Is it really time for Thought Bubble 2025 announcements? The full exhibitor list is now up on the TB site including around 25 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists. And…
When you open a graphic novel and are immediately greeted by a food-based class system, and a city called Foodtopia, you know you’re not in Kansas anymore – you’re in…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Last year for Pride Month at Broken Frontier I covered Leo Fox’s My Body Unspooling, a remarkable study of dysphoria and trans identity. Here we are, almost…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! When a project has been shortlisted for both the First Graphic Novel Competition and the LDComics Prize you know it has quite the impressive back story. Anna…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! George Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek. In 2019 he published They Called us Enemy, a graphic memoir which tells how he and his family,…
The big news over the weekend was the return of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw in person. Yes, after five years in the wilderness, thanks to…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed our 2025 ‘Six to Watch’ creator Rein Lee’s comic My Taxidermy Angel declaring it to be “incredibly confident early…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Although LGBTQIA coverage is a regular all year round part of our posting at BF, Pride Month is always extremely important to us as an even more…
Nearly a decade ago on Friday, June 25th, 2015 the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw was born. That first meet-up was held in the John Snow pub…
Souvenir is described in the back-page blurb as Sara Jewell’s first graphic novel, but also as a “collection” – “In this deeply intimate collection, Sara Jewell searches for meaning in…
It’s always exciting to see a new micropublishing venture on the UK scene and PJ Fairweather’s Don’t Fold Press makes its debut with an anthology mixing familiar small press names…
There are few discussions that have brought the comics community together as firmly in recent years as the threat of generative AI “art”. In the same vein as some of…
Every Colossive Press-related review at the moment needs to start with a reminder that the South London micropublisher will be celebrating five years of their Colossive Cartographies series with a…
Last year the first collection of the cult favourite horror comic Scream! was something of a pre-order phenomenon, selling out so quickly that the book had to go back to…
Hearing that one of our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators has been picked up by a publisher is always an absolute joy for us here at Broken Frontier…
Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has been the subject of a spotlight in comics form before. Back in 2021 Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins reviewed Elisa Macellari’s Kusama: The Graphic Novel,…
Even with their fifth anniversary party coming up at London’s Gosh! Comics it’s hard to believe now that Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines have been such a…
Having previously reviewed Jordan Crane’s Keeping Two for Pipedream Comics, I was thrilled to see an exciting new collection of his works being published at Fantagraphics this year. For the…
“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
“A Room Full of Comics People is a True Joy to See!” – Marc Jackson on Bringing MACC-POW! to Macclesfield and the Resurgence of Kids Comics in the UKMay 25, 2026
“Our Work is Rooted in South Asian Identity and Community-Led Histories” – Exploring the Publishing Output and Ethos of Kutty Press with Bhavani Balasubramanyam and Deepesh SangtaniMay 18, 2026
“There’s Value in Being the Oddbeat Offering Which Has an Unusual Niche” – Steve Morris Talks about Shelfdust’s Approach to Comics Criticism and Where it All Went Wrong for Comics Commentary OnlineMay 11, 2026
“It’s About Queerness, Family, Loyalty, Grief, and at its Core Love in All its Forms”- Bex Glendining on Debut Graphic Novel ‘On Starlit Shores’April 2, 2026
