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Preparing for Pride Month 2025 at Broken Frontier – Creator Commentary and Coverage Opportunities for Your Queer Comics in June!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 8, 2025

Pride Month is very important to us every year here at Broken Frontier. Last year at BF we managed to get a review, interview, feature or creator commentary up every…

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The Comics Cultural Impact Collective Makes the Case to the UK Government for £1.5 Million Funding for Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2025

News today from the direction of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective, the independent collective of professionals from the UK comics community who have been collaborating since February 2023 to amplify…

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Fieldmouse Press Asks for the Community’s Support as Trump’s Tariffs Hit Home

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 7, 2025

And so it begins. Fieldmouse Press put out the kind of indie and alt work that will always appeal to the Broken Frontier audience and they have been hit hard…

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“The Comics Courier is Really a Love Letter to Comics Criticism” – Tiffany Babb on Bringing Comics Commentary Back to Print in the Acclaimed Newspaper-Style Publication

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 2, 2025

Described as “a newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism” the Comics Courier debuted last year not just to widespread praise but also notable enthusiasm for its method of presentation….

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Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility! – Check Out Our Broken Frontier Coverage of Trans-Related Comics and Graphic Novels

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 31, 2025

March 31st is the international Trans Day of Visibility where, in the words of GLAAD, we recognise “a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while also…

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Becky Burke is Home – A Family Statement Clarifying the Realities of British Cartoonist R. E. Burke’s Ordeal and Thanking the Community for Its Support

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2025

Over the last few weeks the comics community has been deeply concerned about the plight of British cartoonist R. E. Burke, detained for 19 days in the US by ICE…

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#BringBeckyHome – UK Comics Creator and Former Broken Frontier Team Member R. E. Burke Detained by ICE Since February (UPDATE: BECKY IS HOME!)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2025

UPDATE: Becky is home! This one is very personal to the Broken Frontier team. R. E. Burke (who wrote for Broken Frontier as Rebecca Burke between 2020 and 2023) is…

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10 Years Ago this Week the First Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Line-Up Made Its Debut!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2025

We don’t post at the weekends so this is a day late but back on February 23rd, 2015 the very first Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ line-up…

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Preview: LA Strong – Mad Cave Studios Give Details of the Creators Involved in Their Charity Anthology to Support Wildfire Relief Efforts in Los Angeles

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 11, 2025

More news about Mad Cave’s admirable community project LA Strong with a list of contributors and preview pages below. A powerhouse lineup of comic creators unites for LA Strong, a…

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Matter! – A Broken Frontier Commitment to Our Community in Response to Current World Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2025

We already knew we were living in the bleakest of timelines but with every passing day it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed by the stygian darkness of its excesses. As…

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British Comics Now – Apply to Two Incredible New Opportunities for British Creators!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2025

British Comics Now is back for 2025 with two amazing new opportunities for British creators. The initiative “aims to be a nationally-significant project for Britain’s comics and graphic novels sector,…

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LA Strong – Mad Cave Studios Announce Charity Comic for Victims of the LA Fires

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 10, 2025

We are always happy to push comics community initiatives here at Broken Frontier whenever we can and Mad Cave Studios have been impressively quick to put this one into motion….

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A Little Book of Comic Shop Price Stickers – Tom Oldham Makes the Ephemeral Vital in this Dark & Golden Books Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 7, 2025

As someone who once wrote a Masters dissertation that included an evaluation of the importance of ephemera as social history (in regards to collection development in academic libraries) a project…

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Happy New Year! Looking Back on 2024 at Broken Frontier and What You Can Expect from BF in 2025

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 6, 2025

Welcome back to Broken Frontier Towers as we re-emerge after our Christmas and New Year break. Though to be honest “break” is something of a misnomer. It was less time…

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The Boston Comic Arts Foundation Announces Denis Kitchen as the First Winner of the Underground Visionary Award

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 19, 2024

Here’s a neat piece of comics community news as we come to the endpoint of Broken Frontier’s 2024 coverage. Denis Kitchen has been announced as the first winner of the…

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Support One of Comics’ Finest and Most Socially Conscious Publishers with the Silver Sprocket Fundraiser

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 11, 2024

We’re always happy to give a shout-out to anyone whose vision of comics and community so closely aligns with our own ethos so please give some support to our favourite…

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In/Between the GutterZ – New London Comic and Zine Fair Showcasing Diverse Artists Debuts on Saturday, August 24th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 21, 2024

Another new London comics and zine fair in a year of inaugural events in the capital makes its debut this Saturday, August 24th. In/Between the GutterZ is free and runs…

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Small Press Day 2024 – How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting with BF’s Andy Oliver as Part of SPD/Our ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ Initiative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2024

It’s nearly here! In just under three weeks Small Press Day returns on Saturday, August 17th. With event notifications coming in there are some incredible SPD celebrations on the calendar…

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