At the Shore – Tracing the Evolution of Jim Campbell’s Coastal Zombie Horror Comedy
Jim Campbell’s At the Shore is a graphic novel that highlights the changing tides in indie comics from the early part of the 2000s to the present. Much of that…
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Radio On: Broadcast #4 – Another Music-Based Anthology Sampling of UK Small Press Talent Including Emily Rose Lambert, Joel Benjamin and Darrell Thorpe
As I said when we chose the latest issue of Rob Carter’s annual music-themed anthology Radio On as one of our Staff Picks last month, its a project that is…
Tottenham’s Trojan Horse? – Mark Panton and Amanda Lillywhite Provide Dire Warnings About Gentrification in the Name of Football
In his book Parklife, journalist Nick Varley traced the relationship between football and the British working classes, from the inception of the professional game to the then-present day of 1999….
Sugar: Life as a Cat – A Mesmerizingly Beautiful Rendition of the World According to the Cats of Serge Baeken; Eponymous Tomcat Sugar Will Steal Your Heart with His Deadpan Wisdom
What is a cat but poetry in motion? Pure, silky, sinuous, graceful, deadly, and then in one moment suddenly utterly ungraceful as they fall off something, or into something. A…
Staff Picks for April 4, 2018 – Your Black Friend and Other Strangers, The Times I Knew I Was Gay, Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures and More
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital storefront,…
R – Future War Taken to Its Brutal and Inevitable End in DCWB’s Sci-Fi Minicomic from Undimensioned
The second book, following Entity Reunion, from Undimensioned Press, the new micropress venture from Alexander Tucker (World in the Forcefield), R echoes its predecessor’s slightly oblique but hypnotically compelling narrative…
Ghosts, Etc. – Three Very Different Stories by George Wylesol Highlight an Emerging Voice in Comics
While one or two of Avery Hill’s big-hitting breakout stars have dominated “the conversation” of late, a few of the publisher’s other titles seem to have slipped under the radar a little….
Later Still – Grace Wilson’s Acutely Observed Autobio Comics Perfectly Capture the Fragile Human Foibles of Her Subjects
Grace Wilson’s work is so acutely observed, so perfect in capturing the fragile human foibles of the people she brings to her pages, that she puts me in mind of…
Funhouse: An Interactive Bookfair – Performance and Collaboration Are the Key Ingredients at a Truly Unique New York Small Press Experience
Last weekend attendees of Funhouse: An Interactive Bookfair were able to experience a comics festival unlike any other. The past few years have given rise to a host of new…
Bi the Way – M.J. Wallace’s Personal Account of Coming Out as Bisexual is a Welcoming Journey of Self-Discovery
Bi the Way explores creator M.J. Wallace’s journey of self-discovery regarding her sexuality and how this affected her relationships, sometimes as a result of her own construction. It’s an upbeat…
A View from the Frontier – Catch Broken Frontier Tabling at this Year’s CECAF and SLCZF Festivals, Plus Applications Open for BCZF
Spring has finally (almost) sprung and with it we look forward at BF, as ever, to the UK festival season ramping up between now and the Autumn. Broken Frontier doesn’t…
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The Times I Knew I Was Gay – Eleanor Crewes Combines Comics and Illustrated Prose in this Witty and Quietly Poignant Autobio Work
Following up on her original short-form zine offering from last year, Eleanor Crewes’s The Times I Knew I Was Gay presents a fragmentary series of autobiographical vignettes in an often…
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Avery Hill Publishing Announce Schedule for Late 2018 – Including Books by Kristyna Baczynski, B. Mure and Tillie Walden
As if the six books already scheduled for 2018 were not enough of a draw, Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award-winning Avery Hill Publishing have announced a further three graphic novels today to…
Sex Fantasy – Intimacy Isn’t Easy in Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Koyama Press Collection
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! A warning to the prurient: there is precious little sex in Sex Fantasy. Instead this collection of Sophia Foster-Dimino’s self-published comics investigates the…
Staff Picks for March 28, 2018 – The Inking Woman, Factory, Saga, Seven Stories and More!
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
Bobbins – A Retrospective Look at the Webcomics Universe of John Allison
John Allison’s work with in the Scary Go Round universe has been a long-standing high water mark of quality webcomics. Particularly after his shift in the late 2000s to a…
Laydeez do Comics Festival 2018 – Emma Burleigh Wins the First Laydeez Prize on an Inspiring Day of Comics Community and Celebration in London
For several years now the Laydeez do Comics group have provided a vital supportive platform for new voices in comics through their popular monthly meet-ups. A combination of creator presentations…
Cave Carson Has an Interstellar Eye #1 – Young Animal’s Bewildering but Compelling Re-Imagining of a Forgotten Silver Age Hero Returns
DC’s Young Animal line was set up to try new approaches to storytelling, and last year’s Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye fully embraced that mission statement, resurrecting a near…
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