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…
Wonderful news here at Broken Frontier Towers as we celebrate the longlisting of 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Zhenyi Zheng in the 2025 World Illustration Awards in the…
Hearing that one of our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators has been picked up by a publisher is always an absolute joy for us here at Broken Frontier…
This is shaping up to be a highlight of the small press year! More details on Caption Comic Festival below. 2025 sees the return of a vintage classic of the…
Last year the long-running indie anthology Zarjaz, presenting stories based on the worlds of 2000 AD, returned with a Zarjaz Sci-Fi Special (reviewed here at Broken Frontier). The first issue…
We don’t post at the weekends so this is a day late but back on February 23rd, 2015 the very first Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ line-up…
Your favourite online comics social is back! But in a new location. With recent events on Twitter/X/Xitter seeing a mass exodus of comics folk from the platform we have made…
Here’s an absolute must-back crowdfunding campaign. Broken Frontier 2021 ‘Six to Watch’ artist Alxndra Cook’s second graphic novel Sparrowsong is coming to Kickstarter via Koguchi Press. We have covered many…
“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
