AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! With their distinctive vision and publishing ethos Breakdown Press have become one of the most important new players on the UK publishing scene over the last…
It can barely have escaped the notice of even the most casual Broken Frontier reader that August saw significant coverage for UK publisher Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival on this site. Over…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! With less than 24 hours to go until the second staging of the Safari Festival, it’s time to go back to where we started with…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Breakdown Press have been steadily developing a deserved reputation for publishing comics with a distinctive vision and philosophy.” – Broken Frontier Mutiny Bay review It’s…
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Last year’s debut Safari Festival, curated by micropublisher Breakdown Press, was one of the most welcome developments on the UK events circuit of 2014. I described it as “a happy…
Published last year by Breakdown Press, Gardens of Glass – Lando’s retrospective collection of short story strips from the last few years of Decadence Comics – explores “ideas of human…
It was Latvian publisher kuš komiksi who first introduced me to the work of Mexican comics creator Inés Estrada, and the grotesque near-psychedelia of her Borrowed Tails minicomic (mini kuš…
In a beautifully produced edition from Breakdown Press, the first part of Generous Bosom, a major new work from rising star Conor Stechschulte, is a startling comic. Without a lot…
Over a Safari Festival weekend in which desirable comics treasures were in abundant supply, and attendees could be forgiven for lapsing into sequential art sensory overload, there were nonetheless a…
It’s almost 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, BF…
It was billed as “a celebration of the new wave of alternative and art comics from the UK and beyond” and last weekend’s Safari Festival in London’s Shoreditch most assuredly…
From a punter’s perspective one of the great rewards of the current burgeoning UK small press scene is that there’s plenty of room for both non-curated festivals that offer an…
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