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Broken Frontier announce the publication of the 2017 Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook

By John Freeman on July 21, 2017

Broken Frontier Small Press Year Book 2017 – Cover by Ellice Weaver

Comics culture site Broken Frontier has announced the publication of their 2017 Small Press Yearbook, an anthology celebration of the work of BF’s ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ of 2016 – Rebecca Bagley, Kim Clements, Brigid Deacon, Emily Rose Lambert, Jey Levang and Ellice Weaver (who’s also the cover artist) – who all provide stories on the loose theme of “New Horizons”.

Says Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver, “Our ‘Six to Watch’ initiatives highlight Broken Frontier’s commitment to not just small press comics coverage but to small press comics activism. The site has always had an ethos of championing the most exciting new voices on the scene and bringing them up to the next, deserved level of recognition and the Yearbook is the perfect showcase for that.”

The Yearbook launched at London’s acclaimed Gosh! Comics to a packed shop on 8th July as part of the UK and Ireland’s annual Small Press Day event, with many of the creators involved in attendance. The book also features stories by artists who began in self-publishing and whose earlier work was featured at Broken Frontier.

These include Danny Noble (illustrator of comedian and actor Adrian Edmondson’s Tilly and the Time Machine, Puffin), Grace Wilson (Saving Grace, Jonathan Cape), Rachael Smith (Artificial Flowers, Avery Hill Publishing; Doctor Who, Titan Comics), EdieOP (Maleficium, Avery Hill Publishing), Rozi Hathaway (Cosmos & Other Stories, Good Comics), Steven Tillotson (Untitled Ape’s Epic Adventure, Avery Hill Publishing), Emma Raby (The Dead Moon), Tim Bird (Grey Area, Avery Hill Publishing) and John Riordan (Sound and Vision, Dog N’ Bone).

• The Yearbook is available to order online here

Here’s some pages from this fantastic-looking anthology…

Art by Rebecca Bagley

Art by Kim Clements

Art by Jey Levang

Art by Emily Rose Lambert

Broken Frontier Small Press Year Book 2017 - Ellice Weaver

Art by Ellice Weaver

Art by EdieOP

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.