With an eclectic publishing mix that includes graphic biography, international comics, literary adaptations and original graphic novels, UK publisher SelfMadeHero’s publishing schedule always demands detailed consideration. Already in 2019 we’ve…
The UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day returns this year on Saturday July 13th for its fourth annual celebration of comics self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY culture. The brainchild of cartoonist…
On January 10th 2019, the world of British comics lost one of its finest artists, the legendary Ron Smith, who died at the age of 90 after several years of…
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…
Humanity’s complex relationship with the technology it creates, relies on and arguably becomes subservient to is fertile ground for sci-fi/horror hybrid parable. SelfMadeHero’s anthology I Feel Machine explores those ideas in…
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Keiler Roberts doesn’t dress her autobiographical comics up in the trappings of knowingly contrived storytelling structure. Their relatability lies in their unrepentant honesty and naturalistic composition; in her frankness and…
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…
The Thirteenth Floor is perhaps the most fondly remembered of all the strips to originate in the very short-lived early ’80s British horror comics weekly Scream!. Written by the popular…
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In My Father Was a Fisherman Dáire Lawlor presents a multi-faceted tale that can read on a number of different levels. On the surface it’s a claustrophobic and tense thriller playing with…
News broke this week that One Beat Zines, the creative collective championing women and non-binary creators and responsible for such acclaimed publications as the Broken Frontier Award-nominated anthology Identity, are…
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Since 2012 we’ve been running these annual, end-of-year round-ups of ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!‘ as a coda to that year’s ‘Small Pressganged’ coverage at Broken…
For those perhaps discovering the work of our 2018 Broken Frontier Breakout Talent Award winner Jayde Perkin (also one of 2018 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘) for the first…
The Chip Chomping Tater Terror of Tring! The Fanatical Fungus Grower of Frogpool! The Boggle-Eyed Butty-Biter of Sandwich! The Barmy Wellington Boot Bee Monster from Barnsley! The Vampire Banana! And…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 15th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. Something we’re very proud of at Broken Frontier…
The democracy of the small press is embodied in books like Theora Kvitka’s Dispatch from the Desert. I first discovered Kvitka’s autobiographical minicomics when she tabled at London’s ELCAF in…
Rachael Ball had already established her skill at weaving autobiographical experience into new narrative form in her previous graphic novel The Inflatable Woman a couple of years ago. There she…
In Through a Life from Nobrow Press Tom Haugomat exploits comics’ distinctive relationship with the passing of time to poignantly encapsulate an entire lifetime in less than 200 pages. Beginning…
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Describing the work of Cat Sims in XENOS: At the Edge of Life as “social commentary” seems a desperately inadequate term for such an undeniably potent piece of pure visual…
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“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
