It’s a most appropriate time to be looking at SelfMadeHero’s Catalyst anthology – the end product of their 2021 Graphic Anthology Programme designed to mentor and champion emerging creators of…
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Emerging from an Inktober-related exercise, Myfanwy Tristram’s Sorry for the Inconvenience… We Are Trying to Save the World (the title coming from an Extinction Rebellion placard) is an 80-page celebration…
One final news update to go into the weekend with the news that acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Smith is to launch a new line of comics with Dark Horse. Full details…
Time for a sneak peek at another upcoming comics project. This time Asaf Hanuka’s The Realist: Last Day on Earth, another collection of autobio work published by BOOM! Studios/Archaia in…
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One of the great delights of every four-issue batch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! range is you never know quite what you’re going to get from its series…
London’s Cartoon Museum and publisher SelfMadeHero have announced a new online exhibition centred around the recent Catalyst anthology, a collection of stories designed to put a spotlight on emerging creators…
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Lilly Williams’ Scaredy Cat Gets Pregnant Part 1 is another reminder, if we needed one, of the breadth of approaches to capturing personal experience over the last two years of…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, March 3rd with guest artists Kay Sohini and Štěpánka Jislová….
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Another entry in the vitally important and ever growing area of pandemic comics, Grandad Reg tell a story that is deeply personal and yet, sadly, simultaneously all too recognisable. Issue…
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If, like me, your perception of time has become so skewed since March 2020 that a few months ago can seem simultaneously like years ago and also yesterday afternoon, then…
To immerse oneself in a book by Darryl Cunningham is the equivalent of signing up for a history lesson by a particularly engaging lecturer. This isn’t only because of his…
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Trinidad Escobar’s rising profile over the last few years has been a testament to her artistic versatility. I can’t remember exactly where I first came across the Filipina cartoonist’s practice…
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…
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“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
