As end-of-year lists and awards nomination begin to materialise across the internet it’s easy at this point in the calendar to be looking back fondly at the twelve months that…
It’s been a summer of comics success for our Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’. As we revealed exclusively here at BF, 2018 inductee Shanti Rai will be…
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One of the key points of the East London Comics and Arts Festival is the Sunday announcement of the winner of the ELCAF x WeTransfer Award which this year provides a…
The longlist for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced today and, as you’d expect from a publisher of Myriad’s acclaim, it’s a list full of diverse artistic…
It’s always a pleasure for us here at BF to be able to let you know about new projects from the artists we have followed through our annual ‘Six Small…
Fans of our 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Jey Levang will, no doubt, be thrilled at the prospect of meeting the creator at this year’s Thought Bubble given…
Thought Bubble is coming and, in the fortnight leading up to the festival weekend, we’re running a series of previews at BF of some of the debut books that have…
All regular visitors to Broken Frontier will be aware of our annual ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ initiative here on the site. In case you’re coming in new to…
It’s not comics but there’s a very good reason for drawing your attention to actor and comedian Adrian Edmondson’s children’s novel Tilly and the Time Machine today at BF. That’s…
Another press release, another piece of welcome news about a Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ artist getting picked up by a micropublisher… This time around it’s Josh…
As the year draws to a close, and we enter the lull period between the UK Autumn festival extravaganza and the next flurry of events in the Spring, it’s time…
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‘State of the Small Press Nation’ was the umbrella title for Broken Frontier’s ground-breaking series of reports last year on the UK’s rapidly expanding self-publishing world and the challenges it faced…
Thought Bubble 2016 is nearly upon us and, with somewhere in the region of 440 tables across the three exhibitor areas, to say that punters will be spoilt for choice…
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There’s very exciting news indeed today for those of our readers who follow our regular ‘Six to Watch coverage! Danny Noble – one of our first group of Broken Frontier…
This Saturday, September 17th, sees the latest DIY Art Market at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham. The regular event is described by its organisers as “a celebration of London’s independent…
We’re delighted today at BF to give you a first look at Danny Noble’s striking cover for our first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook which features the work of the…
There are points when you can’t help but repeat yourself when you cover the same comics projects multiple times in a year. But sometimes those same recycled sentiments simply cannot be…
Once again at this point in the year I am going to repeat the sentiments of twelve months before. Every time we make our Broken Frontier Six to Watch announcement…
“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
