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In the depths of the forest, a close-knit father and son family of foxes are attempting to get through a brutally cold winter. But when the elder fox falls ill…
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…
Koyama Press’s release of Somnambulance by Fiona Smyth performs a tremendous service to comics readers by collecting a substantial volume of Smyth’s work within the medium. The book is valuable…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! When I reviewed B. Mure’s Ismyre here at Broken Frontier last year I spoke about the sense of powerful world-building to the first instalment of their fantasy…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Simon Moreton’s autobio zine series Minor Leagues (twice Broken Frontier Awards-nominated to give you an idea of just how highly esteemed it is here at BF!) begins…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Earlier this year Emma Burleigh was announced as the inaugural winner of the Laydeez do Comics Prize for her work-in-progress graphic novel My Other Mother, My Other…
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…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Jayde Perkin’s I’m Not Ready – a short compilation of some of the artist’s autobio comic strips – begins with a prose introduction to the collection that…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Graphic medicine – the term coined by graphic novelist and GP Ian Williams – is one of the strands of comics narrative that has played a vitally…
It’s probably no surprise that artists’ biographies make up a sizeable chunk of the market for high-end, broadsheet-acceptable ‘Waitrose comics’. Those among us who are enthralled by the visual arts…
SPX‘s importance as a small press comics convention in North America cannot be overstated. The reasons have less to do with business and more to do with its consistent geographic…
It’s 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 storefront,…
Tired but so, so inspired. Five words that sum up our post-Thought Bubble feelings here at Broken Frontier Towers. B-Fronts hit T-Bubs (did I really just type that?) in Leeds…
If you were in Leeds for Thought Bubble this weekend then you may well have caught the first leg of the Avery Hill Follow Me In and Retrograde Orbit Launch…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sarararara: All-American Girl, the webcomic creation of Olivia Hicks, makes its print debut at Thought Bubble this weekend. The strip is an intriguing oddity in terms…
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Back in early 2017 I reviewed a short autobiographical zine by UK small presser Eleanor Crewes and was struck by the immediate connection its creator made with her readership in…
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…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Thought Bubble just wouldn’t be Thought Bubble without the annual entry in John Riordan and Dan Cox’s music industry send-up Hitsville UK. And yet that’s the…
“How Damaging and Dangerous this Techno-Fascist Hellscape We Are Already Living in Is” – KitsuneArt on the Threat of Generative AI, LGBTQ+ Comics Anthologies and Building a Profile on the SceneJune 18, 2026
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
