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I won’t pretend that I’ve ever been someone that’s particularly into their hair. Would I like it to look beautifully curled or glossily straight? Yes. Will I ever go to…
For the best part of two decades now John-Paul Kamath’s London Horror Comic has been a staple of the UK small press circuit. Kamath’s stories have been illustrated by a…
Willie Hugh Nelson, born April 29, 1933, is now 91 years old. Given that he has spent around 81 of those years in the making of music (he joined his…
I cannot ever envisage a point where the slightly naughty wordplay of Huda Fahmy’s graphic novel titles will ever get wearisome. The follow-up to Huda F Are You? her most…
It hardly needs saying that it is an important time to be promoting work that brings the lived experiences of the marginalised, the displaced and the persecuted to the comics…
Another of this year’s Broken Frontier Six to Watch creators Zen K., aka Zenab Khan, has already featured on the site when our Lydia Turner reviewed the sci-fi one-shot Runaway…
Described as a “comic book ode to ooey-gooey homosexual lovers of the past, present, and future”, Belly Full of Heart from Madeline Mouse and Silver Sprocket is exactly the kind…
If, like myself, you are a crusty old comics fan of a certain age then you will no doubt be delighted that the latest incarnation of 2000 AD-inspired, fan-created anthology…
Con & On has the strange quality of feeling slightly atypical of Ahoy Comics’ usual output and yet somehow completely at home in their catalogue of projects. “Funny Vertigo” may…
It would be painful for me to say that in the pages of Summit Abi Wye takes the idea of magical realism to uncharted heights but it’s too late now…
If you are nearer to the beginning of your comics journey and embarking on a long-form narrative my advice has always been to get an early chapter out there in…
Abstract comics work often exists to allow us to find our own meaning in its pages. By definition it is not about elaboration; it provokes and evokes emotional responses, disseminates…
As I said when we announced Broken Frontier’s 2025 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ list last week it’s a rare occurrence but every so often someone comes along with…
You may not have heard of Inchkeith, an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. Completely uninhabited, not much is known about the early history of Inchkeith, yet it…
“This is the history of every 70 year old gay man in Britain today.” Striking words on the back cover of Forty Lies: A Work of Ipsedixitism by David Shenton that…
David Robertson has been one of the most prolific creators on the UK self-publishing scene for many years, with his short story comics anthologies seeing him collaborate with a huge…
The first thing the reader will notice about Nick Merdasi’s Condoms is its physicality. Its square paperback format and the plastic “packet” it comes in are designed to mimic the…
It seems inconceivable to imagine now that a weekly print magazine for teenage girls could at its peak sell well over a million copies, and yet that’s what DC Thomson’s…
Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
