Lara Callaghan’s work was previously mentioned briefly at Broken Frontier prior to last summer’s Thought Bubble-debuting anthology Work, collecting the comics of the Work in Progress (WIP) group, a supportive…
The first volume of the collected Ken Reid strips from Odhams’ 1960’s titles Wham!, Pow! and Smash! was largely dominated by monstrous mirth-maker Frankie Stein, with just the final dozen…
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With a surge of interest in her work on social media and a growing buzz about her online output it’s sometimes easy to forget that artist Anna Readman – one…
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…
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Becca Tobin’s work has been a long-time favourite here at Broken Frontier for many reasons, not least of which for its spellbinding colour. We spoke of their issue of Youth…
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…
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Since we announced our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ back in January we’ve published a number of reviews of their work here on the site. Part…
If you’ve been following our social media feeds over the last few days you will be aware that Broken Frontier were at the Laydeez do Comics Festival over the past…
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…
Those of us who grew up on venerable British weekly comic 2000 AD in the late 1970s and early ’80s can attest to its importance in opening up our minds…
Since the last time we reviewed the Gamayun Tales books from Nobrow Press, creator Alexander Utkin has gone on to be nominated in our Broken Frontier Awards in the category…
Star Bright, the graphic novel by Alice Clarke and Rob Zwetsloot, tells a story of friendship versus isolation and captures the anxieties that surround being a shy child. Obviously stylistically…
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…
When approaching today’s review of Owen Michael Johnson’s Reel Love – the second graphic novel to be published by crowdfunding publisher Unbound after Grafity’s Wall – I found myself in…
Sold in aid of the crowdfunding campaign for Draw the Line – the anthology of comics/illustration of actions for positive social change (and winner of the 2017 Broken Frontier Award…
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…
Like many of our talented team at Broken Frontier our Tyler Chin-Tanner is also a creative force in his own right, as co-publisher of indie comics outfit A Wave Blue…
The third Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2019 is nearly here! And we have yet another fabulous line-up of small press artists on Wednesday March 27th as more…
“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
