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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Writer-artist Aaron Losty and letterer Becca Carey’s The Last Scarecrow is an expectation-defying one-shot. Initially presenting itself as a tale of ongoing gang warfare it gradually evolves…
Arguably the most eagerly anticipated collection from Rebellion’s much respected Treasury of British Comics line, The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire is now available to order in a…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Given the nature of the self-published area of comics that I focus on here at Broken Frontier the vast majority of the work I review tends to…
Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column here in the past. Today we return to this irregular feature…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Shortlisted for both the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition and the Laydeez do Comics Prize, the first chapter of Cathy Brett’s work-in-progress graphic novel Who Killed…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! It’s Halloween and Megan is trick or treating with her younger siblings Andy and Luna, with the three of them showing varying degrees of enthusiasm for the…
There’s no Scream! and Misty Special this year for Halloween but instead we do get to take an extended trip to a familiar horror environment in Scream! Presents The Thirteenth Floor. Continuing…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! In 2018 Emma Burleigh won the first Laydeez do Comics Prize for her graphic-memoir-in-progress My Other Mother, My Other Self, an excerpt of which I reviewed here…
The vitally important work of PositiveNegatives has been spotlighted before here at Broken Frontier but admittedly not nearly enough. Their growing online catalogue of comics and animation explores “contemporary social…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Debuting at Thought Bubble via the Wine & Zine collective, the first thing that strikes the reader about Zara “Zukinee” Williams’s Roy & Rei at the Fair…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! When I first started covering the work of Sean Azzopardi at Broken Frontier he had long since become one of the integral fixtures of the London small…
Venerable British war comic Commando first debuted way back in 1961 and has been a DC Thomson fixture for nearly 60 years. With its numbering now well into the 5,000s…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The more I see of the work of Gareth A Hopkins the more convinced I become that his hypnotically compelling abstract graphic narratives are exploring the language…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! A new issue of John Riordan and Dan Cox’s brilliantly bizarre music industry send-up Hitsville UK has been something of a Thought Bubble tradition over the last…
It may be a year away but multiple award-winning artist Tillie Walden’s (Spinning, On a Sunbeam) next project from mind-body-spirit publisher Liminal 11 is one that will no doubt be…
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From a human vantage point Lauren Barnett’s Bernadette is a sedately paced affair. But then our viewpoint isn’t the important one in this tale of one cat’s ongoing conflict with the…
Exciting news from Rebellion today about their line-up of Specials for 2020. Fans of classic British comics will, no doubt, be delighted at their plans for next year’s schedule. The…
The recent news that IDW Publishing and Shelly Bond’s entertainingly eclectic Black Crown imprint were parting ways was one met with understandable sadness from fans of genuinely indie serial comics…
“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
