A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “This was the Nineties. Music wasn’t considered free and we played our purchases until they worked for us.” Around a year ago I covered Babak Ganjei’s…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “It’s not often I get the opportunity to describe a creator as a true original but in Donya Todd’s case it would be criminal not to…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Now I’m as keen as anyone to get comics to a wider readership, but while it’s great to see the form, ahem, representin’ in fancy bookshops…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Breakdown Press have been steadily developing a deserved reputation for publishing comics with a distinctive vision and philosophy.” – Broken Frontier Mutiny Bay review It’s…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! In terms of sheer unbridled escapism, there are few creators on the UK small press scene who offer such an unrelenting sense of fun as Jack…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “Quite simply, Simon Moreton is one of the most important and intelligent creative voices in current UK small press comics” – ‘Celebrating 2013: Ten UK Small…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! A mix of comics, illustrated stories and single images, Grace Wilson’s Eyes Peeled has a slightly zine-like feel to its collection of fragmentary but evocative slice-of-life…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Last year’s debut Safari Festival, curated by micropublisher Breakdown Press, was one of the most welcome developments on the UK events circuit of 2014. I described it as “a happy…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Is the audience for small press comics too narrow and self-defined? Do we need more events like the Crouch End Comic Art Festival (CECAF), the Alternative Press Takeover, the East…
Over a Safari Festival weekend in which desirable comics treasures were in abundant supply, and attendees could be forgiven for lapsing into sequential art sensory overload, there were nonetheless a…
It was billed as “a celebration of the new wave of alternative and art comics from the UK and beyond” and last weekend’s Safari Festival in London’s Shoreditch most assuredly…
From a punter’s perspective one of the great rewards of the current burgeoning UK small press scene is that there’s plenty of room for both non-curated festivals that offer an…
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
“I Think ‘Limbo’ is Probably the Best Work I’ve Ever Done in Any Medium” – Ferry Gouw on His New Book from Breakdown Press, Cross-Media Work on ‘Major Lazer’, and Adapting His Style for Different ProjectsJune 30, 2026
“Trans People Are Facing Pronounced Challenges to Our Rights Across the World Right Now” – Jua OK! on ‘Road to Chimera’ and Finding Spiritual Meaning in the Trans JourneyJune 29, 2026
