It’s been a rather busy week at Broken Frontier Towers and with no let-up in our ever packed schedule in sight over the next month or so either. Let’s catch…
ELCAF WEEK! Sometimes timing is everything. Several years ago, when I first shifted my Broken Frontier coverage almost exclusively to the UK indie world, I was fortunate enough to find…
I can be short and sweet in this week’s ‘A View from the Frontier’ because the visual eloquence of what is to come below will speak to you all on…
This past week I had the privilege of stepping into the very big shoes of Steven Walsh of Gosh! Comics to chair one of the shop’s Process evenings – talks…
I’m going to use this space this week for a brief Small Press Day-related call-out as the date for the big day gets ever nearer on July 8th. For the…
“When I was making my early work zines were probably more important to me than comics, and exposure to the politics, aesthetics and DIY ethos of zine-making had a huge…
Let’s start this week’s ‘A View from the Frontier’ with an unlikely confession… I have never been to Free Comic Book Day before. That’s perhaps not as odd a statement…
Given the frenetic pace (14 articles and around 15,000 words!) of our Myriad Week last week, spotlighting the creators and graphics list of the Brighton-based publisher, you could be forgiven for thinking…
Welcome to Myriad Week at Broken Frontier! Over the next five days we’ll be putting a very special emphasis on a publisher that has been much featured at BF over…
The original thinking behind ‘A View from the Frontier’ as our regular start to the week was twofold. Firstly it would provide a direct point of contact between ourselves and…
Those who follow my personal social media feeds, rather than the Broken Frontier ones, will be well aware that I like to share images of my current comics reading matter on…
In just over three months, on Saturday July 8th, Small Press Day will return to the UK and Ireland with another celebration of self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY culture. Last year’s event was…
“Excuse me, are you Broken Frontier?” “Yes. But my friends call me Broken…” In reality only the first part of that exchange has ever actually happened. But, such are my…
Those of you who are long-time BF readers will probably just want to scroll down to the bottom of this piece. What follows, by way of explanation, is a little…
The self-publishing explosion in comics over the last several years has meant there has never been a better time for new creators to get their work out there and in…
Emma Rios, Isabel Greenberg, Krent Able, Jade Sarson, Rachael Stott, Gary Northfield, Karrie Fransman, ILYA, Hannah Berry and Joe Decie. That’s merely a small number of the artistic names to…
It sneaked up on me unexpectedly this past week. Indeed, had it not been for one of those countless, seemingly hourly, social media reminders about our past online activity I probably…
Sometimes the most frustrating circumstances can be borne out of something that is actually incredibly positive… A few years ago here at Broken Frontier we published a piece titled ‘How *Do* I…
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
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
