Nearly a decade ago on Friday, June 25th, 2015 the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw was born. That first meet-up was held in the John Snow pub around the corner from Gosh! and featured guest artist Tom Humberstone and artist-in-residence Danny Noble. Over its first five years the event would move around pubs in Soho, involve hundreds of guest artists (from small press favourites right up to established big names), and would be co-hosted by BF’s Andy Oliver and Gosh!’s Tom Oldham, Nora Goldberg, Clare Wood and Will Humberstone. Since the pandemic began the event has been held online every two weeks, opening it up to a wider and sometimes even an international audience. With that 10th anniversary approaching though what better time to revive its original in-person incarnation at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, June 27th, 2025.
Event poster by Mark Stafford
Firstly, don’t worry if you’re not London-based, the online version will continue regardless. But our reborn “real world” event will continue 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 return night our guest artists are Lucy Sullivan and Dominique Duong. 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.
The very first Gosh! and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw in 2015. On the left Nora Goldberg who would go on to become the event’s third co-host with BF’s Andy Oliver and, right, guest artist Tom Humberstone. Photos by Sean Azzopardi.
So onto our artistic line-up who all have Broken Frontier links…
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.
Lucy Sullivan is a multiple Broken Frontier-award winning creator whose mental health-themed graphic novel Barking has been widely acclaimed. It was recently republished by Avery Hill Publishing. You can read all our coverage of Lucy’s work here at BF.
Dominique Duong was one of our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators whose comics include The Dog and the Cat and contributions to SelfMadeHero’s Catalyst and Comics Youth’sMind Over Margins. Her first graphic novel Patchwork will be published by Jonathan Cape. You can read all our coverage of Dominique’s work here at BF.
