There’s so much going on for Small Press Day this coming Saturday August 15th as we make the move from the physical environment to the digital world for 2020. If…
I was very pleased when Henry McCausland’s Eight-Lane Runaways appeared on the scrawled sheet of “new bukks” (sic) that Andy Oliver pushes under our cell doors every Sunday morning. It…
It’s time for more bacchanalian bonhomie this Thursday August 13th as our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returms. As usual we’re back again at 7.30pm…
A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G and J.R. Zuckerberg aims to provide information about LGBTQ+ identities and labels by explaining some of these numerous identities…
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Zebedee and the Valentines is not the first time 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Abs Bailey has been published by Avery Hill. Two years ago, in the Comic…
Launched in June, the Insider Art digital anthology aims to provide financial help for female and non-binary retailers as a response to the repercussions of the pandemic. With a playfully…
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A loving homage to the Japanese Kaiju mega-monster genre of science fantasy, Tobias Hamilton and Shane Melisse’s The Last Kaiju (published by the Ishan Comics imprint) nevertheless manages to surpass…
What makes the characters in Anna Sommer’s The Unknown so compelling is that they are all such flawed and, in some cases, almost broken individuals. Yet such is the subtlety…
Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point tells the story of Ellen, a young woman who returns to the seaside town she grew up in – the titular town – and brings…
We’ve covered the efforts to ensure the future of London’s Cartoon Museum before here at Broken Frontier but word today from the fine crew at Rebellion of another initiative. An…
Isabel Greenberg’s previous books from Jonathan Cape – The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The One Hundred Nights of Hero – adapted and re-imagined myth and legend to create a…
Published today, the results of the first UK Comics Creator Survey – originally announced by our esteemed Comics Laureate Hannah Berry back in April – make for fascinating if perhaps…
It’s no secret that online promotion of artists and their practice has taken on a whole new added level of importance since March. Today on Twitter Shazleen Khan (creator of…
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When I originally read the soundbite summary for Norm Konyu’s graphic novel The Junction – a debut work exploring the mysterious return of a missing child – it immediately grabbed…
The premise of Jesse Lonergan’s Hedra is, in isolation, a straightforward one. After nuclear war devastates the Earth, one lone astronaut wins a lottery that will see them embark on…
To take you into the weekend we have a several=page preview of Marco Finnegan’s Lizard in a Zoot Suit YA graphic novel coming imminently from Graphic Universe… Los Angeles’ Zoot…
What could compel Claire Fauvel, a French illustrator and animator, to create a 220-page graphic biography of Phoolan Devi, arguably India’s most famous dacoit? A question like this would never…
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Avery Hill Publishing describe Patrick Wray’s debut graphic novel The Flood That Did Come as being set in “a little England drowning in its own future past” which is a…
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
“A Room Full of Comics People is a True Joy to See!” – Marc Jackson on Bringing MACC-POW! to Macclesfield and the Resurgence of Kids Comics in the UKMay 25, 2026
“Our Work is Rooted in South Asian Identity and Community-Led Histories” – Exploring the Publishing Output and Ethos of Kutty Press with Bhavani Balasubramanyam and Deepesh SangtaniMay 18, 2026
