A heads up for this year’s Graphic Brighton festival which, as ever, has a great line-up of presentations, talks and academic panels, all taking place at the University of Brighton City…
In the circumstances it would be spectcularly remiss of us not to alert you to the latest press release from Caption, the small press-focussed comics show returning to Oxford next…
Covering work that is not just experimental but also actively interrogates the potential of the form is a central part of our mission here at Broken Frontier. In Blinded writer…
Last month we figured that with our marathon Thought Bubble Month coverage we had probably spotlighted enough debut books in November to make a Staff Picks post redundant. But we’re…
Cartoonists Rights, the “first global human rights organisation to focus on the need for protection of the socio-political cartoonist to carry out their work without fear of recrimination” have announced…
Another comics festival is reborn for 2025! Full details on the welcome return of Caption in the press release below. 2025 sees the return of a vintage classic of the…
Now settled firmly into an annual publication schedule, Ugly Mug #8 lives up to its tagline of “an industrial strength comics compendium” with another bumper collection of comic strips and…
Anything that has the words “community empowerment” in its press release blurb is obviously going to catch our attention here at Broken Frontier Towers. Check out some preview pages from…
Clay Footed Giants from Alain Chevarier and Mark McGuire is a deep, multi-faceted graphic novel, examining family trauma, modern masculinity and parenting. Published by Mad Cave Studios, and marketed as…
One of the great joys of Thought Bubble 2024 for the residents of Broken Frontier Towers was getting to meet one of our fave publishers Silver Sprocket for the first…
Your favourite online comics social is back! But in a new location. With recent events on Twitter/X/Xitter seeing a mass exodus of comics folk from the platform we will be…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! I’ve been to several zine/comic festivals this year, all of which have been incredibly well-curated and well-attended. However, I have never been to a comic art…
In 2020, French journalist Benoist Simmat delved into one of his country’s oldest obsessions. The result was a graphic history of wine, tracing its origins from the Middle Ages to…
Looking forwards to 2025 now and BOOM! Studios’ new series Bronze Faces… Shobo, Shof and Alexandre Tefenkgi Bring Nigerian Mythology to BOOM! Studios A Nigerian Cultural Horror Story Celebrated authors…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It’s the great UK comics end-of-year party and this year, for the first time since 2019, Cinderella did finally get to go to the ball. The…
As someone who, back in the mists of time, was a judge for the second edition of what is now the First Graphic Novel Award I can certainly attest to…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! So that was Thought Bubble Month at BF… When our festival report goes up next week we will have exceeded our ambitious plan to get 50…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! A perennial favourite in the Broken Frontier Awards in the Best Periodical Series category, Strip for Me’s A Pocket Chiller series has produced some truly disquieting one-shot…
“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
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
