The Cartoon Museum Announces the Winners of the Young Cartoonist Awards 2024
You never know. You could be looking at future Broken Frontier Six to Watch artists here! The winners of the 29th Young Cartoonist Awards have been announced and you can…
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Crowdfunding Corner: Edgar Allan – New Poe-Inspired Work with the Haunting Visuals of Norm Konyu
A return to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner feature today at BF where we spotlight campaigns we have either discovered ourselves or by sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests…
Crowdfunding Corner: The Stranger #2 – CoCo Comics’ Captivating Super-Hero Mystery Series Returns to Kickstarter for a Second Instalment
A return to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner feature today at BF where we spotlight campaigns we have either discovered ourselves or by sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests…
Span – Mike Armstrong’s Fantasy Story of Woodland Spirits Speaks of Familiar and Universal Truths
Last year here at BF we looked at Bigger, a previous minicomic from 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mike Armstrong, and one that in thematic terms used fantasy…
Sagas of the Shield Maiden Book Four – Laura Helsby, Alice Leclert and Rachel Tubb Join Asa Wheatley in the Fourth Outing for the Viking Western Anthology
Writer and creator Asa Wheatley’s Sagas of the Shield Maiden anthology series has from the outset taken a very different approach to its historical tales. Rather than exploring a linear…
LICAF Now & Next – Discover More About the Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s Work Championing Comics in this Zoom Event with Lucy Sullivan and Mollie Ray
There have been some very inportant comics community initiatives from the direction of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival of late, including British Comics Now (of which I will be…
The House on 52 Carlton Street – Exorcism and Otherworldly Horror Combine in Zen K.’s Gripping Manga Mystery
Another of this year’s Broken Frontier Six to Watch creators Zen K., aka Zenab Khan, has already featured on the site when our Lydia Turner reviewed the sci-fi one-shot Runaway…
Comics Youth CIC and Marginal Changemakers Announce the “Game-Changing” Mersey Margins Collective Comics Fair this February
Exciting news from Comics Youth CIC that has that comics community vibe we love so much here at BF. Details on the Mersey Margins Collective Comics Fair (featuring BF Six…
Summer Maze – Reality and Truth Become Blurred and Indefinable in Zhenyi Zheng’s Form-Pushing Abstract Minicomic
Abstract comics work often exists to allow us to find our own meaning in its pages. By definition it is not about elaboration; it provokes and evokes emotional responses, disseminates…
Celebrating 2024 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
First as part of our now retired ‘Small Pressganged’ feature, and now as an annual standalone feature, we have been running our ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to…
Happy New Year! Looking Back on 2024 at Broken Frontier and What You Can Expect from BF in 2025
Welcome back to Broken Frontier Towers as we re-emerge after our Christmas and New Year break. Though to be honest “break” is something of a misnomer. It was less time…
Happy Holidays from All of Us Here at Broken Frontier Towers! – We’ll Be Back on January 6th, 2025
Happy Holidays! We’re shutting up shop now here at BF Towers for a seasonal break as we recharge our batteries and look forward to the new year. We will be…
Coming Home #2 – The “Veterans’ Mental Health Stories” Anthology Returns with a Hard-Hitting LGBTQ+ Focus
In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…
“Thought Bubble Feels as Much Like Visiting Loved Family as It Does a Comics Convention” – BF’s Andy Oliver Looks Back at Thought Bubble 2024
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It’s the great UK comics end-of-year party and this year, for the first time since 2019, Cinderella did finally get to go to the ball. The…
Tall Tales & Short Stories – The Vibrancy, Versatility and Brilliance of the UK Small Press Scene Brought to the Fore in this Year’s WIP Comics Anthology
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If anyone ever tells you that the UK small press comics scene is in a state of decline…
Living with the Living #1 – John Lynott and Shane Melisse Bring Us a New Supernatural Sitcom Comic Series
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Living with the Living originally saw life a few years ago as a webcomic but went on hiatus…
There’s a Party in My Body (and You’re All Invited) – Mereida Fajardo Takes Us on a Biological Rave in One of Our Thought Bubble Comics of the Festival
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Every year at Broken Frontier as part of our Thought Bubble coverage we like to pick out one…
Sport – Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley’s Flipbook Comics Project Returns with a Match-Winning Formula
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Over the years there have staples of Thought Bubble debut books that have come to represent certain eras of…
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