Why You Should Be Reading: Retrofit Comics
One of the things that’s pleased me most about comics this year has been the discovery of small press subscription services. While the Internet makes it easy(-ish) to keep tabs…
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Youthful Attack
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Before I begin my reflections on Douglas Noble’s Youthful Attack I want to return to a soundbite from the great man himself about his comics from…
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Happy Birthday ‘Small Pressganged’! Celebrating Two Years of Unearthing the Gems of the Small Press
Broken Frontier’s ‘Small Pressganged’ column – our regular spotlight on the worlds of small press, self-published and micropublished comics – will be two years old this weekend and, at the…
Smoo Comics #7
Simon Moreton’s minimalist storytelling style in his Smoo Comics series has marked him out as a small press creator with a unique approach to the comics page. He’s been covered…
The Green Bean Volume 4, Issue 1
Katie Green’s The Green Bean is something of a phenomenon. Perhaps the best way to describe it would be to call it an “illustrated journal zine” but that feels a…
Small Press Spotlight on… Owen D. Pomery
Owen D. Pomery’s Between the Billboards is a remarkable debut comic with a stark and misanthropic central premise. It tells the tale of James Ebner, a recluse who has voluntarily…
Grey Area #1: While the City Sleeps – Tim Bird Uses Architecture and Environment to Reflect Nocturnal Mood and Emotion
Published by Avery Hill, whose anthology Reads! I reviewed here on ‘Small Pressganged’ last year, Tim Bird’s Grey Area #1 is a sequential art tour of London’s streets, thoroughfares and hidden corners at night. Three…
Celebrating 2012: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
Small Pressganged is Broken Frontier’s weekly column designed to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked world of small press, self-published and altcomics. Every week we provide a mix of…
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“2017 Was Our Experimental Album” – Avery Hill Publishing Talk About an Award-Winning Year, Their Acclaimed Line-Up of Creative Talent and What We Can Look Forward to in 2018
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST PUBLISHER! There’s been an almost parallel evolution between acclaimed UK indie publisher Avery Hill Publishing and Broken Frontier over the last several years. Back in…
Katzine: The Boat Issue – Katriona Chapman’s Quietly Life-Affirming Series Continues to Delight Its Audience
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…
Making Friends with Smiley – Another Delightful Danse Macabre from EdieOP Available at Thought Bubble
If you read our recent ‘Small Pressganged’ 5th birthday article you’ll have heard Avery Hill Publishing’s Ricky Miller recounting how he discovered the malevolently mirthful talents of EdieOP through this…
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Thought Bubble Small Press Debut Picks Day 2 – Comics from Lucie Ebrey, One Beat Zines, Dan White and More!
It’s the tenth Thought Bubble comic art festival at the weekend and this week at Broken Frontier we’re taking a tour of just some of the debut book highlights. Up until…
Six Reasons Why You Should Back the ‘Performance’ Anthology by One Beat Zines
Championing work we believe in, promoting creators with something important to say, and spotlighting publications that are worthy of far wider attention are staples of Broken Frontier’s philosophy of coverage. Every…
Staff Picks for August 10, 2016 – Hellbound Lifestyle, All-Star Batman, Katzine, The Black Monday Murders and More!
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…
One Beat Zines Announce Crowdfunding Campaign for ‘Performance’ – A New Anthology Including Work from Brigid Deacon, Julia Scheele, Amneet Johal and Sabba Khan
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…
Small Press Inside Look – Katriona Chapman Explores the Autobiographical World of Her ‘Katzine’ Comics
It was a pleasure to see Katriona Chapman’s profile rise as significantly and deservedly as it did in 2015. Her self-published autobiographical series Katzine gained widespread critical acclaim, and her…
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I Love this Part – Tillie Walden’s Second Major Project is a Comic of Rare, Raw and Precious Beauty
If there was one name that came up again and again at the end of 2015 on the traditional annual ‘Best of’ lists and end-of-year reviews it was that of Tillie…
Avery Hill Publishing Announces First Releases of 2016 – Includes Books by Tillie Walden, Rachael Smith, Matthew Swan and Claire Scully
What an astonishing year of achievement 2015 was for Avery Hill Publishing. British Comic Awards nominations for EdieOP’s Maleficium and Rachael Smith’s The Rabbit alongside that much deserved BCA win…
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