Thought Bubble is coming and, in the fortnight leading up to the festival weekend, we’re running a series of previews at BF of some of the debut books that have…
Lazaretto artist Jey Levang’s name will hardly be an unfamiliar one to regular visitors to Broken Frontier. Levang’s work has been regularly covered here for some years beginning with their…
It’s festival season in the UK and, with Thought Bubble fast approaching on the horizon, we’re sifting through the annual plethora of debut comic, graphic novel and zine coverage requests…
This week sees the release of the Lazaretto miniseries from BOOM! Studios, a book that we’ve been eagerly anticipating here at Broken Frontier for some time given that it represents…
Last Friday, September 1st, saw publishers, creators (and even the odd comic commentator) come together in London’s West End to celebrate ten years of SelfMadeHero – undeniably one of the…
If you’re a long-time aficionado of Doctor Who – the BBC’s 54-year-old science fiction series – then you’ll be aware that when its titular hero crosses his own timeline it…
Borderliners: True Realities is a book that is unashamed to wear its fannish influences on its sleeves. Brian Gorman’s two-decades-in-the-making graphic novel (see his creator’s commentary here at Broken Frontier a few…
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One of the great joys of overseeing our various Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programmes at BF is observing the artists involved as their work evolves and…
One of the many new releases to debut at Safari Festival earlier this month, Joseph P Kelly’s Paywall was a book we also included in our list of Staff Picks…
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The Newcastle-based Paper Jam Comics Collective celebrated their tenth anniversary this year and also put out their fourteenth anthology offering – the all-ages Amazing Adventure Comics Machine …and That, which…
There’s less than a month to go until this year’s Thought Bubble – rescheduled to September this year – which means the Broken Frontier team are preparing for the best part of…
Back in 2013 Isabel Greenberg was the winner of the Breakout Talent category in our annual Broken Frontier Awards for her much lauded debut graphic novel The Encyclopedia of Early…
It’s fast approaching that time of the month again when we look forward to another guest-artist filled D&D! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back on Tuesday August…
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Earlier this year UK small press mainstay Sean Azzopardi spoke in length to us at Broken Frontier here about the creative process behind his (then) upcoming autobiographical comic 50 –…
A couple of years ago I was collared at a comics festival – exactly which one now is lost in the mists of my middle-aged memory I’m afraid – by…
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A few months back we reported on ‘It’s Going to Be Okay‘, an exhibition of the work of cartoonist Matt Boyce at Beer Rebellion in London’s Gypsy Hill (above) at…
The main UK festival season is rapidly approaching and with it comes the usual welcome influx of launch announcements. Today we’re previewing one of Avery Hill Publishing’s Autumn debuts which…
Kicking off the week with this ‘A View from the Frontier’ update is about giving our audience a look at the behind-the-scenes, off-the-site world of Broken Frontier. After all, BF’s…
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