Centrala have put out some excellent work over the last couple of years but Chernobyl – The Zone is undoubtedly the most accomplished book in their catalogue to date. On…
UK small press comics fans take note! Today’s new set of British postage stamps feature art from a familiar name from the Avery Hill Publishing stable of creative talent –…
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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Graphic medicine with a most distinctive approach to its subject matter, David Biskup’s Seagram interweaves the artist Mark Rothko, and the later vandalism of his Seagram murals, with a tale…
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The Broken Frontier Breakout Talent Award is always the most fiercely contested category in BF’s annual list of accolades. As a site that actively champions new creative voices, of course, that…
Some things bear repeating even if they’ve been said many times before. Dan White’s Cindy and Biscuit is the best all-ages comic series I have reviewed in five-plus years 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…
A beautifully presented metaphor for the triumph of creativity and imagination overcoming darkness and despair. Published in the similar hardcover album format that has proven so successful on Luke Pearson’s…
If there was one word I overused in reviews in 2016 (and there were undoubtedly more than just the one but for my fragile ego’s sake let’s restrict it to…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 13th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. From the big players in the monthly serial…
VANCOUVER – CANADA – Cloudscape Comics, Vancouver’s largest and most prominent independent comic collective, is excited to announce that one of our own publications, Epic Canadiana #2, has received the…
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Two years ago at Broken Frontier we announced our first set of ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ – half a dozen self-published comics and zine artists whose craft was…
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Welcome to the fifth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’! This celebration of the self and micropublishing world has become something of a…
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I will come back to this point towards the end of this review but for all its bizarre situations, colourful characters and surreal sequences of events there’s something very human…
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As we approach 2017 it seems only fitting to look back on the UK self-publishing world in 2016 through a ‘Small Pressganged’ lens. This was the year that this column…
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It’s been around a decade since we saw the last original Fred the Clown work from the always fertile imagination of Roger Langridge – comics that were collected by Fantagraphics…
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The intersection between place, time and memory has been an integral part of Tim Bird’s Grey Area series from Avery Hill Publishing over the last few years. In Grey Area:…
When a small press publication is as consistently excellent as Katriona Chapman’s very personal and individual series Katzine it’s sometimes easy to focus attention elsewhere on books that aren’t getting…
“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
