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I Will Meet You on the Other Side of Space – Rein Lee’s Story of a Young Boy on a Quest to Build a Rocketship is Beautiful in Its Melancholy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Let’s say this yet again. The more I read of Rein Lee’s comics the more convinced I am of their place as one of the most…

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Road to Chimera – Trans Identity Explored as a Spiritual Pathway in Jua OK!’s Fantasy Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Jua OK!’s Road to Chimera instantly strikes the reader with its powerful and expressive use of visual metaphor. Described as a book that “explores themes of…

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Diary of a Detainee – R. E. Burke’s Horrifying Story of Being Incarcerated in a Detention Centre by ICE Comes to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 3, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! I am probably breaking some unspoken rule of reviewing by writing about R. E. Burke’s Diary of a Detainee given that I am, of course, personally…

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Fury – Dominique Duong Gives Us a Visceral Study of Repressed Anger

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 3, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! With her short comic Fury 2020 Broken Frontier Six to Watch artist Dominique Duong gives us a story that is told initially with intense full-page imagery…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE on Thurs, November 6th for a Thought Bubble Special – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 2, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 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…

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“The Biggest Challenge for Me Was Having to Think More Like a Director” – Michael Schwartz on Writing for Comics for the First Time and His Supernatural Ghost Story ‘Armored’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! As it’s Halloween it seems most appropriate to be running our interview with Armored writer Michael Schwartz today at Broken Frontier. Illustrated by Ismael Hernández, Armored…

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Fantagraphics Announces New Imprint – Takumigraphics to Celebrate the Art and Craft of East Asian Comics in 2026

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 30, 2025

Fantagraphics are 50 next year and they’re already making some very cool announcements for that anniversary. Details and preview images below for new imprint Takumigraphics. NEW FROM FANTAGRAPHICS: TAKUMIGRAPHICS Ever…

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Shetland Travel Comics – Junooo’s Travelogue Allows Us to Experience Island Life in an Appealing Comics Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! It’s an old comics storytelling trick but it’s an effective one. By casting either themself in the form of an on-page animal avatar cartoonists can often…

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“It’s a Fantasy Adventure about Growing Up” – Joe Latham Talks ‘Haru’, the Self-Publishing Journey, and Using Colour as a Narrative Tool

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! After choosing the self-publishing route writer-artist Joe Latham came to much wider attention recently with his acclaimed Haru graphic novel trilogy from Andrews McMeel. I reviewed…

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Silent Horizon – Benjamin Dickson Gives Us Faith, Fear, and the End of the World? 

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 29, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Silent Horizon. A new, self-published graphic novel written and illustrated by Benjamin Dickson. Five years in the making to illustrate and complete. A mystery so intriguing,…

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“I Cannot Wait to Really Dig into the Nuts and Bolts of Literary Adaptation” – Kristen Haas Curtis on Bringing Chaucer to Comics and on Moderating the Thought Bubble Literary Adaptation Panel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! From diary comics to Chaucer adaptations Kristen Haas Curtis’s work can never be said to be predictable. Kristen will be moderating the ‘Out of Olde Bokes:…

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The Gloriously Untrue Adventures of Sapphira #1 – Bending Reality with Sapphira Olson and Her Fictionalized Versions of Herself (and Her Cat, Felicette)

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 28, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Sapphira Olson is a novelist and poet (Woman in the Ship, Parables, The Dandelion Tree, Android Author, Anna Newton Destroys the World, Stanley Park), but around…

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“Themes Around Human Connection and Loneliness Are a Constant Throughline in All of My Works” – Rein Lee on Exploring Identity and Queerness in Comics, and Finding Your Way in the Small Press Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 28, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! When I discovered the work of self-published comics artist Rein Lee at the inQ! queer comics fair last year I pretty much instantly knew that they were…

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The Tale Spinner – Karrie Fransman’s Immersive Peepshow/3D Comic that Can’t Be Replicated by Al Comes to Thought Bubble

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 28, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Is there anyone in UK comics who thinks more deeply about taking comics into new spaces and finding uses of the form that push at its…

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Dougborne – Light-Hearted ’90s Animated Sitcom ‘Doug’ and Gritty Video Game ‘Bloodborne’ Converge in this Unlikely Shanefaced Mash-Up

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! The ever versatile Shane Melisse, aka Shanefaced, has proven himself at home in multiple genres but one of the things he does the very best is…

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Deadly Knitshade Launches the ‘Very Tiny Comics Anthology’ at Thought Bubble – 25 Minicomics from Top Talents Available from a Vintage Gumball Machine

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 27, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Something a little different launching at Thought Bubble for those who like a tactile edge to their comics. Deadly Knitshade’s Very Tiny Comics Anthology #1: Monsters…

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Aimé – L. Adassovsky Weaves a Whimsical Fairy Tale of Magic, Melancholy and Wonder

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 27, 2025

Having had the pleasure of reviewing L. Adassovsky’s Hibernation Guide for Rabbits and Hares at Broken Frontier for last year’s ShortBox Comics Fair, seeing her name pop up again in…

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“It’s Fascinating How Many People React with Total Disbelief that Disability Hate Crime is an Actual Thing” – Al Davison on ‘The Spiral Cage’ and ‘Muscle Memory’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! An early entry in the graphic medicine area of comics, Al Davison’s The Spiral Cage was first published in 1988 and followed his life living with…

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