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Preview: Pricks #5 – Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Gloriously Outrageous Parody of the Patriarchy Returns to Thought Bubble in 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 13, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Pricks is one of the funniest comics you will be lucky to read at this year’s Thought Bubble. With #5 debuting…

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Altiplano – Gustaffo Vargas’s Universally Acclaimed Peruvian Cyberpunk Series Collected

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Since we first covered the work of Gustaffo Vargas way back in 2018 the UK-based South American artist’s star has risen to such a degree that…

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Magical – Mark Stafford Gives Us a Typically Cynical Take on the Standards of Fairy Tales

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! In a more just universe Mark Stafford would be one of the industry’s most sought after and renowned cartoonists. His work, with its singular visionary blend…

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“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! This weekend Thought Bubble hosts drop-in portfolio review sessions. Organised by that great comics community booster Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard, The Department of Truth, Sleeping Beauties)…

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Eliza – The Ghost in Every Machine: The Complete Collection – Viraj Joshi Brings Complex Technological Questions to Comics in an Accessible Way

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Viraj Joshi’s Eliza – The Ghost in Every Machine: The Complete Collection came us something of a revelation. If you imagine science comics as likely to…

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Visions of the Phantomfield Book One: Counting Shabbits – Magic, Monsters and Memories in a World Beyond the Living from Edward “Rohkova” Welch

  • by Lydia Turner
  • November 12, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! It’s always a treat to dive into some manga amongst all of the incredible comics and zines at Thought Bubble, and one title in particular really…

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Dead on Arrival – A Truly Unique Take on the Undead in Samanta Batllori’s Original Horror Graphic Novel

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 12, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Samanta de la Rosa Batllori is a freelance comic artist from Mexico City, Mexico, who is probably best known in the UK for illustrating H.L. Roberts’…

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∞ : The new WIP Comics Anthology – The WIP Crew Are Back, Doing Their Thing and Providing a Platform for New and Established Artists Alike

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! What makes a good small press comics anthology? This may be contentious but I don’t necessarily believe that technical proficiency is the answer to that question….

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Secret Oranges: Early Comics 2005-2008 – Dan White’s New Collection Takes Us Back to the Formative Years of the ‘Cindy & Biscuit’ Creator

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! There’s been a recent marketing move to describe long forgotten US serial comic collections as compiling “lost” comics. That has never sat well with me given…

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Fine Young Ladies – Kamila Krol/Pigeon Collects Two Stories of Dark Fantasy that Show Her Command of the Language of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! “For rebellious girls, mischievous femmes and daring thems” says the tagline for Kamila Krol aka Pigeon’s collection Fine Young Ladies. The comic collects two of Krol’s…

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The Last Day of Rain #3 and #4 – Claudia Matosa’s Environmental Thriller Reaches the Penultimate Instalment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! When last we visited Claudia Matosa’s ecological sci-fi thriller The Last Day of Rain here at Broken Frontier its protagonist Carol was working to bring back…

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On Starlit Shores – Bex Glendining Combines Fantasy and Slice-of-Life Storytelling in a Truly Magical Reflection on Loss and Love

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Bex Glendining’s On Starlit Shores is one of the graphic novel releases of 2025 that I have been most eagerly awaiting this year. That was based…

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Worms Book the Second – More Visceral Horror in the Second Collection of Erika Price’s Tale of Vatican Intrigue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Is there anyone working in UK indie comics who can match the truly visceral visual storytelling of Erika Price? Last year at Broken Frontier the first…

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Mære – Annabel Hewitson Explores Where Art Ends and Madness Begins

  • by Lydia Turner
  • November 11, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Do you ever spot a graphic novel or zine cover that instantly stops you in your tracks? Mære by Annabel Hewitson is one of those. Reminiscent…

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Magic and Memory – Manon Wright Presents a Quartet of Mystical Short Comics Including the All-New ‘The Witch’s Cookbook’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! It’s been far too long since we had the opportunity to talk about work by 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Manon Wright (Children of…

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Under Pressure Book One and Book Two – Robert Sienicki’s Laugh Out Loud Portrait of a Comic Creator’s Life in Poland

  • by Gary Usher
  • November 11, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Robert ‘bele’ Sienicki is a comics creator from Poland, and he let’s his work speak for itself, bringing us an interesting portrait of life and comics…

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Seasons – Moments of Love, Loss and Quiet Change by Rebecca K Jones

  • by Lydia Turner
  • November 11, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! As we cosy up for autumn and drift towards winter, short story collections feel like the perfect comfort read. There’s something so relaxing about curling up…

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Runner – Shri Gunasekara’s Experimental Graphic Novel is a Powerful Metaphorical Examination of Responsibility and Generational Trauma

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Experimental comics work is, as all our readers know, a huge part of our coverage remit here at Broken Frontier. As such, work like Shri Gunasekara’s…

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