Static – The Power of Peony Gent’s Visual Poetry Revealed
Peony Gent’s distinctive form of visual poetry has been one of the true highlights of anthology comic Dirty Rotten Comics over the last year or so. It was on the…
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Meet the Artist (#MeettheArtist) – The Popular Social Media Meme as Interpreted by Some of Our Broken Frontier ‘Small Pressganged’ Favourites!
#MeettheArtist – it’s been a popular meme over January on social media and we thought it might be fun to compile a handful of these visual resumes in one place here…
Meet the International Girl Gang – Ladies’ Night, Comic Book Slumber Party, Laydeez do Comics and FEMSKT Team Up at Angoulême 2017!
Four top collectives of women creators are hitting Angoulême this week – Ladies’ Night from the US, FEMSKT from Finland, and Comic Book Slumber Party and Laydeez do Comics from…
Staff Picks for January 25, 2017 – Comic Book Slumber Party’s Deep Space Canine, Kamandi Challenge, The Dregs 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…
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Celebrating 2016: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
Welcome to the fifth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’! This celebration of the self and micropublishing world has become something of a…
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A Year in Reviews – Looking Back on Broken Frontier’s 2016 UK Small Press Coverage in ‘Small Pressganged’
As we approach 2017 it seems only fitting to look back on the UK self-publishing world in 2016 through a ‘Small Pressganged’ lens. This was the year that this column…
Happy Holidays to All Our Readers from the Broken Frontier Team!
As Christmas beckons the Broken Frontier team will be taking a few days of well-deserved time off to recharge our batteries before we come into the New Year. There’s lots…
Dreaming of a Small Press Christmas! – Festive Comic Art from Kim Clements, Ellice Weaver, Rozi Hathaway, Danny Noble and More!
Christmas is coming! And with the end-of-year celebrations imminent I asked some of the small press artists we’ve featured in this column in the last year or two to share…
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Dear Mrs. Ryan – Rebecca Bagley Talks About Her Comics Account of Wartime Heroism on Show at the Museum of London Docklands
If you’re reading this article then the chances are high that you’re already an advocate of the unique storytelling power of biographical comics – that powerful ability to so empathetically immerse…
Exclusive Preview: Dirty Rotten Comics #9 – Jey Levang’s Cover Revealed Plus Sneak Peeks at Work from Douglas Noble, Kevin Pickles, Olivia Waller, Natalie Bishop and Peony Gent
It’s payday and what better way to celebrate than by pre-ordering the ninth issue of the ever essential and popular small press anthology Dirty Rotten Comics from Throwaway Press? For our…
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Dirty Rotten Comics #8 – Rozi Hathaway, Maria Stoian, Henry Miller and Jey Levang Provide Standout Stories in Throwaway Press’s Latest Anthology
Can we really be at Dirty Rotten Comics #8 already? (And with a ninth issue imminent!). When this much respected anthology – in its present incarnation – burst onto the…
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Ø – Rozi Hathaway’s Tender and Wistful Tale of Childhood Innocence and Friendship
You would think – given that she was one of our inaugural Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ – that Rozi Hathaway would have made life easier for…
Thought Bubble Small Press Debut Picks Day 5 – Comics from Liam Cobb, Tiny Pencil, Sarah Burgess 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…
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Celebrating 5 Years of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier – Creators and Publishers Pick Their Inspirational Artists!
Can it really be five years ago today that we launched ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier with a stated mission to “unearth the gems of the small press” and a promise…
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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…
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‘Small Press: Independent Comics and Self-Publishing’ Event at Winchester Gallery, Oct 24th-28th – Tom Mortimer Curates a Collection of Top UK Creative Talent
We’re always keen here at Broken Frontier to support community efforts that take small press comics and creators to new audiences. So when Dirty Rotten Comics team member Tom Mortimer…
Comica Comiket at The Lightbox, Woking on Saturday October 8th – Exhibitors Include kuš! comics, Jessica Martin, Gary Northfield and Broken Frontier!
Forget NYCC 2016! Comica‘s long-running independent comics fair Comiket returns this Saturday at The Lightbox in Woking featuring a select line-up of UK indie comics talent. The venue is currently playing host…
Bristol Comic and Zine Fair 2016 – Meet a Fantastic Line-Up of Small Press Creators at BCZF this Sat Oct 1st
This Saturday October 1st sees the return of the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair (BCZF) to the ever welcoming the Station venue. An event that includes a broad spectrum of micro…
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