Celebrating 2023 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! While we quietly retired the ‘Small Pressganged’ branding early in 2022 one of that former regular feature’s most popular pieces was always…
Author: Andy Oliver
Mind Over Margins – Comics Youth Presents A Collection of Empowering Mental Health Awareness Stories from Marginalised Voices
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Before we look at anthology comics collection Mind Over Margins today let us first consider the aims and objectives of Comics Youth,…
“Beauty is Not Only to Be Seen by Our Eyes” – Xiaoyi Hu on Bringing the World of the Visually-Impaired to the Comics Page
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! With 2024 bringing our tenth intake of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators to wider recognition we’re looking forward to celebrating…
2000 AD Prog 2362 – The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic Looks to the Future While Embracing Its Past, Including Rufus Hound’s Debut on ‘Strontium Dog’
I imagine I am not the only long-term 2000 AD fan (yes I did buy Prog 1 from my local WHSmith way back in 1977) who, while perhaps not considering…
Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2023 – Vote for Your Shortlisted Favourites in What Was an Undeniably Vintage Year for Comics
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 20th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
A Christmas Bestiary – A Dark and Spellbinding Guide to Wintry Horror from Benni Bødker, John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics
Festively themed work can often go overlooked simply because the window of relevant reviewing opportunity is, by its nature, a restricted one. However, it would seem remiss to let that…
Happy New Year! – News on Our Ten Years of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Celebrations and How You Can Help Safeguard BF’s Future in 2024
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Happy New Year, one and all! And with a new year comes some news about our plans for 2024. This year marks…
Happy Holidays from All of Us Here at Broken Frontier Towers! – We’ll Be Back on January 2nd, 2024
We’re shutting up shop now here at BF Towers for a seasonal break as we recharge our batteries and look forward to the new year. We will be back on…
“I Miss Magazines that Are Substantial” – Barry Renshaw on the Return of ‘REDEYE Magazine’ and the Importance of Comics Commentary
In a year when so many comics commentary outlets in the UK disappeared or went on apparent hiatus there is at least one chink of light shining at the end…
“Holmes is Such a Wonderful, Iconic Character” – Joel Meadows Talks ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Empire Builders’ and 30 Years of ‘Tripwire’
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…
Misty: 45 Years of Fear, the Essential Collection – The Treasury of British Comics Celebrates a British Cult Classic
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…
Alex Taylor (azbt) Wins the 2023 First Graphic Novel Competition
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…
Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans – Important New Anthology from A Wave Blue World Deserves Your Support on Kickstarter
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…
The Ballad of Betty Rizzo: An Abortion Story – Rachelle Meyer’s Minicomic Blends Autobio and Social Commentary to Make Its Incisive Point
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…
Noodle Wranglin’ – Anna Readman’s Canine-Themed Short Strips Have a Worldweary but Gentle Humour to Them
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…
“Single Issues Would Have Forced ‘Birdking’ into a Rhythm We Weren’t Interested in” – Daniel Freedman and CROM Give Us the Lowdown on Their Epic Dark Horse Fantasy Story
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…
Entity Reunion 3 – Alexander Tucker Hints at Malign Entities at the Edge of Perception in His Latest Oblique Comics Narrative
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….
Not Another Haunting! – Thirteen Ghost Stories that Display Sammy Ward’s Consummate Command of the Short Comics Form
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…
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