Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Debuts at London Fields Arches this September
With a number of respected London small press and indie fairs like CECAF, SLCZF and Safari Festival either on hiatus for the moment or having drawn to a close over…
Author: Andy Oliver
Little Girls – Aflleje and DeLaine’s Supernatural Chiller is also a Touching Celebration of the Bonds of Friendship
Harar, Ethiopia, the early 2000s, and Sam is struggling to fit in at her new school. Constantly uprooted due to her father’s work, she makes a new friend in local…
Radiator Comics to Publish Whit Taylor’s Minicomic Series ‘Fizzle’
We have news today at BF from Radiator Comics who have announced they’ll be publishing Whit Taylor‘s Fizzle minicomics beginning with editions of the first two issues at CAKE in…
Gogor #1 – Ken Garing’s Image Fantasy Series May Just Be the Serial Comics Sleeper Hit of the Year
Ken Garing’s new fantasy series Gogor, published by Image Comics, immediately grabs the reader’s attention with a tumultuously paced opening chase scene. It’s so immersive an experience that it leaves…
Memoirs of a Book Thief – The Pretensions of 1950s Parisian Literary Society Are Skewered in Tota and Van Hove’s SelfMadeHero Offering
Daniel Brodin is a man of many facets, few of them admirable. He considers himself a bibliophile but his love of prose is enabled by his practice of pilfering from…
Bystander – Kadak Collective Announce New Anthology of Work by South Asian Women, Non-Binary and Queer Creators
I first met some of the creators who make up the Kadak Collective three years ago at the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF). Their work was so exciting…
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Get Me a Snickers – A Witty Collection of Oddball Comics Shorts from Sophie Burrows
The last time we looked at the work of Sophie Burrows here at Broken Frontier it was for comics of a very different style. You can catch our Tom Murphy’s…
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Blindenhund – The Eerie Worlds of Alice Urbino Revisited in a Minicomic Tale of the Strangest of Friendships
While her comics influences range from Charles Burns to Junji Ito, Alice Urbino’s artistic style is uniquely her own; an Urbino-esque oeuvre that on a surface level embodies the unsettling…
On Vinyl – Lorenz Peter’s Ode to Collecting Reminds Us of the Intimate Relationship Between Nostalgia and Melancholy
Almost a sequential art ode to (specifically) vinyl records, and more generally to the joy of collecting and the nostalgia rush it brings, Lorenz Peter’s On Vinyl comes to us courtesy…
Cat Festival – Shazleen Khan’s ‘Buuza!!’ One-Shot is a Joyous Celebration of Friendship and Family
Having enjoyed her self-published work in the past, I’ve been wanting to give Shazleen Khan’s comics some Broken Frontier space for some time now but have sadly never quite managed…
Tumult – John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Layered and Twisting SelfMadeHero Thriller Keeps the Reader Guessing
When we first meet central character Adam Whistler in John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Tumult he’s a man in the midst of a self-destructive, existential crisis. The music video/commercials…
Retroflect: Skull the Slayer – Looking Back on the Short-Lived 1970s Series that Brought Dinosaurs, Time Warps and the Bermuda Triangle to the Marvel Universe
Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column in the site’s long history. Today it returns to BF as…
Meet Me at the Market – New Pop-Up Exhibition by Francesca Tiley and Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Aleesha Nandhra Explores Their Dual Cultural Heritages
We’re always keen to let you know what our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ are up to here at BF and we’re very much looking forward…
Cor!! & Buster Humour Special – Rebellion’s Entertaining Revival One-Shot is Accessible to New Readers and Crammed Full of Retro Fun for the Old-Timers
Back in February Rebellion announced an exciting line-up of specials to run through 2019 featuring many of the IPC properties of yesteryear that the publisher has picked up over the…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday April 24th with Guest Artists Barbawk, Shazleen Khan and Molley May
The fourth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2019 is imminent! And once again we have a tiptop trio of small press artists on Wednesday April 24th joining us…
Euthanauts: Ground Control – Howard, Robles and Company Navigate the Mysteries of the Great Beyond in this IDW/Black Crown Collection
Collecting the recent IDW series from Shelly Bond’s Black Crown imprint – itself breathing much needed fresh life into serial comics delivery on a monthly basis and continuing to defy…
Crowdfunding Corner Extra: The Adventures of Pup & Grumpicorn – Emily Owen and Gavin Mitchell’s Delightful Comedy Duo Hits Kickstarter Today!
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…
Soft Mutation – Nicky Arscott’s Graphic Poetry Immerses Us in the Cycles and Realities of Rural Life
While Nicky Arscott’s poetry comic Soft Mutation takes its name from a Celtic linguistic convention, its title also reflects both its themes and presentational approach. Arscott runs the Welsh micropress Mother…
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“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