Small press anthologies just don’t seem to have the prevalence they had several years ago when they seemed to almost swamp the self-published shelves in UK comics stores. That Comic…
A couple of months back we posted about ‘REVEAL! Women’s Comics East Africa-UK’ here at Broken Frontier, an initiative for championing the work of comics artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda…
School libraries in America banned more books in 2021 than ever before. Adding to this disturbing fact is the possibility that the LGBTQ+ community in that country is under attack….
Long held to be a masterpiece of socialist literature, Robert Tressell’s classic novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was first published in 1914. Set in the town of Mugsborough, it features…
Archie Comics have been making a notable effort over the last few years to ensure their fictional universe is populated by a diverse cast of characters that reflect the world…
Some years ago when I was making my weekly trip to London’s Gosh! Comics the late, great Steve Walsh (the most recent inductee into our Broken Frontier Hall of Fame)…
More news below from the Comics for Ukraine crowdfunder regarding new creators who have joined its all-star line-up… COMICS FOR UKRAINE: SUNFLOWER SEEDS BENEFIT ANTHOLOGY RAISES OVER $100,000 IN FIRST WEEK Colleen…
It’s pleasing to see in-person events gradually returning to the comics calendar including Graphic Brighton, an event we’ve enjoyed immensely in the past and one that has a cracking line-up…
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Over the last couple of years our Broken Frontier ‘One-Tweet Reviews’ event for Small Press Day – an opportunity for artists to post four pages of their work on Twitter…
“Stream of consciousness is a device I like to employ often. It serves to reveal the sub-conscious stream which can be useful on the path to self-knowledge.” “It has been…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 28th with a 2000 AD Special, belatedly celebrating the…
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The UK comics scene is particularly blessed at the moment with a rich surfeit of abstract comics goodness from a number of boundary-pushing practitioners. Peony Gent, Olivia Sullivan, Mereida Fajardo,…
It sometimes feels as if being different in any way often leads to unpleasant experiences of the sort shared by everyone the world over, regardless of nationality, faith, or colour….
One more Dark Horse Comics announcement this week to take us into the weekend with the news of Emily McGovern’s upcoming Twelve Percent Dread… The Hilarious, Slice-of-Life Graphic Novel by…
The winner of the Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction in 2021, writer Rebecca Hall and artist Hugo Martinez’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts is not…
News this week of the new exhibition ‘Love Stories’ at London’s Cartoon Museum. This one is extra special for us at BF as it spotlights the work of our ‘Six…
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Watching the growing confidence in storytelling craft of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators as they become more conversant with the language of the medium is always a pleasure….
Small Press Day – the UK and Ireland’s annual celebration of sequential art self-published and micropublished – returns again this year on Saturday, August 13th. Broken Frontier is, of course,…
Inside Look: The Junction – My Error Strewn Path to PublicationMay 25, 2022
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“Making Art is How I Transcend My Self” – Matthew Thurber on ‘Mr Colostomy’, His New Graphic Novel for Drawn & QuarterlyApril 18, 2022
“I’m Not Surprised Canada Isn’t Helping Us” – Emily Carrington on Confronting Her Painful Past with Drawn & Quarterly’s ‘Our Little Secret’April 1, 2022
