There’s no affected exaggeration in saying that Alex Norris’s Webcomic Name is an online comics phenomenon. The three-panel strips, all ending in the same simple but plaintive punchline of “oh…
Coming up at the beginning of next month the Graphic Brighton symposium (curated by Barbara Chamberlin, Alex Fitch and Elle Whitcroft) returns to the University of Brighton with an emphasis this…
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The last time we featured the work of William Powers at Broken Frontier it was for a zine that encapsulated a very different form of graphic storytelling. Never Been Reborn…
Lara Callaghan’s work was previously mentioned briefly at Broken Frontier prior to last summer’s Thought Bubble-debuting anthology Work, collecting the comics of the Work in Progress (WIP) group, a supportive…
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With a surge of interest in her work on social media and a growing buzz about her online output it’s sometimes easy to forget that artist Anna Readman – one…
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Becca Tobin’s work has been a long-time favourite here at Broken Frontier for many reasons, not least of which for its spellbinding colour. We spoke of their issue of Youth…
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…
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Since we announced our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ back in January we’ve published a number of reviews of their work here on the site. Part…
If you’ve been following our social media feeds over the last few days you will be aware that Broken Frontier were at the Laydeez do Comics Festival over the past…
Those of us who grew up on venerable British weekly comic 2000 AD in the late 1970s and early ’80s can attest to its importance in opening up our minds…
Since the last time we reviewed the Gamayun Tales books from Nobrow Press, creator Alexander Utkin has gone on to be nominated in our Broken Frontier Awards in the category…
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…
When approaching today’s review of Owen Michael Johnson’s Reel Love – the second graphic novel to be published by crowdfunding publisher Unbound after Grafity’s Wall – I found myself in…
Sold in aid of the crowdfunding campaign for Draw the Line – the anthology of comics/illustration of actions for positive social change (and winner of the 2017 Broken Frontier Award…
Like many of our talented team at Broken Frontier our Tyler Chin-Tanner is also a creative force in his own right, as co-publisher of indie comics outfit A Wave Blue…
The third Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2019 is nearly here! And we have yet another fabulous line-up of small press artists on Wednesday March 27th as more…
The first issue of Dark Horse’s new sci-fi saga Invisible Kingdom brings us into the separate but interlinked worlds of two very different women; existences set to converge into one…
There’s a lot in the next few hundred words that may seem hyperbolic. But indulge me for a few paragraphs because when I talk about Grafity’s Wall – the first…
“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
