Happy Holidays from the Broken Frontier Team!
The festive season is upon us and the BF team will be taking some time off for a well deserved rest as we prepare for a very eventful beginning to…
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Tiny Pencil: The Cosmic Issue – TP Goes Astral as Gareth Brookes, Alexis Deacon, Kim Clements and Jun Cen Contribute to a Graphite Sci-Fi Extravaganza
ELCAF WEEK! While the latest issue of graphite arts anthology Tiny Pencil was a long time in coming, this fifth edition – a sci-fi spectacular with many of the darker overtones…
A View from the Frontier – First Cover Reveal for the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2017 and Interior Preview Pages
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…
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Celebrating 2016: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
Welcome to the fifth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’! This celebration of the self and micropublishing world has become something of a…
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A Year in Reviews – Looking Back on Broken Frontier’s 2016 UK Small Press Coverage in ‘Small Pressganged’
As we approach 2017 it seems only fitting to look back on the UK self-publishing world in 2016 through a ‘Small Pressganged’ lens. This was the year that this column…
Happy Holidays to All Our Readers from the Broken Frontier Team!
As Christmas beckons the Broken Frontier team will be taking a few days of well-deserved time off to recharge our batteries before we come into the New Year. There’s lots…
Dreaming of a Small Press Christmas! – Festive Comic Art from Kim Clements, Ellice Weaver, Rozi Hathaway, Danny Noble and More!
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…
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Celebrating 5 Years of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier – Creators and Publishers Pick Their Inspirational Artists!
Can it really be five years ago today that we launched ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier with a stated mission to “unearth the gems of the small press” and a promise…
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Small Press Spotlight on… ‘Tiny Pencil’ with Amber Hsu
Artzine Tiny Pencil debuted back in 2013 as a showcase anthology celebrating all things graphite. A handsomely packaged publication it combines illustration and comics and, to date, has included work from…
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Celebrating Small Press Day 2016 – Ten Top UK Autobio Comics for Your Consideration!
SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! Saturday July 9th sees the first Small Press Day in the UK and Ireland – an event that seeks to spotlight the exciting new voices…
I Told You it Was Summer – Kim Clements Combines Delightful Whimsy and Harsh Reality in a Poignant Minicomic Offering
Sometimes the seemingly smallest moments in comics can be the ones that resonate with us the most. I Told You it Was Summer – the latest self-published offering from artist…
Exclusive Preview: I Told You it Was Summer – Kim Clements’ Minicomic Tale of Childhood Friendship Debuts at DIY Cultures
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…
Broken Frontier Launch at London’s Gosh! Comics – BF Anthology and Small Press Yearbook Creators Get Their Moment in the Spotlight
Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…
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Small Press Spotlight on… Kim Clements
One of the new 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’, Kim Clements came to prominence last year with her autobio comic Rabbit Thoughts, a beautifully poignant piece…
Dirty Rotten Comics #6 – Two Generations of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch’ Creators Converge in the Latest DRC Anthology
There are points when you can’t help but repeat yourself when you cover the same comics projects multiple times in a year. But sometimes those same recycled sentiments simply cannot be…
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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2016 – Spotlighting the Work of Rebecca Bagley, Kim Clements, Brigid Deacon, Emily Rose Lambert, Jey Levang and Ellice Weaver
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…
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Celebrating 2015: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
We’re a little later than usual this year with my annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up; a yearly feature celebrating the diversity and rude health of the…
Broken Frontier Awards 2015: Announcing the Winners from Our Most Diverse Year of Nominations to Date
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 12th annual BF Awards. Our 2015 awards saw a record-breaking number of votes come in from our readers, and unprecedented interest in…
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