SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! Autobio work is undoubtedly one of the true staples of the small press world. To a degree that’s probably because self-publishing provides the perfect opportunity for…
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There’s less than a fortnight to go until the inaugural Small Press Day on July 9th. This celebratory day showcasing the amazing wealth of talent on show in the allied…
The Broken Frontier Anthology continued its tour this June with stops in both New York City and Charlotte, NC. After successful campaigns in both the Pacific Northwest and London, UK…
It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns next week on June 28th. We’re returning to last month’s venue – the BrewDog pub on…
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 or digital storefront, the BF…
A celebration of rural life, Matilda Tristram’s Binsted: The Heart of Our Horizon places the bucolic serenity of the small West Sussex village of Binsted in the greater context of…
Taking comics to new audiences. It’s the ideal we all aspire to, something we all claim to aim for and, on so many levels, discovering an expanded demographic for the…
In Wrecked Hearts, Luca Oliveri and Mathilde Kitteh present two complementary tales of love and loss set in the far future. Alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking, this thoughtful manga collection further…
A young woman finds her new apartment overrun by a mysterious infestation. In the badlands of the Wild West, a gang of robbers on the run find themselves facing more…
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Championing comics. Two words that we like to think of here at Broken Frontier as summing up our entire ethos. They’re also the title of the panel I chaired at the…
In what has turned out to be his tightest, most accomplished work to date, Winnipeg artist GMB Chomichuk explores the horrifying framework propping up the fearless heroes of Maxima City…
The Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival (CECAF) – one of the friendliest, most accessible and endearingly laidback fairs on the UK comics show circuit – returns to the Earl Haig Hall this…
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…
Breathtaking, surreal, and bittersweet, Jiro Taniguchi’s trip down memory lane explores his marriage to the world of art through the Louvre’s rich history and his own unbearable loss. Many of…
Red Red Rock and Other Stories, a new collection of Hayashi Seiichi’s alternative manga from Breakdown Press, is a demanding but rewarding read. After 30 years of thumbing (and latterly…
It’s been a good couple of years since I reviewed the last collection of John Cei Douglas’s comics here at Broken Frontier. Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other…
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“We started Off Life back in 2012 as a way to not only help break new or undiscovered talent, but almost to break the indie side of comics to a…
After their British Comic Awards nomination for Fairytales for Bad Bitches it seemed a given that the Comic Book Slumber Party collective would return to their signature character Greasy with…
“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
