THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Sometimes the slightest narratives can have the profoundest depths. In The Teeth Huw “Lem” Davies provides a tale of the natural world with anthropomorphic qualities that teaches…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! One of my annual traditions for Thought Bubble in years past was to devour that year’s Thought Bubble Anthology on the train journey up to Leeds. What…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Writer-artist Aaron Losty and letterer Becca Carey’s The Last Scarecrow is an expectation-defying one-shot. Initially presenting itself as a tale of ongoing gang warfare it gradually evolves…
Arguably the most eagerly anticipated collection from Rebellion’s much respected Treasury of British Comics line, The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire is now available to order in a…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Given the nature of the self-published area of comics that I focus on here at Broken Frontier the vast majority of the work I review tends to…
Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column here in the past. Today we return to this irregular feature…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Shortlisted for both the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition and the Laydeez do Comics Prize, the first chapter of Cathy Brett’s work-in-progress graphic novel Who Killed…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! It’s Halloween and Megan is trick or treating with her younger siblings Andy and Luna, with the three of them showing varying degrees of enthusiasm for the…
There’s no Scream! and Misty Special this year for Halloween but instead we do get to take an extended trip to a familiar horror environment in Scream! Presents The Thirteenth Floor. Continuing…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! In 2018 Emma Burleigh won the first Laydeez do Comics Prize for her graphic-memoir-in-progress My Other Mother, My Other Self, an excerpt of which I reviewed here…
The vitally important work of PositiveNegatives has been spotlighted before here at Broken Frontier but admittedly not nearly enough. Their growing online catalogue of comics and animation explores “contemporary social…
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Debuting at Thought Bubble via the Wine & Zine collective, the first thing that strikes the reader about Zara “Zukinee” Williams’s Roy & Rei at the Fair…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! When I first started covering the work of Sean Azzopardi at Broken Frontier he had long since become one of the integral fixtures of the London small…
Venerable British war comic Commando first debuted way back in 1961 and has been a DC Thomson fixture for nearly 60 years. With its numbering now well into the 5,000s…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The more I see of the work of Gareth A Hopkins the more convinced I become that his hypnotically compelling abstract graphic narratives are exploring the language…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! A new issue of John Riordan and Dan Cox’s brilliantly bizarre music industry send-up Hitsville UK has been something of a Thought Bubble tradition over the last…
It may be a year away but multiple award-winning artist Tillie Walden’s (Spinning, On a Sunbeam) next project from mind-body-spirit publisher Liminal 11 is one that will no doubt be…
“I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird” – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel ‘The Witch’s Egg’ from Avery Hill PublishingJuly 8, 2025
Inside Look: The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo Brings Her Boundary-Pushing Practice to Digital PresentationJuly 4, 2025
Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
