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Thought Bubble Announce More Guests for 2025 Including Comics Journalism Pioneer Joe Sacco

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 29, 2025

Thought Bubble have announced another batch of guests for 2025 including the legend that is Joe Sacco, the cartoonist behind Palestine and War on Gaza. For more on comics about…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 4 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Rufus Dayglo, Peter Kuper, Zara Slattery, Oscar Zárate and Corinne Halbert

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 29, 2025

And we’re ending up the week with part four of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able…

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Preview: Action: The Archival Edition – From the 1970s, the UK’s Most Controversial Weekly Comic is Collected by Rebellion

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 28, 2025

No doubt following the success of the format of the Scream! archives Rebellion have announced a similar collection for the first twelve issues of the seminal UK weekly anthology series…

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Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF

  • by Tom Humberstone
  • August 27, 2025

“If your concept of prgress doesn’t put people at the center of it, is it even progress?” Last year at BF we reviewed Tom Humberstone’s collection of comics social commentary…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 3 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from John Sadler, MariNaomi, Paul Peart-Smith, Tony Thorne and Myfanwy Tristram

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2025

We’re back again with part three of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put together…

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Cannon – Lee Lai Lives Up to All the Promise of Her Award-Winning Debut ‘Stone Fruit’ with a Powerful, Bittersweet Follow-Up

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 27, 2025

A few years ago, not long after her debut Stone Fruit had won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics, and was listed as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,…

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mini kus! #131: Animal Denial – Émilie Gleason Looks at Animal Rights, Factory Farming and the Environment in this Memorable Satirical Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 27, 2025

Sometimes when it comes to social commentary in comics – and in any medium to be frank – humour can be far more effective than more heavy-handed moralising. Belgian-Mexican creator…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 2 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Krent Able, Charlie Adlard, Danny Noble, Fumio Obata and Corinne Pearlman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2025

And today we’re back with part two of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…

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Toto Bunny Zine #1 and #2 – Kiera Won’s Minicomics Are a Delightful, Fold-Out Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2025

Kiera Won’s Toto Bunny Zine – the first two of which we will be looking at today at Broken Frontier – take us into genuinely minicomic territory, given that each…

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Silent Planet – Rob Jackson Takes Us on a Visually Led Journey to an Alien World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2025

I am not sure why there’s been such a long gap in between reviews of Rob Jackson comics at Broken Frontier. The versatile, genre-jumping creator behind projects like Slaves of…

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Dark Horse to Publish English Translation of ‘The Credits Roll into the Sea’ as Part of Its Manga Line

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 25, 2025

More news from Dark Horse’s expanding manga line… TAKE A LESSON IN LIVING LIFE WITH THE DARK HORSE DEBUT OF “THE CREDITS ROLL INTO THE SEA” Dark Horse Manga announces its latest English…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, August 28th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 25, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week (and in-person the day after!) and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with…

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Gosh!Fest – Gosh! Comics’ Small Presstival Coming this Saturday, August 30th with Around 40 Featured Creators

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 25, 2025

No less than nine Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators will be at Gosh’s Gosh!Fest celebration of UK small Press on Saturday which will feature around 40 artists signing on…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 1 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2025

This is exactly the kind of initiative we exist to support at Broken Frontier. In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…

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Preview: Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer – Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes Return to Hobtown with Oni Press in November

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 22, 2025

The Hobtown Mystery Stories is one of those series that absolutely rewards re-reading. Bertin and Forbes return with the third volume in the series later this year and this is…

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Physics For Cats – Tom Gauld Showcases his Caustic Wit to Celebrate the Geeks Who Walk Amongst Us

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 21, 2025

There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he puts out. The first are those who can’t help…

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Rebirth! – Looking Back at Caption Festival’s Return to Oxford After an 8-Year-Hiatus, and its Grand Celebration of UK Indie and Small Press Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 20, 2025

When the return of the Caption small press comics festival was announced for 2025, after an 8-year absence, it was with the following description of its ethos and mission: “Caption…

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Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 3 – “Generative AI is Fundamentally Colonial and Patriarchal”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2025

Welcome to a third look from across our community on the effects of Generative AI on comics. Here’s our standard intro for the series… AI “art” is already encroaching on…

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