THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Virtually all of UK indie comics is, of course, united in moral solidarity against the existential threat of generative AI “art”. It’s the one and only…
Back in August the Broken Frontier Six to Watch hit Oxford for a special panel event at Caption, the Small Press Comics Festival. Chatting with BF’s Andy Oliver were 2026…
Congratulations are in order to 2025 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creator Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds whose delightful fantasy comics Fox Flight Market Night and Shimmer Paths have been picked up…
Tying into the Paul Gravett-curated ‘Queer as Folk’ exhibition at the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration are a number of final week events spotlighting queer comics creators. For fans of…
It’s the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival this coming weekend (October 2nd-4th) and we have a big Broken Frontier presence over the festival weekend! From the stars of our respected…
The UK Autumn comics festival season is about to begin! And we’ll have a Broken Frontier presence in some shape or form at a number of events over the next…
Fresh from her first ever panel event at Caption Festival at the beginning of the month, 2026 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Daisy Crouch has launched the Kickstarter campaign…
Perhaps it may seem a little strange for me to be writing some form of report on a two-day programming-driven festival that I was only at for day one. But…
So… it’s Caption Festival (or Pirate Caption to give it its official theme) in Oxford this coming weekend and if you love small press comics and community programming this is…
Always happy to give a boost to anthology projects featuring cool creative line-ups. Even happier when those contributors include Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists. More details on the crowdfunding…
We’re a little late reporting on this (post-ARC Festival updating hangover) but congratulations to our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Mereida Fajardo for her Harvey Award nomination for…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! As you will have been reading for the last two weeks here at BF the ARC Festival of contemporary comics hits London this weekend and there’s plenty…
After its return from a several year hiatus in 2025 the small press and self-publishing comics festival Caption is back in August with a pirate theme. And Broken Frontier will…
It’s always a pleasure to be able to use BF as a community hub and give some space to wider arts projects within the community on request as and when…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! We can’t finish our Thought Bubble coverage this year without a mention as to where you can find artists from the 11 years of our Broken…
Back in the summer we had the opportunity to run our very own Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ panel as part of the reborn Caption Festival in Oxford. Myself (Andy…
From Zack Quaintance’s Comics Bookcase publishing venture comes Macabre Valley, werewolf horror with a seasonal relevance. And what makes this series particularly of interest to BF readers is that it…
Congratulations to Mollie Ray (you can call them Ray), one of our 2021 Broken Frontier Six to Watch creators who was announced as the first UK Young Comics Laureate over…
“It Started with a Compulsion to Draw a Room with Giant Eyeballs in Curtains” – John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs (Metaphrog) on Bringing the Weird and Wonderful World of ‘Wilomina’ to LifeNovember 10, 2026
“Comics Gradually Became a Way for Me to Bring Together Everything I Enjoyed” – Abu Amaan Pal on His Autobiographical Comic ‘Ranna Banna!’, Comics Community, and the ‘Indians for Palestine’ AnthologyNovember 9, 2026
“Mugshot Has Been in My Brain for About 6 Years” – Rachael Smith on Her New Webcomic, the ‘Nap Comix: First Steps’ Kickstarter and Upcoming ProjectsNovember 9, 2026
“I Want to Build a Feeling of Curiosity and Wonder about the World” – Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell, on Exploring Environmental Themes in Comics, Navigating the Small Press Scene, and the Allure of HedgehogsNovember 5, 2026
“At the Base of Every Story I Tell is Some Aspect of Myself” – Michael Furler Talks Inspiration, Process, His ShortBox and Peow Work, and the Swiss Comics SceneOctober 26, 2026
