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Cartoonists for Palestine – 60 Comics Creators Respond to the Genocide in Gaza in this Essential Comics Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2025

Published in print at the tail end of 2024 but added to online through the year, anthology/website Cartoonists for Palestine was undoubtedly one of the year’s most important comics projects….

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I’m a Luddite (And So Can You!) – Tom Humberstone’s Graphic Journalism Looks at Automation and Capitalism, Pop Culture and Racism, and Politics in Sport

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2024

Originally presented online via that great platform for graphic journalism The Nib, Tom Humberstone’s I’m a Luddite (And So Can You!) & Other Tales from The Nib brings some of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis – Tom Humberstone Brings a Forgotten Sporting Legend Back to Life in this Fascinating Graphic Biography

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Over the years, via social media, I had already become acutely aware of UK artist Tom Humberstone’s love for the game of tennis. That passion is embodied…

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Celebrate 20 Years of BF at a Very Special Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online – Join Us Thurs, Oct 27th with Guest Artists Tom Humberstone, Danny Noble, Nicole Goux and Dave Baker

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 25, 2022

BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Before the pandemic hit the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw had become something of an institution on the UK London comics scene. Launched…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Dreaming of a Small Press Christmas! – Festive Comic Art from Kim Clements, Ellice Weaver, Rozi Hathaway, Danny Noble and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 13, 2016

Christmas is coming! And with the end-of-year celebrations imminent I asked some of the small press artists we’ve featured in this column in the last year or two to share…

Triborough Bridge (Alexander Rothman), from Over the Line

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Over the Line – An Accessible, Stimulating and Inspiring Introduction to Poetry Comics

  • by Tom Murphy
  • November 5, 2015

This enlightening little book offers some interesting thoughts on an increasingly visible strand of comics work, and presents a selection of fresh and stimulating work that isn’t afraid to step beyond formal…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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In the Frame 2012-2014 – Tom Humberstone’s Fiercely Intelligent Social Commentary Collected from the Pages of ‘New Statesman’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 3, 2015

It’s not hyperbole to say that without In the Frame creator Tom Humberstone you may well have never seen ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier. It was Humberstone’s acclaimed Solipsistic Pop…

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Gosh! Comics Teams Up with Broken Frontier for Monthly ‘Drink and Draw’ Nights – Meet Creators Tom Humberstone and Danny Noble at Our Debut Evening on Thursday 25th June!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2015

This summer Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier are embracing the great tradition of comic book team-ups to bring you our debut collaborative Drink and Draw night! The first edition of this regular monthly event will…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Modern Times

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2014

Billing itself as the UK’s “first graphic newspaper since the Titanic sank” Modern Times is an intriguing new project overseen by a three-woman team of Royal College of Art students….

Columns · Small Pressganged

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The Heroines Zine – A Celebration of Role Models from Julia Scheele, Kieron Gillen, Lizz Lunney and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2014

What delighted me about The Heroines Zine when I first started flicking through its pages was the way in which it embraces old school zine philosophy. It really is a…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Happy Birthday ‘Small Pressganged’! Celebrating Two Years of Unearthing the Gems of the Small Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 2013

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…

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