…
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2021 was another year where the self-publishing and small press scene in the UK had to continue to adapt to our changed world, and our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small…
Sam Baldwin’s second issue of anthology Junk begins with a two-pager detailing a number of ever more outlandish ways way to dispose of the comic should one make the supposed…
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A few years back when I selected Anna Readman as one of our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists it was on the basis of one very short digital…
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Paul B. Rainey is indisputably one of the true veterans of the UK small press comics scene with a prominent presence on the circuit for decades rather than years. His…
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Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines…
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It’s been a little while since we reviewed the first chapter of Prismatik Man at Broken Frontier. The eagerly anticipated second issue of Stathis Tsemberlidis’s Decadence Comics series made its…
At the end of last year the first book of The Queen’s Favorite Witch, a new series of graphic novels from Papercutz, debuted with the first volume The Wheel of…
An exciting development from our friends over at the Cartoon Museum in London is coming this February 7th as they present the Cartoon Conference, the first in a planned annual…
Coming to us from the King Louie’s Lab team of Fred Morris and Dominic Linton, Ant Story is a collection of the comic strips previously presented on Instagram and in…
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