Small Press Spotlight on… Zarina Liew
Fashion illustrator and webcomics artist Zarina Liew is the creator behind manga-influenced webcomic Le Mime, the dreamy The Art of Sleep collection and her new fashion-based webcomic The Higgs. She…
Tagged: small press
kuš komiksi: š! #13
Founded in 2007, the aims of Latvian publisher kuš komiksi are twofold: to provide a showcase for the art form in a country with little tradition in comics, and also…
Dementia Dad
While Hannah Lee Miller’s Dementia Dad may concern itself with heartrending subject matter it’s a 15-page comic that is utterly uplifting in tone and presentation. An entry in the autobio…
Small Press Spotlight on… Gill Hatcher and Team Girl Comic
With seven issues published since the group was founded in 2009, the Scottish all-woman collective behind anthology Team Girl Comic have become an established presence on the U.K. small press…
Everything Takes Forever
Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever, published by Koyama Press, is a collection of the Manhattan-situated artist’s splendidly peculiar and dreamlike comic strips. Characters with tacos for heads compete with the…
Ordinary Street
Taking the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s 1965 song ‘Desolation Row’ as inspiration, Ordinary Street is a haunting and sometimes surreal journey through a world of urban decay and moral ambiguity….
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses
Collecting the first forty strips of creator Richy K. Chandler’s popular webcomic series, Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses takes us to an undersea realm both vibrantly fantastical,…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Small Press Spotlight on… Mike Medaglia and Wu Wei
Mike Medaglia’s Wu Wei – a spiritual comics anthology with an emphasis on eastern philosophy – looks set to be one of the highlights of the U.K. small press publishing…
The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel 2013
Science fiction anthology book The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel is a collection of one-shot tales overseen by the same editorial eye that brought us last year’s rather witty Doctor…
Wrong Songs
Dan Cox’s Wrong Songs is a collection of inventively bizarre takes on children’s nursery rhymes from the same gent who co-created the madcap music industry book Hitsville UK (shortly to…
Small Press Spotlight on… Katriona Chapman
Katriona Chapman can count comics as just one part of a varied career in the world of illustration. Co-editor of the recently launched anthology artszine Tiny Pencil, Katriona’s self-published work…
The Deep Needs Train
Winner of the 2011 Manga Jiwan competition, Elena Vitagliano’s The Deep Needs Train is a succinct yet highly expressive piece of fantasy storytelling. It centres on a mysterious steam train…
The Orphans Who Had Parents
Lisa Grant’s The Orphans Who Had Parents examines a social issue that you may well be unfamiliar with: the exploitation of children in Cambodia by institutions that purport to be…
Reads #3
Avery Hill Publishing’s Reads is an anthology that is steadfastly unashamed of its old school, grassroots small press approach. As diverse a collection – in terms of both genres and…
Small Press Spotlight on… Jade Sarson
Jade Sarson’s online Cafe Suada series is the epitome of feelgood comics. To great comic effect it depicts the ongoing feud between Geraldine, manager of the Piyo Piyo teahouse and…
Tiny Pencil #1: Into the Woods We Go
Founded and co-edited by Amber Hsu and Katriona Chapman, Tiny Pencil is the latest anthology publication to burst onto the British small press scene. As its name suggests, the raison…
The Green Bean Volume 4, Issue 1
Katie Green’s The Green Bean is something of a phenomenon. Perhaps the best way to describe it would be to call it an “illustrated journal zine” but that feels a…
The Storytellers and California
Rob Jackson is a small press comics creator who could never be accused of falling into a genre-specific rut. The Storytellers and California for example – the two projects I’m…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
“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
“It’s about Fame, Friendship, and Just How Long You’re Willing to Fake it to Make it” – Duane Murray and Ahmed Raafat Talk ‘Who Are the Power Pals?’ from Dark HorseNovember 6, 2025