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SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! After months of eager anticipation the UK and Ireland’s inaugural celebration of self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY Culture is nearly upon us. Over the next few…
Taking comics to new audiences. It’s the ideal we all aspire to, something we all claim to aim for and, on so many levels, discovering an expanded demographic for the…
The Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival (CECAF) – one of the friendliest, most accessible and endearingly laidback fairs on the UK comics show circuit – returns to the Earl Haig Hall this…
It’s an intensely busy few days of comics events over the upcoming UK holiday weekend with at least five comics-related shows and fairs taking place across the country. Brigid Deacon, one…
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…
It’s been a long while since our last roving round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene have been up to, both within and outside…
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…
Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this week featuring…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this month featuring…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this month featuring…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this month featuring…
100 pages. 18 creators. Boundless talent. Unless you boarded, bagged and packed yourself away in a longbox at the end of last year then you’ll be aware that the debut…
Clear your social calendars, save up your pennies, and get ready to celebrate two of the most eagerly anticipated anthology releases of 2016! On Friday April 29th, at London’s acclaimed…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
A few weeks ago at the special Broken Frontier edition of the London Laydeez do Comics meet-up we announced our very first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook – a near 100-page…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! We’re returning to the familiar but always rewarding territory of my ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’ in ‘Small Pressganged’ today but with a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Throughout 2015 at Broken Frontier we’ve been holding monthly discussions on the current UK self-publishing scene in our regular ‘State of the Small Press Nation’ series of multi-creator discussions and…
On June 6th the Crouch End Comic Art Festival (CECAF) – Sean Azzopardi’s smaller scale but incredibly welcoming and relaxed show – returns to the Earl Haig Hall as part…
“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
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
