LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Beatrijs Brouwer (aka Beastly Worlds) has been building up quite the profile for her beautifully illustrated fantasy comics. It was in no small part thanks to…
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Tim Bird’s name has become synonymous with psychogeographical comics whether that be in long-form comics (his study of the ancient woodland that once ran across South-East…
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Authorial intent and reader inference do not always have to align for a successful comics narrative. Indeed, finding our own truths in work that may…
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! After reading through a batch of LDComics Fair offerings dealing with some fairly heavy themes Deadly Knitshade’s The Mice that Live in My Walls was…
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! It’s been a few years since we last reviewed work by Devi Menon here at Broken Frontier. On that occasion it was her slice-of-life graphic…
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Aleesha Nandhra describes the genesis of the comics in this collection in the following terms: “I usually initially make these for myself, to move through…
We have been following the career of British artist Donya Todd since her early self-publishing days and breakthrough book Death & the Girls from Blank Slate Books. Indeed she was…
Wonderful news here at Broken Frontier Towers as we celebrate the longlisting of 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Zhenyi Zheng in the 2025 World Illustration Awards in the…
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! With a title like Never Mind It’s Only the Fucking Apocalypse AJ O’Neill’s LDComics Fair offering immediately feels like it’s reflecting the kind of weary…
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! A few years back at Broken Frontier, as part of our coverage of the online incarnation of the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, I covered artist…
It’s nearly here! In just under three weeks Small Press Day returns on Saturday, July 19th. With event notifications coming in fast and furious there are some incredible SPD celebrations…
Way back in the mists of time, when I first took ownership of Broken Frontier in 2017, we used to start the week off with a short blog piece called…
LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Natalie d’Arbeloff has certainly led a truly fascinating life in the arts. You can read more about that on her Wikipedia page here. In comics…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! With its emphasis on the convergence of sexuality and faith writer Andrew Wheeler and artist Rye Hickman’s Hey, Mary! from Oni Press tackles an important subject in…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Way back in 2015 artist Jem Milton was one of our first intake of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists. In recent years their profile has seen…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! It would be woefully inadequate to describe novelist Patricia Highsmith as a problematic character. The author of Strangers on a Train and the Ripley series of novels,…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! “Putting the SASS in ASSASSIN!” is a tagline so good it deserved a second outing. Writer David M. Booher’s return to the world of interstellar former killers-for-hire…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! It will come as no surprise to anyone who is a regular visitor to Broken Frontier just how much of an amazing prospect I believe 2025 Broken…
“Basically, I’m Hoping to Please Both Nostalgia Fans and Those Who Enjoy Pop Culture Critique!” – Paul Cornell on the Bronze Age Avengers, His First ‘Commando’ Comic, and New Publishing Venture Cosmic LighthouseOctober 23, 2025
“We Hope to Explain Our Passion for the Medium to Gallery Visitors Who May Not Have Any Idea about Comics” – Katriona Chapman on the Avery Hill Exhibition ‘Vision & Labour: Making Comics’ at the Mercer Gallery for Thought BubbleOctober 22, 2025
“There Are Hard Parts and There Are Wonderful Parts. I’m Just a Mum Trying Her Best” – Rachael Smith Gives Us the Lowdown on the Collected ‘Nap Comix’October 21, 2025
“Comics Bring Art at Its Highest Level to the People” – Alison Sampson Talks Comics and Architecture, Crossing Genres, and the Communicative Power of the FormOctober 20, 2025
“I’m Always Trying to Make Comics the Other Way Around” — An Interview with Portuguese Cartoonist Joana Mosi on Her Graphic Novels ‘The Mongoose’ and ‘Physical Education’October 13, 2025
