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…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! One of the great draws of Beck Kubrick’s comics is their unpredictability. There are certain thematic throughlines – the dark humour and the knowing wit spring immediately…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Where does one even begin when writing about a book like Change, the 2023 edition of the annual WIP Comics group anthology? Packed to bursting with work…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! It really is the mark of an artist’s talent when a reissue of their debut comic feels so fresh, exciting and innovative as Jason Chuang’s The Boy…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! When zine specialists Colossive Press (you can read a full-length interview with them here at Broken Frontier) began adding comics material to their already impressive array of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! There was a time in the late 2000s when non-subject specific diary comics were everywhere in UK small press comics. At some point the seemingly ubiquitous self-publishing…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Stepping aside from her normal fantasy comics focus, the difference between Kry Garcia’s Salmorejo and her previous practice is abundantly clear from its subtitle ‘A Travel Journal…
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…
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
“A Room Full of Comics People is a True Joy to See!” – Marc Jackson on Bringing MACC-POW! to Macclesfield and the Resurgence of Kids Comics in the UKMay 25, 2026
