You may have missed it on Twitter this week but the TGC collective of Scottish women artists responsible for the long-running anthology Team Girl Comic (more recently re-branded as That…
“I’m incredibly honoured to be part of the exhibition and especially glad to have some of my conservation-themed work display. I hope Inking Women will showcase the rich diversity of women’s…
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…
Exploring our relationship with the natural world is a regular staple of Gill Hatcher’s comics and zine work. Hatcher, of course, is the founder of the acclaimed Scottish creative collective…
Is the easier availability of high quality printing options for self-publishing having a negative knock-on effect for small press comics work presented in a traditional zine or DIY culture format?…
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Is the rapidly expanding number of UK comics-related shows, fairs and festivals to exhibit at an advantage? Or is this level of growth actually stretching small press creators and their…
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As has become something of a tradition for the first ‘Small Pressganged’ of the New Year it’s time once again to look back on the self and micropublished material featured in this…
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For those of us involved in the world of independent British comics – whether directly as creators and publishers or more tangentially as commentators and observers – it’s easy to…
With the vote on Scottish independence this September getting ever closer, a new online project to provide a platform for politically focused comics created in Scotland has made a call…
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Ten issues is a phenomenal achievement for a small press anthology comic. In the near three years I’ve been writing ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier I’ve seen anthologies come, I’ve…
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Gill Hatcher’s role in the Team Girl Comic anthology, and the comics community that has evolved from that collective, have been covered here at Broken Frontier a number of times…
The nominations for the fourth Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance (SICBA) Awards have been released this week, celebrating excellent work from some fine creators north of the border. Public voting for…
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Yesterday at Broken Frontier we published the first instalment of a two-part interview with Ricky Miller and Dave White, the team behind Brit micropublishers Avery Hill Publishing. In day two…
A positive thinking and well-grounded small publishing collaborative of artists with no shortage of imagination. Team Girl Comic’s fun-loving casual collaborative ethos lends itself well to the anthology nature of…
The all-women collective behind small press anthology Team Girl Comic unveiled their eighth issue this summer with a carnival-themed launch party at Glasgow’s Plan B Books. I mention this not…
With seven issues published since the group was founded in 2009, the Scottish all-woman collective behind anthology Team Girl Comic have become an established presence on the U.K. small press…
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