This is a very cool comics community project via Young Comics Laureate Ray and Comics Youth CIC. Ray is, of course, one of our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’…
Jules Valera’s A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath collects three A6 minicomics in a tactile vellum-banded compilation. The three titles – Jupiter & the Moon, Venus…
A. T. Pratt’s work redefines the idea of tactile comics. Take today’s example, Big Matinee Comics, which includes layer after layer of pop-up, foldout, concertina effect and detachable elements. It’s…
Yes it’s back! Small Press Day is coming on Saturday, July 25th, 2026. Founded by David Ziggy Greene (Private Eye, Scene & Heard, JAM Bookshop), the event’s mission is to…
Broken Frontier’s relationship with London’s Cartoon Museum goes way back to 2011 and our interview with then director Anita O’Brien. Since then I have had the pleasure of speaking at…
Written by Nikesh Shukla (editor of The Good Immigrant) and illustrated by Camille Aubry (A Journey to Motherhood) – the latter of whom I first met at an ELCAF portfolio…
Alexandra Gallant-Lee’s This Place is a Prison, These People Aren’t Your Friends is a zine-style exploration of a subject that is unafraid to ask difficult questions. Using her background in…
As I’ve said before when reviewing the Colossive Cartographies series there’s sometimes a dilemma as to whether the reader should bring their own interpretation to their fold-out zine narratives or…
The winner of the 2025 Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction, Mohammad Sabaaneh’s 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide was one four comics offerings on the atrocities in…
Announced just before the weekend by Publishers Weekly, Fantagraphics have secured the rights to R. E. Burke’s graphic memoir Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility. As long-term Broken Frontier…
What can one say about the work and influence of the late Kevin O’Neill that has not been said before? As a child growing up during the Golden Age of…
I probably say it to the point of tedium but on the few occasions that we do review super-hero comics at Broken Frontier it’s because they have something different to…
Last year the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – an event that has been running in multiple versions online and in-person since the summer of 2015 –…
And here we are with another monthly look at what we’ve been up to behind the scenes at Broken Frontier. This time around things are going to be a little…
Oni Press’s EC Comics revival has been notable not just for bringing non-super-hero genre comics fiction to the fore but for being at the front of a mini resurgence in…
Hog Hog: A Hedgehog Anthology comes to us via 2026 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell. Its origins lie in the artist’s recent fascination with hedgehogs,…
While the Colossive Cartographies series constantly crosses through illustrative mediums its sixty-ninth issue, ‘A Fragile Obsession’ by Mel Gale, undeniably fits into the category of minicomic. Its 16-panel comic strip…
Stories about quiet seaside towns with something dark to hide feel almost like a sub-genre of British horror in themselves. Dix’s The Idris File follows the 1970s exploits of teenage…
“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
“Our Work is Rooted in South Asian Identity and Community-Led Histories” – Exploring the Publishing Output and Ethos of Kutty Press with Bhavani Balasubramanyam and Deepesh SangtaniMay 18, 2026
“There’s Value in Being the Oddbeat Offering Which Has an Unusual Niche” – Steve Morris Talks about Shelfdust’s Approach to Comics Criticism and Where it All Went Wrong for Comics Commentary OnlineMay 11, 2026
“It’s About Queerness, Family, Loyalty, Grief, and at its Core Love in All its Forms”- Bex Glendining on Debut Graphic Novel ‘On Starlit Shores’April 2, 2026
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
