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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Comics Youth CIC is a creative community organisation led by young people, for young people with “an aim is to empower youth across the Liverpool City Region to flourish from…
Awards specifically for UK comics are a rare commodity right now and have been since the British Comic Awards disappeared several years ago. One of the last holdouts was the…
Sunday sees the debut of the first BrewZine – another new event on the small press calendar – at the Gipsy Hill Brewery in London. Mixing a zine and small…
On Thursday 27th June, I had the pleasure of attending London’s first-ever Graphic Novel Reading Room pop-up! Having heard about the event from collaborator SelfMadeHero, I was super excited that…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! And here’s a most welcome new comics event to be able to announce in Pride Month. inQ! is a curated event spotlighting the UK’s queer comics community….
With a whole new intake of MPs coming after this July’s general election in the UK the Comics Cultural Impact Collective have a suggestion for you. Why not underline the…
We’ve had a longstanding relationship with comics community group LDComics for many years now with our own Andy Oliver having spoken at their events on multiple occasions and the first…
This week (May 13th-19th) is Mental Health Awareness Week so just the shortest of posts to remind you that here at Broken Frontier we have been tagging relevant comics resources…
Just a reminder that the second meeting of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective is scheduled for the evening of May 7th, 2024. This is such an important initiative with a…
Opportunities for emerging artists to get their work seen by established figures in the comics scene are a rarity. That’s one of the reasons we hold our twice-yearly one-to-one Zoom…
There are lots of very important conversations finally being engaged in of late about comics and inclusion, many of those being led by activist groups like the Comics Cultural Impact…
What you are about to read is, on one level, probably the most self-indulgent piece I have ever written for Broken Frontier. On another, though, I would argue its necessity…
Pride Month is a big deal every year here at Broken Frontier. Last year at BF we managed to get a review, interview, feature or creator commentary up every single…
“I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird” – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel ‘The Witch’s Egg’ from Avery Hill PublishingJuly 8, 2025
Inside Look: The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo Brings Her Boundary-Pushing Practice to Digital PresentationJuly 4, 2025
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
