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A few years back when I selected Anna Readman as one of our 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists it was on the basis of one very short digital…
That great comics activist Sean Azzopardi, the man behind the Crouch End Comics Art Festival, has curated ‘Framed’, a new exhibition of the work of UK indie comics creators at…
As 2022 beckons, a very “Happy New Year!” to all our visitors. It’s been another year full of challenges but we’re looking forward to what the next twelve months in…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
It seems hardly possible that this is the tenth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ yearly round-up at Broken Frontier. Way back in 2012 I was…
Our final pre-Christmas post this year as, however and whichever way you celebrate, we want to wish our Broken Frontier community the happiest of holidays. This, has, obviously been a…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Events like Thought Bubble offer us an opportunity not just to celebrate the things we love about comics but also to make other discoveries, to open ourselves…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Ten years ago today at Broken Frontier when we launched a new feature called ‘Small Pressganged‘ – a column dedicated to “unearthing the gems of the small press” – we…
THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Kicking off our two weeks of dedicated Thought Bubble 2021 coverage today we begin with a chat with Josh Hicks, the creator behind the much loved Glorious…
Resuming the latest mini-season of our ‘Covers Album’ feature, where we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers… but with a small twist….
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
In our final interview with 2021’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists I speak today to Hannah Carwardine whose flowing visuals, considered use of colour and inventive page layouts immediately…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
HCZF MONTH! Sometimes you don’t need to see an extensive portfolio of a creator’s work to know their potential. When I was selecting artists for our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six…
HCZF MONTH! As part of this year’s Hackney Comic + Zine Fair a number of events both online and in-person have been commissioned to complement the HCZF digital fair. One…
HCZF MONTH! The annual Manga Jiman competition has brought a number of new creators to the attention of the comics community over the last few years. Indeed our very own…
HCZF MONTH! We’ve featured WIP Comics a number of times over the last few years at BF in terms of both their publishing output and their work in providing a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
HCZF MONTH! Olivia Sullivan’s latest print comics zine Systems is described as exploring “the world of botany, environmental landscapes and themes of wanderlust” as it “documents observations of the weird…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
HCZF MONTH! This year’s month-long Hackney Comic + Zine Fair kicked off over the weekend with great fanfare on social media. The brainchild of comics community activist Joe Stone this…
A new small press event is always something to celebrate and ZineZilla, debuting on Saturday September 18th in Bristol, is particularly of note to us here at Broken Frontier given…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
In some ways I feel like a bit of a cheat when approaching a review of the deliberately enigmatic short comic Quivertree by our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’…
“I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird” – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel ‘The Witch’s Egg’ from Avery Hill PublishingJuly 8, 2025
Inside Look: The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo Brings Her Boundary-Pushing Practice to Digital PresentationJuly 4, 2025
Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
