10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Earlier this week we took a look at another of the recent releases from the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies range of fold-out…
As regular readers will be aware the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series gives creators from a vast range of disciplines an opportunity to present their practice to both established and…
Sometimes comics can bring us into the immediacy of a moment – or in this case a series of moments – with a profound eloquence. Judy Powell’s ‘Tea with Granny’…
One of the key features of the tactile fold-out format of the Colossive Cartographies series is the opportunities it gives to creators to consider alternative interpretations to the idea of…
‘Hayley’s Guide to Chemo’ is the latest and the fifty-fourth entry in the Colossive Press series Colossive Cartographies; zine-like, fold-out, graphic narratives. Fitting into the graphic medicine area of comics….
It has been a few years since we last reviewed comics work by Wallis Eates at Broken Frontier though, as can be seen by the list of tagged posts here,…
Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies have become such a well-regarded series of zines not simply because of the clever ways in which each creator uses the Turkish Map Fold format to…
It was another year of outstanding DIY culture output from micropublisher Colossive Press. One where comics became a more fixed part of their publishing plan with new material from A…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! One of the joys of our Thought Bubble coverage is not just in discovering new artists through review submissions but also in being able to point people…
SLCZF 2023! Just ready for the South London Comic and Zine Fair, Colossive Press have completed another wave of their popular Colossive Cartographies. This continuing zine series uses the tactile…
To borrow from Stan Lee every Colossive Cartographies review is somebody’s first so if you’re unaware of the format of what has become micropublisher Colossive Press’s signature series keep reading….
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Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines…
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It seems hardly possible that this is the tenth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ yearly round-up at Broken Frontier. Way back in 2012 I was…
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HCZF MONTH! A very special treat for those of you following our Hackney Comic + Zine Fair month of coverage as we talk with Jane and Tom Murphy of DIY…
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As mentioned the last time I looked at the Colossive Cartographies from Colossive Press, this tactile series of one-shot art objects took its inspiration from Colossive co-publisher Tom Murphy’s toying…
Towards the end of 2020 we looked at the Colossive Cartographies series of beautifully tactile zines, with contributions from some of the top creators in indie and small press comics….
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There wasn’t much to celebrate in 2020 but one thing we could take some joy in was that, despite everything, there was still plenty of amazing self-published comics work to…
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Given how many comics creators are on the team at Broken Frontier we have an unwritten rule on the site. While we may cover their work in terms of features…
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