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A few weeks ago at the special Broken Frontier edition of the London Laydeez do Comics meet-up we announced our very first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook – a near 100-page…
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Elizabeth Querstret’s approach to autobiographical comics ranges from work that positively embraces the ideals of DIY culture (like her regularly updated diary webcomics) to more sedately paced narratives in the…
There’s something delightfully layered about using as inclusive a medium as comics to talk about the wider subject of inclusivity in the arts, as Eve Turner-Lee does in her self-published The…
Small Press Day is coming this July 9th and with a whole host of shops involved including Gosh! Comics, Orbital Comics, Travelling Man, Raygun Comics, Forbidden Planet Éire, Sub City…
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Austin English’s unique creative voice first came to prominence through acclaimed and influential micropublisher Sparkplug Books, in publications like Christina and Charles and Windy Corner Magazine. His comics adopt a style…
The last time I reviewed a Jake Dudas comic here at Broken Frontier it was To the Waters and the Wild that caught my attention; a tale of a parent-child…
A striking showcase for the talents of the Metaphrog team this is an all-ages book that is, nonetheless, unafraid to confront some of the harsher realities of life with an…
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I say this practically every time I review one of his comics but it always bears repeating. There are few reading experiences in contemporary comics quite as joyous as a…
Ground-breaking and boundary-pushing comics that explore, embrace and exploit every last vestige of the unique possibilities of this wonderful form are what we exist for here at Broken Frontier. The…
The first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2016 took place last night with a bumper batch of guests at our Save Our Souls special. Co-hosted by…
Save Our Souls is the brainchild of Private Eye cartoonist David Ziggy Greene whose Scene & Heard strips in that satirical magazine over the last few years have so formidably…
The fourth annual Webcomic Artist Swap Project (WASP) takes place next week Monday February 22nd and continuing until the 28th. An always fun piece of collaborative conjuring the event sees…
Sean Azzopardi – part of our group of five guest artists at the next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – is one of the true stalwarts of the…
We’re delighted today at BF to give you a first look at Danny Noble’s striking cover for our first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook which features the work of the…
Edited by indie comics stalwart Robert Kirby, What’s Your Sign, Girl? gives twelve cartoonists the opportunity to examine their relationships with their sun signs in a selection of short stories that…
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If you’re an observer of the UK small press scene you will no doubt have noticed the flurry of social media discussions a few weeks back about the possibility of a…
It’s back! The Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on February 23rd at a new venue, upstairs in the famous Coach and Horses pub in Soho’s Greek Street. Last…
The Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has unleashed some incredibly strong work onto the comics-reading public in recent years including The Black Project by Gareth Brookes (the 2012 winner), Hannah…
“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
