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Beatrice Mossman has been cultivating a growing audience of admirers over the last couple of years for her tactile, experimental comics that have their roots in horror motifs, coming-of-age standards,…
Pinned post! Want to know more about the history, mission and ethos of Broken Frontier? We have a handy guide here to who we are and what we do, complete…
The announcements from Dark Horse just keep on coming this month. Next up is Project Monarch, from Oeming and Santos. More details in the press release below. THIS JUST IN:…
We’ve featured the work of ComicBooks For Kids! before at Broken Frontier, back when their operations expanded to the UK in 2022. The charity’s aim is a simple one: “to…
The next exhibition from our chums at the Cartoon Museum in London has been announced as ‘Gerry Anderson’s Century 21’ opens in March. Fans of the influential TV Century 21…
The plight of those affected by the refugee crisis has been conveyed to wider audiences with great empathy by many comics projects over the last decade, both online and in…
As dates for the 2023 comics festival circuit start being announced, here’s a look at the guests and details for this year’s Lake Como Comic Art Festival. Lake Como Comic…
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The autobiographical works of Sean Azzopardi recently found a new “home” under the banner imprint of Life’s a Party. One of the UK’s greatest, yet still criminally underappreciated, proponents of…
A busy week or so for press releases from Dark Horse Comics. Here’s all the info on June’s new survival story Lost Boy. DARK HORSE BOOKS PRESENTS: “LOST BOY” A…
SlefMadeHero have made their Spring 2023 publishing slate known and there’s some huge names involved this time around including perennial SMH faves Reinhard Kleist and Oscar Zarate. Full info below….
Our very own R. E. Burke is looking for submissions for her new mental health-focussed comics anthology Over-Inkers. The theme of the first issue is ‘Strength’ and she describes what…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, January 26th. Not only do our online D&Ds keep all…
Originally presented via the #ASDComicTakeover tag on social media, the short comics collected in the pages of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum – An Autistic Comics Anthology come to us…
Note to publisher publicity departments: We can only publish a selection of news stories but as we’re Broken Frontier you’re upping your chances of that press release getting a spotlight…
Feeding into our obsessions with gentle reality TV shows and adding a wicked twist, The Great British Bump-Off comes to us via John Allison, Max Sarin, Sammy Borras, Jim Campbell…
They’re referred to as ‘truth bombs’, defined as ‘blunt, undiplomatic statements of something true that others may not want or expect to hear.’ You can experience a whole lot of…
Maria Medem’s body of work seems to exist as a record of some alternative envisioned landscape. There are certain key formal aspects to her style: a fine, clear-line for example,…
Reports of UFO sightings and alien abduction begin roughly around the same time manned space flights began. As ghosts represent the landed gentry’s guilt over their legacies, Dracula’s a xenophobic…
Something that sounds well worth looking out for this summer as Titan announce a new graphic biography of the legendary Gil Scott-Heron… TITAN COMICS TO PUBLISH IN SEARCH OF GIL…
Out this week from Dark Horse Comics, Eric Nguyen and Scott Burman’s White Savior takes a deeply problematic cinematic standard and puts a new and very distinct spin on it….
“I Always Think that Humor is the Best Way to Get Any Message Across” – Eric Nguyen on Subverting a Narrative Trope in ‘White Savior’ from Dark HorseJanuary 17, 2023
Inside Look: A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings – Will Betke-Brunswick Talks About Their Graphic Memoir on the Mother-Child Relationship, Loss, and Coming Out as GenderqueerJanuary 17, 2023
“I Am My Favourite Subject” – Paul B. Rainey on ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’, His First Work with D+QJanuary 12, 2023
Broken Frontier at 20 – The Comics Community on Creators They’ve Discovered During Two Decades of BF!November 4, 2022
“Community Growth Continues to Be a Positive Area of Development” – Sean Azzopardi on Taking the Medium to New Audiences and His Own Autobio Comics PracticeNovember 4, 2022
