While many UK small press anthologies theme themselves around specific subject matter or topical material Dirty Rotten Comics has a more philosophical focus to its contents. Each and every issue…
Ted Naifeh is no stranger to working across genres. He’s already made the shift from pirates to gothic teens to barbarians. But up until this point, most of his main…
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“Each panel of A Dark Forest is crammed with detail to the extent that every single image feels like a world unto itself.” That was how I described Kate-mia White’s…
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…
It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns this month on August 23rd. As ever, your co-hosts for the night are myself (Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief…
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With their mix of pop cultural homage and markedly darker humour, Craig Conlan’s minicomics have proven to be a consistent delight. Conlan was, of course, nominated for a British Comic Award in the…
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The Analogue Press are a smaller micropublishing outfit from the North East of England who have to date put out two copies of Radio On, an annual music-themed anthology. The…
Back in July I had the pleasure of chairing a panel at ELCAF on the subject of ‘Championing Comics’ with zine-maker Simon Moreton (Minor Leagues), One Beat Zines co-founder Julia Scheele, and…
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Norwegian artist Jey Levang first came to prominence with their twisting short stories in the pages of popular UK anthology Dirty Rotten Comics. Jey’s offerings in that book have consistently…
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…
Perhaps unsurprisingly for a comic that centres on a rejection of the perceived wisdom of the status quo, Laura J.L.B.’s Sister Sabia is unafraid to disregard convention in terms of its…
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If there was one name that kept coming up post-ELCAF this year as an exhibitor whose comics had truly excited people it was that of Lucie Ebrey. The Birmingham-based artist’s…
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Emily Rose Lambert’s Dreamscape is an atmospheric and haunting journey through the subconscious, a shorter version of which first appeared in the pages of Dirty Rotten Comics #4 last year. In this…
If you’ve never encountered Annie Lawson’s lively cartooning style before then you’ve inexplicably missed the output of a comics creator whose strips have been enjoyed by readers since the early 1980s….
The last time feminist small press collective and distro One Beat Zines (co-founded by Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele) published an anthology project we liked it so much here at Broken…
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…
The greatest strength of Samuel C. Williams’s At War with Yourself – another graphic medicine offering from the ever burgeoning Singing Dragon line – is that it tackles a complex…
It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns next week on July 26th. We’re back at our new home – the BrewDog pub…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
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“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
