Dungeon Fun Book One
New at Thought Bubble! Fantasy role-playing meets retro video gaming meets anarchic fairy tales in Bell and Slorance’s witty all-ages offering. The first release from the Dogooder Comics stable, Dungeon…
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It Girl
Debuting at Thought Bubble! From the roaring Twenties to a life of self-imposed solitude, writer/artist Jessica Martin tells the story of actress Clara Bow, forgotten icon from another era. While…
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Seasons
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…
Tales from Scene City #4
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today we return to the environs of Scene City in the latest issue of Rob Cureton’s music industry satire… When last we left Rob Cureton’s Tales…
Fever Dreams
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today’s column takes a look at Adam Murphy’s Fever Dreams, a collection dredged up from the darkest corners of his imagination… Adam Murphy is the creator…
One Day Only
The lives of travelling show people come under the spotlight in creator Abbey Massey’s look at 24 hours of a working circus. I ‘m (sort of) returning to the Comica Festival…
Angus & Felix #1
Katie Craven’s poignant twilight allegory is the first spotlighted book in ‘Small Pressganged’ from the attendees of the latest Comiket independent comics fair. The recent Comica Festival Comiket – the…
Comics Are My Rock and Roll: Daniel James Baldwin’s Self-publishing Documentary Needs YOU!
Daniel James Baldwin’s documentary on the self-publishing scene both needs and deserves your support! Today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ isn’t the usual review or in-depth interview piece. Instead I want to belatedly…
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The Comix Reader #5
“Anything can happen in the next half hour!” – it’s the tagline, of course, of Gerry Anderson’s cult ‘60s Supermarionation series Stingray but it’s one that could also quite easily…
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Happy Birthday ‘Small Pressganged’! Celebrating Two Years of Unearthing the Gems of the Small Press
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…
The Wolfmen/Fall of the Wolfmen
Accent UK’s lycanthropic noir series has enjoyed cinematic comparisons from the likes of Andy Diggle who described it as “Reservoir Wolves” and Kieron Gillen who summed it up as “Get…
Story(cycle)
Kathryn Briggs’s Story(cycle) was completed as part of her Master of Fine Art degree this year. Ostensibly it’s an examination of the hero archetype as embodied in mythology in Joseph…
Crawl Hole
It’s time to take another trip into the tortured psyches of Messrs Collins and Laurie and become witness to twisted familial obligations, breakfast time in Hell, and the social faux…
A Handful of Groats
It may have a middle ages setting but all that’s missing from Rob Jackson’s A Handful of Groats to fully underline its Western genre influences is an Ennio Morricone soundtrack….
Special Language #1
Emma Mould and Andrew Godfrey’s Special Language #1 is an uncompromising account of the two and a half months Mould spent in a psychiatric facility in Bath in the summer…
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Small Press Spotlight on… Richy K. Chandler
Richy K. Chandler is a comics creator whose work embraces both the tactile and the digital through his Tempo Lush publishing brand. The cartoonist behind the popular Lucy the Octopus…
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And then Emily Was Gone #1
Greg Hellinger, a former policeman who is now haunted by visions of monsters wherever he goes, is a troubled man. His world is about to get a lot more complicated,…
The Megatherium Club Volume 1: The Great Ape
Named after an extinct giant sloth, the Megatherium Club were a group of largely amateur scientists who operated in Washington in the late 1850s to the early 1860s, enticed there…
Broken Frontier Anthology
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Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025