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Section: Small Pressganged

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

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Small Press Inside Look: Metroland – Ricky Miller Talks About Avery Hill’s Time-Travelling Music Epic and His Collaboration with Julia Scheele

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2017

Metroland has a very special place in Avery Hill Publishing history. It’s a link back to the South London outfit’s early days when the now Ignatz-winning and Eisner-nominated publisher were…

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Frontier #14: Rebecca Sugar – A Deeply Personal Yet Richly Inviting Scrapbook Narrative from the Steven Universe Creator

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2017

With its distinctive dual nature, as both an ongoing series and also as a collection of one-shot publications, micropublisher Youth in Decline’s flagship title Frontier has twice been nominated in…

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Dead Singers Society Volume 3 – Another Top Good Comics Collection of Comics Tributes from Wallis Eates, Sammy Borras, Tim Bird and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2017

They may be one of the newest micropublishing crews in town but Good Comics are quickly building up a reputation as a publishing platform for some of the best up-and-coming talents on…

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Meet the Artist (#MeettheArtist) – The Popular Social Media Meme as Interpreted by Some of Our Broken Frontier ‘Small Pressganged’ Favourites!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2017

#MeettheArtist – it’s been a popular meme over January on social media and we thought it might be fun to compile a handful of these visual resumes in one place here…

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Small Press Inside Look – British Comic Award-Winning Creator Tim Bird Guides Us through the Psychogeography of ‘Grey Area’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2017

After Tim Bird’s much deserved 2015 British Comic Award win for Grey Area: From the City to the Sea, anticipation was high for this fourth issue of his psychogeographical musings. Bird’s work…

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Comic Book Slumber Party’s Deep Space Canine – CBSP and Avery Hill Bring Us New Astral Adventures for Greasy and Friends

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2017

If Comic Book Slumber Party’s Deep Space Canine had been a 1970s Marvel comic it would have had the words “Because you demanded it!” slapped all across its cover. As…

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Seagram – David Biskup’s Pure Visual Storytelling Powerfully Communicates the Experience of Living with PTSD

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 16, 2017

Graphic medicine with a most distinctive approach to its subject matter, David Biskup’s Seagram interweaves the artist Mark Rothko, and the later vandalism of his Seagram murals, with a tale…

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Profiling Rozi Hathaway – From Original ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ Artist to Broken Frontier Breakout Talent Award Winner!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2017

The Broken Frontier Breakout Talent Award is always the most fiercely contested category in BF’s annual list of accolades. As a site that actively champions new creative voices, of course, that…

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Cindy and Biscuit: The Bad Girl Parts 1 and 2 – Dan White’s Defiantly Fearless Yet Utterly Fragile Heroine is a Joy as Ever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 11, 2017

Some things bear repeating even if they’ve been said many times before. Dan White’s Cindy and Biscuit is the best all-ages comic series I have reviewed in five-plus years of…

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The Wormgler – David Frankum Asks His Audience to Take Their Own Truths from His Oddly Uplifting Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 6, 2017

If there was one word I overused in reviews in 2016 (and there were undoubtedly more than just the one but for my fragile ego’s sake let’s restrict it to…

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2017 – Spotlighting the Work of Peony Gent, Josh Hicks, Sabba Khan, Olivia Sullivan, Anja Uhren and Kate-mia White

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2017

Two years ago at Broken Frontier we announced our first set of ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ – half a dozen self-published comics and zine artists whose craft was…

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Celebrating 2016: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2017

Welcome to the fifth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’! This celebration of the self and micropublishing world has become something of a…

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Untitled Ape’s Epic Adventure – Years in the Making, Steven Tillotson’s Melancholy Fable is One of 2016’s Key Small Press Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 31, 2016

I will come back to this point towards the end of this review but for all its bizarre situations, colourful characters and surreal sequences of events there’s something very human…

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A Year in Reviews – Looking Back on Broken Frontier’s 2016 UK Small Press Coverage in ‘Small Pressganged’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 30, 2016

As we approach 2017 it seems only fitting to look back on the UK self-publishing world in 2016 through a ‘Small Pressganged’ lens. This was the year that this column…

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Fred the Clown: The Iron Duchess – Roger Langridge’s Homage to the Films of Buster Keaton is a Fast-Paced Slapstick Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 29, 2016

It’s been around a decade since we saw the last original Fred the Clown work from the always fertile imagination of Roger Langridge – comics that were collected by Fantagraphics…

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Grey Area: Our Town – Place, Time and Memories Converge in Tim Bird’s Latest Offering from Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 28, 2016

The intersection between place, time and memory has been an integral part of Tim Bird’s Grey Area series from Avery Hill Publishing over the last few years. In Grey Area:…

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Katzine: The Boat Issue – Katriona Chapman’s Quietly Life-Affirming Series Continues to Delight Its Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 27, 2016

When a small press publication is as consistently excellent as Katriona Chapman’s very personal and individual series Katzine it’s sometimes easy to focus attention elsewhere on books that aren’t getting…

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Boxes #1 – Todd Oliver Combines Breezily Brutal Body Horror and Dark Humour in this Collection of Bleak Comedy Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 26, 2016

Wildly imaginative and constantly surprising, Todd Oliver’s Boxes is strangely reminiscent of the elastic visuals of some of the greats of the British weekly comics traditions of yesteryear …but ramped…

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