In these times of deep environmental concern comics projects that raise ecological awareness and a love of the natural world among younger readers are vitally important. Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, September 21st for a Tripwire Awards Special. Not only do…
Your must-read comics article of the weekend! If you are active in comics community you may already be aware of the work of a small group of comics activists have…
For a certain generation of Roy of the Rovers fans there’s one era of the popular football strip (US readers may hereon mentally insert “soccer” into each reference to football…
(Content warning: references to suicide follow). When you are entrenched in both the world of comics commentary, and the larger community of practice that surrounds it, you are constantly aware…
While stories of addiction – in all its multiple forms – are an established sub-genre of graphic medicine it could be argued that when that dependency is alcohol-related the amount…
There has certainly been something of a noticeable uptick in children’s books being offered for review to us at Broken Frontier of late that combine narrated illustration and traditional comics….
Many people who have been around the UK small press scene for decades rather than years have a version of the same anecdote; of how when they first discovered small…
After an Ignatz win in 2022 for Outstanding Minicomic and a 2023 nomination for Outstanding Artist, there’s far, far more than just a growing buzz around Caroline Cash’s PeePee-PooPoo anthology…
Joe Kessler’s singular vision has been one of UK indie comics’ greatest gifts to us over the last decade. Not solely because of his astonishingly intuitive understanding of the form,…
A recent Ignatz nominee in the Best Artist category, Darlin’ and Her Other Names Part 1: Marta is described as a werewolf-western-horror-romance comic. If that blending of genres doesn’t immediately…
I have bemoaned the marginalisation of old school DIY culture on multiple occasions here at Broken Frontier; that ethos that declares self-publishing comics and zines gives a voice to everyone…
As something of a lapsed reader of 2000 AD as a weekly phenomenon, who these days dips into trade collections rather than following short serialised strips, I find the comic’s…
And so this week to our fourth and final look at the latest batch of mini kuš! short comics from Latvian publisher kuš! comics. For our last foray into minicomics…
Time again this week to resume our spotlight on the latest batch of mini kuš! short comics from Latvian publisher kuš! with a focus on issue #117’s ‘Grapefruit’ by Portugal-based…
Continuing our look at the latest batch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series of short comics this week and our attention today turns to #116 – Xeric Award-winning…
kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series of short, self-contained comics narratives are always a strong signifier of how far we can still use comics innovatively as an experimental storytelling platform. To…
With titles like Billionaire Island, Second Coming, The Wrong Earth and G.I.L.T. AHOY Comics have been leading the way in putting the fun back into serial comics over the last…
“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
