Another of our new 2016 intake of the Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, Kim Clements will be tabling at the DIY Cultures Fair at London’s Rich Mix…
It’s an intensely busy few days of comics events over the upcoming UK holiday weekend with at least five comics-related shows and fairs taking place across the country. Brigid Deacon, one…
It’s been a long while since our last roving round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene have been up to, both within and outside…
Last year in this column I reviewed the first issue of Lindsay Draws’ zine The Man Called Uncle Tim; a self-published offering that is not so much a comic as…
Billing itself as embracing “the spirit of independence, autonomy, and alternatives”, 2015’s DIY Cultures fair takes place at London’s Rich Mix on Bethnal Green Road this Sunday 24th May. While comics…
Fairs, submissions and Kickstarters feature in our latest 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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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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