Save the Date! – Small Press Day Returns for 2023 on August 5th
A quick note for your comics-related diaries! Small Press Day – the UK and Ireland’s annual celebration of the self-publishing comic scene – will be returning this year on Saturday,…
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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Spotlights Six Projects from the #SPDBFREVIEW One-Tweet Reviews on Small Press Day 2022
While the UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day adopted a hybrid approach for 2022 one online aspect we didn’t want to jettison was the popular one-tweet reviews on Twitter. Using…
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Small Press Day 2022 -The Seventh UK and Ireland SPD Brings People Together In-Person and Online in Its First Hybrid Incarnation
Small Press Day 2022 has come and gone but, as is custom at BF, we like to post a small online scrapbook of some of the events on the day…
Get a One-Tweet Broken Frontier Review and a Shout-Out for Your Self-Published Comic from our Andy Oliver on Small Press Day 2022 with the Hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW
There’s so much going on for Small Press Day this coming Saturday August 13th as we present a hybrid in-person/in-store event. If you’re new to the concept then Small Press…
CoCo Comic Con Debuts this Saturday August 13th in Lancaster as Part of Small Press Day
A new fair makes its first appearance on the UK indie scene this weekend with the debut of CoCo Comic Con, an event for Small Press Day in Lancaster on…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online for Small Press Day! – Join Us Sat, August 13th for a Steve Walsh Tribute with Guest Artists Katriona Chapman, Paul Shinn and RAMZEE
Your favourite online comics social is back! And this time with a difference. We’re squeezing in an extra online Drink and Draw this month on Saturday, August 13th to celebrate…
“Two of the Great Things in Life are Music and Comics” – Cartoonist David Ziggy Greene Talks Small Press Day, Graphic Reportage and His New Venture Jam Bookshop
There are lots of reasons why now is a most opportune moment to be chatting with cartoonist David Ziggy Greene. The former long-time Private Eye artist was the founder of…
Small Press Day 2022 – Announcing a Hybrid Day of Online and In-Person Events, Dedicated to the Memory of Small Press Champion Steve Walsh
As we revealed last month, this year’s Small Press Day will take place on Saturday, August 13th and will adopt a hybrid approach. This will allow for both in-person events…
The UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day to Return on Saturday, August 13th, 2022 – Save the Date!
Small Press Day – the UK and Ireland’s annual celebration of sequential art self-published and micropublished – returns again this year on Saturday, August 13th. Broken Frontier is, of course,…
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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Spotlights Six Projects from the #SPDBFREVIEW One-Tweet Reviews on Small Press Day 2021
With the UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day remaining an online event this year I took to Twitter again to write one-tweet reviews of your small press comics with the…
Small Press Day Returns on Saturday August 14th, 2021 – Includes the Popular Broken Frontier One-Tweet Reviews on Twitter!
Small Press Day returns for 2021 on Saturday, August 14th. The Small Press Day team have elected to run this as an online event again this year but we have…
The UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day Returns for 2021 on Saturday, August 14th
Small Press Day – the UK and Ireland’s annual celebration of all comicky things self-published and micropublished – returns again this year on Saturday, August 14th. Of course we’re heavily…
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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Spotlights Six Projects from the #SPDBFREVIEW One-Tweet Reviews on Small Press Day 2020
This past Saturday, to celebrate Small Press Day in a very Broken Frontier way, I took to Twitter to write one-tweet reviews of small press comics with the hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW….
Get a One-Tweet Broken Frontier Review and a Shout-Out for Your Self-Published Comic from our Andy Oliver on Small Press Day 2020 with the Hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW
There’s so much going on for Small Press Day this coming Saturday August 15th as we make the move from the physical environment to the digital world for 2020. If…
Small Press Day 2020 Goes Online on Saturday, August 15th – Get Your Self-Published Comic a Broken Frontier One-Tweet Review Promo on the Day with the Hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW!
As with just about every comics-related event in 2020 this year’s UK and Ireland Small Press Day has moved online with a day of events on August 15th taking part…
Small Press Day 2020 Announced for July 18th – The UK and Ireland’s Celebration of Comics Self-Publishing Returns to Shops for its Fifth Year
It’s back for its fifth year! Small Press Day 2020 will take place on Saturday July 18th! The brainchild of cartoonist David Ziggy Greene, its aim is to provide a…
The Small Press Day 2019 Scrapbook – Looking Back on the Biggest and Best SPD to Date!
With 31 registered events over 33 venues, Small Press Day 2019 was our biggest and best annual celebration of all things self and micropublished in comics to date! A huge…
Read the Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics Small Press Day Dream-Themed Collaborative Comic Here!
Over the course of Small Press Day we’ll be uploading pages from the special dream-themed collborative comic being put together by Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics from the amazing line-up…
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