Fantastic news to share today at BF with the announcement that 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Norm Konyu’s previously self-published graphic novel The Junction will be published by…
The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear may seem like an unwieldy title for a book but sometimes getting the point across from the…
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London-based illustrator and designer Alxndra Cook first featured a few years ago on Broken Frontier when we covered some of her lively and quirky zines. Her relatively recent move into…
Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary may have been overshadowed by that little irritant called Covid-19, but it didn’t stop Germany and a bunch of other countries in the Western hemisphere from…
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Rounding out the first “season” of Spiny Orb Weaver – the spotlight publication on artists from the South Florida scene – the second and third issues of this Radiator Comics…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, July 29th for a Summer Spook-tacular with guest artists…
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I feel I’ve used the term Pekar-esque a little too freely at Broken Frontier of late. But in the case of Chad Bilyeu’s Chad in Amsterdam it seems particularly appropriate…
Small Press Day returns for 2021 on Saturday, August 14th. The Small Press Day team have elected to run this as an online event again this year but we have…
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Back when we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ I spoke about today’s interviewee Mereida Fajardo in the following terms: “I always gravitate towards creators…
Check out a preview of Jeremy Sorese’s upcoming graphic novel coming via Archaia later this year… Love & Loneliness in Jeremy Sorese’s THE SHORT WHILE Discover a Profoundly…
Matthew Dooley has an off-centre, idiosyncratic, and often bleakly humorous view of the world; something that has been a constant on the UK indie scene since his work first started…
There is a simple but effective trick that Will McPhail deploys whenever Nick Moss, the 20-something protagonist of his debut graphic novel, In., opens up to the world around him….
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Robert Wells is currently celebrating a whopping three decades as part of the UK indie comics scene in which time he has self-published work, collaborated with fellow small press mainstays…
To a certain extent I have been fortunate enough to have had something of a unique perspective on the development of the comics practice of Sabba Khan, whose debut long-form…
The Secret to Superhuman Strength may be to read this new brick of a book by Alison Bechdel, but the heavy lifting required to do so, both physical and mental,…
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Over the last few years artist Sarah Gordon had been producing a series of delightfully disturbing short horror comics with such a prolific zeal that I could barely remember from…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, July 15th with guest creators Tom Woodman, Rupert Smissen,…
Many things happen in Ray Fawkes’ ambitious, experimental montage comic One Line – roughly 7 generations are presented 18 times over – but the core is conveyed by the silent,…
“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
