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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, August 28th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 25, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week (and in-person the day after!) and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with…

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Gosh!Fest – Gosh! Comics’ Small Presstival Coming this Saturday, August 30th with Around 40 Featured Creators

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 25, 2025

No less than nine Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators will be at Gosh’s Gosh!Fest celebration of UK small Press on Saturday which will feature around 40 artists signing on…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Part 1 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2025

This is exactly the kind of initiative we exist to support at Broken Frontier. In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…

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Preview: Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer – Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes Return to Hobtown with Oni Press in November

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 22, 2025

The Hobtown Mystery Stories is one of those series that absolutely rewards re-reading. Bertin and Forbes return with the third volume in the series later this year and this is…

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Physics For Cats – Tom Gauld Showcases his Caustic Wit to Celebrate the Geeks Who Walk Amongst Us

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 21, 2025

There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he puts out. The first are those who can’t help…

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Rebirth! – Looking Back at Caption Festival’s Return to Oxford After an 8-Year-Hiatus, and its Grand Celebration of UK Indie and Small Press Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 20, 2025

When the return of the Caption small press comics festival was announced for 2025, after an 8-year absence, it was with the following description of its ethos and mission: “Caption…

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Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 3 – “Generative AI is Fundamentally Colonial and Patriarchal”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2025

Welcome to a third look from across our community on the effects of Generative AI on comics. Here’s our standard intro for the series… AI “art” is already encroaching on…

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Avery Hill Publishing Exhibition ‘Vision & Labour: Making Comics’ Comes to the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate for Thought Bubble 2025!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 18, 2025

There’s an Avery Hill Publishing exhibition coming to Thought Bubble this year and we have the details below. Also we’re delighted that BF will, in its own small way, be…

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The Corus Wave – Artist Karenza Sparks Speaks about the Love of Stamps that Plays Such a Crucial Role in Her Upcoming Avery Hill Graphic Novel

  • by Karenza Sparks
  • August 18, 2025

Something a little different today at Broken Frontier as upcoming Avery Hill author Karenza Sparks talks about her love of stamps, and how stamp collecting so integrally feeds into the…

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The Phoenix is Heading to Thought Bubble 2025 with Neill Cameron, Ron Deas, Sam Davies, Abby Bulmer, Emily Kimbell and Zak Simmonds-Hurn

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 18, 2025

Exciting news from the direction of our friends at Thought Bubble with the announcement of this collaboration with the brilliant The Phoenix weekly. Particularly cool because it includes Neill Cameron…

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The Stoneshore Register – A Subtle Story about Unresolved Mysteries from G. Willow Wilson, M.K. Perker and Dark Horse

  • by Edward Picot
  • August 15, 2025

The plot of The Stoneshore Register is both simple and elusive. A refugee called Fadumo turns up looking for a job in a fishing town called Stoneshore, on the north…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON – Meet Our Guest Artists Kiera Won, Leo Fox and Mark Stafford on Friday, August 29th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 14, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns for its third revived outing at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, August 29th, 2025 with…

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Inside Look: Cindy and Biscuit Vol. 2: Wild, Wild Life – Dan White’s Exclusive Creator Commentary on the Latest Oni Press Adventures of Our Favourite Monster-Hunting Duo

  • by Dan White
  • August 13, 2025

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and themes…

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The Legend of Kamui Vol. 2 – Drawn & Quarterly Takes Shirato Sanpei’s Saga Forward with a Second Volume of the Manga Classic

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 12, 2025

Earlier this year, an English translation of Shirato Sanpei’s celebrated tale of ninjas in seventeenth century Japan was published by Drawn & Quarterly. This was remarkable for several reasons, starting…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, August 14th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…

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Caption: Rebirth Seven Day Countdown – Caption Returns on the Weekend of August 16th-17th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 8, 2025

Tick tock… SEVEN DAYS TO GO! Caption: Rebirth takes place Saturday August 16th and Sunday 17th 2025 at Seacourt Hall, 3 Church Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9TH. Seacourt Hall is…

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The Goblin Mini Market Comes to London on August 17th for Small Press Comics and Zine Fans

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 8, 2025

Another new UK small press comics event alert! Details on the Goblin Mini Market below, an event acting as precursor to the Autumn Goblin Market in South London. Art below…

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Blood Doughnut – Will Powers Shows Us the Other Side of Vampire Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2025

“You should just always be reaching a little further than you think is actually possible.” The fitting words of small press creator Will Powers from an interview we ran with…

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