What perhaps sets Adieu Birkenau apart from some other graphic memoirs/biographies is the time-shifting commentary on events from its subject Ginette Kolinka. We observe Kolinka both as a young woman…
We have, admittedly, a little bit of catching up to do with our coverage of the Colossive Press series of Colossive Cartographies fold-out zines. So we are going to endeavour…
Once again at this point in the year I am going to repeat the sentiments of twelve months before. Every time we make our Broken Frontier Six to Watch announcement…
Collecting shortform comics stories together in one package provides an excellent means for self-published creators to showcase their storytelling abilities over multiple themes and approaches. In Lotus’ Dream artist Wilson…
We have covered a lot of comics and cartooning work on the genocide in Gaza over the last year. Some of it has come directly from those living the nightmare….
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week after a vacation break with a New Year Special and we’re inviting you to join…
In my opening 2026 Broken Frontier article I mentioned that this year we wanted to underline our commitment to covering socially relevant comics work with a renewed vigour. That will…
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 22nd annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine is described as “an anthology of new short comics from an international community of Palestinian creators and their allies that speak to the Palestinian ability…
Since way back in 2012 we have been running this annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up at Broken Frontier, choosing a handful of comics we…
You may have noticed that we skipped this monthly round-up towards the end of last year. In November the focus was entirely on our Thought Bubble Month and I figured…
We’re shutting up shop for the holidays slightly earlier than advertised this year at Broken Frontier. After our herculean coverage efforts for Thought Bubble in November I think it’s probably…
One of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators back in 2017, Olivia Sullivan has continued to amaze us in the years since with work that is both poetical and…
As always… we did tell you. Back in 2024, when I selected Dominica Claribelle to be one of that year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators, I said of that…
One of the privileges of our behind-the-scenes, off-site work at Broken Frontier is the chance to connect with emerging, often younger creators via initiatives like our Broken Frontier Connects/Small Press…
Comics work centring on mental health awareness can broadly take two paths into communicating its message: a directly autobiographical or biographical route, or by embedding those ideas into fictional narrative….
Another batch of fold-out Colossive Cartographies zines launched a few weeks back ready for the Autumn with the first of these always worthy Colossive Press artist showcases spotlighting the practice…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Already feeling separation anxiety from Harrogate? Our traditional Thought Bubble report may make that sense of loss linger but I’m sure we can all agree TB…
“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
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
