AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! For those new to the critical environs of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier – and to paraphrase an old classic industry line “every column is someone’s…
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…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Of all the relatively new players on the UK small press scene this year it’s probably Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s One Beat Zines who were…
New York City – the Carroll Gardens neighbourhood of Brooklyn, to be precise – comes to life in all of its quirky, garish glory under the watchful eye of native…
After a summer break the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this month just in time for UK festival season with a stellar line-up of creative talent….
Mitzi Akaha’s confident comics debut marks her out as a creator to watch and puts the spotlight on trans-Pacific small press Big Ugly Robot. We’ve said this before, but if you…
Alice Urbino‘s powerful use of visual metaphor in comics to explore mood and state of mind so captured my imagination when I reviewed her self-published series Dimension that she immediately…
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…
Last week in this column I recommended three comics-related Kickstarter campaigns that, for various reasons, I felt deserved your attention. One of these was for the Art Aid Nepal anthology…
It’s festival season again in the UK and here at Broken Frontier we’re gearing up for the plethora of exciting new debut comics that entails. One of those is the…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Bringing talented artists to a wider audience via this column is one of the great privileges of writing ‘Small Pressganged’ here at Broken Frontier. Indeed, this year I significantly expanded…
CELEBRATING BCZF! Last week here at ‘Small Pressganged’ I previewed a number of the solo print projects debuting from Big Brown Eyes – a collective comprising sisters Emily Rose, Karis…
With her flowing visuals, ever inventive layouts and a chameleon-like ability to adapt her style to any number of genres, Jess Milton was always going to be a certainty for…
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…
Rozi Hathaway’s Sneaky Business could best be described as a mini-anthology of work; one that embraces a refreshingly old school philosophy of self-publishing. I doubt I need to mention it…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s zine-making collective/distro One Beat Zines burst onto the small press scene at the end of last year with their well-received multi-creator…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN Here at Broken Frontier we’re long-time fans of Retrofit Comics, a boutique publisher established by prolific cartoonist Box Brown via a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2011….
One of acclaimed micropublisher (and Broken Frontier 2014 Award nominees in the Best Publisher category) Avery Hill’s most overlooked projects, the anthology Reads is a wonderfully eclectic collection of complete stories and serials…
“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
