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One of the biggest revolutions that social media brought into the world is the culture of influencers. Product marketing and endorsement, dominated by celebrities and professional models, became democratized. The…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Giving space to relevant illustrated children’s books always seems vitally important as part of our annual Pride Month celebrations here at Broken Frontier. Especially at a time…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Something I wanted us to be more aware of this year when planning our annual Pride Month coverage at Broken Frontier was to be mindful of the…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! Pride Month often sees us branching out a little in terms of our coverage boundaries. For other outlets “branching out” might mean expanding into experimental or indie…
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PRIDE MONTH 2026! Over the years we have covered a lot of work in the areas of graphic medicine and social commentary from the direction of Jessica Kingsley Publishers and…
Recently at Broken Frontier we chatted with the Kutty Press team of Bhavani Bala and Deepesh Sangtani about their minicomics and zines; work that is “rooted in South Asian identity…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! If there’s one thing that seems even more important than celebrating queer voices during our Pride Month coverage at BF it’s celebrating new queer voices (to us…
How do you tell a story that has already been told many times? How do you tell a story that at times seems stuck in time because the past, present,…
Edward Bolman has been self-publishing his own unique brand of droll nonsense since the Seventies. Aside from Tim Corrigan’s C&T Graphics publishing Bolman’s three issue solo series, The Bathing Machine,…
The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East Vol. 1 features 14-year-old Riad, an aspiring artist and a self-proclaimed loser, whose seemingly ordinary life…
1962. An atomic bomb test is taking place in Nevada. The general in charge has commanded that the site of the explosion should be shifted, so that all the troops…
One of the greatest joys in considering self-published comics work in print is the opportunities it affords for unfiltered experimentation with the form’s possibilities. To see something like Bhavani Bala’s…
Picture the scene: a small costal town at the end of the world. Not much happens here. In fact, it’s pretty mundane. Which is why residents look forward to the…
As a child, I devoured books about heroes who went on great adventures. I was the weird kid who spent more lunches than I cared to admit in the library,…
To read about loss is always hard, given how someone else’s pain inadvertently resonates with one’s own. What’s harder is coming to terms with loss that makes no sense, because…
Another worthy example of New York Review Comics’ vital role as an indie/alt/small press archival publisher Brad Neely’s Creased Comics compiles his offbeat gag cartoons, originally published between 1995 and…
The First Graphic Novel Award (formerly Competition) is one of those UK comics institutions that the scene would be all the poorer without. It provides the winner with a rare…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
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“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
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