1972 – Rachael Ball’s Autobio Short Will Bring Back Familiar Childhood Experiences
LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! There’s an origin story of sorts to Rachael Ball’s 1972 short comic. The premise of it is based on an exercise given to attendees at her…
Author: Andy Oliver
Shimmer Paths – A Thematically Layered Yet Fun Romp through Fantasy Realms Courtesy of Beastly Worlds
LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Beatrijs Brouwer (aka Beastly Worlds) has been building up quite the profile for her beautifully illustrated fantasy comics. It was in no small part thanks to…
This Land Was Ravaged – Tim Bird Revisits the Devastating Environmental Impact of the Twyford Down Motorway Development
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Tim Bird’s name has become synonymous with psychogeographical comics whether that be in long-form comics (his study of the ancient woodland that once ran across South-East…
Good Day – Zhenyi Zheng Experiments with Form and Structure in a Symbolic Comics Short
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Authorial intent and reader inference do not always have to align for a successful comics narrative. Indeed, finding our own truths in work that may…
The Mice that Live in My Walls – Deadly Knitshade’s Jaunty Story is Both Darkly Witty and Strangely Poignant
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! After reading through a batch of LDComics Fair offerings dealing with some fairly heavy themes Deadly Knitshade’s The Mice that Live in My Walls was…
Cows – Devi Menon’s Beautiful Meditation on Family and Loss is One of the Bargain Buys of the LDComics Online Comics Fair
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! It’s been a few years since we last reviewed work by Devi Menon here at Broken Frontier. On that occasion it was her slice-of-life graphic…
In My Shell I Am Safe – Aleesha Nandhra’s Collection of Existential Vignettes Hits Us with an Emotional Immediacy
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Aleesha Nandhra describes the genesis of the comics in this collection in the following terms: “I usually initially make these for myself, to move through…
“I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird” – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel ‘The Witch’s Egg’ from Avery Hill Publishing
We have been following the career of British artist Donya Todd since her early self-publishing days and breakthrough book Death & the Girls from Blank Slate Books. Indeed she was…
Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Zhenyi Zheng Longlisted in the World Illustration Awards 2025
Wonderful news here at Broken Frontier Towers as we celebrate the longlisting of 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Zhenyi Zheng in the 2025 World Illustration Awards in the…
Never Mind It’s Only the Fucking Apocalypse – AJ O’Neill’s “Queer Fever Dream” Combines Social Commentary and Claustrophobic Horror
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! With a title like Never Mind It’s Only the Fucking Apocalypse AJ O’Neill’s LDComics Fair offering immediately feels like it’s reflecting the kind of weary…
The Wall and the Uncharted Land – Yu-Ching Chiu’s Silent and Metaphorical Take on Mental Block is an Outstanding Piece of Visual Storytelling
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! A few years back at Broken Frontier, as part of our coverage of the online incarnation of the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, I covered artist…
Small Press Day 2025 – How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting with BF’s Andy Oliver as Part of SPD/Our ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ Initiative
It’s nearly here! In just under three weeks Small Press Day returns on Saturday, July 19th. With event notifications coming in fast and furious there are some incredible SPD celebrations…
Broken Frontier Andytorial, July 2025 – What’s Coming Up on the Site this Month, the Return of a London Comics Community Institution, and BF Breaks a New Comic Frontier at the V&A in London
Way back in the mists of time, when I first took ownership of Broken Frontier in 2017, we used to start the week off with a short blog piece called…
Hindsight – The Pull of the Past Tugs at the Present in Natalie d’Arbeloff’s Intoxicating Autobiographical Minicomic
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Natalie d’Arbeloff has certainly led a truly fascinating life in the arts. You can read more about that on her Wikipedia page here. In comics…
Hey, Mary! – Andrew Wheeler and Rye Hickman Examine the Disconnection Between Religious Upbringing and Sexuality
PRIDE MONTH 2025! With its emphasis on the convergence of sexuality and faith writer Andrew Wheeler and artist Rye Hickman’s Hey, Mary! from Oni Press tackles an important subject in…
Hungry Heart – Jem Milton’s Foodie-Inspired Queer Romance is a Character-Led Delight
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Way back in 2015 artist Jem Milton was one of our first intake of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists. In recent years their profile has seen…
Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith – Ellis and Templer Provide an Intriguing Speculative History of a Flawed Individual
PRIDE MONTH 2025! It would be woefully inadequate to describe novelist Patricia Highsmith as a problematic character. The author of Strangers on a Train and the Ripley series of novels,…
Killer Queens 2 – Lively Adventure and Poignant Social Commentary Go Hand in Hand in Another Outing for the LGBTQIA Sci-Fi Series
PRIDE MONTH 2025! “Putting the SASS in ASSASSIN!” is a tagline so good it deserved a second outing. Writer David M. Booher’s return to the world of interstellar former killers-for-hire…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
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“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
“I Think ‘Limbo’ is Probably the Best Work I’ve Ever Done in Any Medium” – Ferry Gouw on His New Book from Breakdown Press, Cross-Media Work on ‘Major Lazer’, and Adapting His Style for Different ProjectsJune 30, 2026
“Trans People Are Facing Pronounced Challenges to Our Rights Across the World Right Now” – Jua OK! on ‘Road to Chimera’ and Finding Spiritual Meaning in the Trans JourneyJune 29, 2026
“Don’t Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Done – Finish Things” – AJ O’Neill on Finding Your Voice in Comics, Queer Autobio, and Experimenting with the FormJune 25, 2026