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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! For Thought Bubble last year Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan introduced us to the cast of Purple Hate Balloon. In that memorable one-shot they took us to…
Hugely popular UK creator Alex Norris has asked for the comics community’s support in a legal battle against a US publishing company attempting to claim ownership of their internet sensation…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, November 10th with another of our popular ‘Classic Covers’ nights….
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Last year for Thought Bubble Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley, those two much respected gentlemen of the UK indie comics scene, collaborated on a split format, reversible…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! When I chose Anna Readman to be one of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch’ artists in 2019 it was based solely on a few short pieces on…
It’s that point in the year when next year’s publishing plans of many of our favorite purveyors of graphic novel goodness start appearing in our inbox here at Broken Frontier…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Sometimes we don’t need the sequential part of sequential art to find whole narrratives bound up in a single image. Sammy Ward’s All Ghosts: A Slice of…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! “In September 2020 I had an affair with next door’s cat”… That’s an opening sentence in one of the strips in Rebecca K. Jones’s Alfcat that is…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Over the years, via social media, I had already become acutely aware of UK artist Tom Humberstone’s love for the game of tennis. That passion is embodied…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! To mark Broken Frontier’s 20th anniversary we invited the comics community to give a shout-out to a creator or project they first discovered through BF. In…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Back in the day Sean Azzopardi was the very first person I got to know when my comics coverage shifted dramatically from the US genre comics…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Micropublishers who bring exciting new talents to a broader readership and appreciate just how diverse approaches to the comics page have a parallel mission to ours…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! As part of our 20th birthday celebrations we’ve been running a number of creator pieces from our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists past and present…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! One of the undeniable pleasures of an operation like BF is seeing artists that we have either directly championed or who are associated with the site…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! We continue our series of ‘Inside Look’ creator commentaries today at BF celebrating both our ‘Six to Watch‘ artists and our 20th anniversary. Today’s subject is…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! As we approach the end of our 20th anniversary celebrations at BF we have a very special interview to take us into the last couple of…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! In another of our creator commentary ‘Inside Looks’ to celebrate Broken Frontier’s 20th anniversary Joe Stone guides us through the pages of his comic Neurotic Fiction #1….
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! It’s an amazing thing to be there at the beginning of an ongoing comics journey that leads to ever more exciting destinations. We have been following…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
