A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “It’s not often I get the opportunity to describe a creator as a true original but in Donya Todd’s case it would be criminal not to…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Now I’m as keen as anyone to get comics to a wider readership, but while it’s great to see the form, ahem, representin’ in fancy bookshops…
The first act of Owen Michael Johnson’s Reel Love was a heady tale of a young boy’s growing love affair with the big screen – a coming of age story…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Breakdown Press have been steadily developing a deserved reputation for publishing comics with a distinctive vision and philosophy.” – Broken Frontier Mutiny Bay review It’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…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! In terms of sheer unbridled escapism, there are few creators on the UK small press scene who offer such an unrelenting sense of fun as Jack…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Quite simply, Simon Moreton is one of the most important and intelligent creative voices in current UK small press comics” – ‘Celebrating 2013: Ten UK Small…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! A mix of comics, illustrated stories and single images, Grace Wilson’s Eyes Peeled has a slightly zine-like feel to its collection of fragmentary but evocative slice-of-life…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Last year’s debut Safari Festival, curated by micropublisher Breakdown Press, was one of the most welcome developments on the UK events circuit of 2014. I described it as “a happy…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Back from its annual summer break, Crossing Borders immediately tackles one of the bigger releases in Europe in recent months. It’s been a while since we last saw Gianni Pacinotti –…
Wonderfully inclusive UK small press anthology Dirty Rotten Comics is a project that feels like a kindred spirit to the philosophy and aims of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier. Like…
Predating the trend towards comic-book genre mash-ups by a good thirty years, this creator-owned Victorian saga by David Michelinie (Iron Man, Spider-Man) and Bret Blevins (New Mutants, Inhumans), about a…
Translated from Norwegian as part of Centrala’s cosmopolitan catalogue, Dear Rikard is Lene Ask’s touching and beautifully rendered treatment of a series of letters between a Norwegian missionary in Madagascar and the…
Justin Jordan (Deep State) twists the traditional detective tale into a strange, new multifaceted shape, through an engaging cast and unique premise. Over the past couple of years, Justin Jordan…
Although Motherfather, This Damned Band‘s titular international rock stars, are no strangers to “black magic” onstage, the band is unprepared when the real thing comes knocking. This hook comes late…
Emotive subject matter tackled with grace and serenity, this is Julian Hanshaw’s finest book to date. Julian Hanshaw’s graphic novel Tim Ginger from Top Shelf Productions was our Broken Frontier…
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…
Jessica Martin’s comics career trajectory has been startling to behold since I first met her two years ago at the final and much missed BD Comics Passion festival at London’s…
“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
