London’s Cartoon Museum Announces the ‘Alison Brown Young Comics Maestro Award’
When we lost Alison Brown last year we lost one of the friendliest faces on the UK comics scene. Alison was for many the public face of London’s Cartoon Museum…
Vessel – Introducing Us to the Strange and Interesting World of Lily and Generoso Fierro
To spend time at Lily and Generoso Fierro’s website is like being invited to dine with a colourful couple for a few hours. They blog about the “carbs and caffeine”…
As the Indie Comics Community Looks for Crowdfunding Alternatives Spike Trotman and Iron Circus Announce Their Next Campaign Will Be Independently Run
With developments at Kickstarter some weeks back, and at Gumroad over the weekend, causing much consternation within the indie comics community there’s news today that Iron Circus – the pioneering…
Thought Bubble Festival Announces 2022 Dates and First Guests
Thought Bubble has announced its first guests for 2022 alongside the dates for this year’s, as ever, eagerly anticipated festival. Obviously with the news of the passing of British comics…
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Ugly Mug #5 – After 30 Years the House of Harley’s Small Press Anthology Returns with Work from John Bagnall, Ed Pinsent and More
Thirty or so years ago, beginning in the late ‘80s, Ugly Mug was a British small press anthology that featured a number of creators who are now considered legends of…
Preview: Kris Kool – Passenger Press and Floating World Bring Caza’s 1970 Psychedelic Graphic Novel Back to Print
Let’s go into the weekend with a preview of some gorgeous pages from Passenger Press and Floating World Comics’ upcoming reprint of Caza’a Kris Kool… “Kris Kool has known the…
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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2022 – Spotlighting the Work of Alba Ceide, Beatrice Mossman, Jason Chuang, Kat Cass, Manon Wright and Sammy Ward
2021 was another year where the self-publishing and small press scene in the UK had to continue to adapt to our changed world, and our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small…
Junk #2 – Sam Baldwin’s Anthology Brings Us Offbeat Tales from a North London Estate
Sam Baldwin’s second issue of anthology Junk begins with a two-pager detailing a number of ever more outlandish ways way to dispose of the comic should one make the supposed…
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Handlebar Gumbo – Anna Readman’s Collected Diary Comics Are the Work of a Careful Student of the Language, Intricacies and Nuances of the Medium
A few years back when I selected Anna Readman as one of our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists it was on the basis of one very short digital…
Breakdown Press to Publish Special 40th Anniversary Edition of ‘After Man’, Dougal Dixon’s Zoology of the Future
Experimental comics publisher Breakdown Press have brought a number of comics back to print after too long an absence including the Deadline work of Shaky Kane and a series of…
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Gripe Night – Paul B. Rainey is Back with Another Collection of Darkly Humorous Strips and Semi-Autobio Flights of Fancy
Paul B. Rainey is indisputably one of the true veterans of the UK small press comics scene with a prominent presence on the circuit for decades rather than years. His…
Quiet Thoughts – Karen Shangguan’s Collected Musings on Impermanence, Nature, and the Poetry of Comics, from Avery Hill Publishing
Quiet Thoughts is a collection of Karen Shangguan’s gentle and poetic comic narratives, published by Avery Hill Publishing. Varying in levels of abstractness, but consistently beautiful, Shangguan’s art allows us…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, Feb 3rd with Guest Artists Paul B. Rainey and Sam Baldwin
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, February 3rd with guest artists Paul B. Rainey and Sam…
Take a First Look at BHP Comics’ ‘The Bold Universe Collection’ – Diverse Emerging Talent Headline this New Shared Universe Series of One-Shots
Initiatives that champion diverse and emerging talent will always take precedence at Broken Frontier so we’re delighted today to be the first site to bring you the details of BHP…
Humanoids to Preview New ‘Incal Universe’ Titles for this Year’s Free Comic Book Day
For fans of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mœbius’s seminal comics epic there’s exciting news today about the upcoming The Incal Universe graphic novels coming this year from Humanoids. The press release…
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Colossive Cartographies #22-32 – The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press
Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines…
Preview: Quests Aside #1 – New Vault Comics Fantasy/Comedy Series Debuts this April from Brian Schirmer, Elena Gogou and Rebecca Nalty
So this sounds a lot of fun. Quests Aside debuts from Vault Comics this April and we have some preview art to share with you alongside the press release below….
The Collected Neil the Horse – Katherine Collins Still Makes Canadian Readers Smile With the World’s Only Musical Comic
It’s called a musical comic because the eponymous horse is part of a song-and-dance act. This may sound like an anomaly today, but Neil the Horse made perfect sense in…
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