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John Tucker’s The King is perhaps more illustrated story than pure comics but this eccentrically amiable tale has an idiosyncratic charm that makes it well worth picking up if you’re…
The 2020 previews and publishing announcements have been coming in fast and furious over the last week here at Broken Frontier Towers. Below we have the latest communication from Rebellion…
It will come as no surprise to anyone following Broken Frontier regularly that Avery Hill Publishing have an incredibly cool slate of releases lined up for 2020 (we announced them…
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Beatrice Mossman’s The Lure of the Flesh brings together dark fantasy, allegorical storytelling and autobiographical elements in an enticingly unusual physical format. Freya is a young girl who has struggled…
Liminal 11, the mind-body-spirit publisher co-founded by Mike Medaglia and Darren Shill, have added a number of projects by names very familiar to indie comics fans to their catalogue over…
Dark Horse Comics have announced the next miniseries in the Black Hammer saga, this time featuring Colonel Weird. It’s written by Broken Frontier Award-winning Jeff Lemire with visuals by Tyler…
After years of a puzzling lack of Ken Reid reprint volumes we’ve been spoilt for collections over the last few years with the Treasury of British Comics giving us both…
With their high-profile Best of 2000 AD series launching this year as an entry point for new readers, Rebellion are also repackaging some classic Dredd stories in an Essential Judge…
A medium with a unique relationship to the concept of time meets a novel with much the same outlook later this year when BOOM! Studios adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel…
We’re always excited here at broken Frontier to hear about initiatives that take comics to new audiences or use the form to communicate information in intuitive and inspirational ways. So…
The World Illustration Awards, presented by the Association of Illustrators in partnership with the Directory of Illustration since 2015, is currently open for entries. For the Broken Frontier audience the…
BOOM! Studios’ serial comics line had a notably strong year in 2019 which was reflected in a Broken Frontier Award nomination for Folklords and, of course, that BF Award win…
Self-publisher Wallis Eates is an artist who will be very familiar to long-time Broken Frontier readers. Her autobio comics and zines have been reviewed multiple times at BF with her…
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Shazleen Khan describes her 2019 Broken Frontier Award-winning webcomic Buuza!! as bring about “found family, diaspora and religion, set in an urban fantasy 90s Middle East and central Asia.” Last…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 16th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team This year’s Broken Frontier Awards saw unprecedented…
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We supplemented our annual Broken Frontier tradition of rounding up just ten UK small press comics representing the diversity of approach in self-published comics practice this year with an additional…
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In last year’s Broken Frontier Awards Debbie Fong’s short comic Greenhouse won the ‘Best One-Shot’ category for a story that I described as a subtle yet uncompromising account of mental…
From R.L. Stine, the author behind the phenomenon that is children’s horror book series Goosebumps, comes this series of eerily creepy tales for younger readers that promises to take them…
“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
