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London-based illustrator and designer Alxndra Cook first featured a few years ago on Broken Frontier when we covered some of her lively and quirky zines. Her relatively recent move into…
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Rounding out the first “season” of Spiny Orb Weaver – the spotlight publication on artists from the South Florida scene – the second and third issues of this Radiator Comics…
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I feel I’ve used the term Pekar-esque a little too freely at Broken Frontier of late. But in the case of Chad Bilyeu’s Chad in Amsterdam it seems particularly appropriate…
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Back when we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ I spoke about today’s interviewee Mereida Fajardo in the following terms: “I always gravitate towards creators…
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Robert Wells is currently celebrating a whopping three decades as part of the UK indie comics scene in which time he has self-published work, collaborated with fellow small press mainstays…
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Over the last few years artist Sarah Gordon had been producing a series of delightfully disturbing short horror comics with such a prolific zeal that I could barely remember from…
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Mollie Ray was one of the many artists who submitted four pages of comics for our BF one-tweet reviews event on Twitter as part of last year’s Small Press Day celebrations….
There’s something almost retro about Samuel Hickson’s Liquid Realm, a darkly comedic anthology collection of comics shorts created in lockdown during 2020 and one that has a definite underground sensibility….
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Shane Melisse is one of our Broken Frontier 2021 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists and a creator who I’ve been covering for a number of years here at BF. Over the…
Covering the self-publishing scene means that the majority of the comics one sees are the work of a singular vision. For whatever reason collaborative work (outside of anthologies and more…
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It’s hardly the most astute of observations to make that the major part of artist Tim Bird’s comics output has focused on the inter-relationship of place and memories, whether that…
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One of the neglected gems of the UK small press scene over the last several months has to be the A Pocket Chiller series from Douglas Noble’s Strip for Me…
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To describe Jonathan Baylis’s autobio work as Pekar-esque only goes so far in communicating his approach to this area of comics practice. So Buttons #11 is a short anthology collection…
Slice-of-life or autobio comics work doesn’t necessarily have to be rooted in attempts at capturing the literal actuality of events and their emotional impact. In Wednesday’s Child 2021 Broken Frontier…
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Currently funding on Kickstarter, Working In: The Arts is the latest anthology offering from the CHIP Collective. This collection of comics looks to highlight “the HUGE variety of potential career…
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I have said it before here at Broken Frontier and I shall say it again today. I do not believe we can overestimate how invaluable a social document pandemic comics…
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When I say that not very much happens in Springtime with Badger & Vole it’s most assuredly not a critical observation. Nor am I damning it with faint praise by…
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A graphic biography of the titular marine conservation organisation and its environmental activist founder Paul Watson, The Sea Shepherd marks one of long-time UK small presser Sean Azzopardi’s semi-regular digressions…
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 4 – “So-Called Artificial Intelligence Has Been Crafted in Service to Power”September 10, 2025
Cartoonists for Gaza Extra: Sweaty Eyes – Read AJ O’Neill’s Short Comic Story Here at Broken FrontierSeptember 10, 2025
Cartoonists for Gaza Part 4 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Rufus Dayglo, Peter Kuper, Zara Slattery, Oscar Zárate and Corinne HalbertAugust 29, 2025
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BFAugust 27, 2025
Cartoonists for Gaza Part 3 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from John Sadler, MariNaomi, Paul Peart-Smith, Tony Thorne and Myfanwy TristramAugust 27, 2025
