Exciting news indeed this week with the announcement that our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ artist Peony Gent is the new Illustrator in Residence at London’s…
Multiple Broken Frontier Award-winning publisher Avery Hill have provided us with details of their 2020 publishing schedule and, as you can imagine, it’s a genuinely exciting line-up. Of course, from…
We are always so delighted here at BF to see the continued progress of the artists from our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programmes as they…
We’re always pleased to publicise the wider artistic activities of our annual ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ here at Broken Frontier and, for the second time this year (after…
Our many generations of Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ never cease to amaze us with their diverse approaches to the form and their ongoing achievements. So we…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Abs Bailey, aka Barbawk, is one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ and also a contributor to Comic Book Slumber Party’s anarchic fantasy…
We’re always keen to let you know what our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ are up to here at BF and we’re very much looking forward…
Before the weekend we provided details about three new book announcements from Avery Hill Publishing for the latter part of 2019. You can find out all about Alabaster Pizzo’s Mimi…
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…
As end-of-year lists and awards nomination begin to materialise across the internet it’s easy at this point in the calendar to be looking back fondly at the twelve months that…
It’s been a summer of comics success for our Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’. As we revealed exclusively here at BF, 2018 inductee Shanti Rai will be…
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One of the key points of the East London Comics and Arts Festival is the Sunday announcement of the winner of the ELCAF x WeTransfer Award which this year provides a…
The longlist for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced today and, as you’d expect from a publisher of Myriad’s acclaim, it’s a list full of diverse artistic…
It’s always a pleasure for us here at BF to be able to let you know about new projects from the artists we have followed through our annual ‘Six Small…
Fans of our 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Jey Levang will, no doubt, be thrilled at the prospect of meeting the creator at this year’s Thought Bubble given…
Thought Bubble is coming and, in the fortnight leading up to the festival weekend, we’re running a series of previews at BF of some of the debut books that have…
All regular visitors to Broken Frontier will be aware of our annual ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ initiative here on the site. In case you’re coming in new to…
It’s not comics but there’s a very good reason for drawing your attention to actor and comedian Adrian Edmondson’s children’s novel Tilly and the Time Machine today at BF. That’s…
“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics PageMay 16, 2022
“Religious Groups Claim Moral Superiority but Target the Most Vulnerable” – Jessica Campbell Makes Her Case With ‘Rave’, For Drawn & QuarterlyMay 4, 2022
“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
Some Thoughts on Toxic Fandom in British Comics – Or Why the UK Comics Industry is Right to Unshackle Itself from What Amounts to Comicsgate-Style ThinkingMarch 22, 2022
