Can it really be September now at Broken Frontier Towers? I somehow seem to be keeping up with these beginning-of-the-month round-ups and previews of activity from us here at BF….
Thought Bubble have announced another batch of guests for 2025 including the legend that is Joe Sacco, the cartoonist behind Palestine and War on Gaza. For more on comics about…
And we’re ending up the week with part four of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able…
No doubt following the success of the format of the Scream! archives Rebellion have announced a similar collection for the first twelve issues of the seminal UK weekly anthology series…
“If your concept of prgress doesn’t put people at the center of it, is it even progress?” Last year at BF we reviewed Tom Humberstone’s collection of comics social commentary…
We’re back again with part three of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put together…
A few years ago, not long after her debut Stone Fruit had won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics, and was listed as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,…
Sometimes when it comes to social commentary in comics – and in any medium to be frank – humour can be far more effective than more heavy-handed moralising. Belgian-Mexican creator…
And today we’re back with part two of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…
Kiera Won’s Toto Bunny Zine – the first two of which we will be looking at today at Broken Frontier – take us into genuinely minicomic territory, given that each…
I am not sure why there’s been such a long gap in between reviews of Rob Jackson comics at Broken Frontier. The versatile, genre-jumping creator behind projects like Slaves of…
More news from Dark Horse’s expanding manga line… TAKE A LESSON IN LIVING LIFE WITH THE DARK HORSE DEBUT OF “THE CREDITS ROLL INTO THE SEA” Dark Horse Manga announces its latest English…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week (and in-person the day after!) and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with…
No less than nine Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators will be at Gosh’s Gosh!Fest celebration of UK small Press on Saturday which will feature around 40 artists signing on…
This is exactly the kind of initiative we exist to support at Broken Frontier. In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…
The Hobtown Mystery Stories is one of those series that absolutely rewards re-reading. Bertin and Forbes return with the third volume in the series later this year and this is…
There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he puts out. The first are those who can’t help…
When the return of the Caption small press comics festival was announced for 2025, after an 8-year absence, it was with the following description of its ethos and mission: “Caption…
“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’October 31, 2025
“It’s a Fantasy Adventure about Growing Up” – Joe Latham Talks ‘Haru’, the Self-Publishing Journey, and Using Colour as a Narrative ToolOctober 30, 2025
“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 PanelOctober 29, 2025
“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 CommunityOctober 28, 2025
The Tale Spinner – Karrie Fransman’s Immersive Peepshow/3D Comic that Can’t Be Replicated by Al Comes to Thought BubbleOctober 28, 2025
