ARC FESTIVAL 2026! A new indie micropress is always an exciting development on the UK circuit and when it’s as experimentally focussed as Francis Todd’s Blue Funnel Books all the…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Swedish artist Linnea Sterte has been stunning us with the most visually eloquent linework since their breakout work Stages of Rot nearly a decade ago. From alien…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Compiling comics created by Andrés Magán in small notebooks between November 2025 and January 2026 the strips in Big Comic for Boy combine absurdism with off-centre reflections…
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…
Times are tough for comics commentary so it’s always cool to see those of us still left working together to reach new audiences. New below about our chums at Shelfdust…
Recently at Broken Frontier we chatted with the Kutty Press team of Bhavani Bala and Deepesh Sangtani about their minicomics and zines; work that is “rooted in South Asian identity…
One of the greatest joys in considering self-published comics work in print is the opportunities it affords for unfiltered experimentation with the form’s possibilities. To see something like Bhavani Bala’s…
Drawing your attention to work that is notably distinctive in voice, and playful with format and presentation, is one of the core aims of Broken Frontier as a platform. When…
As a child, I devoured books about heroes who went on great adventures. I was the weird kid who spent more lunches than I cared to admit in the library,…
Jules Valera’s A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath collects three A6 minicomics in a tactile vellum-banded compilation. The three titles – Jupiter & the Moon, Venus…
While the Colossive Cartographies series constantly crosses through illustrative mediums its sixty-ninth issue, ‘A Fragile Obsession’ by Mel Gale, undeniably fits into the category of minicomic. Its 16-panel comic strip…
If you read Broken Frontier with any degree of regularity you will know that I often long wistfully for the days when small press comics self-publishing in the UK had…
Steve Willis is a Washington state-based creator who has been self-publishing his own particular brand of strange and surreal comics out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States since…
We have, admittedly, a little bit of catching up to do with our coverage of the Colossive Press series of Colossive Cartographies fold-out zines. So we are going to endeavour…
Another batch of fold-out Colossive Cartographies zines launched a few weeks back ready for the Autumn with the first of these always worthy Colossive Press artist showcases spotlighting the practice…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Experimental comics work is, as all our readers know, a huge part of our coverage remit here at Broken Frontier. As such, work like Shri Gunasekara’s…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! When I discovered the work of self-published comics artist Rein Lee at the inQ! queer comics fair last year I pretty much instantly knew that they were…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Something a little different launching at Thought Bubble for those who like a tactile edge to their comics. Deadly Knitshade’s Very Tiny Comics Anthology #1: Monsters…
“At the Base of Every Story I Tell is Some Aspect of Myself” – Michael Furler Talks Inspiration, Process, His ShortBox and Peow Work, and the Swiss Comics SceneOctober 26, 2026
“There’s a Real Joy in Giving a Story a Good End” – Kate Ashwin on Saying Goodbye to the Cast of Her Webcomic ‘Widdershins’ After an Impressive 15 YearsOctober 22, 2026
“There Have Been So Many Highlights!” – Publisher Andy Brown on 30 Years of Conundrum Press, Discovering Unique Voices in Comics, and the Realities of Arts Funding in CanadaOctober 20, 2026
“I Love Exploring Themes of Culture, Family and Siblinghood” – Shri Gunasekara on Experimenting with the Form, Colour as a Storytelling Device, and Artistic ProcessOctober 19, 2026
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
