Celebrating 2023 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! While we quietly retired the ‘Small Pressganged’ branding early in 2022 one of that former regular feature’s most popular pieces was always…
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mini kuš! #115: Gym Gains – Gareth Brookes Brings Competitive Romance and Athletic Prowess Together in Another Darkly Knowing Comics Short
kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series of short, self-contained comics narratives are always a strong signifier of how far we can still use comics innovatively as an experimental storytelling platform. To…
Times Tables – A Dark Urban Slice-of-Life Story from the Ever Experimental Gareth Brookes
SLCZF 2023! It would be remiss, to say the least, not to include a review of the work of the South London Comic and Zine Fair’s founder as part of…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged
Ashes – Gareth Brookes Asks Us to Wallow in a Mire of Nihilism in Another Essential Experimental Comics Offering
One of the most fascinating aspects of comics as a medium is the way in which that very special form of interaction between reader and page can lend itself to…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Colossive Cartographies #22-32 – The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press
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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Home – Gareth Brookes Takes Us on a Psychogeographical Journey with a Lurking Morbidity
Psychogeographical comics work looks to explore the intersections between place, time and memory. It can look at how we shape our environments and, in turn, how our environments shape us….
Burning Soaking Piercing Dancing – New Exhibition of the Work of Graphic Novelist Gareth Brookes to Run at 155a Gallery in November
Broken Frontier Award-winning artist Gareth Brookes has produced a body of work over the last decade that has been consistently innovative and experimental. From The Black Project through to The…
HCZF Round-Up – Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!
HCZF MONTH! As Hackney Comic + Zine Fair comes to a close we thought we’d wind up our HCZF Month of coverage with a round-up of some of the books…
Inside Look: The Dancing Plague – Gareth Brookes on the Pyrographical and Embroidered Process Behind His SelfMadeHero Graphic Novel
Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…
The Dancing Plague – One of History’s Most Mysterious Unexplained Events Revisited in Graphic Novel Form by Gareth Brookes and SelfMadeHero
New comics work from Gareth Brookes – whether it be experimental zines and minicomics or full-length graphic novel – is always to be eagerly anticipated such is his dedication to…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, June 17th with Guest Artists James Albon, Gareth Brookes and Joshua Knowles
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, June 17th for with guest artists James Albon, Gareth…
SelfMadeHero Announce 2021 Spring Line-Up – Includes Work from Gareth Brookes, Reinhard Kleist, Fermín Solís and Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Cat Sims
SelfMadeHero have announced their 2021 Spring line-up of books which includes I Feel Love, an anthology featuring work from our 2018 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Cat Sims (XENOS,…
Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged
Threadbare – Embroidery, Eroticism and the Fetishisation of Technology Converge in the Latest Experimental Comic from the Pioneering Gareth Brookes
HCZF FORTNIGHT! Two and a half years ago, Gareth Brookes contributed a story to the ‘BFFs’-themed issue of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ digest-sized š! anthology. It was one of the…
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Celebrating 2018: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
Since 2012 we’ve been running these annual, end-of-year round-ups of ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!‘ as a coda to that year’s ‘Small Pressganged’ coverage at Broken…
New Exhibition of the Art of Gareth Brookes to Be Held at 155a Artists Space in November – Includes Work from ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’ and His New Project ‘Threadbare’
News of a new Gareth Brookes exhibition of embroideries, prints and drawings at London’s 155a Artists Space will no doubt be of huge interest to regular Broken Frontier readers given…
A Guide to the South London Comic and Zine Fair Communal Table – Broken Frontier Are Here to Champion Your Work at SLCZF 2018!
No sooner is this year’s ELCAF behind us than we’re looking at the next events on the UK indie comics calendar. The second South London Comic and Zine Fair opens…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Thursday May 31st with Guest Artists David Jesus Vignolli, Gareth Brookes and Andrew Rae
Our fifth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is this week! And, as you have come to expect by now, we have a fabulous line-up of guest artists with us…
Staff Picks for May 9, 2018 – Afterwords, Barrier, My Boyfriend is a Bear, Beasts of Burden and More!
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
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“Being an Ally Boils Down to Speaking Up When You See Wrongs” – C.K. Carpenter Talks About the Aims and Ethos of the Upcoming ‘unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability and Neurodivergence Comic Anthology’September 17, 2024
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“I Feel I Do My Best Work When I’m Trying to Channel a Message” – Mike Armstrong Talks Fantasy Cartooning, Comics Community, and Tackling Social Injustice in StorytellingAugust 21, 2024