“I like the idea of creating comics for people who might not otherwise read them. People who enjoy watching classic British TV soaps, for example.” That’s how Paul B. Rainey…
Many people who have been around the UK small press scene for decades rather than years have a version of the same anecdote; of how when they first discovered small…
It’s always difficult to predict what Paul B. Rainey will decide to work upon next. His history in comics is so varied and intriguing that it sometimes feels as if…
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Paul B. Rainey is indisputably one of the true veterans of the UK small press comics scene with a prominent presence on the circuit for decades rather than years. His…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, February 3rd with guest artists Paul B. Rainey and Sam…
When David Bowie took his final bow (with typical panache) in 2016, cultural luminaries queued up to testify to the liberating and even life-changing inspiration he had provided. And one…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONE-SHOT NOMINEE! SelfMadeHero‘s 10th anniversary year in 2017 was packed full of high-profile releases that underlined the UK publisher’s always eclectic and dizzyingly diverse line-up….
What if your favourite soap operas were real? That was the premise of Paul B. Rainey’s Thunder Brother: Soap Division series which originally ran for six issues until 2014. Rainey…
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 or digital storefront, the…
In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…
From the very outset, with its fond and droll wordplay on the melodramatic mainstream mystery mags of the 1950s and ‘60s, Paul B. Rainey’s Tales to Diminish signals its intent…
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 or digital storefront, the…
The recent publication of Paul B. Rainey’s sprawling time-travel epic There’s No Time Like the Present by Escape Books gives much deserved recognition to one of the true mainstays of…
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! While the remit of this column is to specifically focus on self and micropublished comics there are times when it’s wholly appropriate to bend the rules a…
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! What if the fictional soap opera worlds that are beamed into our homes several times a week were anything but? What would happen if, instead, they…
Cartoonists for Gaza Part 4 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Rufus Dayglo, Peter Kuper, Zara Slattery, Oscar Zárate and Corinne HalbertAugust 29, 2025
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BFAugust 27, 2025
Cartoonists for Gaza Part 3 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from John Sadler, MariNaomi, Paul Peart-Smith, Tony Thorne and Myfanwy TristramAugust 27, 2025
Cartoonists for Gaza Part 2 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Krent Able, Charlie Adlard, Danny Noble, Fumio Obata and Corinne PearlmanAugust 26, 2025
Cartoonists for Gaza Part 1 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl CunninghamAugust 23, 2025
