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A comic about researching for another potential comic might sound like it’s all kinds of self-indulgently meta but Beth Barnett’s Dreamers of the Day is the polar opposite; an honest,…
SPX‘s importance as a small press comics convention in North America cannot be overstated. The reasons have less to do with business and more to do with its consistent geographic…
Birdcage Bottom Books are one of our favourite US small press publishers here at Broken Frontier with their output of genuinely indie, experimental and alt comics typifying the kind of…
Music, above perhaps all other art forms, has an undeniable power to take us back to the formative periods of our lives: to remind us of places, people, times or…
While we’re going to be somewhat Thought Bubble-intensive over the next two weeks at Broken Frontier we mustn’t forget that SPX is coming this weekend with a whole host of…
The 20th edition of the Small Press Expo (SPX) was a huge show. Held as always in Bethesda, Maryland, it rounds up the most important publishers and cartoonists in the North American indie…
Small Press Expo 2014 (SPX) is over but the energy it generates isn’t gone yet. I’d love if I could always vibrate at the specific frequency this particular comic book…
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
