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Designed to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked world of small press, self-published and altcomics.

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A Pocket Chiller: I Remain a Stranger – Douglas Noble & Robert Wells’ Horror Short is a Winning Combo of Form and Atmosphere

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 24, 2022

One of the things I learnt a long time ago about Douglas Noble collaborations is that the reader should never make assumptions about the particular creative alchemy going on behind…

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Moonlit – Fantasy and Reality Collide in Yet Another Example of the Haunting Fragility of Alxndra Cook’s Comics Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 23, 2022

There are comics that feel like the subjects they touch on are inspired by direct personal experience, or that even if they are not their themes are so universal that…

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Scentagons – Stefan Gruber Takes Us to an Appealing World of Weirdness with a Dash of the Existential

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 12, 2022

Small press comics that act as samplers to an artist whose work you have not previously discovered are always a welcome entry point into a creator’s oeuvre. Stefan Gruber’s Scentagons…

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Monologues of Shite – Emily Cullen Revisits Living Lockdown in the Family Home in Another Worthy Entry in the Pandemic Comics Strand

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2022

It’s endlessly fascinating to see how varied the approaches to pandemic comics have been over the last couple of years. From the earnest and the profound to the metaphorical and…

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That Comic Smell #2 – The Eponymous Podcast Team’s Second Anthology Has an Enthusiastic, DIY Culture Appeal

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 5, 2022

Small press anthologies just don’t seem to have the prevalence they had several years ago when they seemed to almost swamp the self-published shelves in UK comics stores. That Comic…

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Scavengers – Sammy Ward Shows a Pronounced Skill as a Silent Storyteller in this Fantasy Comic Strip Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 27, 2022

Over the last couple of years our Broken Frontier ‘One-Tweet Reviews’ event for Small Press Day – an opportunity for artists to post four pages of their work on Twitter…

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Tide – Jason Chuang’s Wordless Graphic Novella is a Stunning Example of the Pure Visual Language of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2022

The UK comics scene is particularly blessed at the moment with a rich surfeit of abstract comics goodness from a number of boundary-pushing practitioners. Peony Gent, Olivia Sullivan, Mereida Fajardo,…

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Ghostly Thoughts – These Three Haunting Short Stories Are a Testament to Alxndra Cook’s Development as a Sequential Artist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2022

Watching the growing confidence in storytelling craft of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators as they become more conversant with the language of the medium is always a pleasure….

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Montana Diary – Whit Taylor’s Engaging Travelogue Explores Issues of Climate Change, Racism and White Privilege

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2022

It’s a marker of the distinctive properties of comics narrative that sometimes so much more can be expressed and communicated with an economy of line than the most detailed artwork…

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Ghosts in Things – It’s a Hopkins Family Affair in this Witty Cartoon Collection of Unlikely Apparitions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 12, 2022

There’s something undeniably appealing about intergenerational creative projects. We’ve seen it before on the small press scene, perhaps most notably with the stalwart presence of father and son duo Henry…

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Hell-Hued: The Periwinkle Issue – Beatrice Mossman Curates Another Spooky Collection of Colour-Themed Supernatural Stories

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 11, 2022

When Beatrice Mossman launched her horror anthology Hell-Hued in 2020 she found a novel way of theming each issue. Rather than choosing a defined subject area, a phrase or a…

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What If… UK Small Press Creators Worked on DC Characters? – 12 Comics/Artist Match-Ups We’d All Like to See!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2022

A little bit of flight of fantasy fun today at BF based on a series of Twitter posts of mine from some years ago. We’ve probably all at some point…

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Pixie Lice – Amanda Vähämäki’s Unlikely Blend of Slice-of-Life and Fantasy Takes Us to a Fantastic World that Deserves Revisiting

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 4, 2022

It’s always a pleasure to give attention to a comics micropublishing outfit we haven’t spotlighted before at Broken Frontier, especially one with a focus on alt and experimental comics offerings….

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Pretty Flavours – J. Webster Sharp’s Comics Cabinet of Curiosities is Filled with Provocatively Alluring Imagery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 29, 2022

I have been meaning to explore the work of Jemma Webster Sharp for some time at Broken Frontier given how her strikingly strange visuals consistently capture my attention every time…

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š! #43 – A Host of International Creators Present Their Tales of ‘Queer Power’ in the Latest kuš! comics Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2022

One of the great draws of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ signature anthology š! is that its cross-continental line-up gives us markedly diverse approaches to sequential art storytelling from across the…

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Change – Via Love, Loss and the Pandemic, Lesley Imgart’s Latest Comics Collection Looks at How Changing Circumstances Impact Our Lives

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2022

Last year’s online Hackney Comic + Zine Fair introduced me to a number of new comics talents whose practice I had yet to encounter. One of those artists was Lesley…

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Ambiguous Loss – Hannah Lee Miller Explores Dementia and Grieving for Someone Yet to Leave Us

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2022

Way back in 2013, nearly a decade ago, I reviewed Hannah Lee Miller’s short self-published comic Dementia Dad, an autobio offering that I described as “heartrending” in terms of subject…

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Not Because of the People – David Allison’s Collection of Experimental Comics Narratives Take Us on a Tense and Brooding Journey Into Psychogeographical Horror

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2022

Psychogeographical comics are perhaps more widely acknowledged for their autobiographical explorations of the intersections between place, time and memory. But there are other strands to this area of graphic narrative,…

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