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THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! We all know the drill with comics anthologies – firstly they give creators an opportunity to hone their short storytelling skills of course. But on the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Can anything beat the excitement of a zine debuting at Thought Bubble? In my humble opinion, not much. Handbook for the Distracted by Rafe Forman is…
Community projects in comics are something we are always very keen to get behind here at Broken Frontier. We do style ourselves as a “community hub” after all. One such…
To read anything by Yeong-shin Ma is to confront unpleasant truths about contemporary life and the fragility that most structures are built upon. These truths may appear to restrict themselves…
Here’s a thought that may crop up repeatedly while reading this fabulous biography: how is it that someone once referred to as the first Black American global sports superstar is…
A couple of years back at Broken Frontier I reviewed Kristina Stipetic’s bumper-sized collection Positive Worlds, Negative Spaces. A huge collection of work originally created between 2010 and 2024, it…
Across the Widest Sea is a young adult graphic novel that portrays the transition from adolescence to adulthood metaphorically as a journey across an unpredictable sea in search of land….
In Tor Freeman’s Boss of the Underworld Book 1, a girl called Shirley drops a pound coin into a manhole, and while attempting to retrieve it she falls into the…
In 1957, a platypus named Penelope vanished from the Bronx Zoo in New York. Zookeepers were astonished to find that she could have tunnelled her way out or climbed over…
One of the nicest ways of spending an hour or so is with a book that hides more than it reveals. This is easier to do with a prose epic,…
You know a full-length graphic novel has caught the imagination of readers when it goes back to print in the same year it was published. Roman Muradov’s All the Living,…
For readers who were picking up Spider-Man comics in the 1970s but never saw the more ephemeral newspaper strips Clover Press’s The Amazing Spider-Man: Classic Newspaper Comics will be like…
In February 2026, a major study of adolescent bullying in the United Kingdom revealed the scale of challenges for health and education systems in that country. It surveyed over 8,400…
Tom Humberstone’s Just Work: The Gig Economy, Platform Capitalism and the Battle for Worker Rights is not simply representative of his graphic journalism. It’s also a fine example of how…
Less reboot or even reimagining and more business as usual, the new Oni Press incarnation of everyone’s favourite red-headed teenager debuted this month with Archie #1. If you were worrying…
This summer’s ARC Festival was a triumph not just in terms of showcasing indie and experimental work, or the new discoveries we all may have made there, but also for…
Previously at Broken Frontier we covered Steve Willis and Edward Bolman volumes from Tom Fellrath’s Phoenix Masters series, both of which explore absurdity in the extreme with a humorous, all-ages…
Few creators’ work has instantly grabbed my attention in the last couple of years as Keezy Young’s has. Their short comic Sunflowers, about living with bipolar disorder was an exceptional…
“I Love Exploring Themes of Culture, Family and Siblinghood” – Shri Gunasekara on Experimenting with the Form, Colour as a Storytelling Device, and Artistic ProcessOctober 19, 2026
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
