Continuing our new feature for Fridays today at Broken Frontier! At the end of each week we run an extensive spotlight profile on an artist we believe deserves far more…
The longlist for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced today and there are, as ever, some great looking projects selected. We have some history with this great…
It’s pleasing to see the publisher press releases beginning to repopulate the Broken Frontier inbox again after an understandably quieter few weeks. Today Dark Horse have let us know about…
In graphic memoir Shame Pudding, artist Danny Noble takes a markedly different approach to autobiographical comics work than her past practice in this area. Noble, one of Broken Frontier’s first…
Continuing our new feature for Fridays today at Broken Frontier! At the end of each week we run an extensive spotlight profile on an artist we believe deserves far more…
As comics retail continues to face great challenges, news today of a new initiative looking to lend support in these difficult times. The full press release for the Insider Art…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this week, once again re-imagined as the ultimate online imbibing and illustrating party! We’ll be kicking off on Thursday…
A new feature for Fridays today at Broken Frontier! At the end of each week we will be running a spotlight profile on an artist we believe deserves far more…
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British Comic Award-winning artist Tim Bird’s exploration of the interconnections between location, time and memory have ensured his work – from short minicomics like Asleep in the Back through to…
With so much going on online at the moment it seemed a fitting moment to resurrect an old BF feature for the interim. The Broken Frontier Bulletin Board was a…
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Tony Pickering describes his Diabetes: Year One as a collection of graphic poems, created in response to his diagnosis with type 1 diabetes and the implications of that news. Where…
The Comedy Women in Print Prize has announced its longlists today, including the artists and projects in the new ‘Humorous Graphic Novel’ category (in association with LDComics) which also covers…
We’ve been aware for a while that current British Comics Laureate Hannah Berry was working on a UK Comics Creator Survey as an information-seeking exercise to continue to support and…
News of another summer debut from Vault Comics today (after the announcement of Giga earlier this week). We have a preview of Shadow Service #1 by Cavan Scott and Corin…
There’s something of the psychogeographical to the opening of Matthew Dooley’s Flake. Dooley, of course, is a Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica short story competition winner and a prolific fixture on the UK…
James Riding’s James + Jack in Crazyland is a diffficut book to define in obvious genre terms. This all-ages serial is packed to the rafters with ideas and character concepts….
Coming this August in the UK and September in the US, The Flood That Did Come is the debut graphic novel of Patrick Wray. Another cool find by the Avery…
While we’re all missing our serial comics fix at the moment here’s an advance look at a new series from Vault Comics, announced today as debuting this summer. The full…
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“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
