Bite-sized chunks on what’s going on in the comics industry and beyond.
Billionaire Island is written by Broken Frontier Award-winning (Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles) and BF Award-nominated (Second Coming) scribe Mark Rusell with art by co-creator Steve Pugh, colours by…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
It’s time for the second Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw this week on Thursday February 27th, and this time we have faces old and new on the…
An announcement this week preceding what looks set to be a banner year for Humanoids with the news that US comics writer Mark Waid has been announced as Publisher. The…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
It’s back for its fifth year! Small Press Day 2020 will take place on Saturday July 18th! The brainchild of cartoonist David Ziggy Greene, its aim is to provide a…
Abs Bailey is one of a number of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists over the years to join the Avery Hill Publishing line-up (alongside such talents as Ellice…
Comics exploring the refugee crisis hasve had extensive coverage at Broken Frontier over the last couple of years including Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche and Mike Freihert’s Escape from Syria, Olivier…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
The shortlist for this year’s LDC Awards (formerly known under the Laydeez do Comics banner) has been announced. The names of the selected artists for this women-only prize for graphic-novels-in-progress,…
Coming this September, Kyle Gass and Jack Black’s comedy rock duo Tenacious D come to comics via Fantagraphics with the graphic novel Post-Apocalypto. We have a preview courtesy of Fantagraphics…
After the winter break it’s time to be thinking again about the annual comics calendar of events. We have a notable Spring one to announce today with the return of…
Monthly comics in that traditional US format can often feel inaccessible with their long story arcs designed for trade collections and a lack of easy entry, self-contained individual issues. American…
It’s been an exciting few months in terms of recognition for our favourite art form with a number of major awards – including the Arts Foundation Future Awards and the…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
Saturday was February 1st which also meant it was #HourlyComicDay2020. Cartoonists the world over provided a short comic strip for every hour they were awake and posted it online to…
The longlist for this year’s LDC Awards (formerly known under the Laydeez do Comics banner) has been announced. The names of the selected artists for this women-only prize for graphic-novels-in-progress,…
In the last couple of years San Francisco-based small press publisher Silver Sprocket have emerged as one of the most vibrant, experimental and distinctive outfits in indie comics publishing. We…
“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
