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Jessica Farm – Fantagraphics’ Collection of Josh Simmons’ Quarter of a Century Work-in-Progress Story Captures a Unique Experiment in the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2025

The chances are that I will be long dead before Josh Simmons’ Jessica Farm reaches its projected conclusion around 25 years from now. And yet, perhaps peculiarly, this harsh reality…

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Night Terror – Grisly, Whimsical and Sinister Dreams from John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 11, 2025

A viscous, elongated creature with the body of a large crow, the skull of a man, and a gaping mouth full to the brim of sharp teeth shrieks down at…

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Preview: Rex Power: Invasion of the Fear Bugs – RAMZEE and Claude T.C.’s Dino-Alien Bounty Hunter Strip to Be Collected for All-Ages Readers Next Year

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 10, 2025

From the ashes of the late, lamented Monster Fun comes RAMZEE and Claude T’C.’s Rex Power from Rebellion in 2026… FEEL THE DINO-MIGHT!! Crash-landing onto shelves next year, the adventures…

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Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 4 – “So-Called Artificial Intelligence Has Been Crafted in Service to Power”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2025

We’re back again this week with another set of canvassed opinions from across the worlds of comics on the effects of Generative AI on the form. Here’s our standard intro…

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Thought Bubble Month 2025 at Broken Frontier – Guidelines on Reviews Submissions and Possible Interviews as Part of our Annual Celebration of All Things TB!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2025

Just a quick reminder today of the message you will already have received from our chums on the Thought Bubble team. And a couple of quick notes on FAQs and…

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Cartoonists for Gaza Extra: Sweaty Eyes – Read AJ O’Neill’s Short Comic Story Here at Broken Frontier

  • by AJ O'Neill
  • September 10, 2025

After our mammoth series of posts for the Cartoonists for Gaza social media campaign (see all the galleries here) we have a very poignant follow-up at Broken Frontier today. Cartoonist…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON – Meet Our Guest Artists Antoine Cossé, Shazleen Khan and Peter Morey on Friday, September 26th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 10, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns for its fourth revived outing at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, September 26th, 2025. Due…

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The Weight – D+Q Gives Melissa Mendes’s Beautiful Webcomic the Attention It Has Long Deserved

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 9, 2025

A decade or so ago, while speaking about her plan for The Weight, which had yet to be completed, American artist Melissa Mendes spoke of her love of family sagas that spanned generations….

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Raging Clouds – Yudori Confronts Patriarchy with a Story of Resilience, Friendship and Freedom

  • by Swati Nair
  • September 8, 2025

The act of invention is rarely just about machines or ideas. It’s also about survival and resilience, and finding ways to imagine freedom when the world insists on restraint. In…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, September 11th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 8, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…

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Pigeon’s ‘The Ecstasy of Jenny D’ Comes to Kickstarter for Its Much Anticipated Print Edition

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 5, 2025

“Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.” That’s the hook for the new comic by 2020 Broken Frontier Six to Watch…

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The UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 Has Launched!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 5, 2025

It’s back! The UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 has launched. Five years after the results of the first survey it’s time to make your voice heard again! UK COMICS CREATOR…

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This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story – Hayley Gullen’s Funny, Frank and Insightful Graphic Memoir

  • by Edward Picot
  • September 4, 2025

“One night in April 2022”, begins Hayley Gullen’s memoir, “PAIN PAIN PAIN. [thought bubble:] That’s weird… Wrong time of the month and only one boob. Oh. It’s stopped. [Yawn] I’ll…

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Seeing in the Watery Underworld – Ecological Deliberations from Niki Bañados Who Takes Us on a Trip to the Microscopic World of Stygobites

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2025

Niki Bañados describes her new comic Seeing in the Watery Underworld in the following intriguing terms: “A comic in which we descend 60 metres underground and meet prawnlike creeps with…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for September 2025 – Including This Slavery, Acid Box, Cannon and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 3, 2025

Pre-2020, BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the team giving a weekly overview of recommended new releases. Now, retooled and re-imagined to fit the site’s…

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I ♡ Kill – Monsters, Fantasy and Pointless Bureaucracy All Come Together in April Newton’s Frenetically Funny Comics One-Shot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2025

“I’d like to join your hellish crusade of monsters in the quest to destroy mankind and all that it stands for!” That’s a sentence that quickly becomes a most effective…

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Reluctant Sadist #9 – Hal Weaver’s Old School Minicomic with a Bigfoot Theme 

  • by Gary Usher
  • September 1, 2025

Hal Weaver is based in Riga, Latvia, also home of publishing house kuš! comics. He published seven issues of Reluctant Sadist from 1985 to 1989 (with an additional collected edition)…

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Zineapalooza – Party On as the Zinezilla Comics Anthology Returns with Work from Mereida Fajardo, Beastly Worlds, C A Strike, Rein Lee and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 1, 2025

With the Bristol-based small press fair extravaganza that is Zinezilla coming around again this Sunday, September 7th it’s pleasing to see the return of the event’s signature anthology as well….

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