Happy New Year! Looking Forward to 2022 at Broken Frontier
As 2022 beckons, a very “Happy New Year!” to all our visitors. It’s been another year full of challenges but we’re looking forward to what the next twelve months in…
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Celebrating 2021 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
It seems hardly possible that this is the tenth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ yearly round-up at Broken Frontier. Way back in 2012 I was…
Happy Holidays to Our Broken Frontier Community from the BF Team!
Our final pre-Christmas post this year as, however and whichever way you celebrate, we want to wish our Broken Frontier community the happiest of holidays. This, has, obviously been a…
Three Comics – Peony Gent’s Latest Collection of Graphic Poetry is the Perfect Introduction to Her Boundary-Pushing Comics Practice
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Events like Thought Bubble offer us an opportunity not just to celebrate the things we love about comics but also to make other discoveries, to open ourselves…
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Celebrating 10 Years of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier – Looking Back on a Decade of Championing Comics Self-Publishers and Their Work!
Ten years ago today at Broken Frontier when we launched a new feature called ‘Small Pressganged‘ – a column dedicated to “unearthing the gems of the small press” – we…
“I Realised that I Had Basically Started a Micropublisher by Accident” – Josh Hicks Chats About the New Graphic Universe ‘Glorious Wrestling Alliance’ Collection and the Carp Publishing Endeavours Catalogue
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Kicking off our two weeks of dedicated Thought Bubble 2021 coverage today we begin with a chat with Josh Hicks, the creator behind the much loved Glorious…
Covers Album: Josh Hicks – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Jaime Hernandez, Kazuo Umezz, Adam Grano, Bryan Lee O’Malley and More!
Resuming the latest mini-season of our ‘Covers Album’ feature, where we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers… but with a small twist….
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“The Pacing of How a Story is Told, Word by Word, Panel by Panel is the Heart of it for Me” – Hannah Carwardine on Comics Creation, Self-Publishing and Her Artistic Process
In our final interview with 2021’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists I speak today to Hannah Carwardine whose flowing visuals, considered use of colour and inventive page layouts immediately…
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Rusalka Part 1 – Kamila Król aka Pigeon’s Full Potential Unleashed in this Stunningly Illustrated Adaptation of Slavic Mythology
HCZF MONTH! Sometimes you don’t need to see an extensive portfolio of a creator’s work to know their potential. When I was selecting artists for our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six…
“Art Should Never Be a Point of Privilege” – Nora Goldberg on the ‘Ink Well’ Exhibition Bringing Comics to the Community as Part of Hackney Comic + Zine Fair
HCZF MONTH! As part of this year’s Hackney Comic + Zine Fair a number of events both online and in-person have been commissioned to complement the HCZF digital fair. One…
Even Androids Dream – Chloe Starling’s Manga Jiman-Winning Comics Short Comes to Print
HCZF MONTH! The annual Manga Jiman competition has brought a number of new creators to the attention of the comics community over the last few years. Indeed our very own…
Lucky WIP – 30-Plus Creators from the WIP Comics Group Breathe New Life Into the Comics Anthology with this Unique Take on the Format
HCZF MONTH! We’ve featured WIP Comics a number of times over the last few years at BF in terms of both their publishing output and their work in providing a…
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Systems – Olivia Sullivan Asks Us to Experience, Absorb and Immerse Ourselves in Her Latest Abstract Narrative
HCZF MONTH! Olivia Sullivan’s latest print comics zine Systems is described as exploring “the world of botany, environmental landscapes and themes of wanderlust” as it “documents observations of the weird…
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“I Wanted to Make it Feel Like a Celebration of the Medium” – Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Founder Joe Stone on What to Expect from HCZF 2021
HCZF MONTH! This year’s month-long Hackney Comic + Zine Fair kicked off over the weekend with great fanfare on social media. The brainchild of comics community activist Joe Stone this…
ZineZilla – The UWE Illustration + Zine Fair Comes to Bristol on Saturday, September 18th
A new small press event is always something to celebrate and ZineZilla, debuting on Saturday September 18th in Bristol, is particularly of note to us here at Broken Frontier given…
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Quivertree – The Symbolic and the Actual Mirror Each Other in Distorted Reflection in More Boundary-Pushing Work from Mereida
In some ways I feel like a bit of a cheat when approaching a review of the deliberately enigmatic short comic Quivertree by our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’…
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A Pocket Chiller: Mutton Chops – Ovine Suspense from Olivia Sullivan in this Psychogeographical Thriller
Strip for Me’s A Pocket Chiller line promises “new nightmares and strange visions from a world next to yours”. Its line-up of UK indie and alt talent to date has…
Small Press Day Returns on Saturday August 14th, 2021 – Includes the Popular Broken Frontier One-Tweet Reviews on Twitter!
Small Press Day returns for 2021 on Saturday, August 14th. The Small Press Day team have elected to run this as an online event again this year but we have…
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