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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, February 12th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 9, 2026

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation – Paul Peart-Smith Brings this Vital Text to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2026

Adapting Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s best-selling study Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States to a slimmer comics format while retaining its core essence is, of course, an achievement in itself. As…

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mini kuš! #136: Rain in Tears – Mao Explores Ideas of Evolution and Environment in this Creepily Atmospheric Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2026

Reading the sleekly illustrated mini kuš! #136 (‘Rain in Tears’) directly after its predecessor, #135’s loose and meandering ‘The Boy and the Worm’ only serves to underline just how much the…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON – Meet Our Guest Artists Rein Lee, Matthew Dooley and Mark Stafford on Friday, February 13th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 5, 2026

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns for its seventh revived outing at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, February 13th, 2026. And…

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Preview: All-New Roy of the Rovers Vol. 1 – Rebellion Collect the Rob Williams and Ben Willsher Revival in Time for the Summer’s World Cup

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 4, 2026

News today from Rebellion of a reissue of their Roy of the Rovers revival from a few years back. Hopefully this World Cup tie-in may lead to a resurgence of…

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This Beautiful, Ridiculous City – Kay Sohini Takes a Resonant Personal Journey through New York in this Standout Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 4, 2026

At the heart of Kay Sohini’s This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is the idea of perception. As a graphic memoir it also fits into that strand of comics narrative we have…

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Thought Bubble Shares Dates for Milestone 20th Edition and Launches Patron Call-Out

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 4, 2026

It may feel like just five minutes since we were all sitting in the bar of the Old Swan in Harrogate chatting comics but it’s already time to start thinking…

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mini kuš! #135: The Boy and the Worm – Heather Loase’s Meta Minicomic Shifts from Themes of Loneliness to Creative Block

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2026

Expecting the unexpected is, of course, a standard when reading one of kuš! comics’ mini kuš! offerings. Heather Loase’s ‘The Boy and the Worm’ in mini kuš! #135 is no…

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#Comics4Liam Invites Comics Creators from Around the US and the World to Create Art in Support of Liam Conejo Ramos and Families Impacted by ICE

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 2, 2026

I think we can agree this is something special that we can all get behind. Full details of Comix Action’s #Comics4Liam initative in the press release below… #Comics4Liam invites comics…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for February 2026 – Including First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, Tortured Hearts #1, All the Living and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2026

A return in 2026 for BF’s Staff Picks feature where members of the team give a monthly overview of recommended new releases, designed to spotlight just a few key releases…

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The Woodchipper – Joe Ollmann’s Stories Look at Ordinary Lives and Everyday Struggles, with Empathy and Humour

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 2, 2026

An interesting assessment of Joe Ollmann’s work appears early on in his own introduction to this latest collection. It comes from the late American critic Tom Spurgeon who once reportedly…

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Broken Frontier Andytorial for February 2026 – Hannah McCann Wins the First Graphic Novel Competition, Comics Events Coverage, and a Plea for More Understanding and Less Entitlement…

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2026

Welcome back to another beginning of the month look at our behind-the-scenes happenings at Broken Frontier. January shot by but, of course, our key posts this month were the results…

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The Smythes – A Truly Handsome Collection of Rea Irvin’s 1930s Domestic Comedy Strips from New York Review Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2026

A winner in this year’s Broken Frontier Awards, in the category of Best Collection of Classic Material, The Smythes is a handsome oversized collection of Rea Irvin’s (the New Yorker’s…

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The Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke – The Absurdity of Life Shown Through Steve Willis’s Adaptation of ‘Hamlet’, Published by Phoenix Productions 

  • by Gary Usher
  • January 29, 2026

Steve Willis is a Washington state-based creator who has been self-publishing his own particular brand of strange and surreal comics out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States since…

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For the Record: A Lifetime of Loving Music – David Robertson Guides Us through His Comics Playlist in this Nostalgic Short Strip Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2026

Through his Fred Egg Comics micropublishing venture David Robertson has provided anthology platforms that spotlight other creators and embraced a lo-fi, grassroots style of self-publishing. In the latter case one…

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Hello Sunshine – Keezy Young’s Teen Drama Blends Queer Romance, Explorations of Schizoaffective Disorder, and Horror to Outstanding Effect

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 27, 2026

Keezy Young’s win in the Best Artist category in the Broken Frontier Awards this year was all the more noteworthy for the incredibly strong shortlist of names nominated. Young’s first…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, January 29th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 26, 2026

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…

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Hotel Limbo: Book 1 – Writer Ben Harel Teams Up with 28 Artists as the Supernatural Webcomic Series Comes to Print from Top Shelf

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2026

One final post for the week with the Friday afternoon news of Ben Harel’s Hotel Limbo, coming from Top Shelf in April… Top Shelf Checks In at Hotel Limbo for a Glimpse…

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