THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! What makes a good small press comics anthology? This may be contentious but I don’t necessarily believe that technical proficiency is the answer to that question….
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! It’s been far too long since we had the opportunity to talk about work by 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Manon Wright (Children of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! I am often asked exactly what I am looking for when I select artists for our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ programme every year. That is…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Originally presented in digital format as part of the LDComics Fair this past Summer, Abs Bailey’s Mother will be available in print at this year’s Thought…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! I have made no secret of my belief that community groups in the form of creative collectives are an absolutely vital part of the comics ecosystem…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Peony Gent has never been one to shy away from a longer title for her projects and her latest…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Let’s say this yet again. The more I read of Rein Lee’s comics the more convinced I am of their place as one of the most…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! With her short comic Fury 2020 Broken Frontier Six to Watch artist Dominique Duong gives us a story that is told initially with intense full-page imagery…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! When I discovered the work of self-published comics artist Rein Lee at the inQ! queer comics fair last year I pretty much instantly knew that they were…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns for its fifth revived outing at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, October 31st, 2025. And…
Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we looked at the Zarjaz Special that acted as prelude to the third volume of the long-running small press anthology series based on characters…
“Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.” That’s the hook for the new comic by 2020 Broken Frontier Six to Watch…
Can it really be September now at Broken Frontier Towers? I somehow seem to be keeping up with these beginning-of-the-month round-ups and previews of activity from us here at BF….
No less than nine Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators will be at Gosh’s Gosh!Fest celebration of UK small Press on Saturday which will feature around 40 artists signing on…
When the return of the Caption small press comics festival was announced for 2025, after an 8-year absence, it was with the following description of its ethos and mission: “Caption…
Tick tock… SEVEN DAYS TO GO! Caption: Rebirth takes place Saturday August 16th and Sunday 17th 2025 at Seacourt Hall, 3 Church Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9TH. Seacourt Hall is…
Welcome to August at Broken Frontier Towers! As I said last month from hereon out we will be endeavouring to start the month at BF with a little round-up of…
LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Beatrijs Brouwer (aka Beastly Worlds) has been building up quite the profile for her beautifully illustrated fantasy comics. It was in no small part thanks to…
“How Damaging and Dangerous this Techno-Fascist Hellscape We Are Already Living in Is” – KitsuneArt on the Threat of Generative AI, LGBTQ+ Comics Anthologies and Building a Profile on the SceneJune 18, 2026
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
