The Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair Returns on February 11th, 2023
A new year is always an appropriate time to remind our audience that we’re always happy to spread the word on events that cater to the small press community, especially…
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Happy Holidays from the Broken Frontier Team! We’ll Be Back Again on January 3rd, 2023
A final post of 2022 to wish you all a very Happy Holidays from the Broken Frontier team. What’s that you say? Doesn’t BF normally publish reviews and articles between…
New Heritage Comics Digital Releases Include Early Grant Morrison Work from ‘Starblazer’ and the ‘Sci-Fi Files’ from ‘Commando’
News today of more forays into the vaults by D.C. Thomson’s Heritage Comics imprint. This month with a space opera flavour. News of Starblazer Presents and The Sci-Fi Files below……
Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2022 – Socially Conscious Work Goes Hand-in-Hand with Pure Comics Escapism in a Nominations List Reflecting the World Around Us in 2022
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 19th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 22nd for a Festive Special
Your favourite online comics social is back for an end-of-the-year party! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, December 22nd with a festive special….
Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard Bring ‘Rogue Trooper’ Back to ‘2000 AD’ in 2023
With a continuity so convoluted that it matched DC’s Hawkman for complexity (for more on that see our article some years ago here) 2000 AD‘s Rogue Trooper strip eventually found…
Laneha House Announce the Winners of the Inaugural Kinnard Awards Celebrating Comics Community
Announced over the weekend the awardees of the inaugural Kinnard Awards – set up to acknowledge deserving names working to the benefit of the comics community – were announced by…
Small Press-Related Events this Saturday, December 10th – The Feminist Library Winter Fayre in London and Cartoon County Comics Winter Fair in Brighton
Two events in London and Brighton this weekend if you’re looking for small press-related events. Info on the Feminist Library Winter Fayre and the Cartoon County Comics Winter Fair below….
Kevin O’Neill Apex Edition of the Late Artist’s Ground-Breaking ‘2000 AD’ Work to Be Published by Rebellion in 2023
Bittersweet news from Rebellion today with the announcement of what looks like an absolutely stunning a Kevin O’Neill Apex Edition just a few weeks after his passing. Full details in…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 8th for an ‘All-Stars’ Special
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, December 8th with a ‘Drink and Draw All-Stars’ evening. Not…
Top Shelf to Publish ‘Funny Things’, a Graphic Biography of ‘Peanuts’ Creator Charles Schulz, in Summer 2023
With the Charles Schulz centenary inspiring us all to dig out those Peanuts collections there’s timely news indeed this week via Top Shelf Productions. Coming next summer Funny Things is…
The East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest Returns for Its 13th Year this December 10th
Just a reminder that we are more than happy to run press about small press and DIY Culture events. Details on this year’s East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest…
Dark Horse Comics Bring the ‘Creepy’ and ‘Eerie’ Archives Back to Print in Accessible Paperback Editions
Dark Horse have recently published a number of the classic EC Archives in paperback versions and the good news this week is that they’re set to do the same for…
Dark Horse and Trackers Earth Announce ‘Captain Nick & the Explorer Society – Compass of Mems’
Always pleasing to see bigger publishers teaming up with educational organisations to provide material aimed at a younger audience. Full details on Dark Horses and Trackers Earth’s Captain Nick &…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, November 24th for a ‘Crowdfunding Special’
If Twitter survives for another few days then your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, November 24th…
Much-Featured Broken Frontier Favourites Rebecca K. Jones and Ed Firth Are Winner and Joint Runner-Up in this Year’s Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Competition
The annual Observer/Faber (formerly the Observer/Cape/Comica) graphic short story competition has given nods in the direction of a number of creators deservedly much-featured at Broken Frontier in recent years, including…
Multimedia Comics Project ‘One for All, All for One’ Seeks to Cut through Anti-Vaxxer Misinformation and Stress the Importance of Immunisation and Vaccines
Details below about a new multi-media comics venture looking at the importance of vaccines and immunisation. This is exactly the kind of socially responsible project we like to get behind…
Alex Norris Needs Your Help to Keep ‘Webcomic Name’ Alive! – GoFundMe Launched to Aid Them with Legal Fees in Battle to Protect the Popular ‘Oh No’ Strips
Hugely popular UK creator Alex Norris has asked for the comics community’s support in a legal battle against a US publishing company attempting to claim ownership of their internet sensation…
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