PRIDE MONTH 2026! Co-founded by Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner in 2005, publisher A Wave Blue World has for over two decades been publishing graphic novels and comics anthologies, with a…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Pride Month often sees us branching out a little in terms of our coverage boundaries. For other outlets “branching out” might mean expanding into experimental or indie…
Sometimes it’s impossible to be entirely disconnected from an interview subject because comics is a small community and we’re all aware of the people who have worked tirelessly to create…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! It’s time for the second of this year’s Pride Month interviews to go up as we chat today with webcomics creator LJ Nakamura. LJ discusses intersex representation…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Over the years we have covered a lot of work in the areas of graphic medicine and social commentary from the direction of Jessica Kingsley Publishers and…
It’s a much observed phenomenon in 2026 but, after the pandemic years saw so many regular fixture UK comics calendar disappear for good, it’s been refreshing to see so many…
Recently at Broken Frontier we chatted with the Kutty Press team of Bhavani Bala and Deepesh Sangtani about their minicomics and zines; work that is “rooted in South Asian identity…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! In the first of our Pride Month interviews features this year at Broken Frontier we speak with married writing team Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges. Their extensive…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! If there’s one thing that seems even more important than celebrating queer voices during our Pride Month coverage at BF it’s celebrating new queer voices (to us…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! At the start of June each year at BF I always feel the need to issue the simple reminder that LGBTQIA coverage is an all-year round reality…
If 2026 has proved anything it’s that our UK comics events calendar has well and truly revived itself after the pandemic years cost us so many established fixtures. Coming up…
One of the greatest joys in considering self-published comics work in print is the opportunities it affords for unfiltered experimentation with the form’s possibilities. To see something like Bhavani Bala’s…
Drawing your attention to work that is notably distinctive in voice, and playful with format and presentation, is one of the core aims of Broken Frontier as a platform. When…
In response to the inclusion of the comics anthology Stardust the Super Wizard – a book which contained a one-page strip “created” with generative AI – the Comic Book Yeti…
Another worthy example of New York Review Comics’ vital role as an indie/alt/small press archival publisher Brad Neely’s Creased Comics compiles his offbeat gag cartoons, originally published between 1995 and…
Comics commentary is contracting online. That’s hardly a secret but it does feel like that Golden Age of blogging and countless dedicated comics-related websites is something we are unlikely to…
The First Graphic Novel Award (formerly Competition) is one of those UK comics institutions that the scene would be all the poorer without. It provides the winner with a rare…
The findings of the UK Comics Creators Research Report for 2025 have been published today and they make for sobering reading. The report, courtesy of the Comic Cultural Impact Collective,…
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026“A Room Full of Comics People is a True Joy to See!” – Marc Jackson on Bringing MACC-POW! to Macclesfield and the Resurgence of Kids Comics in the UKMay 25, 2026
