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THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! “For better or worse, the bodies we inhabit are our homes. But despite the old adage, home isn’t always the safest place to be…”. So reads…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Thought Bubble is, of course, a time for discovery and if you have yet to dive into the world of fold-out zines in Colossive Press’s Colossive…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse is a collection of comic strips that defies easy categorisation. It’s autobio but with sidesteps into fantasy interwoven…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Tim Bird has always been one of the medium’s finest practitioners when it comes to investigating that particular metaphorical crossroads where individual, memory, environment and time…
Audrey Hepburn loved comic books. That revelation, from a preface by the Hollywood icon’s second son Luca Dotti, is an apt piece of trivia with which to begin her graphic…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Last year as part of our Thought Bubble coverage here at Broken Frontier I took a detailed look at Erika Price’s Disorder collection of comics. I…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! What makes an event like Thought Bubble such a draw for anyone who enjoys the full breadth and depth of the medium is the sheer diversity…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! One of the many joys of the yearly Thought Bubble convention is discovering small press and indie creators. It’s especially exciting to see completely new creators…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! What first strikes the reader about the opening issue of Karl Christian Krumpholz’s In the City is the immediacy with which he immerses us in the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! One of the privileges of being involved with something like Broken Frontier is the opportunity it provides to comment on how far an artist’s practice has…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Help! My Cat is Summoning a Portal to Hell certainly has the most memorable title of any Thought…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Comics that use the form to interweave narratives in ways that only comics can are always going to be high on our list for potential commentary…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Mystery, body horror, and a strange group of sacred women? I’m in! The Second Safest Mountain is a graphic novella from PRISM-nominated comic artist and writer…
The inherent charm of c.lemieux’s Gnome Granny is evident as soon as you lay your eyes upon the cover, which features a colourful market, and a jolly granny sprinting through…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It’s impossible to know with any degree of certainty the degree to which comics like Cara Brown’s Everything’s Fine provide an element of catharsis for their…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! I have long put forward the belief here at Broken Frontier that silent storytelling, without the props of dialogue or textual exposition, is one of the…
“Once upon a time, in some liberal art college in the 2010s…Lindsey Cheng cuts her bangs”. The opening sentence of Lindsey Cheng Dates a White Boy!!! immediately reminded me of…
When Chloe receives a message from her mother from beyond the grave, she is determined to abide by her wishes and make her proud. How hard can the task be?…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“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
