Articles and interviews on all things comics-related.
Bringing together two legendary comics titles from the late 20th century in one package, A1 Deadline is an anthology that both builds on the past and looks to the future….
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Back in 2020 Henry McCausland’s breakout work, Eight-Lane Runaways from Fantagraphics, caught our attention so much at BF that it earned the artist a nomination in the…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Swedish artist Linnea Sterte has been stunning us with the most visually eloquent linework since their breakout work Stages of Rot nearly a decade ago. From alien…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Sometimes in preparation for a piece like this you realise there are so many projects you could ask your subject about that you could probably run half…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Pride Month at Broken Frontier may be drawing to a close but it’s also overlapping with the beginning of our summer spotlight interview series with this year’s…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Irish comics creator AJ O’Neill’s breakout moment on the UK small press comics scene came two years ago with the powerful autobiographical comic The Kid in the Cave….
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Bone Broth by Alex Taylor (aka azbt) was the winner of the esteemed First Graphic Novel Award in 2023 and, as a result, was published last year…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Last year at Broken Frontier we gave some review time to Anna Trench’s touching graphic novel Florrie: A Football Love Story. A sporting queer romance tale set…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! KitsuneArt is one of the most versatile genre fiction creators currently working in the UK small press scene. From touching fantasy tales through to powerful sci-fi social…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! In another of our Pride spotlight interviews we chat today with emerging comics talent Nessie Mooo. Nessie talks about the premise of urban fantasy series Deathmetal, being…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Co-founded by Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner in 2005, publisher A Wave Blue World has for over two decades been publishing graphic novels and comics anthologies, with a…
Sometimes it’s impossible to be entirely disconnected from an interview subject because comics is a small community and we’re all aware of the people who have worked tirelessly to create…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! It’s time for the second of this year’s Pride Month interviews to go up as we chat today with webcomics creator LJ Nakamura. LJ discusses intersex representation…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! In the first of our Pride Month interviews features this year at Broken Frontier we speak with married writing team Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges. Their extensive…
If 2026 has proved anything it’s that our UK comics events calendar has well and truly revived itself after the pandemic years cost us so many established fixtures. Coming up…
Drawing your attention to work that is notably distinctive in voice, and playful with format and presentation, is one of the core aims of Broken Frontier as a platform. When…
Comics commentary is contracting online. That’s hardly a secret but it does feel like that Golden Age of blogging and countless dedicated comics-related websites is something we are unlikely to…
Artist, writer and colourist Bex Glendining made a real mark on us last year when their debut graphic novel On Starlit Shores got not just a very positive review at…
“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“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026“I Think ‘Limbo’ is Probably the Best Work I’ve Ever Done in Any Medium” – Ferry Gouw on His New Book from Breakdown Press, Cross-Media Work on ‘Major Lazer’, and Adapting His Style for Different ProjectsJune 30, 2026“Trans People Are Facing Pronounced Challenges to Our Rights Across the World Right Now” – Jua OK! on ‘Road to Chimera’ and Finding Spiritual Meaning in the Trans JourneyJune 29, 2026
