Your must-read on Broken Frontier.
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If you’re reading this article then the chances are high that you’re already an advocate of the unique storytelling power of biographical comics – that powerful ability to so empathetically immerse…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
An exotic, richly detailed setting and universal themes draw the reader into Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña’s gritty high-fantasy epic. All the best comics, regardless of genre, essentially serve as…
He may be one of the most genial gents in comics that you could meet in the flesh but the artist known to the public as Krent Able (aka…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Arguably the most anticipated release of the year, Snyder and Lemire’s first collaboration as writer and artist more than lives up to the hype. An instant classic of science-fiction, transcending…
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There are a number of small press serial comics that probably never quite get as much attention as they deserve in this column. The reason for that is a very…
A harrowing spy thriller that pits the “wickedest man in the world” against Adolf Hitler’s Nazi occultists, Aleister & Adolf is a thoroughly well-researched, beautifully illustrated journey through the secret…
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Can we really be at Dirty Rotten Comics #8 already? (And with a ninth issue imminent!). When this much respected anthology – in its present incarnation – burst onto the…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
‘State of the Small Press Nation’ was the umbrella title for Broken Frontier’s ground-breaking series of reports last year on the UK’s rapidly expanding self-publishing world and the challenges it faced…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Back in the mists of time – in the very infancy of ‘Small Pressganged’ in fact – Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi’s eerie Built of Blood and Bricks was one…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
There’s something almost gleefully cathartic about reading autobio comics work that centres on other people bemoaning the tribulations of their day-to-day employment. Whether those accounts focus on a particular position,…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
You would think – given that she was one of our inaugural Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ – that Rozi Hathaway would have made life easier for…
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Anja Uhren’s What is ‘Home’? invites us to consider how we characterise a concept that on one level embodies the most comfortable familiarity and yet on another proves to be nebulous…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Crank the volume to 11! Alex de Campi fronts a new super-group of comics talent, in this immersive, balls-to-the-walls rock opera of a spy thriller. It’s important to note when…
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“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
