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There are occasions where the very premise of a comic is as much a hook for investigating its contents further as its creative team or genre are. Writer Emmanuel Adelekun…
UPDATED: We hope you enjoyed our ELCAF Online video chats with Shangomola Edunjobi, Charlot Kristensen and Rachael Smith over on the ELCAF Instagram. Below are all the links you’ll need…
Now fortnightly due to popular demand! Thanks to your continued enthusiasm for the online version of our monthly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw we’re now running it…
Danny Noble’s comics have been extensively featured here since 2014 when we first covered her autobiographical work in the pages of Monday Morning. She was one of our original Broken…
Continuing our new feature for Fridays today at Broken Frontier! At the end of each week in Follow Friday we run an extensive spotlight profile on an artist we believe…
In graphic memoir Shame Pudding, artist Danny Noble takes a markedly different approach to autobiographical comics work than her past practice in this area. Noble, one of Broken Frontier’s first…
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 event or digital…
Visual interpretations of depression and anxiety understandably tend to use similar metaphorical standards to express the experience of living with those conditions. That however is never a weakness underlining, as…
A few weeks ago when we made British Ice our ‘Comic of the Week’ at Broken Frontier we also noted that we have been following the progression of its creator…
With the Angoulême buzz still at the forefront of the comics world’s collective consciousness we welcome 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ artist and Hackney Comic +…
We’re back! The first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of the year is on January 30th and we have three cracking artists on the guest creator list!…
It will come as no surprise to anyone following Broken Frontier regularly that Avery Hill Publishing have an incredibly cool slate of releases lined up for 2020 (we announced them…
The World Illustration Awards, presented by the Association of Illustrators in partnership with the Directory of Illustration since 2015, is currently open for entries. For the Broken Frontier audience the…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Olivia Sualdea has always shown an acute understanding of how to utilise potent visual metaphor to convey emotional state through the delicate control of panel-to-panel flow in her pages. That…
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 event or digital…
Two years ago when we reviewed Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell’s horror pastiche Mr. Higgins Comes Home here at Broken Frontier we described it as “a boisterous romp of a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! There’s been an ongoing theme in our Thought Bubble coverage this year with a deliberate focus on books and creators we feel should have been picked up…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! One of my annual traditions for Thought Bubble in years past was to devour that year’s Thought Bubble Anthology on the train journey up to Leeds. What…
“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
