Cara Brown may just be starting her comics practice but this 2025 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist has already amassed a small body of work that demonstrates her ability…
Today we bring you the first of our interview series for the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists for 2025 and our initial subject is Zen K. aka Zenab Khan….
News from our friends at London’s Cartoon Museum who will be putting on their second ‘There Was Screaming Everywhere’ evening of comics reading, this time with Jade King, Roman Muradov…
You never know. You could be looking at future Broken Frontier Six to Watch artists here! The winners of the 29th Young Cartoonist Awards have been announced and you can…
A return to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner feature today at BF where we spotlight campaigns we have either discovered ourselves or by sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests…
A return to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner feature today at BF where we spotlight campaigns we have either discovered ourselves or by sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests…
Last year here at BF we looked at Bigger, a previous minicomic from 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mike Armstrong, and one that in thematic terms used fantasy…
Writer and creator Asa Wheatley’s Sagas of the Shield Maiden anthology series has from the outset taken a very different approach to its historical tales. Rather than exploring a linear…
There have been some very inportant comics community initiatives from the direction of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival of late, including British Comics Now (of which I will be…
Another of this year’s Broken Frontier Six to Watch creators Zen K., aka Zenab Khan, has already featured on the site when our Lydia Turner reviewed the sci-fi one-shot Runaway…
Exciting news from Comics Youth CIC that has that comics community vibe we love so much here at BF. Details on the Mersey Margins Collective Comics Fair (featuring BF Six…
Abstract comics work often exists to allow us to find our own meaning in its pages. By definition it is not about elaboration; it provokes and evokes emotional responses, disseminates…
First as part of our now retired ‘Small Pressganged’ feature, and now as an annual standalone feature, we have been running our ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to…
Welcome back to Broken Frontier Towers as we re-emerge after our Christmas and New Year break. Though to be honest “break” is something of a misnomer. It was less time…
Happy Holidays! We’re shutting up shop now here at BF Towers for a seasonal break as we recharge our batteries and look forward to the new year. We will be…
In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It’s the great UK comics end-of-year party and this year, for the first time since 2019, Cinderella did finally get to go to the ball. The…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If anyone ever tells you that the UK small press comics scene is in a state of decline…
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
“All the Characters are Basically Me, in One Way or Another” — An Interview with Ned Wenlock on His Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel ‘Tsunami’ from Pow Pow PressApril 30, 2025
“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press SceneApril 24, 2025“I Think it’s so Valuable to Have More Vulnerable Works Out There” – Cara Brown on Mental Health in Comics, Creative Process and Starting Her Artistic JourneyApril 23, 2025“I Think Comics Have So Much Versatility in the Way They Can Tell a Story” – Zen K. Talks Comics Craft and Language, Manga Inspirations, and Being Published by Koguchi PressApril 16, 2025
