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    The Wall and the Uncharted Land – Yu-Ching Chiu’s Silent and Metaphorical Take on Mental Block is an Outstanding Piece of Visual Storytelling

    • by Andy Oliver

    LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! A few years back at Broken Frontier, as part of our coverage of the online incarnation of the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, I covered artist…

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Introducing ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ – The Next Step in BF’s Ethos of Proactive Comics Community Support

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

PINNED POST! Introducing Broken Frontier Connects, the next stage in our evolution! Broken Frontier Connects is our new initiative designed to extend our community hub philosophy. BF already has an…

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Checked Out – Katie Fricas Takes Us Inside the Head of an Aspiring Artist in Her Bold, Colourful Debut from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 2, 2025

There’s a lot going on in Katie Fricas’s debut, for those who take time to stop and check out the proverbial roses. There are little flourishes on every page of…

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Small Press Day 2025 – How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting with BF’s Andy Oliver as Part of SPD/Our ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ Initiative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2025

It’s nearly here! In just under three weeks Small Press Day returns on Saturday, July 19th. With event notifications coming in fast and furious there are some incredible SPD celebrations…

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Broken Frontier Andytorial, July 2025 – What’s Coming Up on the Site this Month, the Return of a London Comics Community Institution, and BF Breaks a New Comics Frontier at the V&A in London

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2025

Way back in the mists of time, when I first took ownership of Broken Frontier in 2017, we used to start the week off with a short blog piece called…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON – Meet Our Guest Artists CROM, Clio Isadora and Mark Stafford on Friday, August 1st

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 1, 2025

After its triumphant return to in-person events last week the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns for its second revived outing at our new venue of The…

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Hindsight – The Pull of the Past Tugs at the Present in Natalie d’Arbeloff’s Intoxicating Autobiographical Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Natalie d’Arbeloff has certainly led a truly fascinating life in the arts. You can read more about that on her Wikipedia page here. In comics…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, July 3rd – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 30, 2025

After the enormous success of our first in-person D&D since the pandemic last Friday, the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and…

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Hey, Mary! – Andrew Wheeler and Rye Hickman Examine the Disconnection Between Religious Upbringing and Sexuality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 30, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! With its emphasis on the convergence of sexuality and faith writer Andrew Wheeler and artist Rye Hickman’s Hey, Mary! from Oni Press tackles an important subject in…

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Hungry Heart – Jem Milton’s Foodie-Inspired Queer Romance is a Character-Led Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Way back in 2015 artist Jem Milton was one of our first intake of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists. In recent years their profile has seen…

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Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith – Ellis and Templer Provide an Intriguing Speculative History of a Flawed Individual

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 26, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! It would be woefully inadequate to describe novelist Patricia Highsmith as a problematic character. The author of Strangers on a Train and the Ripley series of novels,…

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The Colour Out of Space – Colour Reproduction; Gou Tanabe’s Adaptation Does Full Justice to Lovecraft’s Original Story

  • by Edward Picot
  • June 26, 2025

“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain…

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Don’t Forget to Check Out Broken Frontier’s LGBTQIA Resource Lists for Pride Month!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 25, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! It’s the most fitting time of the year to once again give our audience a nudge in the direction of our Broken Frontier Resource Lists which include…

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Preview: The Rogue Trooper Movie – First Images from Duncan Jones’ Film Adaptation of the ‘2000 AD’ Classic Revealed

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 25, 2025

Duncan Jones’ long-awaited Rogue Trooper movie is incoming and the first images from this adaptation of the classic serial from British weekly comics anthology 2000 AD have been released this…

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Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age Story

  • by Lonnie Mann
  • June 24, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process…

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Muybridge – Guy Delisle Brings a Fascinating, Forgotten Figure Back into the Limelight Via Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 23, 2025

There are some people who are as familiar with the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge as most of us are with what Hollywood stars seem to be working on….

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Toxic Summer – Horror Beach Party from Derek Charm and Oni Press Brings More Laughs Than Chills to Your Summer LGBTQIA+ Reading List 

  • by Gary Usher
  • June 23, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Derek Charm has lent his talents to some of the biggest franchises in comics, from Star Trek and Star Wars to Archie and Marvel’s Squirrel Girl. Here,…

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‘War of the Worlds’-Inspired Series ‘Thunder Child’ Comes to Its Conclusion – Still Time to Back Jones, Hardy, Castaniero and Gough’s Epic on Kickstarter

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 20, 2025

If someone involved in a series is a Broken Frontier Award winner you know anything they’re involved is going to be worth checking out. That awardee is Rob Jones, co-writer…

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Killer Queens 2 – Lively Adventure and Poignant Social Commentary Go Hand in Hand in Another Outing for the LGBTQIA Sci-Fi Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! “Putting the SASS in ASSASSIN!” is a tagline so good it deserved a second outing. Writer David M. Booher’s return to the world of interstellar former killers-for-hire…

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Sour Grapes – Rein Lee Portrays “an Asexual’s Worst Nightmare” in this Haunting Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! It will come as no surprise to anyone who is a regular visitor to Broken Frontier just how much of an amazing prospect I believe 2025 Broken…

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