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The Small Press Day 2019 Scrapbook – Looking Back on the Biggest and Best SPD to Date!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2019

With 31 registered events over 33 venues, Small Press Day 2019 was our biggest and best annual celebration of all things self and micropublished in comics to date! A huge…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Inbetween Life – Angela Pan Provides a Beautiful Introspection on Travel and Friendship

  • by Holly Raidl
  • July 12, 2019

Documenting her visit to London, Angela Pan’s new comic exudes serenity through textured colouring and its portrayal of memories. The narrative follows her trip in 2017 during which she attended…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Small Press Day 2019 is this Saturday July 13th – Stores and Event Organisers on What You Can Expect from the Fourth Annual Celebration of Self and Micropublished Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2019

After months of build-up, Small Press Day is back this Saturday July 13th in venues across the UK and Ireland as shops, activists and organisers come together to celebrate all…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for July 10, 2019 – Second Coming, Alay-Oop, X-Statix, Reaver and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 10, 2019

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Invasion 1984! – Extraterrestrial Terror Invades the Pages of War Comic ‘Battle’ in Another Classic Collection from the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2019

Seeming rather incongruous in the pages of Battle in the mid-1980s, Invasion 1984! was a perhaps a somewhat unlikely science fiction offering from the long-running weekly war comic anthology. It…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Space Bandits #1 – A Wild Ride of Revenge-Fuelled Space Opera from Mark Millar, Matteo Scalera and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2019

Cody Blue and Thena Khole. Two of the most notorious criminals in the universe, each with their own distinctive modus operandi and long list of criminal activities. Cody is a…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Shout Out – Queer YA Comics Anthology Tells the Stories Its Creators Would Have Loved to Read Growing Up

  • by Holly Raidl
  • July 5, 2019

Shout Out is an anthology edited by Andrew Wheeler (assistant editors Joamette Gil and BC Holmes) from TO Comix Press which contains eighteen shorts spanning numerous genres, made by creators…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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The Legend of the Wizards of Little Humdrum – Dom McKenzie’s Irreverent Fantasy Will Be a Hit with Younger and Older Readers Alike

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2019

Sitting between illustrated children’s storytelling and pure comics, The Legend of the Wizards of Little Humdrum purports to be a tale discovered by artist Dom McKenzie (whose Tales of the…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for July 3, 2019 – Skip, kuš! comics, Sea of Stars, The Walking Dead, Silver Surfer: Parable and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 3, 2019

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Class of 1922 – This Study of Tragedy and the Passage of Time is Prime Douglas Noble at His Disconcerting Best

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2019

With a Douglas Noble comic what goes unsaid – or equally what is left to our imaginations – is often as important as what is articulated on the page. Noble’s…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Marilyn Manor #1 – Defiantly Ostentatious Oddness and ’80s Nostalgia in Visaggio and Zarcone’s IDW Blast from an Alternative Past

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2019

First issues are all about the set-up; about hooking the reader, investing them in the protagonist and cast, and establishing the thematic core of the narrative as quickly as possible…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Seven Stories #3 – Third Issue of O Panda Gordo’s Anthology Series Features Glasgow-Based Artists Including João Sobral, Jules Scheele, Suds McKenna and Jessica Taylor

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2019

We’re playing catch-up a little at the moment with anthology series Seven Stories – artist João Sobral’s pet project through his O Panda Gordo micropress – given that two issues…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Desolation Wilderness – Claire Scully Asks Questions on How the Echoes of Remembrance Shape Our Perceptions in a Unique Graphic Travelogue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2019

Approaching that well-worn term “psychogeography” from an alternative perspective, Claire Scully’s Desolation Wilderness from Avery Hill Publishing is a follow-up to her 2016 offering Internal Wilderness. Scully’s silent landscape comics…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for June 26, 2019 – Lettuce Bee, Marble Cake, Tammy & Jinty Special 2019, Marilyn Manor and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 26, 2019

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Celebrating Four Years of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 25, 2019

It seems hard to believe that it’s a whole four years ago to the very day that the first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw debuted at the…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“We’ve Created the Special with Two Audiences in Mind” – Lizzie Boyle on Rebellion’s Latest Revival One-Shot, the ‘Tammy & Jinty Special 2019’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 24, 2019

Rebellion continue to bring classic comics characters of yesteryear to new audiences not just via their handsomely presented Treasury of British Comics editions but also through their semi-regular Specials like…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“If You Cannot See Yourself in the World Around You, then How Do You Know You Truly Exist?” – Andrew Kiwanuka on Celebrating Black Culture in His Zine ‘We Exist!’

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • June 21, 2019

Edinburgh-based Andrew Kiwanuka is a multi-disciplinary creative, who applies his DIY ethos and yearning for greater cultural diversity in the UK to creating a number of thought-provoking, mixed media projects….

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Penny Nichols – Reed, Means and Wiegle’s Top Shelf Graphic Novel Brings Us Together to Laugh in the Face of Horrors Both Real and Imagined

  • by Robin Enrico
  • June 20, 2019

There can be such a joy in making a thing that what you are creating becomes secondary to the act of making it. In the case of Penny Nichols by…

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