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Fresh from her acclaimed short story contribution in the recently published Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook, Rebecca Bagley is making a name for herself again on the UK indie comics scene…
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…
Electricomics – the “digital comics self-publishing ecosystem” project managed by Leah Moore – are asking for the input of the small press scene as they look to provide a digital community…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on May 24th and this time our venue is the BrewDog pub on Soho’s Poland Street. Our third gathering of 2016 sees two biting purveyors…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
One of the new 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’, Kim Clements came to prominence last year with her autobio comic Rabbit Thoughts, a beautifully poignant piece…
Gareth Brookes is understandably most associated with his debut graphic novel The Black Project, a darkly witty tale of youthful DIY love. The book won the 2012 Myriad First Graphic Novel…
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There are two standard approaches to the concept of the comics anthology and both have experienced conflicting fortunes in recent years. While the one-shot anthology compilation of complete, “told in one…
There can be few experiences in comics quite as delightfully, deliciously and dizzyingly bizarre as a Donya Todd offering. From her self-published The Burger Boys to Death & the Girls…
Back in the early days of this column, when I originally wrote about Simon Moreton‘s Smoo Comics, there was no question in my mind that I was shining a spotlight on a unique…
Exploring our relationship with the natural world is a regular staple of Gill Hatcher’s comics and zine work. Hatcher, of course, is the founder of the acclaimed Scottish creative collective…
It was all about the awards when it came to our fantastic foursome of celebrated guest artists at last night’s Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw… To start with,…
We’re back! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on April 4th, this time at The Royal George pub at 133 Charing Cross Road. Our second meet-up of 2016 is…
Sean Azzopardi – part of our group of five guest artists at the next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – is one of the true stalwarts of the…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
If you’re an observer of the UK small press scene you will no doubt have noticed the flurry of social media discussions a few weeks back about the possibility of a…
It’s back! The Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on February 23rd at a new venue, upstairs in the famous Coach and Horses pub in Soho’s Greek Street. Last…
Yesterday the hashtag #hourlycomicday made its annual trending appearance on Twitter as comics practitioners from all aspects of the medium recorded their exploits and adventures with a comic strip for…
There are points when you can’t help but repeat yourself when you cover the same comics projects multiple times in a year. But sometimes those same recycled sentiments simply cannot be…
Of all our awards categories this year the one that garnered the most interest – to the tune of twice as many public votes as many of the others –…
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