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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…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
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…
The first issue of Dark Horse’s new sci-fi saga Invisible Kingdom brings us into the separate but interlinked worlds of two very different women; existences set to converge into one…
There’s a lot in the next few hundred words that may seem hyperbolic. But indulge me for a few paragraphs because when I talk about Grafity’s Wall – the first…
As we wind down here in the UK at Broken Frontier Towers this evening, there’s time for one quick late post of comics positivity. Dark Horse have announced that Daniel…
What one immediately takes from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Blossoms in Autumn – a tale of love in later life and the newest book in SelfMadeHero’s range of European graphic novel…
“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
