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Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Throughout 2015 at Broken Frontier we’ve been holding monthly discussions on the current UK self-publishing scene in our regular ‘State of the Small Press Nation’ series of multi-creator discussions and…
Rozi Hathaway first came to prominence in 2014 as one of the artists involved in Ravi Thornton’s acclaimed graphic memoir HOAX Psychosis Blues, alongside the likes of Bryan Talbot, Karrie…
On the last occasion that I reviewed a solo project by UK small presser Elizabeth Querstret I described her as “a prolific graphic diarist with a larger than life personality both…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
In the unlikely event that you’re one of the uninitiated, Youth in Decline’s Frontier series provides a showcase for complete single issue stories from some of the most exciting voices in…
Sitting somewhere between a much darker and abstruse version of Viz and an underground comix homage, Paul Jon Milne’s Tight Larks: A Collection of Crucial Comics is an anthology compilation…
Coming to us via UK zine and minicomics micropublisher Black Lodge Press, Andrew Lips’s Transgender Step Parent is described as “a series of funny/serious comics on being a trans co-parent,…
A collaborative project from San Francisco-based micropublisher Youth in Decline and Price Tapes, Lovers Only #1 is a risographed romance comic spotlighting tales of teen love by creators Mickey Zacchilli,…
Lines from the poem ‘The Stolen Child’ by William Butler Yeats act as a preface to Jake Dudas’s To the Waters and the Wild, an unsettling supernatural tale from a…
“Welcome to the Hyperverse where space sorcerers hurl face-melting spells as they battle across nested realities.” I originally discovered William Cardini’s Vortex in self-published form via the now defunct but…
It’s not hyperbole to say that without In the Frame creator Tom Humberstone you may well have never seen ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier. It was Humberstone’s acclaimed Solipsistic Pop…
I think we’re all aware that the standard complaint aimed at anthology comics is the old chestnut of them being “hit and miss” in terms of content and relative quality. It’s a…
Two years ago, Donya Todd established her A4-sized anthology Bimba as a platform for “kick-ass female artists”. From the outset the book had a sense of vibrant, defiant energy to…
Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged
Straddling the worlds of comics and illustrated satire The Manly Boys and Comely Girls Annuals – Gareth Brookes and Steve Tillotson’s double pack of parody publications – have their origins in a previously…
The multiple award-winning Dungeon Fun series by Colin Bell and Neil Slorance reaches its thrilling fourth issue conclusion in July and we have a sneak peek at the book’s cover…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Tillie Walden‘s debut graphic novel hasn’t even been published yet and already she’s being touted as one of the most exciting new talents to have come into the medium for…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
After a burst of guest blogs of late we’re returning to our multi-creator discussions again today in our popular ‘State of the Small Press Nation’ series. Since the beginning of…
Commissioned by the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, Joe Decie’s There’s No Bath in this Bathroom debuted at Toronto Comic Art Festival a few weeks back when – in a…
We’re back in my ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’ territory today with a new/old offering from that small press force of nature Danny Noble, the creator…
“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
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
