Another day, another intriguing press release from Rebellion. This time, for the comics history buffs, it’s news of the memoir of major IPC Comics player John Sanders. The full press…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Our final Thought Bubble post every year is the customary festival scrapbook round-up (from a very Broken Frontier perspective of course) and, with the festival’s double move…
With a potential double sales pull targeting both new readers looking for an easy jumping-on point and established audiences looking to revisit old favourites, Rebellion have announced their latest project…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! One last preview for this weekend’s Thought Bubble now and it’s an old favourite at Broken Frontier. We’re big fans of Alex Hahn’s alien explorer Blop and…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! There’s been an ongoing theme in our Thought Bubble coverage this year with a deliberate focus on books and creators we feel should have been picked up…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! When I first saw Lucy Sullivan’s early art for Barking (back when we were initially supporting the Unbound Books crowdfunding campaign for the book) I was immediately…
Multiple Broken Frontier Award-winning publisher Avery Hill have provided us with details of their 2020 publishing schedule and, as you can imagine, it’s a genuinely exciting line-up. Of course, from…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The Sloth Comics crew will have a third volume of Roulot and Martinage’s Goblins series (subtitled ‘Failing Apart’) debuting at Thought Bubble this year. Sloth put out…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The latest in the series of comics starring Los Angeles Trombone reporter Charles Fitzgerald, otherwise known as Chip McFitz, Matt Greaves’ Chip McFitz: Joint Fever sees the…
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Since we first covered their work prior to ELCAF last year we’ve become rather enchanted here at Broken frontier by the comics of Peter and Maria Hoey, the sibling partnership…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Dan White is a master storyteller on two main fronts. Let’s start with the first of those qualities and White’s marked ability to so empathetically portray the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The winner of last year’s Best New Series in our annual Broken Frontier Awards, anthology Jazz Creepers debuts its newest edition at Thought Bubble this weekend. The…
We are always so delighted here at BF to see the continued progress of the artists from our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programmes as they…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! We’ve seen a number of comics and graphic novels dealing with the Chernobyl disaster over the years, including Francisco Sánchez and Natacha Busto’s Chernobyl: The Zone from…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! As part of last year’s Thought Bubble coverage at Broken Frontier I was introduced to the South American dystopian worlds of Gustaffo Vargas in the pages of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Adapting the stories of Soren Narnia from the Knifepoint Horror podcast the Knifepoint Horror Anthology is a Thought Bubble-debuting collection that includes the work of a number…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! “Voyage into the known with these credible tales of the expected” says the cover copy of Journey to the Surface of the Earth, Fraser Geesin’s new collection…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Sometimes the slightest narratives can have the profoundest depths. In The Teeth Huw “Lem” Davies provides a tale of the natural world with anthropomorphic qualities that teaches…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
