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Exclusive Preview: I Told You it Was Summer – Kim Clements’ Minicomic Tale of Childhood Friendship Debuts at DIY Cultures

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 27, 2016

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…

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Exclusive Preview: ‘Room’ and ‘read.me burn later’ – Two New Zines from Brigid Deacon Debut at BIF and DIY Cultures this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 26, 2016

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…

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Small Press Round-Up, May 2016 – Broken Frontier at Comiket, DIY Cultures Fair, Rozi Hathaway’s Njálla Launch and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2016

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…

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The Man Called Uncle Tim #2 – Lindsay Draws Returns to Her Saga of Quaker History and Family Relationships

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 23, 2015

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…

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DIY Cultures 2015 – Celebrate Grassroots Publishing at London’s Rich Mix this Sunday 24th May

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2015

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…

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Small Press Round-Up, Early April 2015 – DIY Cultures 2015, Nerd Hutch Small Press Expo, ‘Off Life’ Submissions Open, and ‘The List’ Announces Kickstarter

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 3, 2015

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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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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