Now here’s a comics community effort we can really get behind! North American charity ComicBooks for Kids is coming to the UK with the familiar names of Will O’Mullane and…
Every so often an announcement we would have wished to prioritise gets lost in our spam folder. Such was the fate of new publishing outfit Kwento Comics’ recent announcement of…
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To date, Feff Silvers has produced two print volumes of her supernaturally themed webcomic The Final Lullaby, with a third currently crowdfunding. This manga style story follows protagonist Penelope “Horos”…
Fast becoming a regular presence here at BF, writer/artist Tony Wolf and colourist SirGryphon are back today with ‘Radio Rebel’ another anecdotal, slice-of-life comic strip. Inspired by the work of…
Friends of the site Creating Comics UK and LDComics have announced a new two-part documentary ‘The Comics Time Capsule’ which will feature interviews with 31 names from the comics world….
Those who attended the 2000 AD 40th anniversary celebrations in London five years ago will be well aware that Tharg and his droids certainly know how to throw a good…
As we post details of the upcoming Bay Area Queer Zine Symposium below, a reminder that we are always keen to hear about any initiatives in comics that amplify the…
A while ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed the first volume of Witchy, a tale set in a fantasy world where hair length and magical power go hand in hand….
We received news at the end of last week that Broken Frontier Award-winning indie publisher Quindrie Press were expanding their already acclaimed comics catalogue to include bringing webcomics to print….
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, February 17th with guest artist Feff Silvers. Not only do…
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…
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”…
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 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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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…
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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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…
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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