Now live on Kickstarter, Tilt: Six Tales is a new anthology from Broken Frontier Award-winning publisher Quindrie Press. The book features a new story by 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to…
Mental health awareness issues and veterans are rarely touched on in UK comics (Samuel C. Williams’s At War with Yourself being a notable exception). Welsh Arts in Health charity Re-Live…
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While the UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day adopted a hybrid approach for 2022 one online aspect we didn’t want to jettison was the popular one-tweet reviews on Twitter. Using…
This summer, Dark Horse Comics released Emily McGovern’s Twelve Percent Dread, a graphic novel that combines explorations of complex social issues with the everyday lives of its ensemble cast. The…
News from Dark Horse of a new entry in the Hellboy universe this November. Full details on Koshchei in Hell in the press release below… Legendary Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola,…
It’s been an interesting couple of years if you enjoy irreverent super-hero comics that both celebrate the standards of the genre but also attempt to approach it from new perspectives….
Another exclusive reveal treat courtesy of Dark Horse Comics today at Broken Frontier with this sneak peek at artist Scott Hepburn’s cover for December’s Minor Threats #4. The series, written…
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Small Press Day 2022 has come and gone but, as is custom at BF, we like to post a small online scrapbook of some of the events on the day…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, August 18th with guest artist Mollie Ray. Not only do…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged
Way back in 2011 when I first started focussing primarily on the UK small press comics scene at Broken Frontier self-published diary comics were very much the genre of the…
The handle ‘@birdsofmainecomic’ on Instagram has over 450 posts and a little over 7,400 followers. Each panel gets hundreds of likes, and Michael DeForge’s bio for the comic promises a…
Those of us of a certain age will remember those 1970s comics ads for X-ray specs. A novelty item that for young minds had such an alluring but ulimately unfulfillable…
Priya Huq’s debut graphic novel, Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab, is a fine example of how the comics form so effectively brings us into the lived experiences…
We’ve been following the progress of the LDComics’ REVEAL! competition at BF for a few months now. An initiative for championing the work of comics artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda…
There’s so much going on for Small Press Day this coming Saturday August 13th as we present a hybrid in-person/in-store event. If you’re new to the concept then Small Press…
If you love comics that tell stories in ways that only comics can then the work of sibling duo Peter and Maria Hoey is undoubtedly for you. We’ve given them…
A new fair makes its first appearance on the UK indie scene this weekend with the debut of CoCo Comic Con, an event for Small Press Day in Lancaster on…
Your favourite online comics social is back! And this time with a difference. We’re squeezing in an extra online Drink and Draw this month on Saturday, August 13th to celebrate…
“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
