Comics responses to the Covid pandemic have been many and varied in their approaches to the crisis, as can be seen in our list of pandemic comics resources here. Today…
Published today, the results of the first UK Comics Creator Survey – originally announced by our esteemed Comics Laureate Hannah Berry back in April – make for fascinating if perhaps…
We’ve been aware for a while that current British Comics Laureate Hannah Berry was working on a UK Comics Creator Survey as an information-seeking exercise to continue to support and…
Over the weekend at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival the news broke that the third UK Comics Laureate will be Hannah Berry who takes over the role from Charlie Adlard…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER AWARD WINNER AND BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD NOMINEE! When 2017 Broken Frontier Award-winning creator Hannah Berry announced last year in an interview with our…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONE-SHOT NOMINEE! SelfMadeHero‘s 10th anniversary year in 2017 was packed full of high-profile releases that underlined the UK publisher’s always eclectic and dizzyingly diverse line-up….
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 14th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our staff have selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Way back in 1984 a new British weekly comic hit the newsagent shelves that, despite lasting just fifteen issues, would go on to attain major cult status. While…
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, comics events or digital…
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…
“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…
Cetacean-based punnery, the inviting sights of London Fashion Week and pedalling camelopards were just some of the themes of the latest Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw night…
It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns this month on September 20th. As ever, your co-hosts for the night are myself (Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief…
In the aligned worlds of self-publishing and DIY culture there’s a fertile cross-pollination between zine-making and comics creating. This column has never been shy about covering work that straddles both…
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…
The graphic memoir. Arguably, it’s the one strand of graphic novel publishing most responsible over the last few years for persuading those unfamiliar with the form of its integral value as…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Ten issues is a phenomenal achievement for a small press anthology comic. In the near three years I’ve been writing ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier I’ve seen anthologies come, I’ve…
After last year’s extravaganza, it’s nice to see that the Edinburgh International Book Festival hasn’t forgotten about comics this year. The ‘Stripped 2014’ strand is there “to celebrate this brilliant…
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
