While one or two of Avery Hill’s big-hitting breakout stars have dominated “the conversation” of late, a few of the publisher’s other titles seem to have slipped under the radar a little….
Grace Wilson’s work is so acutely observed, so perfect in capturing the fragile human foibles of the people she brings to her pages, that she puts me in mind of…
Last weekend attendees of Funhouse: An Interactive Bookfair were able to experience a comics festival unlike any other. The past few years have given rise to a host of new…
Bi the Way explores creator M.J. Wallace’s journey of self-discovery regarding her sexuality and how this affected her relationships, sometimes as a result of her own construction. It’s an upbeat…
Spring has finally (almost) sprung and with it we look forward at BF, as ever, to the UK festival season ramping up between now and the Autumn. Broken Frontier doesn’t…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Following up on her original short-form zine offering from last year, Eleanor Crewes’s The Times I Knew I Was Gay presents a fragmentary series of autobiographical vignettes in an often…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
As if the six books already scheduled for 2018 were not enough of a draw, Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award-winning Avery Hill Publishing have announced a further three graphic novels today to…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! A warning to the prurient: there is precious little sex in Sex Fantasy. Instead this collection of Sophia Foster-Dimino’s self-published comics investigates the…
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…
John Allison’s work with in the Scary Go Round universe has been a long-standing high water mark of quality webcomics. Particularly after his shift in the late 2000s to a…
For several years now the Laydeez do Comics group have provided a vital supportive platform for new voices in comics through their popular monthly meet-ups. A combination of creator presentations…
DC’s Young Animal line was set up to try new approaches to storytelling, and last year’s Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye fully embraced that mission statement, resurrecting a near…
Our third Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is next week! And, as ever, we have three of the movers and shakers of the UK small press world…
For all his success in mainstream comics and, subsequently, animation (as one of the creators of Ben 10), the comics work I’ll always associate with Steven T. Seagle is It’s…
The classic pulp detective story and the self-loathing alternative comic are two genres that, on paper, couldn’t be more different. Nonetheless, they make for strange yet surprisingly simpatico bedfellows in…
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…
We have been so very busy behind the scenes at Broken Frontier these last few months that our customary ‘A View from the Frontier‘ opener to the week has had…
Lemon by Kelsey Wroten is a brief but potent distillation of her abilities as both a cartoonist and a writer. This minicomic from 2016 displays a strong talent for rendering…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
