Celebrating 2023 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! While we quietly retired the ‘Small Pressganged’ branding early in 2022 one of that former regular feature’s most popular pieces was always…
Mind Over Margins – Comics Youth Presents A Collection of Empowering Mental Health Awareness Stories from Marginalised Voices
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Before we look at anthology comics collection Mind Over Margins today let us first consider the aims and objectives of Comics Youth,…
Middle Distance – Mylo Choy’s SelfMadeHero Debut Explores Exertion, Introspection and a New Way to Be in Your Own World
Given that Mylo Choy’s graphic memoir Middle Distance started as an idea for a thirty-page comic, and quickly grew into a full-blown graphic novel produced by SelfMadeHero, this is no…
“Beauty is Not Only to Be Seen by Our Eyes” – Xiaoyi Hu on Bringing the World of the Visually-Impaired to the Comics Page
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! With 2024 bringing our tenth intake of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators to wider recognition we’re looking forward to celebrating…
2000 AD Prog 2362 – The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic Looks to the Future While Embracing Its Past, Including Rufus Hound’s Debut on ‘Strontium Dog’
I imagine I am not the only long-term 2000 AD fan (yes I did buy Prog 1 from my local WHSmith way back in 1977) who, while perhaps not considering…
Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2023 – Vote for Your Shortlisted Favourites in What Was an Undeniably Vintage Year for Comics
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 20th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
A Christmas Bestiary – A Dark and Spellbinding Guide to Wintry Horror from Benni Bødker, John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics
Festively themed work can often go overlooked simply because the window of relevant reviewing opportunity is, by its nature, a restricted one. However, it would seem remiss to let that…
The Caliburn Prize Returns in 2024 for Unpublished UK-Based Comics Creators
The first comics-related prize/competition of the year has been announced with news of the 2024 Caliburn Prize. Full details below. 2024 CALIBURN PRIZE FUND RETURNS FROM HOODED MAN MEDIA Launching today,…
Happy New Year! – News on Our Ten Years of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Celebrations and How You Can Help Safeguard BF’s Future in 2024
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Happy New Year, one and all! And with a new year comes some news about our plans for 2024. This year marks…
Happy Holidays from All of Us Here at Broken Frontier Towers! – We’ll Be Back on January 2nd, 2024
We’re shutting up shop now here at BF Towers for a seasonal break as we recharge our batteries and look forward to the new year. We will be back on…
Warren Pleece’s ‘The Sunny-Luna Travelling Oracle’ to Be Published by Dark Horse’s Berger Books Imprint in 2024
More incoming from Berger Books in 2024. Full details on Warren Pleece’s The Sunny-Luna Travelling Oracle below. BERGER BOOKS AND DARK HORSE PRESENT “THE SUNNY-LUNA TRAVELING ORACLE” An original graphic novel…
Preview: Viscera Objectica – Yugo Limbo’s New Silver Sprocket Book is Coming in March 2024
We were huge fans of Yugo Limbo’s previous Silver Sprocket book Be Kind, My Neighbor when we reviewed it here at Broken Frontier earlier this year. Viscera Objectica is Limbo’s…
“I Miss Magazines that Are Substantial” – Barry Renshaw on the Return of ‘REDEYE Magazine’ and the Importance of Comics Commentary
In a year when so many comics commentary outlets in the UK disappeared or went on apparent hiatus there is at least one chink of light shining at the end…
“Holmes is Such a Wonderful, Iconic Character” – Joel Meadows Talks ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Empire Builders’ and 30 Years of ‘Tripwire’
Joel Meadows has been a fixture of UK comics commentary for three decades via the various print and online incarnations of his long-running Tripwire magazine. This month, though, he will…
Preview: Adversary – Blue Delliquanti’s Ignatz-Nominated Webcomic to Be Collected by Silver Sprocket in 2024
As we prep for the announcements for next week’s Broken Frontier Awards shortlist we’re slowing up a little on the regular posting as we approach year’s end. But we do…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 14th for a Festive Special
Your favourite online comics social is back for an end-of-the-year party! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, December 14th with a festive special….
Pornsak Pichetshote and Jesse Lonergan Team Up on ‘Man’s Best’ from BOOM! Studios
We’re big fans of the art of Jesse Lonergan here at Broken Frontier so the news that he will be teaming up with BF Award-nominated Pornsak Pichetshote, another favourite in…
New Horror Graphic Novel ‘Loving, Ohio’ Coming from Matthew Erman, Sam Beck and Dark Horse Comics in 2024
Ramping up the 2024 new releases coverage now with news about Loving, Ohio coming from Dark Horse next year… CULT HORROR COMES TO OHIO IN MATTHEW ERMAN AND SAM BECK’S…
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