Now settled firmly into an annual publication schedule, Ugly Mug #8 lives up to its tagline of “an industrial strength comics compendium” with another bumper collection of comic strips and…
When it comes to the House of Harley’s comics anthology Ugly Mug the tagline “comics to amuse and confuse” perfectly encapsulates the breadth of material between its covers. An underground-style,…
When we reviewed Ugly Mug #5 here at Broken Frontier last year it marked the biggest gap between issues of any title we have ever covered on the site. Somewhere…
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Thirty or so years ago, beginning in the late ‘80s, Ugly Mug was a British small press anthology that featured a number of creators who are now considered legends of…
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