Bite-sized chunks on what’s going on in the comics industry and beyond.
When the return of the Caption small press comics festival was announced for 2025, after an 8-year absence, it was with the following description of its ethos and mission: “Caption…
There’s an Avery Hill Publishing exhibition coming to Thought Bubble this year and we have the details below. Also we’re delighted that BF will, in its own small way, be…
Exciting news from the direction of our friends at Thought Bubble with the announcement of this collaboration with the brilliant The Phoenix weekly. Particularly cool because it includes Neill Cameron…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns for its third revived outing at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, August 29th, 2025 with…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…
Tick tock… SEVEN DAYS TO GO! Caption: Rebirth takes place Saturday August 16th and Sunday 17th 2025 at Seacourt Hall, 3 Church Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9TH. Seacourt Hall is…
Another new UK small press comics event alert! Details on the Goblin Mini Market below, an event acting as precursor to the Autumn Goblin Market in South London. Art below…
Fantagraphics’ 50th anniversary is coming and Robert Crumb’s Tales of Paranoia is heralding it in… TALES OF PARANOIA FANTAGRAPHICS PRESENTS THE FIRST NEW COMIC BY ROBERT CRUMB IN 23 YEARS!…
Another welcome initiative for bringing comics to wider attention. Full details on Comics Youth’s launch of the Young Comics Laureate position below. Comics Youth Launches the UK’s First Young Comics…
WIP Comics’ annual anthologies have taken our Comic of the Festival spot for Thought Bubble for the last few years featuring, as they do, so many established names of the…
Before the pandemic BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the team giving a weekly overview of recommended new releases. Now, retooled and re-imagined to fit the…
Welcome to August at Broken Frontier Towers! As I said last month from hereon out we will be endeavouring to start the month at BF with a little round-up of…
Three cool new projects coming from Limit Break Comics this Summer… Irish Comic Collective Limit Break Comics have announced three new books to launch at Dublin Comic Con in August…
The Judge Death Mega-Special hits stores this October, just in time for Halloween. Greetingssss! If you’re hoping to send a chill down your spine this Halloween season, look no further…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…
One of the highlights of my year so far has been organising and working behind the scenes on Small Press Day, alongside SPD alumni Amneet Johal and Andy Oliver. Since…
News that will no doubt please many with Rebellion informing fans today of the upcoming Judge Dredd by Carlos Ezquerra: Apex Edition. This one looks epic. Rebellion is proud to…
If you enjoyed the recent Dark Horse edition of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space (reviewed here at BF by Edward Picot) then you’ll no doubt be very interested…
“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
