The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns for its sixth revived outing at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, February 13th, 2026. And this time we have a super artist line-up of Rein Lee, Matthew Dooley and Mark Stafford.
Poster by Mark Stafford
Again, don’t worry if you’re not London-based, our online version still happens regardless. Our reborn “real world” event though continues the past tradition of rotating guest artists alongside our new artist-in-residence Mark Stafford. Co-hosts are BF’s Andy Oliver and Gosh!’s Will Humberstone. The evening starts at Gosh! at 6.30pm with the three rounds of themed drawing taking place in The Royal George from 7pm onwards. Please note: seating is limited and priority will be given to those who meet at the shop. Work from the featured artists will be on sale on the evening.
So onto our artistic line-up for February…
Rein Lee is one of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists (class of 2025). As I have said before at BF, Rein’s work is hauntingly gorgeous in composition and constantly experimental in presentation, whether that be in format or layout. Their comics have included the flipbook format Tidal Waves telling a story about a toxic relationship from two perspectives, and My Taxidermy Angel, exploring themes of queerness and identity in metaphorical terms.
You can read a major interview with Rein here at BF.
Matthew Dooley is a veteran of the UK indie scene with his work appearing in anthologies like OFF Life and Dirty Rotten Comics in the 2010s and his own self-published comics like The Practical Implications of Immortality and Catastrophising. His first long-form graphic novel Flake – the story of warring ice cream men in a seaside town – was published by Cape in 2020 and won the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. In recent years his flip book comics with Joe Stone have become a Thought Bubble tradition with the latest one being Spite. Matthew’s latest graphic novel is Aristotle’s Cuttlefish. Look for a review of that here at BF soon.
You can read a major interview with Matthew here at BF.
Mark Stafford was a contributor to the 2016 Broken Frontier Anthology and is the Cartoon Museum’s artist-in-residence. He has been a frequent collaborator with writer David Hine including books like The Man Who Laughs and Lip Hook. His shortform work has been collected by Soaring Penguin Press as Salmonella Smorgasbord.
