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Douglas Noble continues to curate his Strip for Me imprint’s A Pocket Chiller line with an incisive eye for the weird, the experimental and the sometimes enticingly obscure. It’s become…
While previously long consigned to history the story of the Radium Girls has recently been given a long overdue revisitation thanks to the 2018 book The Radium Girls by Kate…
Years before Itchy and Scratchy were satirising the cartoon violence of Tom and Jerry on The Simpsons Italian artist Massimo Mattioli was providing far more brutal parodies of the animated…
In the second of our continuing discussions on the Brexit effect on the UK comics community and beyond today at BF this week’s selection of publishers talk about the harsh…
Two upcoming courses/workshops at the Cartoon Museum have come to our attention which will, no doubt, be of interest to London-based Broken Frontier readers. Firstly, and tying into the current…
Sometimes a comic’s presentation, design and visual approach is so in contrast to its subject matter that the incongruous and the apposite become happy bedfellows. Such is the case with…
We’re on a roll right now with Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists and crowdfunding campaigns! The latest comes from one of our 2021 creators Alxndra Cook, whose Momotekku will…
There’s a reason established musicians sometimes put out collections of early demos, late into their careers. There’s a hint of vanity, of course, underpinning the assumption that someone wants to…
While work exploring socially relevant subject matter has been a growing area of comics publishing over the last decade a relatively newer phenomenon has been the surge of graphic biographies…
The period between childhood and adulthood has confounded, engaged, and frustrated the world’s most amazing minds. To write about this transition is to account not just for physical or intellectual…
While the world around us continues to collapse into chaos there’s some good news incoming about an old comics fave at least. Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier are back chronicling…
Shanti Rai’s Sennen is a project that I have admittedly been anticipating eagerly given that Rai was one of my choices for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators…
The final guests for this year’s Thought Bubble have been announced today featuring some long-time BF favourites, including our own ‘Six to Watch’ artist Sabba Khan. Full details in the…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, September 15th with another of our popular ‘Classic Covers’ nights….
Over the summer Broken Frontier has been talking to creators, publishers and commentators from across every aspect of the UK comics scene about the negative consequences they have experienced since…
A fresh but darker take on time travel, Forever Forward #1 is the latest sci-fi thriller from writer Zack Kaplan (Eclipse, Port of Earth). Dr. Lewis Moody has finally cracked…
Launched earlier this week on Kickstarter, new horror series Lurker is notable for us at Broken Frontier for featuring interior art by our 2019 ‘Six to Watch’ artist Anna Readman…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Features · Small Pressganged
In the first of our series of interviews with Broken Frontier’s 2022 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists I chat today with Spanish artist Alba Ceide, whose ‘Earth Blues’ series of ecologically-focussed…
“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
