The longlist for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced today and there are, as ever, some great looking projects selected. We have some history with this great…
A few years ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed Score and Script, the John Miers-led exercise in practical comics scholarship. That publication saw a veritable who’s who of early 2010s…
CELEBRATING BCZF! Comics and community. It’s something we’ve spoken about a lot in this column in 2015 whether it be in terms of graphic memoirist Wallis Eates’s outreach work taking…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
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…
Alternative Press have announced the line-up here of exhibitors for the London Radical Bookfair & Alternative Press Takeover at the Bishopsgate Institute – the former home of the Comica Festival…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
If I were to say that Score and Script is an anthology title quite unlike any other I have reviewed in ‘Small Pressganged’ I would be making a claim that,…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
