Bite-sized chunks on what’s going on in the comics industry and beyond.
It’s nearly here! In just under three weeks Small Press Day returns on Saturday, August 17th. With event notifications coming in there are some incredible SPD celebrations on the calendar…
Comics Youth CIC is a creative community organisation led by young people, for young people with “an aim is to empower youth across the Liverpool City Region to flourish from…
A quick heads up that the inQ! queer comics fair (mentioned recently here at BF) will be running a drink and draw fundraising event on August 2nd. For those familiar…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! As the debut event from the ‘Bigger Inside’ series, a new pop-up exhibition of the work of some of our Broken Frontier…
Awards specifically for UK comics are a rare commodity right now and have been since the British Comic Awards disappeared several years ago. One of the last holdouts was the…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, July 25th. And this time we’re theming our drawing…
For a couple of years now Rebellion’s Monster Fun monthly has been doing some epic work in bringing younger readers into the form. This summer some of that material is…
In another revival of classic UK names of yesteryear Rebellion have let us know that the previously announced Roxy Special is now available to back on Kickstarter. This one features…
Next week sees the latest issue of Ahoy Comics‘ ever enjoyable anthology series Project: Cryptid, a comic that provides readers with accessible and self-contained short stories. Today at BF we…
Your favourite online comics social is back with a special edition! This coming Tuesday, July 16th the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw will be teaming up with…
While Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics continues to mine the rich seam of UK comics history there’s an equally important hoard of work over at DC Thomson that is rarely…
Gustaffo Vargas is the artist behind the Peruvian cyberpunk Altiplano series whose star is ever rising right now with contributions to the Image Comics 30th Anniversary Anthology series and Marvel’s…
As you will probably already be aware if you are a regular visitor to Broken Frontier we have a vested interest in the success of Small Press Day, the UK…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, July 11th. And this time we’re theming our drawing…
Sunday sees the debut of the first BrewZine – another new event on the small press calendar – at the Gipsy Hill Brewery in London. Mixing a zine and small…
From Fraser Geesin, the man who gave us the first IKEA-themed anthology comic and the quite brilliant satire Pricks (alongside Laurie Rowan), comes Jeff ‘N’ Elon, a collection of his Patreon…
You may remember the name Cosmic Lion Productions as the publisher of Broken Frontier contributor (and kind of “cartoonist-in-residence” a couple of years back) Tony Wolf’s Tales From The Wolf….
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Exciting news from a Broken Frontier viewpoint today with the news that our 2024 BF ‘Six to Watch’ artist Dominica Claribelle has…
“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
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
