NP – Ed Firth’s New Comics Zine Expands on the Themes of His ‘Horny & High’ Series
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Making its festival debut at the ever excellent Silver Sprocket’s Pride in Panels event in San Francisco this Sunday, Ed Firth’s new…
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Class: A Graphic Guide – Laura Harvey, Sarah Leaney and Danny Noble Analyse the Realities of Social Inequality and Class Structures
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Icon’s series of graphic guides have, for some years, provided readers with an accessible and easily digestible entry point to subjects that…
The Masque of the Red Death – Tinglin Liu’s Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Story is an Outstandingly Confident Debut Work
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Sometimes when drawing up the list of names for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ programme artists are selected for the…
A Call to Cthulhu – Norm Konyu Takes Us on a Cheeky and Knowing Tour of the Lovecraftian Mythos
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! A Call to Cthulhu is described on its back cover as “part comic book, part art book, part unsuitable-for-toddlers storybook.” Creator Norm…
April 17th – Zoè Delautre Corral’s Dreamily Eloquent Visuals Are a Highlight of this Intensely Personal Slice-of-Life Story
10 YEARS OF THE BROKEN FRONTIER SIX TO WATCH! My go-to advice for aspiring comics creators who decide to plunge straight into full-length work is that it’s essential not to…
The Painted Nuns of Santa Catalina – Tactile Experimentation Collides with 17th Century Death and Debauchery in Mereida Fajardo’s Latest Comics Offering
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Where the work of Mereida Fajardo is concerned it is not simply the material itself that one awaits eagerly each time a…
Bigger – Friendship and Connection Beautifully Communicated in Mike Armstrong’s Minicomic
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! A couple of weeks back at a University of the Arts London event I was invited to speak at I was asked…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, January 25th with Guest Artists Mike Armstrong and Beck Kubrick
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Your favourite online comics social is back as we return to our guest artist format! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier…
The Flying Ship Vol. 1 – Dark Horse and Tapas Bring Jem Milton’s Queer Fantasy Adventure Series to Print
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Part of the new collaboration between Dark Horse Comics and Tapas, Jem Milton’s The Flying Ship Vol. 1 brings the artist’s webcomic…
Boxes #1 – ThirdBear Press’s Carefully Curated New Anthology Series Provides a Vital Platform for Emerging Indie Comics Talents
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If there’s been one thing we have been sorely lacking on the UK small press scene in recent years it’s the plethora…
Celebrating 2023 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! While we quietly retired the ‘Small Pressganged’ branding early in 2022 one of that former regular feature’s most popular pieces was always…
Mind Over Margins – Comics Youth Presents A Collection of Empowering Mental Health Awareness Stories from Marginalised Voices
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Before we look at anthology comics collection Mind Over Margins today let us first consider the aims and objectives of Comics Youth,…
“Beauty is Not Only to Be Seen by Our Eyes” – Xiaoyi Hu on Bringing the World of the Visually-Impaired to the Comics Page
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! With 2024 bringing our tenth intake of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators to wider recognition we’re looking forward to celebrating…
Happy Holidays from All of Us Here at Broken Frontier Towers! – We’ll Be Back on January 2nd, 2024
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 back on…
Noodle Wranglin’ – Anna Readman’s Canine-Themed Short Strips Have a Worldweary but Gentle Humour to Them
Embracing the true spirit of the minicomic in size and format, Anna Readman’s Noodle Wranglin’ is a collection of this year’s Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize winner’s Hourly Comic Day…
Not Another Haunting! – Thirteen Ghost Stories that Display Sammy Ward’s Consummate Command of the Short Comics Form
Sammy Ward is fast establishing herself as one of the UK indie scene’s finest purveyors of eerie supernatural comics fare. Previous forays into the genre have been notable for their…
Legato Loss (Creative Chronicles Vol. 1) – Nancy ArtMusic Reminds Us that Sometimes It’s Okay to Let Go of Our Dreams
The annual Manga Jiman competition has provided us with a number of comics to review over the years thanks to entrants and winners going on to self-publish print editions of…
The Boy – Jason Chuang’s Vivid and Evocative Use of the Language of the Form is a Quiet Comics Triumph
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! It really is the mark of an artist’s talent when a reissue of their debut comic feels so fresh, exciting and innovative as Jason Chuang’s The Boy…
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Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025