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“Two stones, but one shape.” One of the hardest feats in comics is to meaningfully tell a story in a short and succinct page count. There’s a need to hook…
It’s safe to assume Zack Davisson spends as much time in the spirit world as he does in Seattle. It comes with the territory, given his roles as writer, lecturer,…
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Substrata is a collaboration that sees two generations of UK indie comics coming together as stalwart of the British small press scene Sean Azzopardi teams up with Olivia Sullivan, undoubtedly…
As, for the foreseeable future, we still need to celebrate our comics community online it’s no surprise to hear of more events retaining their digital approaches in 2021. Cloud Comic…
The sky is the limit, and also the sky is the sea. A new beautifully rendered fantasy. Slightly Exaggerated is described as “a treasure hunt fantasy adventure where a dying…
Prolific horror comics writer Cullen Bunn teams up with artist Jonas Scharf this June for new supernatural series Basilisk from BOOM! Studios. We have a preview below today at BF….
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With four gorgeously illustrated comics currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, new small press publisher Quindrie Press have already made a huge impact before their first books have been published. Their stated…
Post York is a graphic novel of few words, but its concerns are neatly summarised by its epigraph: Michel Foucault saying how “man is an invention of recent date. And…
It’s interesting to consider that one of the most popular versions of Tōno Monogatari, Japan’s supernatural literary classic, was born because of one man’s desire to protect his country’s cultural…
In Sunshine State, John Carvajal takes us along for the ride as we follow Milo, stumbling through life, trying to find his feet. Carvajal’s watercolours are evocative of these youthful, washed…
NBM have announced their upcoming releases for the second half of this year which include work from the late Tobias Tak, whose contributions to anthologies like The Comix Reader, Tiny…
Part of 2021’s line-up of 2000 AD collections, Judge Dredd: End of Days is released this week in the UK (and on April 14th in the US) and we have…
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When it comes to small press coverage for Broken Frontier I am always on the lookout for work that experiments with the form – practice that interrogates its perceived boundaries…
News from Dark Horse today that the next phase in the Black Hammer saga begins this June in the new ongoing series Black Hammer: Reborn. Full details in the press…
Stay lit and sit––Scott Snyder & Tony S. Daniel’s Nocterra #1 from Image Comics and Best Jackett Press takes off on a Mad-Maxian roadshow into the darkest future ever conceived….
Fans of the two previous graphic novel collaborations between Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Mr. Higgins Comes Home and Our Encounters with Evil) will no doubt be delighted to hear…
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The Peruvian sci-fi comics of Gustaffo Vargas are an astonishing phenomenon from a dual perspective. Firstly, Vargas’s genuinely stunning art, sequential pacing and ever inventive command of the page is…
Proctor Valley Road is cuter than expected. Being Grant Morrison’s first original series since Klaus in 2015 (also with BOOM! Studios), from the legendary comic writer known for their high-concept…
“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
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
