BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! A couple of years back at Broken Frontier we made a team statement about how where possible we would be looking to prioritise work from or…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! I sometimes wonder if those people who have been such sources of inspiration to me are aware of how profoundly they have shaped my approach to…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Hold the birthday wishes until Friday when we will officially hit our big anniversary milestone but this week sees the beginning of our celebration of two…
Part of Conundrum Press’s anniversary ‘Conundrum 25’ series of pocket-sized comics offerings, Elisabeth Belliveau’s Condo Lady is yet another reminder of just how effective graphic narrative has been at communicating…
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Creating truly alien visual environments in comics does not necessarily require elaborate extremes of intricately designed and pseudo-realistic extraterrestrial landscapes, flora and fauna. In PUDICA33, another digital offering from this…
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Back in 2021 Yetunde Ekuntuyi was another artist we featured in a creator round-up on the site after she participated in our Broken Frontier Small Press Day one-tweet review event…
At the end of October Broken Frontier celebrates an incredible 20 years of exploring the comics universe and we want to invite you to join in the celebrations! Whether you…
With a remit to bring together “past, present, and future” works for their 25th anniversary, Conundrum Press’s ‘Conundrum 25’ series is described as “a landmark series of gemlike volumes, presenting…
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While I totally understand creators focussing solely on their own individual creative expression I do sometimes dream of what collaborative endeavours from different UK small pressers might look like. “Jeff”,…
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The long-awaited grand finale of creator Gustaffo Vargas’s Peruvian cyberpunk series Altiplano is here, and it’s a denouement that does not disappoint. Pilcuyo is the third chapter in the Altiplano…
In the fourth of our continuing discussions on the Brexit effect on the UK comics community and beyond at BF this week’s selection of creators/publishers talk about the psychological impact…
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In my most read piece ever at Broken Frontier on getting coverage for self-published work I spoke a little about my reluctance to cover small press super-hero work here on…
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Kry Garcia’s Meteors is a curious comic. I certainly do not mean that in a pejorative way however, but rather to describe a short story that is idiosyncratic, unexpected and…
Forty-five may seem a somewhat arbitrary number for a major publishing anniversary celebration. But when it spawns spin-offs like the 45 Years of 2000 AD Anniversary Art Book most of…
It’s Tudor times and at Father Eglantine’s monastery the eighth librarian to be employed has been discovered murdered; a fate already suffered by his seven predecessors. Only one woman can…
Winner of the Outstanding Graphic Novel in the 2022 Ignatz Awards, No One Else is a sensitively observed family drama from The New Yorker cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson. It’s one…
In the third of our continuing discussions on the Brexit effect on the UK comics community and beyond today at BF this week’s selection of creators talk about how the…
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One of our 2022 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, artist Sammy Ward has been building an impressive back catalogue of work in the fantasy, horror and supernatural…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
