After several weeks of being involved in events and projects outside of the site – chairing or sitting on panels at ELCAF, Gosh! Comics Process and the Cartoon Museum; co-organising…
Another month, another guest-artist filled D&D! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back tomorrow Tuesday July 18th with another top trio of artistic talent in Sam Baldwin, Grace Helmer and…
We’re still on a bit of a high here in the Broken Frontier Bullpen after a joyous day of comics revelry on Saturday for both Small Press Day and the launch…
CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE BROKEN FRONTIER SMALL PRESS YEARBOOK! It’s Small Press Day this coming Saturday July 8th so what better occasion to mark the publication of our second…
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SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! One of our 2017 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ at Broken Frontier, Anja Uhren has a lyrical artistic style that lends itself to all manner…
This year’s East London Comics & Arts Festival (ELCAF) saw our highest level of Broken Frontier participation in the event to date. Last week we ran a very popular ELCAF…
It’s been a rather busy week at Broken Frontier Towers and with no let-up in our ever packed schedule in sight over the next month or so either. Let’s catch…
ELCAF WEEK! Since their emergence as one of the most pivotal anthology projects on the small press scene in 2014, Dirty Rotten Comics have given a platform to dozens of…
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ELCAF WEEK! If you’re a regular BF reader then Peony Gent will need little introduction. She is, of course, one of Broken Frontier’s 2017 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘…
ELCAF WEEK! Sometimes timing is everything. Several years ago, when I first shifted my Broken Frontier coverage almost exclusively to the UK indie world, I was fortunate enough to find…
I can be short and sweet in this week’s ‘A View from the Frontier’ because the visual eloquence of what is to come below will speak to you all on…
Since 2014 Dirty Rotten Comics have been bringing us some of the most exciting new voices in UK comics and putting them side-by-side with acclaimed and established artists while also…
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 or digital storefront, the…
Welcome to the Broken Frontier Bulletin Board, our semi-regular round-up of comics-related events, panels, exhibitions, shows and fairs designed to give our readers inspiration for extra-curricular activities of a sequential…
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The upcoming tenth issue of Dirty Rotten Comics – one of Broken Frontier’s favourite small press offerings – promises to be something extra special as publishers Throwaway Press put together a…
Let’s start this week’s ‘A View from the Frontier’ with an unlikely confession… I have never been to Free Comic Book Day before. That’s perhaps not as odd a statement…
Given the frenetic pace (14 articles and around 15,000 words!) of our Myriad Week last week, spotlighting the creators and graphics list of the Brighton-based publisher, you could be forgiven for thinking…
MYRIAD WEEK! A truly joyous graphic novel from one of the UK’s fastest rising indie comics stars. There’s a little backstory to this review so bear with me… Back in…
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