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    The Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Are Going to ARC! – Where to Catch Our Mentored Artists at the Festival this Weekend

    • by Andy Oliver

    ARC FESTIVAL 2026! As you will have been reading for the last two weeks here at BF the ARC Festival of contemporary comics hits London this weekend and there’s plenty…

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Introducing ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ – The Next Step in BF’s Ethos of Proactive Comics Community Support

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

PINNED POST! Introducing Broken Frontier Connects, the next stage in our evolution! Broken Frontier Connects is our new initiative designed to extend our community hub philosophy. BF already has an…

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Limbo – Themes of Colonialism and Folklore Converge in Ferry Gouw’s Atmospheric Story from Breakdown Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! “I think Limbo is probably the best work I’ve ever done in any medium.” When a creator makes a statement like that in an interview it’s obviously something…

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Pricks #5 – Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan Continue to Expose the Worst Corners of Society in the Small Press Scene’s Finest Satirical Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! New issues of Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Pricks have been one of the highlights of the debut releases at Thought Bubble over the last few years….

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Caribou #1-3 – Francis Todd’s Experimental Anthology Series Has an Unforgettably Nightmarish Quality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! When we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ back in January I spoke in more depth about why alt-style comics artist Francis Todd had been…

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Judge Dredd to Meet the Biker Mice from Mars in a Rebellion and Oni Press Crossover

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 7, 2026

Judge Dredd and the Biker Mice from Mars? Not a crossover you might have expected but it is coming! Details in the press release below… YOU CAN’T OUTRACE THE LAW!…

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Periodical – A Refreshingly Honest Anthology on Periods with Work from Rachael Ball, Rebecca Lightbody, Rebecca K Jones and More

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 7, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Periodical is a rather aptly named anthology of nine comics from nine different creators, all centred around periods. The title itself grew out of a hilarious misunderstanding…

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“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Back in 2020 Henry McCausland’s breakout work, Eight-Lane Runaways from Fantagraphics, caught our attention so much at BF that it earned the artist a nomination in the…

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Drake & Dog Armed – Meta and Absurdist Detective Fiction from UK Small Press National Treasure Ed Pinsent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! For the uninitiated, UK cartoonist Ed Pinsent has been creating and self-publishing comics since the early 1980s. His characters psychic detective Drake Ullingsworth and companion Dog, the…

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Smoke – Fidelia Schlegl’s Wordless Abstract Narrative Asks Us to Consider How We Interact with the Medium

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! A new indie micropress is always an exciting development on the UK circuit and when it’s as experimentally focussed as Francis Todd’s Blue Funnel Books all the…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON for an ARC Festival Special – Meet Our Guest Artists Matt Seneca, Niall Breen and Mark Stafford on Friday, July 10th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 3, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns at our regular venue of The Royal George on Friday, July 10th, 2026. And this time…

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“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of Amphibians

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 3, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Swedish artist Linnea Sterte has been stunning us with the most visually eloquent linework since their breakout work Stages of Rot nearly a decade ago. From alien…

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Built for Love – Shri Gunasekara Reflects on the Concept of Love in this Beautifully Illustrated Short Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 3, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Last year at Broken Frontier I was so taken by artist Shri Gunasekara’s experimental, landscape format comic Runner that I just knew she had to be a…

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Absolute Cinema and Other Stories – Joe Stone Interrogates the Form in an Outstanding Collection of Comics Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! In terms of themes or genre you never know quite what you’re going to get from a Joe Stone comic. Sometimes you are treated to the kind…

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Colossive Cartographies #71 – Matt Canning’s Cyclical Comic ‘Autoloop’ is a Playful and Fun Use of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! The Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series is one of those absolute gems of UK small press publishing that will hopefully be finding an entire new audience of…

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Filth – Underground Kingdom Comix Take a Transgressive Turn in an Anthology Including Mat Greaves, Vincent Bell Robertson and Struan Sloan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! It’s been a while since we gave time to the Underground Kingdom Comix crew so it seems fitting that we give some space to their most recent,…

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Dot Comics #1 – A. T. Pratt Reminds Us of the Full Potential of the Physicality of the Form in Another Remarkably Tactile Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I took a look at A. T. Pratt’s tribute to New York iconography in Big Apple Matinee; a remarkable pop-up comic…

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Broken Frontier Andytorial for July 2026 – Our ARC Festival Coverage Has Begun!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2026

So… the very briefest of Andytorials this month because we are soooooooo busy at Broken Frontier Towers right now. Events on the site and events off the site have precedence….

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‘Belgian Comics Now’ Comes to the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival in 2026

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 30, 2026

LICAF have announced a major new initiative for the festival this year. Full details below on ‘Belgian Comics Now’. Best of Belgian Talent comes to the Lake District to celebrate…

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The Interpretant – Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro Return with More Intriguing Questions About the Nature of Humanity 

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 30, 2026

One of the many things that make comic books great is how they can be used to explore existential questions. This may be because visual metaphors are always great for…

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