The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on May 24th and this time our venue is the BrewDog pub on Soho’s Poland Street. Our third gathering of 2016 sees two biting purveyors…
Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this week featuring…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this month featuring…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this month featuring…
The Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2016 – a showcase celebration of this column’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015‘ – debuts in print this month featuring…
100 pages. 18 creators. Boundless talent. Unless you boarded, bagged and packed yourself away in a longbox at the end of last year then you’ll be aware that the debut…
Clear your social calendars, save up your pennies, and get ready to celebrate two of the most eagerly anticipated anthology releases of 2016! On Friday April 29th, at London’s acclaimed…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
A few weeks ago at the special Broken Frontier edition of the London Laydeez do Comics meet-up we announced our very first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook – a near 100-page…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! We’re returning to the familiar but always rewarding territory of my ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch in 2015’ in ‘Small Pressganged’ today but with a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Throughout 2015 at Broken Frontier we’ve been holding monthly discussions on the current UK self-publishing scene in our regular ‘State of the Small Press Nation’ series of multi-creator discussions and…
On June 6th the Crouch End Comic Art Festival (CECAF) – Sean Azzopardi’s smaller scale but incredibly welcoming and relaxed show – returns to the Earl Haig Hall as part…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns at our regular venue of The Royal George on Friday, September 25th, 2026. And this time our artist line-up…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! In the first of our Pride Month interviews features this year at Broken Frontier we speak with married writing team Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges. Their extensive…
Comics commentary is contracting online. That’s hardly a secret but it does feel like that Golden Age of blogging and countless dedicated comics-related websites is something we are unlikely to…
The findings of the UK Comics Creators Research Report for 2025 have been published today and they make for sobering reading. The report, courtesy of the Comic Cultural Impact Collective,…
Pascal Girard and Cathon are two of the most distinctive voices in Montreal’s vibrant indie comics landscape, each cultivating a devoted readership through their wry, sharply observed work. Girard is…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! If this year’s Thought Bubble coverage has a human interest story then the origins of debuting anthology Beyond the Black Void is surely it. A titanic…
“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
