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It’s very easy to get jaded in the comics commentary game as press release after press release comes in about the 400 variant covers on the latest issue of Captain…
A little treat for you today at BF with this exclusive advance look at pages from Ennis and Burrows’ Babs: The Black Road South, published by Ahoy Comics. Check out…
2000 AD’s 50th birthday is fast approaching and the celebrations are starting early this Autumn with a series of The Day of Dredd signings. They are The Law – legendary…
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 Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…
It’s always pleasing to see small pressers whose work has appeared in shorter-form making the transition to full-length graphic novels. Molly Pukes, whose comics you may have enjoyed in various…
So… if you’re exhibiting in Harrogate in November then our pals on the TB team will have e-mailed you this week with the below offer for our annual ‘Thought Bubble…
Back in 2022 we covered Lyndon White’s fantasy graphic novel Candles at Broken Frontier, calling it ” a much deserved moment in the spotlight for the stunning visuals of Lyndon…
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,…
We’re all about the emerging talent here at Broken Frontier so a quick follow-up to a story we ran earlier this year about the Top Cow Talent Hunt for 2026….
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Our final exclusive preview today for our August celebrations of Fantagraphics’ 50th birthday. Bringing both translated work and classic comics from yesteryear to new readerships are two…
One of a small number of micropublishers in the UK and Ireland still putting out anthology titles with regularity, Limit Break Comics have announced the crowdfunding campaign for their latest…
London’s queer comic fair inQ! returns at the end of September with double the days and double the exhibitors. The firest edition of this in 2024 was an amazing day…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Heading into the weekend with our penultimate exclusive preview of our celebratory Fantagraphics month and this time it’s from The Mess, the much anticipated new graphic novel…
Marvel continue to license out their classic back catalogue to other publishers like Dark Horse, Fantagraphics and Clover Press but it’s leading to some interesting approaches including the upcoming The…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! At the beginning of our celebration of 50 years of Fantagraphics at Broken Frontier this past month we interviewed Jesse Moynihan about his epic saga Forming. Jesse…
One final Comics Cultural Impact Collective online roundtable meeting for the moment with a Scottish Comics Roundtable coming in September. There’s an incredible evolving small press and indie scene in…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! A couple of weeks ago at Broken Frontier our Swati Nair reviewed the first volume of Marina Lisa Komiya’s On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
