THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Last year at Thought Bubble Avery Hill launched the Adrift on a Painted Sea exhibition which combined work from Tim Bird’s graphic memoir about his late…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! So this is an intriguing little curiosity. Pamphlet 01 (subtitled The Interuniversal Newsletter for Humanoids) comes to us via creator Bryan Lim Junyan and new Singaporean…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Rachael Smith’s Kickstarter for the collected Nap Comix launched this week so it’s a most opportune time to welcome Rachael (the most interviewed creator ever at…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Alison Sampson’s work has been seen over an incredibly wide-ranging number of genres over the last decade or so. She’s a remarkably versatile artist and writer,…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Claire O’Brien’s The Owl Lady fits into that traditional idea of the minicomic before that word became horribly overused and lost all meaning. Short in page…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Welcome to our celebration of all things TB for 2025! Last year at Broken Frontier we extended our annual coverage of Thought Bubble by turning two…
The following review of Brooklyn Dreams first appeared at Broken Frontier in 2012 when IDW reprinted the series in hardcover form. With Dark Horse Comics republishing it this month it…
Back in 2021 Dr. Rebecca Hall, alongside illustrator Hugo Martinez, won that year’s Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction for Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. It’s…
Back in the summer we had the opportunity to run our very own Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ panel as part of the reborn Caption Festival in Oxford. Myself (Andy…
Janne Marie Dauer’s ‘The Big Spill’ (mini kuš! #132) takes the Latvian minicomics series in a deliciously bizarre direction. This one is, perhaps, a little more densely packed than some…
You may notice that this month’s round-up of the behind-the-scenes happenings at BF has been somewhat delayed. That’s because Covid finally made itself an unwelcome house guest at Broken Frontier…
Congratulations to Mollie Ray (you can call them Ray), one of our 2021 Broken Frontier Six to Watch creators who was announced as the first UK Young Comics Laureate over…
Conundrum Press’s anniversary Conundrum 25 series of one-shots has provided the Canadian publisher with an opportunity to spotlight a diverse number of approaches to the medium alongside some powerful creative…
UK weekly kids comics The Phoenix has given us some real gems over the years, traversing genre boundaries from slapstick silliness like Bunny Vs. Monkey through to the piercing social…
Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we looked at the Zarjaz Special that acted as prelude to the third volume of the long-running small press anthology series based on characters…
That Abod Nasser’s Strategies for Survival is presented in an unrefined, uncorrected format makes it all the more important an historical document of the genocide in Gaza. Capturing the artist’s…
The chances are that I will be long dead before Josh Simmons’ Jessica Farm reaches its projected conclusion around 25 years from now. And yet, perhaps peculiarly, this harsh reality…
We’re back again this week with another set of canvassed opinions from across the worlds of comics on the effects of Generative AI on the form. Here’s our standard intro…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
