ELCAF FORTNIGHT! When I selected artist Olivia Sualdea for this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programme it was a decision made based entirely on her social…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! I first discovered Aleesha Nandhra’s powerful slice-of-life comics in the pages of much-missed anthology OFF LIFE back in 2016. Last year I looked at Aleesha’s haunting Thinking in…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Today at Broken Frontier we’re delighted to launch our annual coverage of the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) with two weeks of reviews, interviews, features and…
ELCAF is coming and we’ll be celebrating this year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival in style at our next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw! And, as…
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While her comics influences range from Charles Burns to Junji Ito, Alice Urbino’s artistic style is uniquely her own; an Urbino-esque oeuvre that on a surface level embodies the unsettling…
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With a surge of interest in her work on social media and a growing buzz about her online output it’s sometimes easy to forget that artist Anna Readman – one…
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Since we announced our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ back in January we’ve published a number of reviews of their work here on the site. Part…
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If you’re following her social media accounts then you will be well aware that the gradual reveals of new work-in-progress from our 2019 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ artist…
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Over the course of the last few days on Twitter you may well have seen an explosion of interest in the comics of Anna Readman. Attention that only goes to…
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Since 2012 we’ve been running these annual, end-of-year round-ups of ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!‘ as a coda to that year’s ‘Small Pressganged’ coverage at Broken…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 15th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. Something we’re very proud of at Broken Frontier…
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A couple of years back, in an interview here at Broken Frontier, graphic novelist Karrie Fransman spoke about the potential of the form saying “There are still so many untapped…
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…
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It’s been a year of major and much deserved achievement for 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Sabba Khan. An artist whose work I’ve described as combining “moments of…
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Jayde Perkin’s I’m Not Ready – a short compilation of some of the artist’s autobio comic strips – begins with a prose introduction to the collection that…
Tired but so, so inspired. Five words that sum up our post-Thought Bubble feelings here at Broken Frontier Towers. B-Fronts hit T-Bubs (did I really just type that?) in Leeds…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! With effectively the third issue of his Glorious Wrestling Alliance series, 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Josh Hicks returns to the ring at Thought…
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
