Just a couple of months back we interviewed BHP Comics founder Sha Nazir here at Broken Frontier and today there’s more exciting news coming from his direction with the announcement…
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HCZF FORTNIGHT! On a long-term mission in space aboard the SS Kitsune, a lone explorer reflects on his years of solitude and a voyage where human contact seems almost like…
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HCZF FORTNIGHT! Many BF readers will remember that cartoonist Matthew Dooley’s work was a fixture in such well-regarded anthologies as Dirty Rotten Comics and Off Life before his 2016 Cape/Observer/Comica…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! Olivia Sullivan was one of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ and is an artist whose work many readers will first have discovered in…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! Last year’s Thought Bubble saw the debut of the first instalment of Peter Morey’s Endswell; a self-published generational saga that combined family politics and social commentary and was…
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HCZF FORTNIGHT! Two and a half years ago, Gareth Brookes contributed a story to the ‘BFFs’-themed issue of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ digest-sized š! anthology. It was one of the…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! Originally introduced way back in 2010 in Hildafolk, at the time part of Nobrow Press’s fledgling 17 x 23 series, the adventures of Luke Pearson’s plucky heroine Hilda…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! Beginning today at Broken Frontier we have two weeks of coverage of comics and creators you can catch at the inaugural Hackney Comic + Zine Fair on Sunday…
It’s a catchy hook but whether the somewhat awkward tagline “Teen Victorian Fairy Fight Club” really gives the premise of Sparrowhawk its due is debatable. Written by Delilah S. Dawson…
Running for ten years between 1974 and 1984, Bella at the Bar holds a place as not just one of the most popular comic strips in the UK’s weekly Tammy…
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If you’ve been following our coverage of micropress/distro O Panda Gordo’s Seven Stories so far then you’ll be aware that the anthology’s ostensible premise is based on 19th-20th century literary…
To discuss in detail the twisting, turning narrative of Black Crown’s Lodger (now collected in this trade paperback volume) would be to miss the point of a book that asks its audience…
When looking at Nobrow Press’s publishing output this year what immediately strikes the reader is the diversity of approaches and subject matter represented in its 2019 line-up this year. From…
From Weegee: Serial Photographer to Hobo Mom there’s no doubting the versatility of Belgian creator Max de Radiguès. Stig & Tilde: Vanisher’s Island, his latest offering from Nobrow Press, is…
Hackney Comic + Zine Fair is coming and our Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is celebrating the newest comics event on the London calendar with a HCZF…
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…
Jayde Perkin’s work has taken many presentational forms over the last few years from multiple self-published comics to her recent ELCAF-debuting and critically acclaimd graphic memoir I’m Not Ready, through…
Rebecca Rosen’s Flem is a deliberately challenging comic on a number of levels. It’s a book which asks the reader to interpret and find meaning in its protagonist Julia Maarten’s…
“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
