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With Eisner nominations, Ignatz wins and, of course, that Broken Frontier Awards triumph in the our Breakout Talent category, it can hardly be said that Tillie Walden’s comics output has…
By its very definition editor Rozi Hathaway’s new multi-creator Sneaky Business anthology is a difficult prospect for any reviewer to tackle. Comprised of 17 short strips – most of them…
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Ellice Weaver’s beautifully constructed short narratives make stunning yet delicately crafted use of colour to evoke mood and enhance atmosphere. Her work has a genuinely distinctive visual identity while her subject matter has…
Cetacean-based punnery, the inviting sights of London Fashion Week and pedalling camelopards were just some of the themes of the latest Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw night…
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Fresh from her Ignatz triumph this weekend, Broken Frontier 2015 Breakout Talent Award winner Tillie Walden has announced her latest project On a Sunbeam – a self-published, sci-fi style webcomic. It…
It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns this month on September 20th. As ever, your co-hosts for the night are myself (Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief…
Collecting a selection of diary strips from Alex Hahn’s webcomic series, Post Conatus: Going Home details a specific period in the illustrator’s life in 2013 when, prior to beginning a…
This Saturday, September 17th, sees the latest DIY Art Market at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham. The regular event is described by its organisers as “a celebration of London’s independent…
Simon Moreton’s work has always been an enduring reminder that the seemingly smallest moments of life can be the most profound, that the fragility of existence can be captured in…
Circuitous in narrative and largely indefinable in premise beyond the most superficial terms, Patrick Kyle’s Don’t Come in Here from the ever essential Koyama Press is a meandering yet gloriously oblique…
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For a creator who is so adept at eliciting such powerful emotional responses in his readership there’s perhaps something surprisingly sedate about the pacing of an Andy Poyiadgi comic. It’s…
A revealing reflection on the relationships that guide our passage through life and the richness of the bonds of family. It’s hardly the most perceptive of observations to make but…
Triumphantly flamboyant exhibitionism to some… ludicrous, pointless pantomime to others… the world of wrestling is certainly a divisive one. Josh Hicks embraces these contradictions in his self-published short comic Glorious…
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Last Driver – the latest project from London-based micropublisher Dead Canary Comics – hits Kickstarter today and gives Dead Canary co-publisher C.S. Baker the dream opportunity to see his dystopic sci-fi romp brought…
Back in the early 1980s Altered Images memorably sang about the forgotten fate of ‘Dead Pop Stars’ reaching out from beyond the grave to implore fans to remember their one-time…
Championing work we believe in, promoting creators with something important to say, and spotlighting publications that are worthy of far wider attention are staples of Broken Frontier’s philosophy of coverage. Every…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! For well over a decade Decadence Comics have been showcasing their own particular brand of socio-political sci-fi, with their eponymous anthology comic acting as the micropublisher’s flagship…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Throughout this past week at Broken Frontier we’ve been previewing some of the new releases from Breakdown Press that you can pick up at Safari Festival this…
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
