If you were in Leeds for Thought Bubble this weekend then you may well have caught the first leg of the Avery Hill Follow Me In and Retrograde Orbit Launch…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! That long-time favourite on the UK small press circuit Douglas Noble describes Jazz Creepers as “an anthology of florid stories, of disreputable comics, and of unruly…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Since I first met her at our Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw this year and reviewed her minicomic Quiet Moments Laurel Pettitt’s graphic travelogue…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Liebestrasse is a gorgeous mini-comic debuting at Thought Bubble this year uniting the talents of Tim Fish, Héctor Barros and Greg Lockard. The story is set…
Lessons from classic comic creators for making it as an indie! It’s time for another Bullpen Boot-Camp column by UK small presser Nick Prolix! Nick is the creator behind The Sheep and…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Admittedly this review is going to be something of a cheat, as will quickly become apparent below. But first a word or two about Gary Northfield’s…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sarararara: All-American Girl, the webcomic creation of Olivia Hicks, makes its print debut at Thought Bubble this weekend. The strip is an intriguing oddity in terms…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Over the last few months Nick Prolix’s Bullpen Boot-Camp column here at Broken Frontier has become a very popular feature on the site. Nick’s illustrated fortnightly…
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Back in early 2017 I reviewed a short autobiographical zine by UK small presser Eleanor Crewes and was struck by the immediate connection its creator made with her readership in…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! To describe Roger Langridge as a true comics great is hardly hyperbole; in fact if anything it’s more a case of being unduly economical with the…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! With effectively the third issue of his Glorious Wrestling Alliance series, 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Josh Hicks returns to the ring at Thought…
While we’re all gearing up in the UK for the juggernaut of comics festivals that is the all-encompassing Thought Bubble at the weekend our chums at Gosh! Comics in London…
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, comics event or digital…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Fraser Geesin – he of the splendidly funny and self-deprecating autobio comic The Cleaner: Man of Destiny – has a new comic debuting at Thought Bubble. Komisk…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Thought Bubble just wouldn’t be Thought Bubble without the annual entry in John Riordan and Dan Cox’s music industry send-up Hitsville UK. And yet that’s the…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sometimes deadlines exist to be broken. In the run-up to this year’s Thought Bubble we set cut-off dates for review requests but left the door open…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The Thought Bubble previews are coming in thick and fast and here’s another artist whose work we’ve covered before at Broken Frontier who you should be…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The value of supportive comics community is vitally important to us here at Broken Frontier sitting, as it does, at the very heart of our mission…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! At its heart the very best science fiction isn’t about alien civilisations, space exploration or future tech, it’s work that on a very personal level speaks…
