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CCIC Follows Up the UK Comics Creators Research Report with Online Roundtable Event ‘This Mess Won’t Fix Itself: COMICS CREATORS’ on May 26th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 15, 2026

Last week at Broken Frontier we posted about the results of the UK Comics Creators Research Report for 2025 which made for fascinating reading. The next step, of course, is…

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“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 Online

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 11, 2026

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…

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Creators of Comics Struggling to Survive Despite a Thriving Industry – The UK Comics Creators Research Report 2025 Reveals the Harsh Realities of Working in Comics Today

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2026

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,…

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Scribble through the Struggle – Young Comics Laureate Mollie Ray’s Social Media Initiative Sees Charlie Adlard, Bobby Joseph, Hannah Berry and More Talking about Not Giving Up on Your Creative Dreams

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 5, 2026

Running between April 25th and May 2nd on Instagram ‘Scribble through the Struggle’ (#Scribblethroughthestruggle) was the recent initiative to for comics artists to “share a moment when they could have…

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Preparing for Pride Month 2026 at Broken Frontier – Interview (and Other) Coverage Opportunities for Your Queer Comics in June!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 30, 2026

While Broken Frontier actively support and promotes queer comics work all year round we also like to do something special for Pride Month in June too. Over the last few…

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Scribble through the Struggle – UK Young Comics Laureate Mollie Ray Invites Comic Artists to Share a Moment when They Could Have Given Up on Their Creative Dream, but Didn’t

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 25, 2026

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’…

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The Gallery – Take a Look at Some of the Amazing Art from February’s Two In-Person Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Evenings!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 5, 2026

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 –…

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#Comics4Liam Invites Comics Creators from Around the US and the World to Create Art in Support of Liam Conejo Ramos and Families Impacted by ICE

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 2, 2026

I think we can agree this is something special that we can all get behind. Full details of Comix Action’s #Comics4Liam initative in the press release below… #Comics4Liam invites comics…

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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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Slow Feet Comics Announce Anti-Fascist, Anti-Hate Comics Anthology ‘Horror Not Hate’ – Sign Up for the Pre-Launch Page on Kickstarter

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 10, 2025

Details below on Horror Not Hate, a new socially conscious comics anthology to mirror the times we live in… The newly minted Slow Feet Comics has announced a new horror…

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“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! This weekend Thought Bubble hosts drop-in portfolio review sessions. Organised by that great comics community booster Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard, The Department of Truth, Sleeping Beauties)…

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Rebecca Hall, Creator of ‘Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts’, Announces Wake Productions, an AfroFuturist Education Project Based in the Black Radical Tradition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 15, 2025

Back in 2021 Dr. Rebecca Hall, alongside illustrator Hugo Martinez, won that year’s Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction for Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. It’s…

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Small Press Day 2025 – How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting with BF’s Andy Oliver as Part of SPD/Our ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ Initiative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2025

It’s nearly here! In just under three weeks Small Press Day returns on Saturday, July 19th. With event notifications coming in fast and furious there are some incredible SPD celebrations…

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Broken Frontier Andytorial, July 2025 – What’s Coming Up on the Site this Month, the Return of a London Comics Community Institution, and BF Breaks a New Comic Frontier at the V&A in London

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2025

Way back in the mists of time, when I first took ownership of Broken Frontier in 2017, we used to start the week off with a short blog piece called…

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Thought Bubble and Travelling Man Team Up to Provide Another Round of Micro-Bursaries in 2025 for Early Career, Marginalised Creators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2025

We are all very aware of what harrowing times we are living in and of the challenges now facing marginalised communities. At the beginning of the year we spoke about…

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Generative AI Art and Comics, an Articles Series at Broken Frontier – Guidelines for Contributors

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2025

There are few discussions that have brought the comics community together as firmly in recent years as the threat of generative AI “art”. In the same vein as some of…

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“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press Perspective

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2025

Many years ago, on a panel at the late, lamented London shop Orbital Comics, I was asked about my role in comics journalism. My answer was a simple one. “I’m…

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Preparing for Pride Month 2025 at Broken Frontier – Creator Commentary and Coverage Opportunities for Your Queer Comics in June!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 8, 2025

Pride Month is very important to us every year here at Broken Frontier. Last year at BF we managed to get a review, interview, feature or creator commentary up every…

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