After its triumphant return to in-person events last week the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns for its second revived outing at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, August 1st, 2025. Firstly what an incredible evening it was on June 27th with fab guest artists Mark Stafford, Lucy Sullivan and Dominique Duong, a lovely mix of regulars from the old days and newcomers, and some truly impressive drawing on show. It’s great to be back!
Event poster by Mark Stafford
Again, don’t worry if you’re not London-based, the online version will still happen regardless, with the next one this Thursday, July 3rd. Our reborn “real world” event though continues the past tradition of rotating guest artists alongside our new artist-in-residence Mark Stafford. Co-hosts are BF’s Andy Oliver and Gosh!’s Will Humberstone. For our second return night our guest artists are CROM and Clio Isadora. More details on them below. 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.
One side of the very packed room at last Friday’s Drink and Draw
So onto our artistic line-up for early August…
CROM was first reviewed at BF back in his self-publishing days for his Golden Campaign comics series. Most recently he has been working on the Birdking fantasy graphic albums from Dark Horse Comics with writer Daniel Freedman. You can read a review of Birdking Vol. 1 here and an interview with the duo here.
Clio Isadora first appeared in review form at BF with our look at her self-published comic Is it Vague in Other Dimensions?. Her art school-based graphic novel Sour Pickles was published by Avery Hill Publishing in 2022. You can read a recent interview with Clio at BF here.
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.
