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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, June 5th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 2, 2025

The big news over the weekend was the return of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw in person. Yes, after five years in the wilderness, thanks to…

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Tidal Waves – Homophobia and Cycles of Abuse Explored in Rein Lee’s Unflinching Portrayal of a Toxic Relationship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 2, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed our 2025 ‘Six to Watch’ creator Rein Lee’s comic My Taxidermy Angel declaring it to be “incredibly confident early…

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Happy Pride Month! – Welcome to Broken Frontier’s 2025 Celebration of Our Queer Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 2, 2025

PRIDE MONTH 2025! Although LGBTQIA coverage is a regular all year round part of our posting at BF, Pride Month is always extremely important to us as an even more…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns IN PERSON – Celebrate 10 Years of Our D&D Event with Guests Mark Stafford, Lucy Sullivan and Dominique Duong on Friday, June 27th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 30, 2025

Nearly a decade ago on Friday, June 25th, 2015 the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw was born. That first meet-up was held in the John Snow pub…

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Souvenir – Sara L Jewell’s Memoir in Fragments from Fieldmouse Press

  • by Edward Picot
  • May 30, 2025

Souvenir is described in the back-page blurb as Sara Jewell’s first graphic novel, but also as a “collection” – “In this deeply intimate collection, Sara Jewell searches for meaning in…

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Don’t Fold Press Presents the ‘Something Alien’ Anthology – Established Indie Creators Team Up with Exciting New Voices in this Debut Comic from a New UK Micropublisher

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2025

It’s always exciting to see a new micropublishing venture on the UK scene and PJ Fairweather’s Don’t Fold Press makes its debut with an anthology mixing familiar small press names…

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Generative AI Art and Comics, an Articles Series at Broken Frontier – Guidelines for Contributors

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2025

There are few discussions that have brought the comics community together as firmly in recent years as the threat of generative AI “art”. In the same vein as some of…

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Colossive Cartographies #66 – davidt dunlop’s ‘Heartbroken’ is a Striking and Powerful Contribution to the Fold-Out Zines Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2025

Every Colossive Press-related review at the moment needs to start with a reminder that the South London micropublisher will be celebrating five years of their Colossive Cartographies series with a…

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Preview: The Scream! Specials Archival Collection – Rebellion to Publish a Second ‘Scream!’ Volume in Time for Halloween 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 28, 2025

Last year the first collection of the cult favourite horror comic Scream! was something of a pre-order phenomenon, selling out so quickly that the book had to go back to…

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Preview: Cimarron (The Wild One) – The Story of Explorer and Chief Scout Dwayne Fields Comes to Comics Courtesy of Soi Books, Sophie McVeigh and BF Six to Watch 2025 Artist Shuning Ji

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2025

Hearing that one of our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators has been picked up by a publisher is always an absolute joy for us here at Broken Frontier…

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Kusama: Polka Dot Queen – Simon Elliott’s Graphic Biography of the Influential Artist is an Intriguing Entry Point into Her Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 27, 2025

Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has been the subject of a spotlight in comics form before. Back in 2021 Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins reviewed Elisa Macellari’s Kusama: The Graphic Novel,…

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Colossive Cartographies #65 – Hayley Gullen Shares Her ‘Adventures in Pictland’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 26, 2025

Even with their fifth anniversary party coming up at London’s Gosh! Comics it’s hard to believe now that Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines have been such a…

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Goes Like This – An Eccentric New Compendium of Jordan Crane’s Comics from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • May 23, 2025

Having previously reviewed Jordan Crane’s Keeping Two for Pipedream Comics, I was thrilled to see an exciting new collection of his works being published at Fantagraphics this year. For the…

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Richard Corben’s ‘Rat God’ to Be Published in a New Edition this Autumn by Dark Horse as Part of the Corben Library

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 23, 2025

Coming in November from Dark Horse is another entry in their essential Richard Corben Library with the publication of Rat God. “RAT GOD,” RICHARD CORBEN’S TALE OF BACKWOODS TERROR, ARRIVES…

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The ‘2000 AD’ Artist and Writer Talent Search is Back for Thought Bubble 2025 – Your Chance to Be Featured in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 23, 2025

Emerging comics creators! It’s time to start thinking about Thought Bubble and the 2000 AD talent search. Full details below. Do you have what it takes to be a 2000 AD creator? We’re looking…

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Comic Book Couples Counseling to Celebrate the Importance of Comics Stores with Their Ten-Day Cross-Country Comic Shop Road Trip

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 23, 2025

The challenges for comics commentary has been very much on our minds here at Broken Frontier of late so it’s nice to be able give a shout-out to some of…

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RoboWolf #1 – Jake Smith’s Dayglo Retro Crime Comedy from Dark Horse Comics Sells His Zany Vision

  • by Gary Usher
  • May 22, 2025

Jake Smith, a creator based out of Kansas City Missouri, is known for previous Dark Horse titles Blood Force Trauma and Into Radness. His most recent work was IDW’s Godzilla:…

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Cramp – Fredrik Rysjedal Obsesses Over a Fear of Drowning in this Slyly Funny Take on Autobio Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2025

There’s something that I like to think of as a sophisticated minimalism to Norwegian creator Fredrik Rysjedal’s short comic Cramp. It’s a simple enough premise. Rysjedal grew up living by…

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