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BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST PUBLISHER! There’s been an almost parallel evolution between acclaimed UK indie publisher Avery Hill Publishing and Broken Frontier over the last several years. Back in…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Hot on the heels of this week’s Broken Frontier Awards announcements comes our sixth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’. Despite this edition…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 14th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. I’m not sure if you can really do…
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 14th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our staff have selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
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SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! In January of last year we told you all that Ellice Weaver was an artist to keep the closest of eyes on and we weren’t wrong!…
CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE BROKEN FRONTIER SMALL PRESS YEARBOOK! It’s Small Press Day this coming Saturday July 8th so what better occasion to mark the publication of our second…
ELCAF WEEK! Because there were just so many ELCAF debuts that they would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks we decided to cover just the tiniest handful of…
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ELCAF WEEK! One of the most eagerly awaited debuts of 2017, Something City – Ellice Weaver’s first graphic novel – is innovative, distinctive and the product of an artist with a singular…
I can be short and sweet in this week’s ‘A View from the Frontier’ because the visual eloquence of what is to come below will speak to you all on…
Christmas is coming! And with the end-of-year celebrations imminent I asked some of the small press artists we’ve featured in this column in the last year or two to share…
As the year draws to a close, and we enter the lull period between the UK Autumn festival extravaganza and the next flurry of events in the Spring, it’s time…
Sometimes here in ‘Small Pressganged’ it’s as valuable an exercise to look forwards at promising new material as it develops as it is to analyse completed work. Those who read…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Ellice Weaver’s beautifully constructed short narratives make stunning yet delicately crafted use of colour to evoke mood and enhance atmosphere. Her work has a genuinely distinctive visual identity while her subject matter has…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Formed in 2012, free street press comics anthology Off Life looked to connect comics with an audience of readers unfamiliar with the potential of the form, and to also give…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
While we’re celebrating the announcement of the first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook (featuring the work of our ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’) it’s also time…
CELEBRATING BCZF! If you picked up the latest issue of free street press anthology Off Life then you will be no stranger to the distinctively hued work of Ellice Weaver. Should…
