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Comics that push the boundaries of the form, interrogate the potentialities of its unique language and manipulate its singular narrative possibilities define the type of material that we exist to champion here…
A collection of personal reflections on consumerism and identity may not sound like subject matter that one would naturally associate with feelgood DIY culture, or that most readers would think…
The prolific Rachael Smith is not an artist to rest on her laurels. After last year’s massively lauded Wired Up Wrong – her collection of autobiographical strips on living with…
If you were in London at the end of last year you may well have taken the opportunity to visit the exhibition of Olivier Kugler’s graphic reportage at Rich Mix…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Sean Azzopardi has long been not just a vital fixture of the London small press scene but also one of its most important activists. Having self-published something in the region…
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…
Fresh from their success at the Doug Wright Awards at TCAF, Canadian indie publisher Koyama Press have announced their line-up of books to debut in September. It is, as will…
Mental Health Awareness Week has come around again and, just as we did last year, we want to take a very quick moment to showcase just some of the powerful explorations of…
One of the most interesting things about the comics medium is that how a story is told is perhaps more important than the story being told. In Ada Price’s Caligula,…
Catapulted away from his dying home planet. Hailed as the savior of his new world. Bearer of a red cape everyone instantly recognizes. And forever fighting for ‘Truth, Justic and…
Launching this Friday May 11th at London’s Orbital Comics Times Like These is the second collection of cartoonist (and my esteemed colleague on the Small Press Day organising team) David Ziggy Greene’s…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Throughout this week at Broken Frontier we have been chatting with and exploring the work of the South Asian women artists who make up the Kadak Collective. Over the last two days we’ve…
We’ve been keeping a close eye on the output of US indie publisher Silver Sprocket this year at Broken Frontier. Their releases have been regular fixtures in our weekly Staff…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Ths week at Broken Frontier we began a three-part look at the work of the South Asian women artists who make up the Kadak Collective; a group that ELCAF-goers may…
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…
My personal highlight of 2016’s East London Comics & Arts Festival was meeting some of the artists who make up the Kadak Collective who were exhibiting at ELCAF as a group for…
Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged
When the premise of Afterwords was announced it gave me a sense of acute anticipatory glee. Forget your various super-hero cinematic blockbusters, if you’re a fan of UK indie comics…
It can be difficult to put your finger on what exactly an artist is trying to do with their work early in the early stages of their career. Kelly Fernandez’s…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
