Ed Firth’s ‘Horny & High’ Comes to North America Via Northwest Press’s Crowdfunding Campaign
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the UK we are, of course, already aware of the growing profile of 2023 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Ed…
Preview: The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic – Alan Moore and Steve Moore’s Celebration of Magic Coming from Top Shelf/Knockabout
Check out some preview pages from the highly anticipated The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic below… Legendary Magician/Author Alan Moore Joins Steve Moore and Five Artists to Present…
Face to Face: Creative Portraits – A New Collection of Photographic Studies of Comics Greats Launches on Kickstarter from Joel Meadows and Tripwire
Just before Christmas we took a look at Tripwire Magazine’s Sherlock Holmes project in our interview with writer Joel Meadows here. Barely two months later and there’s a new book…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, February 22nd for a Small Press Comics Special
Your favourite online comics social is back as we return to our guest artist format! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, February…
“We Want to Keep Giving Opportunities for Young People to Learn and Develop Skills” – mayamada’s Nigel Twumasi on Comics Community and New Manga ‘Against All Odds’
There’s nobody out there in UK comics quite like mayamada. The architects of the manga mayamada universe don’t just publish excellent comics they also work tirelessly in the community providing…
NP – Ed Firth’s New Comics Zine Expands on the Themes of His ‘Horny & High’ Series
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Making its festival debut at the ever excellent Silver Sprocket’s Pride in Panels event in San Francisco this Sunday, Ed Firth’s new…
mini kuš! #121 – Gary Colin’s Immersive ‘Link’ Experiments with Pacing, Movement and Environment
Far more appreciation needs to be shown for kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series given the incredible platform it has provided for experimental and alternative comics practitioners for 122 issues now….
Class: A Graphic Guide – Laura Harvey, Sarah Leaney and Danny Noble Analyse the Realities of Social Inequality and Class Structures
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Icon’s series of graphic guides have, for some years, provided readers with an accessible and easily digestible entry point to subjects that…
Chandra Free’s ‘The God Machine’ to Return Via GlobalComix
With Chandra Free’s The God Machine returning with Vol. 2 via GlobalComix we have a reminder of Vol. 1 today at BF with some spotlight pages. More news of…
Broken Frontier 2024 ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Tom Philipson Announced as Contributing Back-Up Stories to Image’s ‘Radiant Black’ Series
10 YEARS OF THE BF 6 TO WATCH! At the beginning of 2024 we announced that as this was our tenth year of our Broken Frontier ‘Six Creators to Watch‘…
“Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…”: An Exploration of the Unfulfilled ‘Tales from the Quarantine’ Kickstarter, Part 1 – Contributors Talk About the Impact on Them
It’s one of the most notorious as yet unfulfilled crowdfunding campaigns in comics history and yet the saga of Tales from the Quarantine drags on and on. Conceived by organiser Frazer…
Curses – This Reprint from Drawn & Quarterly Serves as a Reminder That Kevin Huizenga Has Always Made Great Comics
In 2006, American cartoonist Kevin Huizenga’s Curses was included on Time Magazine’s list of the Top Ten comics of the year. He was 29 at the time and, although he…
Preview: Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze – Mellow Brown, Tom Mandrake and Justin Prokowich’s “Psychedelic Space Odyssey” Coming from Titan in July
A chance to get a first look at some gorgeous art from Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze today at BF in the preview below! FIRST LOOK AT JIMI HENDRIX: PURPLE HAZE GRAPHIC…
The Masque of the Red Death – Tinglin Liu’s Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Story is an Outstandingly Confident Debut Work
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Sometimes when drawing up the list of names for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ programme artists are selected for the…
What Awaits Them – Breakdown Press Present an Essential Collection of the Short-Form Comics of Liam Cobb
Retrospective collections always make the exercise of reviewing an interesting one given that, as in the case of Liam Cobb’s What Awaits Them from Breakdown Press, we have often reviewed…
Armed with Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington – An Uncanny Exploration of Leonora Carrington and the Surrealist Movement
Depicting the life and career of a remarkable artist like Leonora Carrington in only 144 pages is no mean feat. In her 94 years on this earth, activist Leonora experienced…
A Call to Cthulhu – Norm Konyu Takes Us on a Cheeky and Knowing Tour of the Lovecraftian Mythos
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! A Call to Cthulhu is described on its back cover as “part comic book, part art book, part unsuitable-for-toddlers storybook.” Creator Norm…
Beano #4222 – The 70th Anniversary Celebrations for ‘The Bash Street Kids’ Begin!
Originally created by the legendary Leo Baxendale under the alternate title When the Bell Rings!, and later illustrated by the equally key David Sutherland for a staggering 3,000-plus strips, The…
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Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
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“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