A Story for Desmond – Jason Walz Offers a Unique ‘Graphic Medicine’ Bedtime Story
Who are the stories we tell for: ourselves, or those who hear them? In Jason Walz’s A Story for Desmond, a simple bedtime story brings hope to both a young…
Preview: New Thought Bubble Books from Breakdown Press – ‘Ding Dong Circus’, ‘Escape to the Unfinished’, ‘Generous Bosom’ #2, ‘Klaus Magazine’ #1 and ‘Windowpane’ #3
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! With their distinctive vision and publishing ethos Breakdown Press have become one of the most important new players on the UK publishing scene over the last…
Preview: Katzine #4 – Teaser Art from the Upcoming Issue of Katriona Chapman’s Beautifully Rendered Autobiographical Zine
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Katriona Chapman’s Katzine debuted earlier this year mixing comic strips and text pieces to give amiable insights into the day-to-day life of its creator. If that…
Exclusive Preview: Greasy’s Guide to Nookie – Get a Sneak Peek at BCA-Nominated Comic Book Slumber Party’s New Anthology Debuting at Thought Bubble
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)…
Monstress #1 – Kaiju and Steampunk Converge in Liu and Takeda’s New Hard Fantasy Epic from Image
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…
Preview: The Golden Cannibal Girl – Pick Up this Seaside Story with a Douglas Noble Twist at Thought Bubble at the Weekend
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…
Red – A Classic Tale of Yesteryear Re-Imagined by a Comics Star of Tomorrow in Jess Milton’s Take on the ‘Red Riding Hood’ Story
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…
Snippets: Extracts from 4 Comics that Don’t Exist – BCA-Nominated Adam Vian Plays with the Traditions of the Form in a Memorable Minicomic
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…
Joe Golem, Occult Detective #1 – Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola gets Hard-Boiled in His Latest Journey into the Supernatural
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…
Rebellion Announces Reprints from Classic British Weekly ‘Misty’ – ‘Moonchild’ and ‘The Four Faces of Eve’ to Be Collected
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…
Staff Picks for November 11, 2015 – Thought Bubble Special, Including Identity, Red, Plans We Made, I Love this Part, Greasy’s Guide to Nookie and More
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…
Preview: Hitsville UK #4 – Riordan and Cox’s Music Industry Send-Up Returns at Thought Bubble
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…
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Identity – One Beat Zines Launch Their New Anthology at Thought Bubble Featuring 33 Women Creators Including Julia Scheele, Amneet Johal, Sabba Khan, Jess Milton, EdieOP and More
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…
Criticise THIS! British Comics Award Nominee Dan White Issues 21 Statements on Comics Criticism
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…
Defend Comics – Listen to the Podcast from the Orbital Comics/Brooklyn Brewery Panel Featuring Khary Randolph, the CBLDF’s Alex Cox and BF’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver
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…
Over the Line – An Accessible, Stimulating and Inspiring Introduction to Poetry Comics
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…
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Tales from the Wedding Present – Sequential Art and Music Converge as David Gedge’s Influential Indie Band Come to the Comics Page
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…
Staff Picks for November 4, 2015 – Unfollow, The Troll, Monstress, Joe Golem, Johnny Red, Exodus: The Life After and Sky in Stereo
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…
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