BF filled a noticeable hole in its “social media portfolio” today with a new presence on Instagram. In future, to a lesser degree, we’ll be using the photo-sharing app to give…
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Josh Hicks’s Glorious Wrestling Alliance came as something of a revelation to me when I reviewed it here last summer. I wasn’t expecting that on finishing this comedic take on those…
Emma Rios, Isabel Greenberg, Krent Able, Jade Sarson, Rachael Stott, Gary Northfield, Karrie Fransman, ILYA, Hannah Berry and Joe Decie. That’s merely a small number of the artistic names to…
World Book Day is celebrating its 20th year in the UK today. For two decades it has revered the wonder of stories and illustrations; a day where readers of all ages can…
Nothing Broken Frontier-related brings me greater pleasure than seeing the “graduates” of our various ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ projects going on to ever bigger and better things. Original 2015…
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Debuting at Thought Bubble last year, Myths and Monsters is the second anthology to come from the Big Brown Eyes Collective which consists of the three Lambert sisters – Freya, Karis…
In over ten years of writing for Broken Frontier, there have been few comics I have reviewed that have come close to matching Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Psychosis Blues in terms of…
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…
#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…
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…
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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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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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…
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…
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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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…
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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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…
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
