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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Shortlisted for both the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition and the Laydeez do Comics Prize, the first chapter of Cathy Brett’s work-in-progress graphic novel Who Killed…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! It’s Halloween and Megan is trick or treating with her younger siblings Andy and Luna, with the three of them showing varying degrees of enthusiasm for the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! In 2018 Emma Burleigh won the first Laydeez do Comics Prize for her graphic-memoir-in-progress My Other Mother, My Other Self, an excerpt of which I reviewed here…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Debuting at Thought Bubble via the Wine & Zine collective, the first thing that strikes the reader about Zara “Zukinee” Williams’s Roy & Rei at the Fair…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! When I first started covering the work of Sean Azzopardi at Broken Frontier he had long since become one of the integral fixtures of the London small…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The more I see of the work of Gareth A Hopkins the more convinced I become that his hypnotically compelling abstract graphic narratives are exploring the language…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! A new issue of John Riordan and Dan Cox’s brilliantly bizarre music industry send-up Hitsville UK has been something of a Thought Bubble tradition over the last…
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From a human vantage point Lauren Barnett’s Bernadette is a sedately paced affair. But then our viewpoint isn’t the important one in this tale of one cat’s ongoing conflict with the…
It would be inappropriate to describe B. Mure’s Ismyre series of books as indie comics’ best kept secret. The first two volumes have been consistently critically acclaimed, after all, with…
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If you were reading US serial comics in the 1990s you’ll remember the craze for “cover enhancements” during that period, when the major publishers became locked in an ever escalating…
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As one might suspect from an anthology with the theme of ‘Plant Power’, the latest issue of Latvian publisher kuš! comics signature š! anthology sees more than its fair share…
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The third Keiler Roberts book from Koyama Press after Sunburning and Chlorine Gardens, Rat Time is another fine example of the artist’s distinctive voice in the world of autobiographical comics….
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A comic about researching for another potential comic might sound like it’s all kinds of self-indulgently meta but Beth Barnett’s Dreamers of the Day is the polar opposite; an honest,…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! The village of Mortingford is home to the ancient Kempe Tower, an imposing and isolated structure hiding its own sinister secrets. When a sightseeing couple visit the Tower…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! Comics are often just one strand of the artistic practice of the creators we cover at Broken Frontier, especially in the case of those in the self-publishing and…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! From its front cover illustration of a weary individual who, on closer inspection, turns out to be a composite being made up of many others (or depending on…
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HCZF FORTNIGHT! I have said in the past of Korinna Mei Veropoulou’s art that her “cartooning pops with energy, with animated panel-to-panel storytelling and effective visual characterisation.” We’ve looked at…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! Peter Morey’s work has been reaching new audiences on the UK indie and small press scene through a variety of routes over the last couple of years. Firstly,…
“It’s Fascinating How Many People React with Total Disbelief that Disability Hate Crime is an Actual Thing” – Al Davison on ‘The Spiral Cage’ and ‘Muscle Memory’October 27, 2025
“Basically, I’m Hoping to Please Both Nostalgia Fans and Those Who Enjoy Pop Culture Critique!” – Paul Cornell on the Bronze Age Avengers, His First ‘Commando’ Comic, and New Publishing Venture Cosmic LighthouseOctober 23, 2025
“We Hope to Explain Our Passion for the Medium to Gallery Visitors Who May Not Have Any Idea about Comics” – Katriona Chapman on the Avery Hill Exhibition ‘Vision & Labour: Making Comics’ at the Mercer Gallery for Thought BubbleOctober 22, 2025
“There Are Hard Parts and There Are Wonderful Parts. I’m Just a Mum Trying Her Best” – Rachael Smith Gives Us the Lowdown on the Collected ‘Nap Comix’October 21, 2025
“Comics Bring Art at Its Highest Level to the People” – Alison Sampson Talks Comics and Architecture, Crossing Genres, and the Communicative Power of the FormOctober 20, 2025
