10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the third of our interviews with this year’s Broken frontier Six to Watch creators we chat with French-Spanish, UK-based artist Zoè…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! My first exposure to Josh Hicks’s Hotelitor was as a diagrammatic cutaway print at the Brighton Illustration Fair some years ago. It…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Yes we really will take every opportunity through 2024 to give a plug to any of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Last year when I reviewed the WIP Comics anthology Change at Broken Frontier I remarked on how Alba Ceide’s story Jackeline’s Jacket…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In our second interview session with this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists we talk today with cartoonist Mike Armstrong. A…
You may already recognise Shuning Ji’s name from the Catalyst comics anthology published by SelfMadeHero a couple of years back. That book was the result of their Graphic Anthology Programme…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Event organiser, collective member, writer and artist… Tom Philipson is a man of many roles within the UK indie comics world. He’s…
Before the pandemic BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the team giving a weekly overview of recommended new releases. Now, retooled and reimagined to…
As you will probably already be aware if you are a regular visitor to Broken Frontier we have a vested interest in the success of Small Press Day, the UK…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! When Norm Konyu’s first graphic novel The Junction was self-published in 2020 there had been a gap of several years between that…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! There’s a dynamism and an energy to the work of Shane Melisse that has become ever more pronounced over the last few…
Sunday sees the debut of the first BrewZine – another new event on the small press calendar – at the Gipsy Hill Brewery in London. Mixing a zine and small…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Four years ago as part of the online Small Press Day events on social media and in lieu of in-person events we…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ 2021 creator Norm Konyu has been on something of a prolific comics-creating spree of late. One of…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! The second of Koguchi Press’s self-titled Koguchi Magazine anthology series comes with the subtitled theme of ‘Neo-Future’ and compiles seven short, complete,…
BRITISH COMICS NOW! 10 YEARS OF THE BF 6 TO WATCH! As mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Norm Konyu comics are designed to unsettle. Not in an outrageously over-the-top or gratuitous way. More in the manner of a narrative…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Although we covered the first two print issues of Christof Bogacs and Beck Kubrick’s Meat4Burgers series a while back at Broken Frontier…
“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
