SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei is a man of diverse artistic practice. UK small press comics aficionados may know him from his humorous strips in Hilarious Consequences – described by 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…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! If there is such a thing as a group of headlining artists at Safari Festival 2017 then Charles Forsman is most certainly among those who qualify for…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I have been writing about Simon Moreton’s work at Broken Frontier for several years now and I can point to many reasons as to why it has…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! There’s something a little synchronous in reviewing Laura Ķeniņš’ Steam Clean on the first day of our Safari Festival Fortnight of coverage today at Broken Frontier given that…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Get used to that intro to articles at Broken Frontier over the next couple of weeks because it’s going to be a regular fixture on the site…
The name of Gareth Brookes is hardly an unfamiliar one here at Broken Frontier. From his brilliant first long-form work The Black Project – which won both the Myriad First Graphic Novel…
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Two years ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed Miseryland by Keiler Roberts and described that self-published book as “autobiographical comics at their absorbing best – frank, blunt and forthright on…
With 77 issues since the late 1980s the importance and influence of John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comix + Stories to the world of autobio comics and zine-making cannot be over-emphasised. King-Cat…
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…
The premise of Mania, the series of comics put out by A.L.Ex Studios and soon to number three issues, had promise. Nothing new in the dystopian metropolis, the super-powered renegades, the…
Today at Broken Frontier we hand over our weekly editorial spot to our brand new Operations Editor EdieOP. Edie is, of course, a British Comic Awards-nominated graphic novelist, a contributor to…
“The Inking Woman was such an exciting and amazing exhibition to be a part of, it was an honour to have my work exhibited alongside such talented women in comics…
Today at Broken Frontier we welcome back Ricky Miller (below right with Avery Hill’s David White and Rachael Smith) – Co-Publisher of the acclaimed Avery Hill Publishing – to give…
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Given his extensive comics CV when it comes to small press anthology contributions – The Comix Reader, Wu Wei, A Bit of Undigested Potato, To Arms!, Off Life, Dirty Rotten…
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…
After several weeks of being involved in events and projects outside of the site – chairing or sitting on panels at ELCAF, Gosh! Comics Process and the Cartoon Museum; co-organising…
Another month, another guest-artist filled D&D! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back tomorrow Tuesday July 18th with another top trio of artistic talent in Sam Baldwin, Grace Helmer and…
“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
