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“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! This weekend Thought Bubble hosts drop-in portfolio review sessions. Organised by that great comics community booster Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard, The Department of Truth, Sleeping Beauties)…

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“Comics Bring Art at Its Highest Level to the People” – Alison Sampson Talks Comics and Architecture, Crossing Genres, and the Communicative Power of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 20, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Alison Sampson’s work has been seen over an incredibly wide-ranging number of genres over the last decade or so. She’s a remarkably versatile artist and writer,…

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Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews Announced for 2025 – Includes Sessions with Christian Ward, Shazleen Khan, Alison Sampson, Sean Phillips and Many More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 22, 2025

There are many unsung heroes working hard behind the scenes in comics to foster a sense of community and provide support for up and coming creators. Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard,…

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Won’t Back Down! – Comics Creators Speak Out for Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Trina Robbins-Edited Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2024

As something of a final gift to us from its editor and comics legend Trina Robbins, pro-choice anthology Won’t Back Down! is a fittingly defiant collection. It acts as a…

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HOW, WHAT, WHERE, WHY – Vertigo and ‘2000 AD’ Writer David Baillie on the Importance of Portfolio Reviews

  • by David Baillie
  • June 1, 2023

I love comic conventions. There’s no better way to spend a weekend than walking around, basking in the enthusiasm and talent of fellow comic creators. I love seeing what everyone’s…

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Staff Picks for November 22, 2017 – Giant Days 2017 Holiday Special, Winnebago Graveyard, Forlorn Funnies and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 22, 2017

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital storefront,…

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Staff Picks for June 14, 2017 – Winnebago Graveyard, Trespasser, Kill the Minotaur, Kingpin and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 13, 2017

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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Broken Frontier Launch at London’s Gosh! Comics – BF Anthology and Small Press Yearbook Creators Get Their Moment in the Spotlight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2016

Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…

Robert Sammelin's beautiful women

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Robert Sammelin is Poised to Take US Comics by Storm with His Beautiful Girls and Cool Bikes

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 29, 2015

One of the absolute best continental European artists to hit the US comics scene in years. That’s Robert Sammelin for you. Robert Sammelin, a self-taught resident of Stockholm, Sweden, is…

alison sampson letting you go

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Broken Frontier Anthology: “I Like Thinking of the Comic as a ‘Thing'” – Alison Sampson Discusses the Object of Her Art

  • by Paul Mirek
  • April 30, 2015

One look at Alison Sampson‘s art lets you know that hers is a unique talent – but one look isn’t nearly enough to take in the myriad details and emotional power…

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Small Press Round-Up, February 2015 – A Guide to UK Small Press-Related Exhibitions and Events Featuring Francesca Cassavetti, Jessica Martin, Alternative Press, Oliver East and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 13, 2015

It’s exhibitions (and other events!) galore in February’s round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to, both within and without the world…

Operation Margarine by Katie Skelly (AdHouse Books)

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for April 16, 2014: Genesis, Hulk, Translucid, Operation Margarine & More

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • April 15, 2014

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…

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Genesis – Paradise Lost from Nathan Edmondson, Alison Sampson and Image Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2014

Genesis is a mesmerising yet salutary offering, and represents an extraordinary collaboration between Nathan Edmondson and Alison Sampson. It’s a deeply engrained facet of human nature: that desire, that urge,…

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GENESIS Will Take You on A Journey of Creation and Destruction

  • by Richard Boom
  • January 28, 2014

Press Release Nathan Edmondson (WHO IS JAKE ELLS, The Punisher, Black Widow) and debut artist Alison Sampson’s, GENESIS, pairs sweeping visuals with poignant writing to bring readers a one-shot that cannot be…

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