Joel Meadows has been a fixture of UK comics commentary for three decades via the various print and online incarnations of his long-running Tripwire magazine. This month, though, he will…
It scarcely needs mentioning that of all of the Treasury of British Comics’ many collections over the last several years few were as eagerly anticipated or have had such a…
On a joyous night, celebrating some of the very best emerging talents in comics, Alex Taylor (azbt) was announced as the winner of the 2023 First Graphic Novel Competition. Full…
You know how important it is to us here at Broken Frontier to give space and time to comics work from the trans community. Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories…
When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe Vs. Wade in 2022 the repercussions went even further than the obvious horrifying backward slide for women’s reproductive rights. It also mirrored the…
Embracing the true spirit of the minicomic in size and format, Anna Readman’s Noodle Wranglin’ is a collection of this year’s Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize winner’s Hourly Comic Day…
It’s been almost a year to the day since I reviewed the first volume of Daniel Freedman and CROM’s epic fantasy story Birdking, published by Dark Horse Comics. If you…
Issues of Alexander Tucker’s Entity Reunion seem to come along on a three-year cycle but each standalone offering provides a hypnotic mix of the oblique, the weird, and the elusive….
Sammy Ward is fast establishing herself as one of the UK indie scene’s finest purveyors of eerie supernatural comics fare. Previous forays into the genre have been notable for their…
The annual Manga Jiman competition has provided us with a number of comics to review over the years thanks to entrants and winners going on to self-publish print editions of…
Ah those wistful childhood days when summers felt like a lifetime, the wider world was an adventure waiting to happen, and we felt forever safe in the welcoming cocoon of…
While Walkies! is an illustrated children’s book rather than comics (though techinically it is sequential art and makes use of comics tools like speech balloons) its provenance makes it a…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! To describe Erika Price’s Disorder as body horror seems woefully inadequate. This collection of short visual essays takes autobiographical comics in new directions, employing the darkest of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Ostensibly this is a review of the fifth and concluding story arc volume of acclaimed sci-fi series Killtopia. In reality, though, such is the unpredictable nature of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Our Thought Bubble coverage this year has seen a notable resurgence of the diary comic as a specific focus of autobiographical comics. Rowan Frewin’s Gyula Diary adopts…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Before diving into the contents of Fraser Geesin’s traditional Thought Bubble debut comic (again a collaboration with Laurie Rowan) let’s get the confusing part out of the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Thought Bubble fortnight here at Broken Frontier has given us a chance to increase the spotlight on the genre comics work that is usually outnumbered by the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Rather than the Pekar-esque vignettes that have to date made up writer Chad Bilyeu’s autobiographical comic Chad in Amsterdam (featuring collaborations with a who’s who of indie…
“My Brain Broke, and Out Came Donuts” – Neill Cameron Looks Back on ‘Mega Robo Bros’ and Forward with ‘Donut Squad’, the Latest Smash Hit Strip from the Pages of ‘The Phoenix’November 4, 2025
“The Biggest Challenge for Me Was Having to Think More Like a Director” – Michael Schwartz on Writing for Comics for the First Time and His Supernatural Ghost Story ‘Armored’October 31, 2025
“It’s a Fantasy Adventure about Growing Up” – Joe Latham Talks ‘Haru’, the Self-Publishing Journey, and Using Colour as a Narrative ToolOctober 30, 2025
“I Cannot Wait to Really Dig into the Nuts and Bolts of Literary Adaptation” – Kristen Haas Curtis on Bringing Chaucer to Comics and on Moderating the Thought Bubble Literary Adaptation PanelOctober 29, 2025
“Themes Around Human Connection and Loneliness Are a Constant Throughline in All of My Works” – Rein Lee on Exploring Identity and Queerness in Comics, and Finding Your Way in the Small Press CommunityOctober 28, 2025
