Fun story, inconsistent art: please, DC – don’t screw up this series! With characters as well established in the pantheon as DC’s flagship super-heroes Batman and Superman, you’d think that presenting…
Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson bring incredible individual talent to this dark, intriguing comic, but fall just short of a cohesive approach to storytelling. What makes a serial killer? Is…
A strong black-and-white debut from artist Megan Levens is hindered by a sketchy set-up and elusive characterisation. In Billion Year Spree, his history of science fiction, Brian Aldiss hails Mary Shelley’s…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Yesterday at Broken Frontier we published the first instalment of a two-part interview with Ricky Miller and Dave White, the team behind Brit micropublishers Avery Hill Publishing. In day two…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
British micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing are no longer the new kids on the small press block. In 2013 their comics output expanded rapidly. Critically acclaimed books like Jazz Greenhill’s The…
It’s almost 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, BF…
Box Brown brings his distinctive graphic style to a well-researched and entertaining biography of wrestling colossus Andre the Giant. When ah were a lad, growing up in northern England in…
Ever since Rebellion Developments bought 2000 AD in 2000 (when else?), it has stuck to its successful forumla of publishing trade paperback collections of the most successive serials. However, Brass Sun repackages…
HOAX Psychosis Blues is the ultimate expression of the graphic memoir’s unique power to share and communicate personal experience. A hauntingly beautiful masterpiece. Back in 2012, Ravi Thornton and Andy…
Myriad Editions is delighted to announce the shortlist for their First Graphic Novel Competition 2014, revealed today to coincide with the first week of Comics Unmasked, the UK’s largest-ever exhibition of British comics…
Although, to date, I’ve covered work from four continents in ‘Small Pressganged’ Brazil is virgin territory for this feature. For that you have Impossible Books – those fine UK online…
Lizz Lunney (above), Esther McManus, Howard Hardiman, Alys Jones and more feature in May’s round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to,…
C2E2 was a fun con with something for everyone. I’ll spare you the details of my excellent shopping trip through the aisles and get right to the fun people I…
Artists’ Alley is definitely the most inspirational place to be at any con, and I talked to a lot of terrific people at C2E2. It’s definitely a creative recharge to…
Noah Van Sciver delivers an intense and claustrophobic portrait of a dysfunctional father-son relationship. Oily Comics (the mini-comics vehicle of cartoonist Charles Forsman) may have changed its publishing model of…
Review by Reid Vanier The titular character’s controversial redesign hangs heavy over what is an otherwise spectacular reintroduction to the world of 41st-Century Japan. This week marks the debut of…
Review by Reid Vanier The latest project by Jasons Aaron & Latour is a beautiful and compelling portrait of a reluctant homecoming; a contradiction of terms that is both a…
It’s almost 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, BF…
“How Damaging and Dangerous this Techno-Fascist Hellscape We Are Already Living in Is” – KitsuneArt on the Threat of Generative AI, LGBTQ+ Comics Anthologies and Building a Profile on the SceneJune 18, 2026
“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
