Pinned post! Want to know more about the history, mission and ethos of Broken Frontier? We have a handy guide here to who we are and what we do, complete…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, March 31st with guest artists Clio Isadora, and Broken Frontier…
A new digital, app-led anthology Yoshin; Tales of the Tohoku Earthquake Ten Years On features illustrations from a number of Broken Frontier-championed artists including our ‘Six to Watch’ creators Jem Milton…
London’s Cartoon Museum and publisher SelfMadeHero have announced a new online exhibition centred around the recent Catalyst anthology, a collection of stories designed to put a spotlight on emerging creators…
Friends of the site Creating Comics UK and LDComics have announced a new two-part documentary ‘The Comics Time Capsule’ which will feature interviews with 31 names from the comics world….
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A few years back when I selected Anna Readman as one of our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists it was on the basis of one very short digital…
That great comics activist Sean Azzopardi, the man behind the Crouch End Comics Art Festival, has curated ‘Framed’, a new exhibition of the work of UK indie comics creators at…
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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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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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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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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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…
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…
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…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
