THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Peony Gent has never been one to shy away from a longer title for her projects and her latest…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! We first covered Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith’s Who Killed Nessie? last year with an interview for its initially self-published crowdfunding campaign. This cryptid murder mystery…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Can it really be an entire eight years since Hannah Berry’s last work in comics in the pages of the Broken Frontier Award-winning graphic novel Livestock?…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! The last time we talked with Dave Cook his first Killtopia cyberpunk series had just been collected and published by Titan. With the second arc Killtopia:…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Hourly Comic Day strips can be a variable reading experience when compiled simply because their method of delivery was never about eventual collection; more about the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Neill Cameron’s Donut Squad has become one of the absolute highlights of UK kids weekly comic The Phoenix in recent months. I described it here at…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Let’s say this yet again. The more I read of Rein Lee’s comics the more convinced I am of their place as one of the most…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Jua OK!’s Road to Chimera instantly strikes the reader with its powerful and expressive use of visual metaphor. Described as a book that “explores themes of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! I am probably breaking some unspoken rule of reviewing by writing about R. E. Burke’s Diary of a Detainee given that I am, of course, personally…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! With her short comic Fury 2020 Broken Frontier Six to Watch artist Dominique Duong gives us a story that is told initially with intense full-page imagery…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! As it’s Halloween it seems most appropriate to be running our interview with Armored writer Michael Schwartz today at Broken Frontier. Illustrated by Ismael Hernández, Armored…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! It’s an old comics storytelling trick but it’s an effective one. By casting either themself in the form of an on-page animal avatar cartoonists can often…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! After choosing the self-publishing route writer-artist Joe Latham came to much wider attention recently with his acclaimed Haru graphic novel trilogy from Andrews McMeel. I reviewed…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! From diary comics to Chaucer adaptations Kristen Haas Curtis’s work can never be said to be predictable. Kristen will be moderating the ‘Out of Olde Bokes:…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! When I discovered the work of self-published comics artist Rein Lee at the inQ! queer comics fair last year I pretty much instantly knew that they were…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Is there anyone in UK comics who thinks more deeply about taking comics into new spaces and finding uses of the form that push at its…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! The ever versatile Shane Melisse, aka Shanefaced, has proven himself at home in multiple genres but one of the things he does the very best is…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! An early entry in the graphic medicine area of comics, Al Davison’s The Spiral Cage was first published in 1988 and followed his life living with…
“It’s Tough Out There, But You’re Absolutely Not Alone!” – Dave Cook on ‘Killtopia: Phantoms’, Challenging Times for Crowdfunding, and Returning to Thought BubbleNovember 5, 2025“My Brain Broke, and Out Came Donuts” – Neill Cameron Looks Back on ‘Mega Robo Bros’ and Forward with ‘Donut Squad’, the Latest Smash Hit Strip from the Pages of ‘The Phoenix’November 4, 2025“The Biggest Challenge for Me Was Having to Think More Like a Director” – Michael Schwartz on Writing for Comics for the First Time and His Supernatural Ghost Story ‘Armored’October 31, 2025“It’s a Fantasy Adventure about Growing Up” – Joe Latham Talks ‘Haru’, the Self-Publishing Journey, and Using Colour as a Narrative ToolOctober 30, 2025“I Cannot Wait to Really Dig into the Nuts and Bolts of Literary Adaptation” – Kristen Haas Curtis on Bringing Chaucer to Comics and on Moderating the Thought Bubble Literary Adaptation PanelOctober 29, 2025
