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…
After yesterday’s chat about the themes and politics of his hot new series, Undertow writer Steve Orlando tells us about the unpredictability of life, the influence of Russian literature, his…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Two classic 2000 AD robotic features get repackaged for the US market, so it’s droid madness at Crossing Borders! But do Wagner’s Banzai Battalion and Mills’s Ro-Busters really deserve this special…
As the third issue of Undertow hits the stands from Image Comics, Broken Frontier talks to its writer – Steve Orlando. In the first half of a two-part interview, we…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“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
