Congratulations to the six names on the shortlist for this year’s First Graphic Novel Award! An always vital and crucially important opportunity for creators. Investigating a saint, falling in love…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Current Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph and LICAF Breakthrough Initiative artist Abbigayle Bircham come together on My Dad Fights Demons!, a book that in some ways feels…
Barbara Yelin, ILYA, Kay Medaglia and Myfanwy Tristram all feature on the publishing schedule of SelfMadeHero for Spring 2026. SELFMADEHERO ANNOUNCE NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL TITLES FOR SPRING 2026 SelfMadeHero is…
Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has been the subject of a spotlight in comics form before. Back in 2021 Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins reviewed Elisa Macellari’s Kusama: The Graphic Novel,…
More publishing news from SelfMadeHero today at Broken Frontier with the announcement of their Autumn plans. The line-up includes new work from the Rickard Sisters and First Graphic Novel Competition…
A 2024 Broken Frontier Award-nominated book in the Best Graphic Non-Fiction category, writer Fernando Trueba and artist Javier Mariscal’s They Shot the Piano Player is both a celebration of a period of…
Exciting news from the direction of SelfMadeHero that current UK Comics Laureate, and good friend of BF, Bobby Joseph will be teaming up with artist Abbigayle Bircham on YA graphic…
New year. new releases! Check out the first books of 2025 from SelfMadeHero in the press release below. SELFMADEHERO ANNOUNCE NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL TITLES FOR SPRING 2025 How has January…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Shuning Ji first came to prominence as part of SelfMadeHero’s Graphic Anthology Programme a couple of years ago. That initiative was designed to champion the work…
Picture the scene: it’s Ancient Greece, in the fourth century BCE. Young Hipparchia has one aim in mind; to marry into a prominent family and become even richer. Little does…
SelfMadeHero have announced their latest batch of release for Autumn 2024 including They Shot the Piano Player, Madame Choi and the Monsters, Adieu Birkenau and Edifice. More details below. AUTUMN…
On Thursday 27th June, I had the pleasure of attending London’s first-ever Graphic Novel Reading Room pop-up! Having heard about the event from collaborator SelfMadeHero, I was super excited that…
Depicting the life and career of a remarkable artist like Leonora Carrington in only 144 pages is no mean feat. In her 94 years on this earth, activist Leonora experienced…
SelfMadeHero’s early 2024 publishing plans have been revealed and they include a new edition of Peter Kuper’s Eisner-winning Ruins and a biography of George Sand. Details on all four books…
Given that Mylo Choy’s graphic memoir Middle Distance started as an idea for a thirty-page comic, and quickly grew into a full-blown graphic novel produced by SelfMadeHero, this is no…
I have my own connections to the First Graphic Novel Competition (formerly run by publisher Myriad) given that I was a judge back in 2014. In fact such is my…
After their acclaimed adaptations of two powerful Edwardian novels (Robert Tressell’s renowned socialist masterpiece The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Constance Maud’s lesser known but still vitally important contemporary account of…
When Sophie and Scarlett Rickard adapted Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists for SelfMadeHero in 2021 they introduced an always relevant socialist masterpiece to a new audience of readers at…
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
