Bite-sized chunks on what’s going on in the comics industry and beyond.
Back in 2017, the acclaimed online comics and illustration venture Draw the Line was the Broken Frontier Award winner in the Best Webcomic category. The project saw over 100 international artists…
News today from Mad Cave Studios of a new imprint of YA graphic novels which will debut in the Autumn of 2021. Full details of the initial line-up of books…
What follows is a statement on our plans for the future of Broken Frontier by Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver on behalf of the Broken Frontier team… As way of introductory explanation…
Another announcement today of a new series from Vault Comics whose publishing schedule for 2020 has included a number of exciting debuts from rising star creative teams. Full details on…
We first became aware of Penn State University Press’s graphic novel output when they began publishing US editions of graphic medicine books from some our favourite graphic novelists, including Ian…
Thought Bubble – like so many festivals/conventions since March this year – has had to reinvent itself as an online experience for 2020. The UK’s largest comics festival event announced…
We have more digital drinking and drawing fun this Thursday September 17th as our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw retums! As usual we’re back again…
The accomplishments of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists are always a delight to us at BF. So you can imagine how pleased we are tonight to hear that…
SelfMadeHero have announced three new releases for the Autumn, all of which look to be top picks in the next few months. We’ve covered quite a number of books from…
It has, admittedly, been a while since we last published one of our ‘Crowdfunding Corner‘ columns on Broken Frontier. But what better starting point to reintroduce the feature than a…
Well this looks rather essential doesn’t it? Published next week by IDW and The Nib, Be Gay, Do Comics is a queer comics anthology featuring work from BF-reviewed creators including…
London artist Sabba Khan was one of our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ back in 2017. I’ve described her importance as “one of the true rising…
Preview time today at Broken Frontier with an advance look at November’s Juliet Takes a Breath from BOOM!. Preview pages and press release details below… BOOM! Studios today revealed a…
It’s time for more digital drinking and drawing this Thursday August 27th as our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw retums. As usual we’re back again…
Comics creator Joe Stone is the man behind the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, the London-based WIP Comics group for aspiring creators, and a talented comics artist himself. Indeed, Joe…
As Marvel Omnibuses go this one is a bit of a corker! Not long after announcing that they would be taking on the Alien franchise after its decades-long residency at…
At the end of last year Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins interviewed Instagram sensation Amber Fossey, aka @Zeppelinmoon. Jenny described Fossey as “part of a growing movement of irreverent Instagram cartoonists…
There’s so much going on for Small Press Day this coming Saturday August 15th as we make the move from the physical environment to the digital world for 2020. If…
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“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
