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…
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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…
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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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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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…
“I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird” – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel ‘The Witch’s Egg’ from Avery Hill PublishingJuly 8, 2025
Inside Look: The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo Brings Her Boundary-Pushing Practice to Digital PresentationJuly 4, 2025
Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
