And another opportunity for aspiring creators to spotlight today at BF. Details of the mentoring initiative from Helioscope below. Helioscope Announces New Mentorship Program The interdisciplinary program pairs the next generation…
Another opportunity for emerging creators to spotlight here at BF. Details on the Top Cow Talent Hunt 2026 below… Top Cow Productions, Inc. Announces the Witchblade and The Darkness Top…
From New Yorker cartoonist Walker Tate, Laser Eye Surgery comes to its audience via the Fantagraphics Underground imprint. It represents Tate’s first full-length comics offering and centres on an unnamed…
There are many names throughout literature that are known as ‘the greats’: Dickens, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, and countless others. And amongst them sits one of the most radical female…
The Lexicon of Comicana by cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) was something of a thematic forerunner of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. It represents Walker’s attempt to catalogue…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 22nd annual BF Awards, as voted for by you, our readers, and the BF team. Socio-political reportage, comics for the 7-14 years…
What perhaps sets Adieu Birkenau apart from some other graphic memoirs/biographies is the time-shifting commentary on events from its subject Ginette Kolinka. We observe Kolinka both as a young woman…
It’s the end of the week so it’s time to go into the weekend with a Friday afternoon preview! This week we’re taking a look at Twin Lotuses by Zhang…
We have, admittedly, a little bit of catching up to do with our coverage of the Colossive Press series of Colossive Cartographies fold-out zines. So we are going to endeavour…
Once again at this point in the year I am going to repeat the sentiments of twelve months before. Every time we make our Broken Frontier Six to Watch announcement…
With their Action archive edition incoming Rebellion have announced a new Action Special for the controversial and short-lived British weekly’s 50th anniversary. While characters from the comic appeared in last…
Collecting shortform comics stories together in one package provides an excellent means for self-published creators to showcase their storytelling abilities over multiple themes and approaches. In Lotus’ Dream artist Wilson…
We have covered a lot of comics and cartooning work on the genocide in Gaza over the last year. Some of it has come directly from those living the nightmare….
We have given the work of PositiveNegatives much deserved coverage in the past at Broken Frontier. Their latest exhibition ‘I Couldn’t Stand By’, in collaboration with SOAS, is another opportunity…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week after a vacation break with a New Year Special and we’re inviting you to join…
Way back between the years of 2003 and 2005, there was one indie comic in particular that stands out in my memory as something completely distinct. Simone Lia’s Fluffy, published…
Exciting news indeed today with the announcement that Kevin O’Neill’s final comics projects Feartreland and The Balaclava Kid, the two volumes that make up Silent Pictures, will be available this…
In my opening 2026 Broken Frontier article I mentioned that this year we wanted to underline our commitment to covering socially relevant comics work with a renewed vigour. That will…
“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
