Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Katzine: The Factory Issue marks something of a departure for Katriona Chapman’s popular semi-regular autobio collection of comics, articles and illustrations. For the first time in the publication’s 7-issue history…
In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…
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 or digital storefront, the…
Emotionally raw and at times brutally honest, Teva Harrison’s memoir chronicling her life as a metastatic cancer patient is graphic medicine at its finest. A few years ago, my grandfather…
The gallery space in London’s Eisner Award-winning Orbital Comics has hosted a number of must-see exhibitions over the last few years. Some of them have been topical and covered more recognisable,…
In just over three months, on Saturday July 8th, Small Press Day will return to the UK and Ireland with another celebration of self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY culture. Last year’s event was…
A few years back at Broken Frontier I reviewed Ed Syder’s My Skateboard Life (published by Blank Slate Books) – a coming-of-age piece of autobio that, despite its particular focus…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
We all know by now that if you want an all-encompassing sampler of the breadth and diversity of the ever vibrant small press publishing scene in the UK (and beyond!)…
In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
It’s back! After a hugely successful first day in 2016, Small Press Day returns on Saturday July 8th. The SPD team of Amneet Johal of the Alternative Press, David Ziggy…
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 or digital storefront, the…
Another press release, another piece of welcome news about a Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ artist getting picked up by a micropublisher… This time around it’s Josh…
Jessica Martin is another of those now established rising stars of the UK indie comics scene who you first heard about here at Broken Frontier. She was a finalist in…
“Excuse me, are you Broken Frontier?” “Yes. But my friends call me Broken…” In reality only the first part of that exchange has ever actually happened. But, such are my…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Diary comics, in all their varying forms, have often seemed to me to be an unfairly maligned subset of the autobio genre of comics so readily associated with the small…
This re-issue of The Damned: Three Dead Men gets The Sixth Gun band back together again for a hellacious, high-octane romp through Prohibition-era America. At Broken Frontier, we’ve been huge…
What if your favourite soap operas were real? That was the premise of Paul B. Rainey’s Thunder Brother: Soap Division series which originally ran for six issues until 2014. Rainey…
It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…
“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
