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Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
A lackluster bounty-hunter-on-the-run plot is turned into a spectacular action movie by the stunning visuals of the brand new & re-invented nineties artist Dan Panosian. Starting out as a Rob…
The old West as it really was. That’s the mission statement behind Caryn A. Tate’s western series Red Plains… When I was preparing to write this review I was rather…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! I reviewed the opening issue of John Lees and Iain Laurie’s And then Emily Was Gone a couple of months back in this column. It was…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Before I begin my reflections on Douglas Noble’s Youthful Attack I want to return to a soundbite from the great man himself about his comics from…
New at Thought Bubble! Fantasy role-playing meets retro video gaming meets anarchic fairy tales in Bell and Slorance’s witty all-ages offering. The first release from the Dogooder Comics stable, Dungeon…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! From the roaring Twenties to a life of self-imposed solitude, writer/artist Jessica Martin tells the story of actress Clara Bow, forgotten icon from another era. While…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Crossing Borders is just one big barrel of laughs with vikings on the run from a vulcano (?) confusing Scotland with Walhalla and 5 easy steps on how to turn…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today we return to the environs of Scene City in the latest issue of Rob Cureton’s music industry satire… When last we left Rob Cureton’s Tales…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today’s column takes a look at Adam Murphy’s Fever Dreams, a collection dredged up from the darkest corners of his imagination… Adam Murphy is the creator…
The lives of travelling show people come under the spotlight in creator Abbey Massey’s look at 24 hours of a working circus. I ‘m (sort of) returning to the Comica Festival…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
If you’re going to be referencing one of the all-time great revenge movies, you better make sure that your comic lives up to the reference and I can safely say…
Katie Craven’s poignant twilight allegory is the first spotlighted book in ‘Small Pressganged’ from the attendees of the latest Comiket independent comics fair. The recent Comica Festival Comiket – the…
Daniel James Baldwin’s documentary on the self-publishing scene both needs and deserves your support! Today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ isn’t the usual review or in-depth interview piece. Instead I want to belatedly…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
“Anything can happen in the next half hour!” – it’s the tagline, of course, of Gerry Anderson’s cult ‘60s Supermarionation series Stingray but it’s one that could also quite easily…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Famed director and comics scribe Alexandro Jodorowsky steps up to the short story challenge with Screaming Planet featuring an all-star roster of artists like JH Williams III, Ladrönn, Adi Granov…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Broken Frontier’s ‘Small Pressganged’ column – our regular spotlight on the worlds of small press, self-published and micropublished comics – will be two years old this weekend and, at the…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Fantasy legend Elric of Melniboné is back in a European comic series endorsed by Michael Moorcock with the words ‘If I could go back, I would do it like this.’…
“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
