10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Sometimes when drawing up the list of names for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ programme artists are selected for the…
Retrospective collections always make the exercise of reviewing an interesting one given that, as in the case of Liam Cobb’s What Awaits Them from Breakdown Press, we have often reviewed…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! A Call to Cthulhu is described on its back cover as “part comic book, part art book, part unsuitable-for-toddlers storybook.” Creator Norm…
Originally created by the legendary Leo Baxendale under the alternate title When the Bell Rings!, and later illustrated by the equally key David Sutherland for a staggering 3,000-plus strips, The…
We’re all about the event announcements today at Broken Frontier and next up it’s the return of Zinezilla, the event spearheaded by indie creator Mereida Fajardo. As an added bonus…
In partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival the New Scriptorium – an an artist-designed and built structure sited inside the historical grounds of Arbroath Abbey – is looking…
10 YEARS OF THE BROKEN FRONTIER SIX TO WATCH! My go-to advice for aspiring comics creators who decide to plunge straight into full-length work is that it’s essential not to…
It’s one of the most notorious as yet unfulfilled crowdfunding campaigns in comics history and yet the saga of Tales from the Quarantine drags on and on. Conceived by organiser…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Where the work of Mereida Fajardo is concerned it is not simply the material itself that one awaits eagerly each time a…
After the success of last year’s sessions, Broken Frontier’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver (that’s me!) will again be offering a small number of one-to-one Zoom meet-ups with artists nearer the beginning…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! A couple of weeks back at a University of the Arts London event I was invited to speak at I was asked…
Originally presented online via that great platform for graphic journalism The Nib, Tom Humberstone’s I’m a Luddite (And So Can You!) & Other Tales from The Nib brings some of…
Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies have become such a well-regarded series of zines not simply because of the clever ways in which each creator uses the Turkish Map Fold format to…
While in the early years of 2000 AD there was little in the way of direct crossovers between the anthology’s strips, there were plenty of tangential links that pointed to…
Another book recognised in the 2023 Broken Frontier Awards nominations, Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward has already had some extensive spotlight time at BF when Lindell provided this pre-publication creator commentary ‘Inside…
The beauty of comics is that, in terms of connecting with readers on an emotional level, they are such a sophisticated visual storytelling form that sometimes less really is more….
Cole Pauls’ Kwändǖr has already gained a significant degree of acclaim, having won a BC and Yukon Book Prize to sit aside the Indigenous Voices Award he won for previous…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Your favourite online comics social is back as we return to our guest artist format! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier…
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
