Robert Brown’s instantly recognisable recapturing of his childhood has been a firm favourite of mine in ‘Small Pressganged’ since the very early days of this column. Brown’s work speaks so…
In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…
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Sean Azzopardi is one of those vital and essential mainstays of the UK small press whose constant presence has given a reassuring sense of continuity to British comics self-publishing for as…
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 or digital storefront, the…
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The second offering in respected Latvian micropublisher kuš!’s mono series of one-shots, Brume represents Portuguese artist Amanda Baeza’s distinctively different take on the autobio strand. Relaeased later this month, kus! describe…
Adam Cadwell’s supernatural tragicomedy came to a bittersweet conclusion at the end of last year with the sixth part of the series that began as a slacker farce with darker dramatic…
Anna Leue and Ron Joseph weave a tightly-wound character study rooted in vengeance and steeped in the rich storytelling traditions of the Old West. There aren’t enough pure western comics…
This past Saturday saw a bumper celebration of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic as punters representing four decades worth of reading – from those who were there at the very beginning…
Last week saw the annual return of the #hourlycomicday hashtag to Twitter as comics artists spent the day capturing the events of their respective February 1sts in comic strips portraying each hour…
How do you learn new places to go, new ways to be? Those words in the latest Minor Leagues strike a particular chord because sometimes with Simon Moreton’s practice you…
As public relations crises go, the publicity surrounding the 2016 Angoulême Festival‘s failure to include a single woman creator on its prestigious Grand Prix award shortlist was something of a benchmark moment. One…
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Laughing at the pretensions and idiosyncrasies of the art world – whether doing so with fond and gentle humour or scathingly acidic wit – is hardly new ground to tread….
In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…
In over ten years of writing for Broken Frontier, there have been few comics I have reviewed that have come close to matching Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Psychosis Blues in terms of…
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 or digital storefront, the…
Peony Gent’s distinctive form of visual poetry has been one of the true highlights of anthology comic Dirty Rotten Comics over the last year or so. It was on the…
Image Comics celebrated its 25th anniversary this past Wednesday with an event called “Image Day” that saw many of their creators head out to retailers across the globe to meet…
Metroland has a very special place in Avery Hill Publishing history. It’s a link back to the South London outfit’s early days when the now Ignatz-winning and Eisner-nominated publisher were…
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“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
