AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Comic Book Slumber Party are the self-styled “international girl gang of comic creators” whose Fairytales for Bad Bitches (reviewed here at Broken Frontier earlier this year)…
Featuring intricate, intelligent world-building and lush, detailed illustration, this new ongoing saga strikes an exquisite balance between high fantasy and hard reality. The sub-genre of hard fantasy has become a…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Douglas Noble’s oblique – and sometimes even obscure – narratives may require a more substantial investment of time on the reader’s behalf but it’s one that…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! We’re returning to the familiar but always rewarding territory of my ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’ in ‘Small Pressganged’ today but with a…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! For those new to the critical environs of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier – and to paraphrase an old classic industry line “every column is someone’s…
A fun, original premise and moody, shadow-drenched artwork courtesy of ultra-talented artist Patric Reynolds (Aliens) are sure to make this atmospheric fusion of gritty detective fiction and occult horror a…
Back in August 2014 at Broken Frontier I broke the news here that potential reprints from cult 1970s British girls comic Misty were on the cards; specifically collections from 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 or digital storefront, the…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Satirising the music industry with equal dollops of scathing parody and fond homage, John Riordan and Dan Cox’s Hitsville UK was one of the earliest comics…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Of all the relatively new players on the UK small press scene this year it’s probably Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s One Beat Zines who were…
Last Saturday Broken Frontier was honoured to be part of the SMASH event hosted at the Barbican Library by CityRead London, the London Graphic Novel Network and Comica Festival. In a packed…
Back in October, at London’s Orbital Comics, our own Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver took part in the ‘Defend Comics’ panel hosted by Chris Thompson with comics artist Khary Randolph and Comic…
This enlightening little book offers some interesting thoughts on an increasingly visible strand of comics work, and presents a selection of fresh and stimulating work that isn’t afraid to step beyond formal…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
It’s been three decades since the music of The Wedding Present burst onto the UK indie scene with a distinctive and engagingly frenetic energy that certainly caught the imagination of…
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…
This polished debut issue from Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott oozes comics craft but ultimately feels a little too generic to fully cast its spell on this reader. One of the side-effects of the…
This Saturday November 7th sees not one, not two, but three expert panels on the world of comics for this year’s S.M.A.S.H. event at the Barbican Library, part of Comica…
New York City – the Carroll Gardens neighbourhood of Brooklyn, to be precise – comes to life in all of its quirky, garish glory under the watchful eye of native…
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
