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…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Living with the Living originally saw life a few years ago as a webcomic but went on hiatus…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Every year at Broken Frontier as part of our Thought Bubble coverage we like to pick out one…
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
