Articles and interviews on all things comics-related.
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Lovers of all things warm, fuzzy and cute will surely have heard of creator Beatrijs Brouwer, professionally known as Beastly Worlds. Renowned for her delicate prints (largely…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Zhenyi Zheng is one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists whose work particularly caught my…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! When it comes to genre fiction comics Dave Cook is a staple of the UK indie scene. With numerous successful Kickstarter campaigns behind him, and the recent…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Moving from a career as an economist to one as a comic book writer is certainly an atypical entry point into the industry but’s the one…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Shuning Ji first came to prominence as part of SelfMadeHero’s Graphic Anthology Programme a couple of years ago. That initiative was designed to champion the work…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Sometimes in this whole comics commentary game you realise to your great surprise that there’s someone whose work you have been covering on and off for…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Two important boxes immediately checked here in today’s Thought Bubble Month interview. Firstly we have an example of the power of comics community in the shape…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! One of the international creators whose work you should be looking out for at Thought Bubble this year is Emilia Strilchuk who will be at Harrogate with…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Published earlier this year by Rosarium, Colleen Douglas’s graphic novel Silk Cotton (with collaborators Jesus C. Gan and Lorenzo Palomobo) has garnered a growing level of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It must say something intriguing about our UK indie comics community that since Thought Bubble moved to Harrogate the thing that has most captured their imagination…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! As announced earlier today at Broken Frontier our Thought Bubble Month of coverage begins today on the site and what better place to start than by…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! There are emerging artists I discover on my Broken Frontier travels who I know immediately have something extra special, next-level even, to…
He’s the fifth UK Comics Laureate and also the first person of colour to fill that position, and creator Bobby Joseph is obviously relishing his time in that role! An…
Since its inception in 2021, Pride Comic Art Festival, affectionately known as PrideCAF has come back each year, bigger and better than ever. Every year, the festival occurs at The…
Coming to Kickstarter this week the unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability and Neurodivergence Comic Anthology is “a 64-page comic anthology amplifying underrepresented voices in the disability and neurodivergent communities.” Exactly the kind of…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the fourth of our 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ interviews we chat today with Chinese artist Tinglin Liu about her…
Described as “a tragic tale of loss and redemption” by publishers Mad Cave Studios fantasy series When the Blood Has Dried follows the story of Meabh of Cklonia, a small…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the third of our interviews with this year’s Broken frontier Six to Watch creators we chat with French-Spanish, UK-based artist Zoè…
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
