It’s Thought Bubble, and you know what that means: a fresh load of debut small press comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting the festival tables, BF’s resident…
“Watch the stars!” screamed the cover of issue #1, cover dated 13th May 1978, and for the next six months readers did just that, courtesy of IPC’s classic science…
Championing work we believe in, promoting creators with something important to say, and spotlighting publications that are worthy of far wider attention are staples of Broken Frontier’s philosophy of coverage. Every…
The indie comics fair Comica Comiket returns this Saturday 14th May as part of the final weekend celebrations for the House of Illustration’s Comix Creatrix exhibition with one of its great traditions…
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…
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Rozi Hathaway, Broken Frontier 2015 ‘UK Small Press Creator to Watch’, and contributor to our very first Small Press Yearbook, is kickstarting her new comic Njálla here this week. It’s a…
In the aligned worlds of self-publishing and DIY culture there’s a fertile cross-pollination between zine-making and comics creating. This column has never been shy about covering work that straddles both…
When their lives and families are tragically stolen, six special orphans use their wits and teamwork to avenge their loss in this fantastic all-ages OGN from Scholastic. Kids are smarter…
Press release This morning, DC Entertainment’s Vertigo Comics imprint not only confirmed that the New York Times bestselling series AMERICAN VAMPIRE will be returning this December, but also announced the…
It’s a much observed phenomenon in 2026 but, after the pandemic years saw so many regular fixture UK comics calendar disappear for good, it’s been refreshing to see so many…
The worlds of 2000 AD as a shared universe have never been as intertwined in the same way as their American counterparts. There were obvious links between some strips in…
Running between April 25th and May 2nd on Instagram ‘Scribble through the Struggle’ (#Scribblethroughthestruggle) was the recent initiative to for comics artists to “share a moment when they could have…
Small Press Day – the UK and Ireland’s (and this year maybe a little beyond) celebration of all things self and micropublished comics – is coming on July 25th and…
So here’s a neat bit of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ news! Sabba Khan was one of the earliest prospects to be listed as part of our mentorship programme back…
It’s been over a decade since I first covered Olivia Sullivan’s comics, back in the days when she was contributing to the much-missed Dirty Rotten Comics anthology. Since then, of…
As a general rule we usually leave super-heroes to other sites to cover. But there are always exceptions. When we do give space to them at Broken Frontier it’s either…
It’s impossible to overestimate just how far Alxndra Cook’s visual storytelling has come since I was first covering her work in zines like Eat Your Fruit!, well over a decade…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns at our regular venue of The Royal George on Friday, April 24th, 2026. And this time our artist line-up…
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
“A Room Full of Comics People is a True Joy to See!” – Marc Jackson on Bringing MACC-POW! to Macclesfield and the Resurgence of Kids Comics in the UKMay 25, 2026
