After our ELCAF Fortnight coverage at Broken Frontier (did we mention our 17 reviews, 15 interviews and 5 feature articles?) – not to mention our constant social media activity over…
It is always heartening to see a cartoonist at an early stage in their career getting the opportunity to do large-scale paid work as is the case with Iasmin Omar…
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…
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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…
If, in general terms, a picture is worth a thousand words then just imagine what the exchange rate is like between my exhausted, post-ELCAF ramblings and the imagery below. We’ll…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Our final piece for ELCAF FORTNIGHT for 2018 is a preview of Clio Isadora’s debut minicomic Soiled Fantasies – a 12 page black and red risograph comic about…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! It’s nearly ELCAF, and you know what that means: a fresh load of indie comics, zines and illustration-based publications! Normally every week our Staff Picks allow the BF…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! A drawing of a person is not a person. It might be recognisable as a representation of a person, but the complex systems of tissue and bone and…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! If you’ve admired the lovely poster and visual identity of this year’s ELCAF (and it’s certainly been hard to avoid it around here over the past couple of…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! João Sobral established O Panda Gordo in 2011 in his native Portugal, before upping sticks and moving over to Glasgow in 2014. It’s here that the nascent publisher/distributor…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Andy Barron is no stranger to the East London Comics & Arts Festival and regular festival attendees will no doubt be very pleased to see him there again this…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! With an accessible clarity, gorgeous use of colour and clever sense of graphic design Shanti Rai’s comics practice was always destined for a wider audience. I first covered…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! There are many great joys to being associated with a collective like Broken Frontier that exists primarily to champion and promote exciting new artists and their practice. But…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! With a poetic, haunting line in the psychogeographical, Tim Bird has established himself as one of the most original voices in UK indie comics over the last several…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Having made their ELCAF debut last year, South London-based Henry Miller and his son Stanley – the organisers and charming hosts of last year’s supremely convivial Catford Comic and Zine…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Anticipating brother-sister duo Pete and Maria Hoey’s attendance at this year’s ELCAF, we took their Coin-Op Comics Anthology for a spin. Spanning twenty years between 1997–2017, the new hardcover compilation via Top…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! In the pages of a Todd Oliver comic the grotesque and the nihilistic are so commonplace that they become almost banal. That’s the appeal of the worlds he…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! In 2017 a number of esteemed UK indie creators suggested I took a closer look at the work of artist Cat Sims for potential inclusion in Broken Frontier’s…
“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
