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    Small Press Day 2020 Goes Online on Saturday, August 15th – Get Your Self-Published Comic a Broken Frontier One-Tweet Review Promo on the Day with the Hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • July 27, 2020

    As with just about every comics-related event in 2020 this year’s UK and Ireland Small Press Day has moved online with a day of events on August 15th taking part…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    Small Press Spotlight on… Sabba Khan

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 31, 2018

    Describing her work as examining “first world city life as a second generation Pakistani Muslim migrant” Sabba Khan is the last of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    Small Press Day 2016 – Looking Back on a Glorious Day Celebrating Self-Publishing, Micropublishing and DIY Culture in the UK and Ireland with the Small Press Day Team

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 12, 2016

    It was Small Press Day in the UK and Ireland last Saturday and across both countries shops, creators and readers spent the day celebrating an area of comics practice that…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Small Press Day 2016 – How Your Local Comic Shop Can Get Involved on July 9th

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 7, 2016

    Small Press Day is coming this July 9th and with a whole host of shops involved including Gosh! Comics, Orbital Comics, Travelling Man, Raygun Comics, Forbidden Planet Éire, Sub City…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    State of the Small Press Nation – A Perspective from a Maker/Organiser

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 7, 2015

    An account of challenges faced when hosting a small press fair from Alternative Presser Amneet Johal… Throughout 2015 at Broken Frontier we’ve been running a series of articles in this…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Alternative Press Takeover 2015 – Celebrate Radical Publishing, Small Press Comics and Zine-Making in London on Saturday May 9th

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 4, 2015

    Alternative Press have announced the line-up here of exhibitors for their second Takeover event at 47/49 Tanner Street on Saturday May 9th. Championing radical publishing from small press comickers to zinesters, it’s…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Small Press Round-Up, Mid-March 2015 – Alternative Press Takeover Applications Open, CECAF 2015 Coming in June, Yeti Press 2015 Publishing Schedule and More…

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 13, 2015

    The Alternative Press Takeover, CECAF 2015, Eleni Kalorkoti’s new exhibition, Katriona Chapman’s new zine, Yeti Press’s upcoming 2015 schedule and more feature in our latest round-up of what the great…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    State of the Small Press Nation – Is the Small Press Comics Audience Too Narrow and Self-Defined? How Do We Build a Wider Readership?

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 12, 2015

    Is the audience for small press comics too narrow and self-defined? Do we need more events like the Crouch End Comic Art Festival (CECAF), the Alternative Press Takeover, the East…

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    Small Press Round-Up, February 2015 – A Guide to UK Small Press-Related Exhibitions and Events Featuring Francesca Cassavetti, Jessica Martin, Alternative Press, Oliver East and More!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 13, 2015

    It’s exhibitions (and other events!) galore in February’s round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to, both within and without the world…

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    Alternative Press Announces October ‘Pop Up!’ Event in Greenwich – Exhibition, Small Press Comics, Zines, Workshops and More!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 2, 2014

    Earlier this year we previewed the Alternative Press Takeover here at Broken Frontier – a small press comics and zine fair that included a whole host of exhibitors familiar to…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    London: October 2013 to May 2014 – Peter Lally’s Comics Remind Us of the Power of Self-Publishing to Challenge Authority and Provoke Debate

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 29, 2014

    We are currently living in a Golden Age of comics self-publishing in the UK. Anybody active in any of those hubs of small press activity, in both our major cities…

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    Lizz Lunney, Isabel Greenberg, Simon Moreton and Gareth Brookes Among Creators at the Alternative Press Takeover on May 10th

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 7, 2014

    Alternative Press have announced the line-up here of exhibitors for the London Radical Bookfair & Alternative Press Takeover at the Bishopsgate Institute – the former home of the Comica Festival…

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