Promoting up-and-coming talent is at the heart of what we do here at Broken Frontier so our heartiest congratulations to Cara Grainger, Rohan Rooney and Bianca Hsu, the recently announced…
Pinned post! Want to know more about the history, mission and ethos of Broken Frontier? We have a handy guide here to who we are and what we do, complete…
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There’s something undeniably appealing about intergenerational creative projects. We’ve seen it before on the small press scene, perhaps most notably with the stalwart presence of father and son duo Henry…
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When Beatrice Mossman launched her horror anthology Hell-Hued in 2020 she found a novel way of theming each issue. Rather than choosing a defined subject area, a phrase or a…
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A little bit of flight of fantasy fun today at BF based on a series of Twitter posts of mine from some years ago. We’ve probably all at some point…
It wasn’t as if I hadn’t already fostered a sense of growing appreciation for the output of Ahoy Comics. Second Coming and Billionaire Island feature the writing of Mark Russell…
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It’s always a pleasure to give attention to a comics micropublishing outfit we haven’t spotlighted before at Broken Frontier, especially one with a focus on alt and experimental comics offerings….
As part of our coverage of the last in-person East London Comics and Arts Festival I covered Clio Isadora’s short comic Is it Vague in Other Dimensions?, a very individual…
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I have been meaning to explore the work of Jemma Webster Sharp for some time at Broken Frontier given how her strikingly strange visuals consistently capture my attention every time…
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One of the great draws of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ signature anthology š! is that its cross-continental line-up gives us markedly diverse approaches to sequential art storytelling from across the…
Given that Broken Frontier is a site with a self-proclaimed mission to promote the positive aspects of the UK comics world and its supportive indie community, what follows may seem…
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Last year’s online Hackney Comic + Zine Fair introduced me to a number of new comics talents whose practice I had yet to encounter. One of those artists was Lesley…
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Way back in 2013, nearly a decade ago, I reviewed Hannah Lee Miller’s short self-published comic Dementia Dad, an autobio offering that I described as “heartrending” in terms of subject…
A quick online search for the word “Helem” – the name of Stanley Wany’s eerie graphic journey through the psyches of two lost characters – reveals that the name has…
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Psychogeographical comics are perhaps more widely acknowledged for their autobiographical explorations of the intersections between place, time and memory. But there are other strands to this area of graphic narrative,…
I went into Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s new Image Comics series Little Monsters completely blind, not having read so much as a press release or even a line of…
It’s a most appropriate time to be looking at SelfMadeHero’s Catalyst anthology – the end product of their 2021 Graphic Anthology Programme designed to mentor and champion emerging creators of…
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Emerging from an Inktober-related exercise, Myfanwy Tristram’s Sorry for the Inconvenience… We Are Trying to Save the World (the title coming from an Extinction Rebellion placard) is an 80-page celebration…
“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
