“Dave McKean remains the master alchemist of comics imagery.” That was how Broken Frontier’s Tom Murphy described the acclaimed artist’s work when reviewing McKean’s Pictures that Tick and it’s a perfect…
When I first set out to read Best Wishes, I was poised to be both its biggest fan and its harshest critic. Concrete being my favourite comics work of all…
Behind the scenes at Broken Frontier over the last few weeks we’ve been beavering away on the nominations shortlists for this year’s Broken Frontier Awards. This past weekend saw myself…
Time for another of our intermittent Crowdfunding Corner blogs and this one has something of a link to Broken Frontier history as it contains work from our former Operations Editor…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
What a year it’s been for Avery Hill Publishing. From the Ignatz-nominated Comic Book Slumber Party Deep Space Canine anthology to Something City, the hugely acclaimed debut graphic novel of Ellice…
It’s 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 storefront,…
Putting a sci-fi spin on the road movie concept, Ryan O’Sullivan and Plaid Klaus’s Void Trip comes to us via Image Comics and is the product of a team with…
Founded by comics writer and former care manager Jonathan Clode, in conjunction with Cardiff University and with funding from ESRC Impact Acceleration, All Is Not Well (AINW) is a new online space for independent…
Last Tuesday November 21st marked our last Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2017 and what a positive and invigorating year of comics community it’s been in…
Pushing individual Patreon accounts here at BF is something that we rarely do simply because there are so many talented folk out there and time is limited. But we’re going…
As the year begins to come to a close so do too the London comics events slowly begin to wind down but there are a few last hurrahs for 2017…
It’s 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 storefront,…
Hot on the heels of the announcement of this year’s Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition comes news of a new women-only prize for unpublished graphic novel works-in-progress, courtesy of our…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
A member of the long-running small press collective Backwards Burd, Shane Melisse is a regular face on the London small press circuit. His projects have included Joel and his contributions…
The end of the year means we start thinking about two of the pivotal points of our annual calendar here at Broken Frontier – the Broken Frontier Awards and our…
Alex Fitch of Panel Borders has been in touch to let BF know that Caption – the UK’s longest-running small press festival which originally took place between 1992 and 2013…
It’s time for our last Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of the year on Tuesday November 21st as we’re joined for the final festivities of the year by Shane Melisse,…
Titan’s latest Doctor Who crossover comes to a dramatic end in this concluding special as the Doctors’ individual timestreams converge and the mystery of the universal threat of the Void,…
“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
