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ink + PAPER #4 – UK Digest Anthology Showcases EdieOP, Sean Azzopardi,...
It’s been a longer than usual gap between issues for David O’Connell’s chunky but digest-sized ink + PAPER – a publication that I’ve referred to here in the past as the Sunday supplement of the British...
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Rain on Glass – The Engaging Honesty of Sean Azzopardi’s Slice-of-Life Comics
I’ve noticed a subtle shift in the tone of British small press creator Sean Azzopardi’s slice-of-life comics work over the last year or two. Gone are the thinly disguised avatars who used to stand in...
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Score and Script – John Miers and Company Explore the Mechanics of the Comics...
If I were to say that Score and Script is an anthology title quite unlike any other I have reviewed in ‘Small Pressganged’ I would be making a claim that, while strictly accurate in assertion, would...
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Introducing the Crouch End Comic Art Festival 2014 – Sean Azzopardi’s CECAF...
On November 8th the Crouch End Comic Art Festival – the latest London celebration of all things utterly splendid about the current UK comics scene – will open its doors for the first time. CECAF is the...
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Looking Back on the Inaugural Crouch End Comic Art Festival – Sean...
There were probably a few raised eyebrows when UK small press mainstay Sean Azzopardi first proposed his idea for curating the Crouch End Comic Art Festival. With a stated intention to take comics to...
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A Bit of Undigested Potato – Keara Stewart’s Dream Anthology Features Karrie...
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...
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Tracks – Sean Azzopardi’s Contemplative but Celebratory Autobiographical...
The wait for new autobiographical comics work from Sean Azzopardi – that great stalwart of the UK small press scene – has been a long time in coming. In fact, I reviewed his last offering Rain on Glass...
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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns on Feb 23rd with...
It’s back! The Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on February 23rd at a new venue, upstairs in the famous Coach and Horses pub in Soho’s Greek Street. Last year’s run of popular events...
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Profiling Sean Azzopardi – From ‘Dark Matters’ to ‘Tracks’, a Look at the...
Sean Azzopardi – part of our group of five guest artists at the next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – is one of the true stalwarts of the UK small press scene. A versatile creator,...
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Satirical Strips and Alternate Realities – Revisiting the First Gosh! Comics...
The first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2016 took place last night with a bumper batch of guests at our Save Our Souls special. Co-hosted by myself and Gosh’s Nora Goldberg, the...
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The Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival 2016 – Sean Azzopardi’s CECAF Returns on...
The Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival (CECAF) – one of the friendliest, most accessible and endearingly laidback fairs on the UK comics show circuit – returns to the Earl Haig Hall this Saturday June...
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Looking Back at CECAF 2016 – Bringing Comics to the Crouch End Community
Taking comics to new audiences. It’s the ideal we all aspire to, something we all claim to aim for and, on so many levels, discovering an expanded demographic for the medium outside of its traditional...
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Fashionistas and Giraffes on Bikes – Looking Back at September’s Gosh! Comics...
Cetacean-based punnery, the inviting sights of London Fashion Week and pedalling camelopards were just some of the themes of the latest Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw night this week...
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Small Press Inside Look: 50 – Sean Azzopardi Marks a Very Special Anniversary...
Sean Azzopardi is one of those vital and essential mainstays of the UK small press whose constant presence has given a reassuring sense of continuity to British comics self-publishing for as long as I...
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Staff Picks for April 5, 2017 – 50, Black Cloud, Kim Reaper, Kill...
It’s nearly 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 BF team are here to...
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The BF Bulletin Board – Exhibitions from Matt Boyce and Sean Azzopardi, DIY...
Welcome to the Broken Frontier Bulletin Board, a new semi-regular round-up of comics-related events, panels, exhibitions, shows and fairs designed to give our readers inspiration for extra-curricular...
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50 – Sean Azzopardi Celebrates a Milestone Birthday with His Finest...
Earlier this year UK small press mainstay Sean Azzopardi spoke in length to us at Broken Frontier here about the creative process behind his (then) upcoming autobiographical comic 50 – a project that...
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Celebrating 2017: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
Hot on the heels of this week’s Broken Frontier Awards announcements comes our sixth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’. Despite this edition of...
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Staff Picks for March 14, 2018 – Sightings of Wallace Sendek, Dry County,...
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital storefront, the BF team are...
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Sightings of Wallace Sendek – A Genuine UK Small Press Classic Returns in an...
As writer Douglas Noble and artist Sean Azzopardi’s Sightings of Wallace Sendek was designed structurally to be periodically added to with new material interspersed among older work, it seems only...
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