BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST LETTERER WINNER AND BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! When it was announced last year that 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creator Jey Levang had been picked…
Pre-orders for the latest edition of Zainab Akhtar’s carefully curated independent comics box ShortBox went live today and you have until January 31st to make sure you get hold of…
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Hot on the heels of this week’s Broken Frontier Awards announcements comes our sixth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up here in ‘Small Pressganged’. Despite this edition…
After 2016’s dual publication of the Broken Frontier Anthology and our first Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook it seemed unlikely that we could top such a banner year. And yet…
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF every week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
Hot on the heels of the announcement of this year’s Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition comes news of a new women-only prize for unpublished graphic novel works-in-progress, courtesy of our…
Traditionally this point in the year is when the great and the good of British comics gears up for the final big blow-out and hits Leeds for the grand finale…
This weekend sees a new small press event on the comics calendar as the Loogabarooga Comic Festival, held in association with Loogabarooga Book Festival and Loughborough Comic Con, debuts on Saturday October…
We’re at that point in the month again when we look forward to another guest-artist filled D&D and this one has a particularly BF flavour with three artists who have…
It was a busy weekend indeed for the Broken Frontier team! While our Tyler Chin-Tanner was representing the site at this year’s New York Comic Con I was busy hosting…
Wedged as it is this year between Thought Bubble and the Lakes we probably haven’t given the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair anything like the attention it deserves here at…
Our batteries recharged after a hectic weekend in Leeds, today the Broken Frontier Editorial team of EdieOP and Andy Oliver take a belated lookback on the new-look Thought Bubble Festival……
It’s certainly going to be the snuggest comics festival of the Autumn UK comics calendar but it’s still brimming with awesome artistic talent. Sandwiched between Thought Bubble and the Bristol…
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DEBUTING AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Artist Olivia Sullivan is one of two of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ whose exposure on the site so far this…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
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One of the great joys of overseeing our various Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programmes at BF is observing the artists involved as their work evolves and…
Kicking off the week with this ‘A View from the Frontier’ update is about giving our audience a look at the behind-the-scenes, off-the-site world of Broken Frontier. After all, BF’s…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Outside of a a couple of upcoming festival appearances, Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s feminist zine micropublisher and distro One Beat Zines are currently on hiatus until the…
“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
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
