Flood – Environmental Disaster Strikes in Chris Kent’s Ambitious Graphic Narrative
Chris Kent is a creator who refuses to be tied down to just one medium. His comics practice is informed by his work in a number of other disciplines from…
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The Dead Moon: A British Folktale – The Stunningly Rendered Storybook Visuals of Emma Raby
Emma Raby is an illustrator I have been wanting to cover in more depth in this column for a long, long time. It was in the pages of the debut…
Small Press Round-Up, January 2015 – Simon Moreton’s ‘Smoo’ Returns, 2D Cloud’s 2015 Plans, Sequential City Exhibition, Rozi Hathaway’s Self-Publishing Journey & More
Simon Moreton, 2D Cloud, Rozi Hathaway, Impossible Books and more feature in January’s round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to, both…
Baggywrinkles #1-5 – Lucy Bellwood’s Enthusiasm for the World of Tall Ships is Infectious in these Maritime-Themed Minicomics
I would like to pretend that I discovered Lucy Bellwood’s Baggywrinkles series at the UK’s Thought Bubble festival last November but the truth is that – despite being told by several…
Dirty Rotten Comics #3 – Eclectic Anthology Title Champions First Time Creators and Established Small Press Names Alike
It’s no great secret that in this age of more affordable quality printing and crowdfunding initiatives that self-publishing has become an increasingly viable model for producing and distributing comics work….
Scout #1 – Patt Kelley’s Idiosyncratic Imagination Bursts onto the Pages of this Eerie Burton-esque Mystery
The last time I reviewed a Patt Kelley comic at Broken Frontier I was entranced by a distinctive mix of the everyday and the utterly bizarre within its pages. On…
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Dimension Parts I and II – Alice Urbino’s Fantasy/Graphic Medicine Hybrid is the Work of an Exciting New Talent in the Making
Back in November I alerted ‘Small Pressganged’ readers to artist Alice Urbino here, suggesting you check out her online work for its intriguing short form use of the medium to…
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Preview: Lost Property – Andy Poyiadgi’s Unmissable Debut Book Coming Soon from Nobrow Press
Writing a column with a stated mission of “unearthing the gems of the small press” for a few years here at Broken Frontier means I have had the pleasure of…
Long Divisions #1 – Paddy Johnston Presents a Slice-of-Lifer with a Fantastical Twist
It’s hard not to hum along with the thoughts of Rex Harrison’s Doctor Dolittle when reading Paddy Johnston’s Long Divisions. “Think of the amazing repartee/If I could walk with the…
Street Dawgz – Lizz Lunney Returns to the Minicomics Format with More of Her Trademark Absurdist Wit
It’s been a surprisingly long time since I last covered a solo Lizz Lunney comic in this column. Of course her work has hardly been totally forgotten here at Broken…
Fungus: The Unbearable Rot of Being – Mycological Musings on Modern Living from James Kochalka, Retrofit and Big Planet Comics
James Kochalka’s American Elf was not just one of the finest diary comics we have ever had the privilege of consuming but also an acutely observed piece of social commentary…
Sindicalismo 89 – A Tale of Sprawling Urban Chaos from Mexican Creator Inés Estrada and Breakdown Press
It was Latvian publisher kuš komiksi who first introduced me to the work of Mexican comics creator Inés Estrada, and the grotesque near-psychedelia of her Borrowed Tails minicomic (mini kuš…
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The Red Road – A Spiritual Quest of Self-Discovery Marks Rozi Hathaway’s Outstanding Solo Comics Debut
Rozi Hathaway’s work originally came to my notice last year in the Broken Frontier Award-nominated graphic novel HOAX Psychosis Blues. Hathaway was one of ten creators – including names like…
F*ck You! Kitty Jenkins – Backwards Burd Take Us on an Eccentric Spiritual Romp in Their First Long-Form Book
Backwards Burd have been establishing themselves as a small press collective with a noticeably irreverent and off-the-wall approach to comics for a while now. Last summer I reviewed Petty Beach…
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Cringe: An Anthology of Embarrassment – Twenty-Plus Tales of Mortification, Humiliation and Shame from Birdcage Bottom Books
Over twenty tales of public humiliation from creators across the indie comics scene make up Birdcage Bottom’s Cringe: An Anthology of Embarrassment, a collection of shorts detailing those best forgotten…
Bang! Crash! Whizz! – A Delightful Tale of Reluctant Bedtimes for a Younger Audience from Richy K. Chandler and Sally-Anne Hickman
With a foot in both the worlds of comics and traditional children’s storybooks, Richy K. Chandler and Sally-Anne Hickman’s Bang! Crash! Whizz! is a delightful piece of storytelling designed primarily…
Coma Deep – The Mesmerisingly Oblique Storytelling of Brigid Deacon
Brigid Deacon’s work has cropped up in a number of anthologies lately – from Eyeball Comix to the second issue of Donya Todd’s Bimba – and has immediately grabbed my…
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Snackies – Youth in Decline Collects the Bitingly Witty Minicomics of Nick Sumida
Snackies is a compilation of the previously self-published minicomics work of cartoonist Nick Sumida – alongside some new material – collected by San Francisco-based micropublisher Youth in Decline. Sumida’s comics…
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