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Helioscope Announces New Mentorship Program – Claire Scott and Emilie Kelly Are Their Current Mentees with Applications Opening for 2026 this Autumn

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 23, 2026

And another opportunity for aspiring creators to spotlight today at BF. Details of the mentoring initiative from Helioscope below. Helioscope Announces New Mentorship Program The interdisciplinary program pairs the next generation…

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The Top Cow Talent Hunt 2026 is Open – Breakthrough Artists Sought to Work on ‘Witchblade’ and ‘The Darkness’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 23, 2026

Another opportunity for emerging creators to spotlight here at BF. Details on the Top Cow Talent Hunt 2026 below… Top Cow Productions, Inc. Announces the Witchblade and The Darkness Top…

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Laser Eye Surgery – Walker Tate Blurs the Boundaries of Reality in this Fantagraphics Underground Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2026

From New Yorker cartoonist Walker Tate, Laser Eye Surgery comes to its audience via the Fantagraphics Underground imprint. It represents Tate’s first full-length comics offering and centres on an unnamed…

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Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen – Kate Evans’s Portrait of Jane Austen Beyond the Literary Icon, from Verso Books

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 21, 2026

There are many names throughout literature that are known as ‘the greats’: Dickens, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, and countless others. And amongst them sits one of the most radical female…

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The Lexicon of Comicana – Mort Walker’s Exploration of the Language of Comics Comes Back to Print Via New York Review Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2026

The Lexicon of Comicana by cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) was something of a thematic forerunner of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. It represents Walker’s attempt to catalogue…

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Broken Frontier Awards 2025: Announcing the Winners – Comics Centring on Gaza Win Nearly a Third of the Categories and London’s Cartoon Museum and Conundrum Press Enter Our Hall of Fame

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 19, 2026

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 22nd annual BF Awards, as voted for by you, our readers, and the BF team. Socio-political reportage, comics for the 7-14 years…

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Adieu Birkenau – Ginette Kolinka’s Powerful, Time-Shifting Story of Holocaust Survival from SelfMadeHero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 19, 2026

What perhaps sets Adieu Birkenau apart from some other graphic memoirs/biographies is the time-shifting commentary on events from its subject Ginette Kolinka. We observe Kolinka both as a young woman…

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Preview: Twin Lotuses – Zhang Xiayou’s First Ever English Language Graphic Novel Coming from Magnetic Press this April

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 16, 2026

It’s the end of the week so it’s time to go into the weekend with a Friday afternoon preview! This week we’re taking a look at Twin Lotuses by Zhang…

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Colossive Cartographies #68 – Michelle Kent Invites Us to ‘Hit Escape’ and Get Away from Everything

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 15, 2026

We have, admittedly, a little bit of catching up to do with our coverage of the Colossive Press series of Colossive Cartographies fold-out zines. So we are going to endeavour…

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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 Chiu

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 15, 2026

Once again at this point in the year I am going to repeat the sentiments of twelve months before. Every time we make our Broken Frontier Six to Watch announcement…

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Rebellion and the Treasury of British Comics Announce New ‘Action 50th Anniversary Special’ for 2026

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 14, 2026

With their Action archive edition incoming Rebellion have announced a new Action Special for the controversial and short-lived British weekly’s 50th anniversary. While characters from the comic appeared in last…

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Lotus’ Dream – Spiritual Darkness and Gay Fantasy Counterpoint Each Other in Wilson So’s Collection of Three Comics Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2026

Collecting shortform comics stories together in one package provides an excellent means for self-published creators to showcase their storytelling abilities over multiple themes and approaches. In Lotus’ Dream artist Wilson…

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Gaza in My Phone – Mazen Kerbaj’s Powerful Account of Genocide is a Collection of Defiant Cartooning that Everyone Needs to Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2026

We have covered a lot of comics and cartooning work on the genocide in Gaza over the last year. Some of it has come directly from those living the nightmare….

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I Couldn’t Stand By – New PositiveNegatives/SOAS Exhibition Focusses on the Impact Young People Have on Rebuilding Communities

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 12, 2026

We have given the work of PositiveNegatives much deserved coverage in the past at Broken Frontier. Their latest exhibition ‘I Couldn’t Stand By’, in collaboration with SOAS, is another opportunity…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE New Year Special on Thurs, January 15th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2026

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week after a vacation break with a New Year Special and we’re inviting you to join…

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How to Make Life Better When It Feels Like It’s Getting Worse – Fluffy is Back: A Tender, Timely Coming-of-Age Twenty Years on from Simone Lia

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 9, 2026

Way back between the years of 2003 and 2005, there was one indie comic in particular that stands out in my memory as something completely distinct. Simone Lia’s Fluffy, published…

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Preview: Silent Pictures – Kevin O’Neill’s Final Books ‘Feartreland’ and ‘The Balaclava Kid’ Available from Knockabout and Gosh! Comics this Month

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 9, 2026

Exciting news indeed today with the announcement that Kevin O’Neill’s final comics projects Feartreland and The Balaclava Kid, the two volumes that make up Silent Pictures, will be available this…

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Lavender Clouds: Comics About Neurodivergence and Mental Health – Bex Ollerton’s Collection of Short Strips is Beautifully Eloquent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2026

In my opening 2026 Broken Frontier article I mentioned that this year we wanted to underline our commitment to covering socially relevant comics work with a renewed vigour. That will…

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