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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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Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2013

Collecting the first forty strips of creator Richy K. Chandler’s popular webcomic series, Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses takes us to an undersea realm both vibrantly fantastical,…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Mike Medaglia and Wu Wei

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2013

Mike Medaglia’s Wu Wei – a spiritual comics anthology with an emphasis on eastern philosophy – looks set to be one of the highlights of the U.K. small press publishing…

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The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel 2013

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2013

Science fiction anthology book The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel is a collection of one-shot tales overseen by the same editorial eye that brought us last year’s rather witty Doctor…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Wrong Songs

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2013

Dan Cox’s Wrong Songs is a collection of inventively bizarre takes on children’s nursery rhymes from the same gent who co-created the madcap music industry book Hitsville UK (shortly to…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Katriona Chapman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2013

Katriona Chapman can count comics as just one part of a varied career in the world of illustration. Co-editor of the recently launched anthology artszine Tiny Pencil, Katriona’s self-published work…

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The Deep Needs Train

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2013

Winner of the 2011 Manga Jiwan competition, Elena Vitagliano’s The Deep Needs Train is a succinct yet highly expressive piece of fantasy storytelling. It centres on a mysterious steam train…

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The Orphans Who Had Parents

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 27, 2013

Lisa Grant’s The Orphans Who Had Parents examines a social issue that you may well be unfamiliar with: the exploitation of children in Cambodia by institutions that purport to be…

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Reads #3

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 23, 2013

Avery Hill Publishing’s Reads is an anthology that is steadfastly unashamed of its old school, grassroots small press approach. As diverse a collection – in terms of both genres and…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Jade Sarson

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 20, 2013

Jade Sarson’s online Cafe Suada series is the epitome of feelgood comics. To great comic effect it depicts the ongoing feud between Geraldine, manager of the Piyo Piyo teahouse and…

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Tiny Pencil #1: Into the Woods We Go

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2013

Founded and co-edited by Amber Hsu and Katriona Chapman, Tiny Pencil is the latest anthology publication to burst onto the British small press scene. As its name suggests, the raison…

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The Green Bean Volume 4, Issue 1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 14, 2013

Katie Green’s The Green Bean is something of a phenomenon. Perhaps the best way to describe it would be to call it an “illustrated journal zine” but that feels a…

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The Storytellers and California

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2013

Rob Jackson is a small press comics creator who could never be accused of falling into a genre-specific rut. The Storytellers and California for example – the two projects I’m…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Owen D. Pomery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 10, 2013

Owen D. Pomery’s Between the Billboards is a remarkable debut comic with a stark and misanthropic central premise. It tells the tale of James Ebner, a recluse who has voluntarily…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Alys Jones and Beyond the Wire

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2013

“Writer/artist Alys Jones’s graphic novelette is a multi-layered foray into the horror of the trenches of the First World War that constantly plays and tinkers with the readership’s perception of…

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Grey Area #1: While the City Sleeps – Tim Bird Uses Architecture and Environment to Reflect Nocturnal Mood and Emotion

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2013

Published by Avery Hill, whose anthology Reads! I reviewed here on ‘Small Pressganged’ last year, Tim Bird’s Grey Area #1 is a sequential art tour of London’s streets, thoroughfares and hidden corners at night. Three…

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Celebrating 2012: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 20, 2012

Small Pressganged is Broken Frontier’s weekly column designed to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked world of small press, self-published and altcomics. Every week we provide a mix of…

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Reads #1-2 – Avery Hill Publishing’s Anthology is an Unpredictable Melting Pot of Creative Techniques and Subject Matter

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2012

Reads, the anthology title published by Avery Hill, has something of an old school small press feel to it – in the two issues currently available there’s a real sense…

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