Welcome to Thought Bubble Month 2026 at Broken Frontier!
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Welcome to our celebration of all things TB for 2026! (Yes I’m aware that sentence can be interpreted somewhat differently based on those two initials…) This…
Author: Andy Oliver
Long Covid Superheroes!: A Comic Made By Kids Living with Long Covid – Zhenyi Zheng and Alice Urbino Bring the Stories of Young People to the Comics Page with an Inspirational Flourish
Community projects in comics are something we are always very keen to get behind here at Broken Frontier. We do style ourselves as a “community hub” after all. One such…
Thought Bubble Memories – We Want Your Favourite Stories from 20 Years of Thought Bubble to Run at Broken Frontier in November!
So… in the lead-up to Thought Bubble Month beginning next Monday at BF it’s going to be another quiet week of posting here on the site as we beaver away…
Broken Frontier Andytorial for October 2026 – The Extended BF Family Hit the Lakes, More on Thought Bubble Month, and an Apology for Some Downtime…
I am more than a little late with this month’s edition of our (sometimes) regular look behind-the-scenes at Broken Frontier. And, as you’ll no doubt have noticed, we have been…
The Flesh of the World – Kristina Stipetic’s Experimental Sci-Fi Has Deeper Philosophical Layers
A couple of years back at Broken Frontier I reviewed Kristina Stipetic’s bumper-sized collection Positive Worlds, Negative Spaces. A huge collection of work originally created between 2010 and 2024, it…
Broken Frontier at the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival – The ‘Six to Watch’ Come to LICAF Plus BF-Related Events Over the Festival Weekend
It’s the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival this coming weekend (October 2nd-4th) and we have a big Broken Frontier presence over the festival weekend! From the stars of our respected…
All the Living – Roman Muradov’s Tale of Loneliness, Existential Angst and Living with Your Own Ghost is a Memorably Eerie Affair
You know a full-length graphic novel has caught the imagination of readers when it goes back to print in the same year it was published. Roman Muradov’s All the Living,…
The Amazing Spider-Man: Classic Newspaper Comics 1977-1978 – A Forgotten Part of Marvel History Collected by Clover Press
For readers who were picking up Spider-Man comics in the 1970s but never saw the more ephemeral newspaper strips Clover Press’s The Amazing Spider-Man: Classic Newspaper Comics will be like…
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics Fair
Two years ago queer comics fair inQ! debuted in London to heavy footfall and the most buzzing atmosphere possible for a first-time event. This month, across the weekend of September…
Oni Press/EC Comics Give Us Another Fear-Filled Festive Season with ‘Shiver Suspenstories 3’ #1 in December
More horror-filled holiday hijinks are coming from Oni Press and EC Comics this Christmas… ‘Tis the Season for Terror! EC Comics’ Haunting Holiday Tradition Returns in SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 3 #1…
Just Work: The Gig Economy, Platform Capitalism and the Battle for Worker Rights – More Standout Graphic Journalism from Tom Humberstone
Tom Humberstone’s Just Work: The Gig Economy, Platform Capitalism and the Battle for Worker Rights is not simply representative of his graphic journalism. It’s also a fine example of how…
Archie #1 – Oni’s Relaunch Beautifully Captures the Spirit of Archie’s World with an Appeal for New and Old Readers Alike
Less reboot or even reimagining and more business as usual, the new Oni Press incarnation of everyone’s favourite red-headed teenager debuted this month with Archie #1. If you were worrying…
Them-Shaped Clouds – Max Huffman’s Ignatz-Nominated Collection of Cynically Surreal Strips is the Perfect Entry Point to His Angular Cartooning Style
This summer’s ARC Festival was a triumph not just in terms of showcasing indie and experimental work, or the new discoveries we all may have made there, but also for…
It’s Bitter, Baby, and it’s Very Sweet – Keezy Young’s Twisting Horror Tale is a Multi-Layered Masterpiece of Short Storytelling
Few creators’ work has instantly grabbed my attention in the last couple of years as Keezy Young’s has. Their short comic Sunflowers, about living with bipolar disorder was an exceptional…
Broken Frontier at Zinezilla this Saturday, September 12th – Come Visit Our ‘Six to Watch’ Table and Meet Pigeon, Shri Gunasekara and Beastly Worlds/Beatrijs Brouwer
The UK Autumn comics festival season is about to begin! And we’ll have a Broken Frontier presence in some shape or form at a number of events over the next…
The Zinezilla Comics Anthology Vol. 3 – ‘Zine Shanties’ is the Theme of Another Eclectic Collection of Work from Mereida Fajardo, Abs Bailey, Marcy Fraser, WeiJia Wu and More
Mereida Fajardo and Marcy Fraser’s Zinezilla festival has become a welcome spiritual successor to the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair and now also occupies the same space as its geographical…
Thought Bubble Month 2026 is Coming to Broken Frontier – Here’s All the Information You Need to Submit Comics for Review or Secure a Potential Interview
EDITED October 27th: Please note this is an offer for Thought Bubble exhibitors only. Trying to circumvent our zero tolerance to generative AI policy by approaching us under the pretence…
Broken Frontier Andytorial for September 2026 – Looking Back on ‘Fantagraphics at 50!’ and Forwards to Thought Bubble 2026 at BF
So that was Fantagraphics at 50! Month at Broken Frontier… We managed to post 34 reviews, interviews and exclusive previews across August to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Fantagraphics and,…
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“At the Base of Every Story I Tell is Some Aspect of Myself” – Michael Furler Talks Inspiration, Process, His ShortBox and Peow Work, and the Swiss Comics SceneOctober 26, 2026
“There’s a Real Joy in Giving a Story a Good End” – Kate Ashwin on Saying Goodbye to the Cast of Her Webcomic ‘Widdershins’ After an Impressive 15 YearsOctober 22, 2026
“There Have Been So Many Highlights!” – Publisher Andy Brown on 30 Years of Conundrum Press, Discovering Unique Voices in Comics, and the Realities of Arts Funding in CanadaOctober 20, 2026
“I Love Exploring Themes of Culture, Family and Siblinghood” – Shri Gunasekara on Experimenting with the Form, Colour as a Storytelling Device, and Artistic ProcessOctober 19, 2026
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026