Tales from Scene City #3
Rob Cureton’s Tales from Scene City is set in the eponymous locale of the title wherein each district is inhabited by devotees of a different musical movement. In the issues…
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Our writers reflect on what makes their hearts beat. Critical, witty, honest.
iHero #1
What if apps for super-powers were as prevalent as all our other social media and downloading tools? What if we could access fantastic abilities at the touch of a tablet…
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Scenes and Authors
Inspired by comics and movies, Robert Devriendt’s scenes of sequential paintings read like mini stories on canvas and Sam Dillemans goes all out in his Authors series with over 300…
Small Press Spotlight on… A J Poyiadgi
A J Poyiadgi is a creator with a deservedly growing profile on the U.K. small press scene. Coming to prominence when his comic Teapot Therapy was shortlisted for the Observer/Jonathan…
TEOTFW
Originally published via his minicomics imprint Oily Comics, Charles Forsman’s The End of the Fucking World was recently collected by Fantagraphics Books. Now, for a committed champion of SP books…
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Planes, Aircraft Carriers and Bearteeth
Done in the tradition of aviation comics and mixed with political intrigue, Yann and Henriet produce an intriguing adventure comic about friendship, betrayals and the choices we make when we…
Long Lost Lempi
Adam Vian’s Long Lost Lempi is a whimsical piece of stylised fantasy that has most obviously been constructed as a true labour of love by its creator. When we join…
The Grinning Mask #1-3
Ryan Taylor’s The Grinning Mask is an intriguing fusion of (initially) the sensibilities of a past age of UK weekly comics with the more creepy overtones of the best of…
I Am Fire
Rachael Smith’s I Am Fire is a witty little sitcom of a comic combining disaffected, angsty teenagers, health and safety politics, and bitter rivalries in that ever cut-throat and competitive…
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Small Press Spotlight on… Rebecca Bagley
Rebecca Bagley is a name that will be familiar to long-term readers of ‘Small Pressganged’. She’s the creator behind the contemporary fable Tick, much championed in this column here and…
Big in Japan
Big in Japan is Moogs Kewell’s diary comics account of her trip to Japan in April 2011 to attend her friends Masami and Taka’s wedding. It’s a whirlwind tour round…
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Kill Your Mothers
Zidrou, Borecki and Ers deliver a truly chilling series in Kill Your Mothers when they turn every teenybopper’s dream into a nightmare: what happens when the things you wish upon…
Smoo Comics #7
Simon Moreton’s minimalist storytelling style in his Smoo Comics series has marked him out as a small press creator with a unique approach to the comics page. He’s been covered…
The Mire
Becky Cloonan’s Eisner-winning, self-published The Mire is a book that has been available for some time now, having originally come out in 2012, but I have a simple rule when…
Our Ever Improving Living Room
Kevin Budnik’s diary comic Our Ever Improving Living Room began life in 2010 as a college course exercise. Using a narrative structure familiar to fans of James Kochalka’s American Elf,…
T’sao Wei’s Windrush #2
Community-based super-heroics with a Morrison-style vibe are the order of the day in the second issue of T’sao Wei’s Windrush series… ‘Small Pressganged’ exists at Broken Frontier to promote all…
The Festival
Jazz Greenhill’s The Festival follows the misadventures of Ari, Lynda and Rob, three kids attending their first music festival with their parents. This troublesome but endearing trio sneak out of…
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The Brain Behind the Beatles
Dutch artist Jaron Beekes creates an easy going graphic novel about the man who raised the Beatles to stardom: Brian Epstein. Overdosing at the tender age of 32, Brian Epstein…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
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