With so much going on online at the moment it seemed a fitting moment to resurrect an old BF feature for the interim. The Broken Frontier Bulletin Board was a…
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A bit of fun today as we head towards the end of the year and the end of the decade (and yes, technically, I know that’s actually really a year…
It’s always a pleasure for us here at BF to be able to let you know about new projects from the artists we have followed through our annual ‘Six Small…
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…
Let’s start this week’s ‘A View from the Frontier’ with an unlikely confession… I have never been to Free Comic Book Day before. That’s perhaps not as odd a statement…
Welcome to the Broken Frontier Bulletin Board, a new semi-regular round-up of comics-related events, panels, exhibitions, shows and fairs designed to give our readers inspiration for extra-curricular activities of a…
Those of you who are long-time BF readers will probably just want to scroll down to the bottom of this piece. What follows, by way of explanation, is a little…
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…
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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…
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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If you’re reading this article then the chances are high that you’re already an advocate of the unique storytelling power of biographical comics – that powerful ability to so empathetically immerse…
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Fresh from her acclaimed short story contribution in the recently published Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook, Rebecca Bagley is making a name for herself again on the UK indie comics scene…
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…
100 pages. 18 creators. Boundless talent. Unless you boarded, bagged and packed yourself away in a longbox at the end of last year then you’ll be aware that the debut…
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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…
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Today, in the spirit of pushing some of those artists whose work really should have a greater fanbase, I am going to…
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Broken Frontier’s ‘Small Pressganged’ column – our regular spotlight on the worlds of small press, self-published and micropublished comics – will be two years old this weekend and, at the…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Rebecca Bagley is a name that will be familiar to long-term readers of ‘Small Pressganged’. She’s the creator behind the contemporary fable Tick, much championed in this column here and…
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
“All the Characters are Basically Me, in One Way or Another” — An Interview with Ned Wenlock on His Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel ‘Tsunami’ from Pow Pow PressApril 30, 2025
“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press SceneApril 24, 2025
“I Think it’s so Valuable to Have More Vulnerable Works Out There” – Cara Brown on Mental Health in Comics, Creative Process and Starting Her Artistic JourneyApril 23, 2025
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