The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns at our regular venue of The Royal George on Friday, April 24th, 2026. And this time our artist line-up includes Olivia Sullivan, Hamish Steele and Mark Stafford.
Poster by Mark Stafford
Again, don’t worry if you’re not London-based, our online version still happens regardless. Our reborn “real world” event though continues the past tradition of rotating guest artists alongside our artist-in-residence Mark Stafford. Co-hosts are BF’s Andy Oliver and Gosh!’s Will Humberstone. The evening starts at Gosh! at 6.30pm with the three rounds of themed drawing taking place in The Royal George from 7pm onwards. Please note: seating is limited and priority will be given to those who meet at the shop. Work from the featured artists will be on sale on the evening.
So onto our artistic line-up for March…
Olivia Sullivan was one of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators for 2016. We first reviewed her work in the pages of anthology Dirty Rotten Comics over a decade ago before giving her self-published comic I Drank Holy Water coverage. Since then Olivia’s style has evolved in truly boundary-pushing ways and she has become one of our most important voices in UK comics in the realm of abstract comics. This includes comics like Muscle Memory, Escapades and Present. Tense. Her first full-length book Oracles was published recently by Avery Hill and is an exploration of loss, grief and healing.
Hamish Steele is an Eisner-winning animator and comics creator whose work we first covered at Broken Frontier back in 2017 in Pantheon: The True Story of the Egyptian Deities, an irreverent take on myth and legend. Hamish’s webcomics DeadEndia became the graphic novel DeadEndia: The Watcher’s Test and the Netflix series Dead End: Paranormal Park. Most recently Hamish introduced us to Go-Man: Champion of Earth, that centres on an autistic child who gains super-hero powers.
Mark Stafford was a contributor to the 2016 Broken Frontier Anthology and is the Cartoon Museum’s artist-in-residence. He has been a frequent collaborator with writer David Hine including books like The Man Who Laughs and Lip Hook. His shortform work has been collected by Soaring Penguin Press as Salmonella Smorgasbord. Most recently he contributed to the Penguin folk horror anthology Bog People.
