There’s an early scene in Lewis Hancox’s Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure that looks back to his pre-transition schooldays as Lois and being referred to by classmates…
Dreams are the way they are because they operate at the intersection of the left and right sides of the brain, the place between the soup-like repository of experience and…
A book detailing the history of the trade union movement in comics form would, of course, always be a project that we would gravitate to here at Broken Frontier. With…
A quick reminder that this year’s Cartoon Museum Conference will be taking place on February 27th at the museum on Wells Street, London. More details are in the event’s press…
In the four decades since they self-published the first issue of Love & Rockets with their brother Mario, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have crafted ground-breaking narratives that rewrote the rules…
Leslie Stein, full-time cartoonist, part-time bartender, famous meme (Google it) and all-round cool person based on the accounts of those who know her, has been playing music with friends for…
Mathew Klickstein’s ambitious project See You at San Diego from Fantagraphics Books is described as a “comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate,…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, February 9th with guest artist Bex Ollerton, the driving force…
Estrela d’Oeste, or “Star of the West” if you require a direct translation, is an autobiographical one-shot by Brazilian-Irish artist Ashling Larkin (also known as Ashling Draws) whose comics endeavours…
Last year’s South London Comic & Zine Fair was a true highlight of the London comics calendar. Returning for the first time since well before the pandemic began, and with…
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Welcome to our Broken Frontier Six to Watch 2023 announcement! But before we look forward let’s quickly look back. In 2022 the UK small press world slowly began to emerge…
Of all the recent press releases from Dark Horse about their upcoming projects this is the one that intrigues me the most. The Horror, a prequel to Conrad’s Heart of…
Another new horror series is coming soon via BOOM! Studios. Check out the first pages and cover line-up for Harrower #1 below. Your First Look at Justin Jordan and Brahm…
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Beatrice Mossman has been cultivating a growing audience of admirers over the last couple of years for her tactile, experimental comics that have their roots in horror motifs, coming-of-age standards,…
The announcements from Dark Horse just keep on coming this month. Next up is Project Monarch, from Oeming and Santos. More details in the press release below. THIS JUST IN:…
We’ve featured the work of ComicBooks For Kids! before at Broken Frontier, back when their operations expanded to the UK in 2022. The charity’s aim is a simple one: “to…
The next exhibition from our chums at the Cartoon Museum in London has been announced as ‘Gerry Anderson’s Century 21’ opens in March. Fans of the influential TV Century 21…
The plight of those affected by the refugee crisis has been conveyed to wider audiences with great empathy by many comics projects over the last decade, both online and in…
“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
