THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! The most worrying thing about climate change is that we may already be beyond the point of no return in combatting humanity’s greatest existential threat. With vested…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! There’s something alluringly unsettling about the art of Aled Lies, one of the creators who make up the Idiot Corpse collective. True Story, available at Thought Bubble…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! If there’s one creator whose work acts as the perfect antidote to any baseless claims that comics are a stagnant art form it’s Peony Gent. For some…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Another of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators to go on to be picked up by a publisher, Kamila Krol, AKA Pigeon, will have her first…
Some welcome news over the weekend with the announcement that Anna Readman is the winner of the 2023 Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize. We first put a spotlight on Anna’s…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! With the recent news that artist Lucy Sullivan’s breakout work Barking – her hugely atmospheric exploration of loss, grief and mental health, originally published by Unbound –…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Tom Philipson describes his Thought Bubble-debuting collection Complicated Young Man (from CoCo Comics) as “my experimental comics anthology”. At 20-plus pages compiling strips from the last six months…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Behind an eerily enticing and actually rather gruesome (don’t let those vibrant colours fool you!) Michael Kennedy cover, Underground Kingdom Comix Presents: Horror is a mini-anthology collection…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Ria Grix’s The Anomalous Adventures of Viola Holm comics have had some very positive reviews here at Broken Frontier in the last couple of years. Grix’s new…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Wrapping up universal human truths in the trappings of genre fiction is a tried and tested storytelling device for communicating recognisable emotional states on a profoundly empathetic…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! New Thought Bubble comics from certain creators feel like a festival tradition; that some intangible spirit of TB would be violated if they didn’t have a debut…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! It’s always a pleasure (and something of a relief given the currently contracting publisher base in UK indie comics) to see a new micropublisher on the small…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Some years back when I chose artist Anna Readman as one of our Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ for 2019 it was a decision…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Merging elements of illustrated narrative and pure comics, Martin Simpson’s NORD from Soaring Penguin Press lovingly evokes that sense of wonder we all felt as kids when…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Another debuting comic at this year’s Thought Bubble, Lor Phoenix and KitsuneArt’s Starlit Lovers is a slice-of-life story where the echoes of the past make themselves heard…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! One of the joys of our Thought Bubble coverage is not just in discovering new artists through review submissions but also in being able to point people…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Back in the early days of the pandemic cartoonist Rachael Smith brought people together in those darkest of days with her powerfully relatable Quarantine Comix. Over the last…
Sometimes a cover is so very striking that it immediately captures your attention and positively demands your further attention. Such was the case with Ian Simmons’ Unicorn, Hunted when I…
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
