With no less than twenty events taking place in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and even the US, this year’s Small Press Day built on the foundations of last year’s reinvigorated…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns at our regular venue of The Royal George on Friday, July 31st, 2026. And this time our artist line-up…
You’d have to be very new to the scene not to be aware that this Saturday July 25th is Small Press Day across the UK and Ireland and there’s a…
Blackheath Folk: Local History and Folklore is the kind of zine project that really sums up the spirit of Small Press Day. It’s been put together by the volunteer staff…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! So… we all know the drill here. UK comics has very little in the way of infrastructure. It relies on volunteers, activists and those willing to give…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! When we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ back in January I spoke in more depth about why alt-style comics artist Francis Todd had been…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Last year at Broken Frontier I was so taken by artist Shri Gunasekara’s experimental, landscape format comic Runner that I just knew she had to be a…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! It’s been a while since we gave time to the Underground Kingdom Comix crew so it seems fitting that we give some space to their most recent,…
So… the very briefest of Andytorials this month because we are soooooooo busy at Broken Frontier Towers right now. Events on the site and events off the site have precedence….
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Pride Month at Broken Frontier may be drawing to a close but it’s also overlapping with the beginning of our summer spotlight interview series with this year’s…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! The new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration (formerly House of Illustration) has opened in Clerkenwell, London with exhibitions including the very timely, Paul Gravett-curated ‘Queer as Comics’….
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…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
