ELCAF FORTNIGHT! William Powers is a newer name on the small press scene in terms of coverage here at Broken Frontier. I first discovered his work last year on Small…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Tara Booth’s haunting Nocturne combines themes of mental health, consent and sexuality in a vividly realised episode where the boundaries between dreamscape and reality become indistinguishable. Following a…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! When I last reviewed LÖK ZINE at Broken Frontier – fittingly as part of last year’s ELCAF coverage on the site – I was suitably impressed by the…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! When I selected artist Olivia Sualdea for this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programme it was a decision made based entirely on her social…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! With its tongue-in-cheek humour and eye-catching illustrative style, writer Giuseppe Sofo and artist Eleonora Marton’s Handbook for the (Mis)Education of Grown-Ups (published by Raum Italic) sets its stall…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! We could not have been more delighted here at BF last year when 2018 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ artist Jayde Perkin won the ELCAF…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Now considered an architectural design classic E-1027, a villa situated near the sea in the south of France, has a difficult and checkered past. The vision of Irish…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Illustrator Lizzy Stewart has displayed a marked ability in the past to take us back to that pivotal moment in our lives when childhood was largely behind us…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! I first discovered Aleesha Nandhra’s powerful slice-of-life comics in the pages of much-missed anthology OFF LIFE back in 2016. Last year I looked at Aleesha’s haunting Thinking in…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Even if you’re not a regular ELCAF-goer it’s unlikely – given its ubiquity on social media over the last few months – that you’ll have missed Jon McNaught’s…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! There’s an obvious immediacy to illustrated zine delivery that allows artists to make an instant impact on their audience in a relatively short presentational space. Holly St Clair’s…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! There’s something about Frances Castle’s Stagdale that is very reminiscent of classic children’s British TV serials of the Seventies; which is rather fitting given its 1975 setting. To…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Today at Broken Frontier we’re delighted to launch our annual coverage of the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) with two weeks of reviews, interviews, features and…
Bringing successful television franchises into the comics medium is always a difficult path to navigate. By definition major character development is near impossible and every story borders on the realms…
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
ELCAF is coming and we’ll be celebrating this year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival in style at our next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw! And, as…
New and out now from Silver Sprocket, those ever reliable purveyors of indie excellence, Lorna is the latest comics offering from Benji Nate whose Catboy got such a glowing review…
In my capacity representing Broken Frontier I’ve attended many book launches over the years in venues including shops, museums, bars, galleries and at festivals. But last night was something of…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
