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 events or digital…
Whether they’re bringing the first major work from new voices to an anticipative audience or taking mainstays of the small press scene to a broader readership, somewhere in the process…
Creator Rachael Smith (Doctor Who, Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger Adventure) has been a long-term fixture here at Broken Frontier over the last few years. We’ve followed her work from…
Our batteries recharged after a hectic weekend in Leeds, today the Broken Frontier Editorial team of EdieOP and Andy Oliver take a belated lookback on the new-look Thought Bubble Festival……
It’s certainly going to be the snuggest comics festival of the Autumn UK comics calendar but it’s still brimming with awesome artistic talent. Sandwiched between Thought Bubble and the Bristol…
We rarely run press releases without additional commentary here at Broken Frontier but sometimes the content really does speak for itself and anything supplementary is redundant. When it comes to…
My admiration for the work of Wallis Eates began back in 2014 when I was a judge for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition. Eates was shortlisted for her graphic memoir…
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 events or digital storefront,…
After a summer hiatus our ‘Covers Album’ feature returns this week with three eclectic choices. Each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic…
Every so often we like to break out of the normal format of our ongoing semi-regular ‘Crowdfunding Corner‘ feature on the site and give some time to a deserving project…
Like a huge chunk of the UK comics community we’re suffering a post-Thought Bubble hangover this week after a fabulous weekend in Leeds for the annual festival. We had a…
It’s Thought Bubble, and you know what that means: a fresh load of debut small press comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting the festival tables, BF’s resident…
Angelic – a candy coloured anthro-cyber-post-apocalyptic fun fest with obligatory sinister undertones. Pretty impossible to dislike, unless you don’t like the idea of verbose flying dolphins and winged monkeys dressed…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
It’s nearly Thought Bubble and one particular treat this year is that the eleventh issue of the influential small press anthology Dirty Rotten Comics from Throwaway Press debuts on the festival weekend. Mixing…
Written by Chris Mole, illustrated by Melissa Trender and with art by Nikki Foxrobot, Brigantia #1 debuts at Thought Bubble this weekend. The self-published book was funded by a successful…
The sometimes oblique, sometimes chilling and the always captivating worlds of Douglas Noble have been a long-time fixture in ‘Small Pressganged’. Indeed, our very first reviews column way back in…
Another day here at Broken Frontier and another round of Thought Bubble 2017 previews and reviews. Our next subject is Outside, a horror anthology produced by Ash Pure that you can…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
DEBUTING AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Artist Olivia Sullivan is one of two of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ whose exposure on the site so far this…
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 3 – “Generative AI is Fundamentally Colonial and Patriarchal”August 19, 2025
The Corus Wave – Artist Karenza Sparks Speaks about the Love of Stamps that Plays Such a Crucial Role in Her Upcoming Avery Hill Graphic NovelAugust 18, 2025
Inside Look: Cindy and Biscuit Vol. 2: Wild, Wild Life – Dan White’s Exclusive Creator Commentary on the Latest Oni Press Adventures of Our Favourite Monster-Hunting DuoAugust 13, 2025
Cable Cars in Barcelona, Fezzes in Istanbul – An Interview with Italian Comics Artist Vittorio GiardinoAugust 7, 2025
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 2 – “We May Be Led Down a Creative Bottleneck of Conformity”August 5, 2025
