Celebrating 2024 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
First as part of our now retired ‘Small Pressganged’ feature, and now as an annual standalone feature, we have been running our ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to…
Author: Andy Oliver
Monster Fun #26 – The Abrupt Cancellation of Rebellion’s Wonderful All-Ages Anthology Series Poses Important Questions About the Future of UK Periodical Comics for Kids
When the news hit in November that Rebellion’s much lauded Monster Fun monthly – the re-imagining of the classic 1970s British weekly comic – was coming to a premature end…
Colossive Cartographies #61 – Julian Payne’s ‘Women’s Work’ is a Reminder that the Erasure of Women’s Contributions to History Goes Back Far Further than We Imagine
One of the most impressive aspects of the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series is the way in which they can explore big ideas or hugely important themes in such a…
GOOF – Pure, Unadulterated Fun for Kids from Marc Jackson, Charlie Adlard, Tor Freeman, Rachael Smith, James Kochalka and Company
Described as “the world’s goofiest comics magazine!”, editor Marc Jackson’s GOOF is a fun collection of short humour comic strips by an extremely impressive line-up of creators from across the…
All in Line – From Absurdist Whimsy to Anti-Fascist Statements, New York Review Books Bring Saul Steinberg’s Classic Collection of Cartooning Back to Print
Over the last few years we have reviewed a number of books from the direction of New York Review Books/New York Review Comics. Putting their original material to one side…
A Little Book of Comic Shop Price Stickers – Tom Oldham Makes the Ephemeral Vital in this Dark & Golden Books Offering
As someone who once wrote a Masters dissertation that included an evaluation of the importance of ephemera as social history (in regards to collection development in academic libraries) a project…
Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2024 – In a Year of Turmoil Escapism Goes Hand in Hand with Activism in 2024’s Nominations
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 21st annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
Cutting Season – Discover the Achingly Beautiful in the Bleakly Grotesque in Bhanu Pratap’s Collection from Fantagraphics Underground
I first discovered Bhanu Pratap’s work back in the pages of Fantagraphics’ NOW anthology. As all the best anthologies are, NOW has always been an excellent introductory point to exciting…
Happy New Year! Looking Back on 2024 at Broken Frontier and What You Can Expect from BF in 2025
Welcome back to Broken Frontier Towers as we re-emerge after our Christmas and New Year break. Though to be honest “break” is something of a misnomer. It was less time…
Happy Holidays from All of Us Here at Broken Frontier Towers! – We’ll Be Back on January 6th, 2025
Happy Holidays! We’re shutting up shop now here at BF Towers for a seasonal break as we recharge our batteries and look forward to the new year. We will be…
The Rocketfellers #1 and #2 – Family Relationships and Time-Travel Witness Protection in Tomasi and Manapul’s Instantly Engaging New Ghost Machine Series
If there’s one thing that’s undeniable about the first two issues of Peter J. Tomasi and Francis Manapul’s The Rocketfellers it’s that the reader is thrown headfirst into events without…
Colossive Cartographies #60 – A Brief But Poignant Character Study of the Troubled Life of ‘Julie’ from Liver & Lights
As we like to remind you every time we look at one of Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines some are most definitely comics while others fit into…
Dark Horse to Bring J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr’s Slice-of-Life Masterpiece ‘Brooklyn Dreams’ Back to Print in 2025
Well, this is very welcome news. J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr’s Brooklyn Dreams is one of my all-time favourite comics works. It’s nothing short of a masterpiece of its genre….
Coming Home #2 – The “Veterans’ Mental Health Stories” Anthology Returns with a Hard-Hitting LGBTQ+ Focus
In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…
Blinded #1 – A Tour-de-Force Showcase for the Letterer’s Craft in Rob Jones and Joe S. Farrar’s Experimental Story of Coming to Terms with Losing Your Sight
Covering work that is not just experimental but also actively interrogates the potential of the form is a central part of our mission here at Broken Frontier. In Blinded writer…
Ugly Mug #8 – A Welcome Return to the “Industrial Strength Comics Compendium” from the House of Harley
Now settled firmly into an annual publication schedule, Ugly Mug #8 lives up to its tagline of “an industrial strength comics compendium” with another bumper collection of comic strips and…
“Thought Bubble Feels as Much Like Visiting Loved Family as It Does a Comics Convention” – BF’s Andy Oliver Looks Back at Thought Bubble 2024
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It’s the great UK comics end-of-year party and this year, for the first time since 2019, Cinderella did finally get to go to the ball. The…
Submissions for the First Graphic Novel Award to Open in January 2025 for Emerging Comics Creators
As someone who, back in the mists of time, was a judge for the second edition of what is now the First Graphic Novel Award I can certainly attest to…
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“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
“Themes Around Human Connection and Loneliness Are a Constant Throughline in All of My Works” – Rein Lee on Exploring Identity and Queerness in Comics, and Finding Your Way in the Small Press CommunityOctober 28, 2025
The Tale Spinner – Karrie Fransman’s Immersive Peepshow/3D Comic that Can’t Be Replicated by Al Comes to Thought BubbleOctober 28, 2025