Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
The last time we looked at the work of Sophie Burrows here at Broken Frontier it was for comics of a very different style. You can catch our Tom Murphy’s…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
While her comics influences range from Charles Burns to Junji Ito, Alice Urbino’s artistic style is uniquely her own; an Urbino-esque oeuvre that on a surface level embodies the unsettling…
It’s nearly 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…
Almost a sequential art ode to (specifically) vinyl records, and more generally to the joy of collecting and the nostalgia rush it brings, Lorenz Peter’s On Vinyl comes to us courtesy…
Having enjoyed her self-published work in the past, I’ve been wanting to give Shazleen Khan’s comics some Broken Frontier space for some time now but have sadly never quite managed…
When we first meet central character Adam Whistler in John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Tumult he’s a man in the midst of a self-destructive, existential crisis. The music video/commercials…
The Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance Awards return this year for their ninth incarnation with the results to be announced at Glasgow Comic Con on June 28th. The Awards are…
Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column in the site’s long history. Today it returns to BF as…
We’re always keen to let you know what our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ are up to here at BF and we’re very much looking forward…
Back in February Rebellion announced an exciting line-up of specials to run through 2019 featuring many of the IPC properties of yesteryear that the publisher has picked up over the…
The fourth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2019 is imminent! And once again we have a tiptop trio of small press artists on Wednesday April 24th joining us…
Collecting the recent IDW series from Shelly Bond’s Black Crown imprint – itself breathing much needed fresh life into serial comics delivery on a monthly basis and continuing to defy…
It’s nearly 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…
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
While Nicky Arscott’s poetry comic Soft Mutation takes its name from a Celtic linguistic convention, its title also reflects both its themes and presentational approach. Arscott runs the Welsh micropress Mother…
There’s no affected exaggeration in saying that Alex Norris’s Webcomic Name is an online comics phenomenon. The three-panel strips, all ending in the same simple but plaintive punchline of “oh…
Coming up at the beginning of next month the Graphic Brighton symposium (curated by Barbara Chamberlin, Alex Fitch and Elle Whitcroft) returns to the University of Brighton with an emphasis this…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
The last time we featured the work of William Powers at Broken Frontier it was for a zine that encapsulated a very different form of graphic storytelling. Never Been Reborn…
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“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
