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Can it really be five years ago today that we launched ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier with a stated mission to “unearth the gems of the small press” and a promise…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
EdieOP has been a contributor to both the Broken Frontier Anthology and the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook and is a regular fixture at Avery Hill Publishing with appearances in their…
Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
There are two standard approaches to the concept of the comics anthology and both have experienced conflicting fortunes in recent years. While the one-shot anthology compilation of complete, “told in one…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Of all the relatively new players on the UK small press scene this year it’s probably Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s One Beat Zines who were…
One of acclaimed micropublisher (and Broken Frontier 2014 Award nominees in the Best Publisher category) Avery Hill’s most overlooked projects, the anthology Reads is a wonderfully eclectic collection of complete stories and serials…
Available at CECAF! The niggling night terrors of 40 creators bubble balefully to the surface in Keara Stewart’s unsettling anthology collection mixing comic strips and single illustrations to bring to disturbing…
EdieOP is one of the most exciting new talents in UK comics publishing, producing endearingly mischievous narratives that lurk on “the sunny side of sinister”. We’re rightly proud that her work got…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
As has become something of a tradition for the first ‘Small Pressganged’ of the New Year it’s time once again to look back on the self and micropublished material featured in this…
One of the true pleasures – no, the ultimate pleasure – of writing a column with a primary mission statement to unearth the real gems of small press and self-published…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
When you cross over to “the sunny side of sinister” with small press artist EdieOP you enter the wicked imagination of a creator whose twisted and gleefully nefarious narratives are…
In the two years since I first reviewed their flagship anthology title Reads, Avery Hill Publishing have gone from relatively unknown proponents of the DIY culture of comics creation to…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Four eagerly anticipated titles from British micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing officially launch at London’s Orbital Comics this week on Friday 11th July. Those making it to Newport Street are promised an…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
The philosophy behind ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier has always been not just to provide an outlet for small press coverage in a comics media dominated by “mainstream” stories but…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Yesterday at Broken Frontier we published the first instalment of a two-part interview with Ricky Miller and Dave White, the team behind Brit micropublishers Avery Hill Publishing. In day two…
EdieOP is a creator who delights in fashioning work that is mischievously unsettling. Hers is a world of painful childhood mishaps and acts of gleeful spite, where recklessness is the…
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Today, in the spirit of pushing some of those artists whose work really should have a greater fanbase, I am going to…
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