The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns at our regular venue of The Royal George on Friday, March 20th, 2026. And this time we have an awesome artist line-up of Peony Gent, Joe Stone 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 new 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…
Peony Gent was one of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators for 2017. She is one of the most reviewed small press creators in the history of Broken Frontier with no less than 17 self-published or anthology comics she has been involved with being reviewed on the site since 2016. Her blend of pensive commentary and abstract imagery has taken comics into whole new boundary-pushing territory and she remains one of the finest practitioners in the graphic poetry area of comics. Peony was also the House of Illustration artist-in-residence in 2020. You can read reviews of her recent comics at BF including In a Plum: A Walk through Thought, Autobiography Has Become a Stone in My Shoe and All the Effort You Are Making Will Ultimately Pay Off.
Joe Stone is another Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist, this time for the year 2019. Joe’s work ranges from socially relevant comics like the brilliant Stutter to the darkly humorous Neurotic Fiction, through to the poignant Five Months on Earth. His flip book comics with Matthew Dooley have become a Thought Bubble staple, with the latest one being Spite. Joe has also been a huge force in comics community as the organiser of the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair and a guiding light of the WIP Comics group, including overseeing many of their anthology offerings.
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.
