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Emerging from an Inktober-related exercise, Myfanwy Tristram’s Sorry for the Inconvenience… We Are Trying to Save the World (the title coming from an Extinction Rebellion placard) is an 80-page celebration…
There is something particularly disconcerting about malevolence when it is being discussed in the form of a comic. That feeling of being disconnected from what is being revealed crops up…
While national pride is a philosophy I have never found myself able to subscribe to, a sense of national shame – particularly in the five years since 2016 in the…
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Taking delusional right-wing thinking as its satirical starting point, Matt Lubchansky’s The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook poses the question “what if everything the right thought about the left was real?”, combining…
How big is a billion? Don’t be fooled by the banal numerical stats that it’s simply “1000 million”, for beneath those small ovular zeroes lies an exponential explosion of wealth….
With critical hits like Prez, The Flintstones, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles and Second Coming, Mark Russell has proved himself to be the master of serial comics satire of…
To present an account of British working class history from the 14th century to the present day in around 125 pages and keep it both succinct and accessible, without drifting…
Communism is back baby. It’s good again. Awoouu (wolf howl). It may still be a dirty word to those on the right and centre, but a century after the October…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! In 2017 a number of esteemed UK indie creators suggested I took a closer look at the work of artist Cat Sims for potential inclusion in Broken Frontier’s…
In his book Parklife, journalist Nick Varley traced the relationship between football and the British working classes, from the inception of the professional game to the then-present day of 1999….
Have you ever actually sat down and tried to read Das Kapital? Boy, that thing is a slog. Just real dry, full of numbers, just not fun like those socialist…
“Over 100 artists present positive political actions that anyone can take.” That’s the soundbite that beautifully embodies the Draw the Line project – an idea dreamt up by UK small…
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Over the last few years Darryl Cunningham has established himself as one of the most vital and important voices in British comics. As recognition of the…
“The Biggest Challenge for Me Was Having to Think More Like a Director” – Michael Schwartz on Writing for Comics for the First Time and His Supernatural Ghost Story ‘Armored’October 31, 2025
“It’s a Fantasy Adventure about Growing Up” – Joe Latham Talks ‘Haru’, the Self-Publishing Journey, and Using Colour as a Narrative ToolOctober 30, 2025
“I Cannot Wait to Really Dig into the Nuts and Bolts of Literary Adaptation” – Kristen Haas Curtis on Bringing Chaucer to Comics and on Moderating the Thought Bubble Literary Adaptation PanelOctober 29, 2025
“Themes Around Human Connection and Loneliness Are a Constant Throughline in All of My Works” – Rein Lee on Exploring Identity and Queerness in Comics, and Finding Your Way in the Small Press CommunityOctober 28, 2025
The Tale Spinner – Karrie Fransman’s Immersive Peepshow/3D Comic that Can’t Be Replicated by Al Comes to Thought BubbleOctober 28, 2025
