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PRIDE MONTH 2026! One of the hardest things to capture, in prose or visual art, is that heady feeling of falling in love with someone. This isn’t simply because that…
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PRIDE MONTH 2026! If there’s one thing that seems even more important than celebrating queer voices during our Pride Month coverage at BF it’s celebrating new queer voices (to us…
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Edward Bolman has been self-publishing his own unique brand of droll nonsense since the Seventies. Aside from Tim Corrigan’s C&T Graphics publishing Bolman’s three issue solo series, The Bathing Machine,…
The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East Vol. 1 features 14-year-old Riad, an aspiring artist and a self-proclaimed loser, whose seemingly ordinary life…
1962. An atomic bomb test is taking place in Nevada. The general in charge has commanded that the site of the explosion should be shifted, so that all the troops…
One of the greatest joys in considering self-published comics work in print is the opportunities it affords for unfiltered experimentation with the form’s possibilities. To see something like Bhavani Bala’s…
Picture the scene: a small costal town at the end of the world. Not much happens here. In fact, it’s pretty mundane. Which is why residents look forward to the…
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Another worthy example of New York Review Comics’ vital role as an indie/alt/small press archival publisher Brad Neely’s Creased Comics compiles his offbeat gag cartoons, originally published between 1995 and…
The First Graphic Novel Award (formerly Competition) is one of those UK comics institutions that the scene would be all the poorer without. It provides the winner with a rare…
The worlds of 2000 AD as a shared universe have never been as intertwined in the same way as their American counterparts. There were obvious links between some strips in…
There are multiple directions from where you may have become familiar with the contributions of cartoonist David Ziggy Greene. Perhaps it was from his groundbreaking graphic reportage series Scene &…
There are some pages in this powerful tale that are hard to explain because they don’t appear to fit in with the larger narrative. There are images of feet, and…
Lee Daye, the protagonist of South Korean artist Choi Sungmin’s Narrow Rooms, is a young woman preparing for her annual art exam. Far from home and alone in the big…
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
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