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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s almost a year to the day since I last covered Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl comics here at Broken Frontier. There’s no uncanny synchronicity involved in that…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
As Rachael Smith’s graphic novel and comics portfolio begins to build up into a significant body of work, a sense of growing narrative cohesion has also become apparent. One of…
There can be few experiences in comics quite as delightfully, deliciously and dizzyingly bizarre as a Donya Todd offering. From her self-published The Burger Boys to Death & the Girls…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
I have been particularly fortunate in the years that I have been writing ‘Small Pressganged’ here at Broken Frontier to be able to not just cover a number of astonishing new…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
With her debut graphic novel House Party released to great critical acclaim last year, and British Comic Awards recognition via a nomination in the Emerging Talent category, 2014 was a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Originally self-published as a six-part series, Owen D. Pomery’s Between the Billboards tells the story of James Ebner who voluntarily removes himself from society to live a solitary existence ensconced in…
Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged
Straddling the worlds of comics and illustrated satire The Manly Boys and Comely Girls Annuals – Gareth Brookes and Steve Tillotson’s double pack of parody publications – have their origins in a previously…
In terms of shared philosophy there’s a reason why micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing get the level of coverage they do at Broken Frontier. In the same way that ‘Small Pressganged’…
The transformation of Avery Hill Publishing from enthusiastic proponents of the DIY culture of self-publishing to one of the UK’s leading boutique publishers is, of course, no secret to anybody who…
One of the true pleasures – no, the ultimate pleasure – of writing a column with a primary mission statement to unearth the real gems of small press and self-published…
The great appeal of Alex Potts’s A Quiet Disaster is that on the one hand not very much actually occurs and yet, conversely, it’s in that same triviality of happenstance…
With its heady mix of music industry drama, time-travel fantasy and borderline psychogeographical undertones, the basic premise of Avery Hill’s Metroland defies easy genre definitions. At its core are two…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
“Quite simply, he is one of the most important and intelligent creative voices in current UK small press comics.” That soundbite, adorning the back cover of Simon Moreton’s Days –…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
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…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
