BF Awards 2015 – Best One-Shot: Lost Property
Here at BF we’ve been following the career of our Broken Frontier Best One-Shot Award winner – Lost Property creator Andy Poyiadgi – from way back in those halcyon small press days when he…
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Lost Property – Andy Poyiadgi’s Debut Book from Nobrow Press is a Beautiful, Life-Affirming Parable
Lost Property is a beautifully paced piece of writing that examines one of the fundamental themes of the human condition – that need to find our own place in the…
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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…
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Lords of Infinity Exhibition at Orbital Comics Showcases the Work of ‘Small Pressganged’ Favourites Andy Poyiadgi, Cristian Ortiz and James Harvey
For indie comics fans this has been – as ever – an outstanding year for exhibitions in the gallery space at London’s Orbital Comics. Liz Prince, Shaky Kane, Satanic Mojo…
Webcomics Round-Up, April 2014 – Elliot Baggott, A J Poyiadgi, Richy K. Chandler and Elizabeth Querstret
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Here’s our monthly spotlight on accessible online work covering creators who have appeared in ‘Small Pressganged’ in the past at Broken…
Tiny Pencil #3: The Beast Issue – Monsters, Machines and Unnatural Things in the Latest Issue of the Pencil Art Anthology
The third edition of Tiny Pencil – the artzine promoting graphite-based goodness through a mix of illustration and comic strips – is subtitled The Beast Issue, and comes with a…
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Score and Script – John Miers and Company Explore the Mechanics of the Comics Page
If I were to say that Score and Script is an anthology title quite unlike any other I have reviewed in ‘Small Pressganged’ I would be making a claim that,…
Process #8: Poyiadgi at the Lakes, Fiorini on Risso, and Richy K. Chandler’s Watercolour Process
This month at Process we had Andy Poyiadgi talk about why and how his work was put in a tea room in Kendal, Lorenzo Fiorini shared some tips on comics…
Small Press Spotlight on… A J Poyiadgi
A J Poyiadgi is a creator with a deservedly growing profile on the U.K. small press scene. Coming to prominence when his comic Teapot Therapy was shortlisted for the Observer/Jonathan…
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Wu Wei: A Spiritual Comics Anthology
The stated aim of Wu Wei is to provide “an anthology that gives writers and artists a space to creatively explore spirituality through the medium of comics.” If you’re wondering…
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Small Press Spotlight on… Mike Medaglia and Wu Wei
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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