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A couple of years back, in an interview here at Broken Frontier, graphic novelist Karrie Fransman spoke about the potential of the form saying “There are still so many untapped…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
As part of our ELCAF Fortnight of coverage in the summer we reviewed the second edition of PersonaЖ from Russian micropress Sputnikat; an anthology that looked in on the life of TV…
David Robertson’s regular comics collections always compile an interesting mix of subject matter between their covers. The Dundee-based artist’s strongest offerings are usually those based in autobio work but his…
The festive season is upon us and the BF team will be taking some time off for a well deserved rest as we prepare for a very eventful beginning to…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Free Comic Book Day Funny Pages release from the Treasury of British Comics comes news of another jumping-on point-style from 2000 AD publisher Rebellion….
It will come as little surprise to any regular readers here at BF when we say that we’re huge fans of both Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics reprints and their…
It’s 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 storefront,…
To be completely upfront, Felice the Christmas Fairy isn’t strictly comics (though it does employ some of their specific structural tools) but this charming children’s book is still a graphic…
Christmas comics are few and far between in the small press world. I can think of less than a handful in the years I’ve been covering the UK scene. Of…
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 15th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
As they get older everyone has to reconcile who they once were with who they have become. For the autobiographical cartoonist this is even more complicated as they also have…
All We Ever Wanted is a new anthology that presents a positive vision of the future. Steering clear of the “doom and gloom” the 24 stories are meant to inspire…
While we’re all largely concentrating on Christmas at the moment and the end of 2018, it’s worth noting that some top 2019 releases are currently being solicited. Today at BF…
In our continuing run of pre-Christmas festive blogging – and as the comic shop shelves begin to fill with seasonal specials – we have some preview pages of today’s Hellboy Winter…
We’re feeling suitably festive here at BF at the moment so expect to see some Christmassy-themed short blogs over the course of the next week or so. It’s been a…
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…
Powerful as any given issue of a minicomic can be there is a certain weight to having a larger collection of an artist’s work. With the thicker spine comes not…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
In the few short years since we first covered Olivia Sullivan’s sequential art we’ve witnessed her practice evolve from her first tentative short stories in the pages of anthology Dirty Rotten…
“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
