Retrospective collections always make the exercise of reviewing an interesting one given that, as in the case of Liam Cobb’s What Awaits Them from Breakdown Press, we have often reviewed…
Pleasing news today from the direction of Breakdown Press with the announcement that they will be collecting the work of Liam Cobb – who we first reviewed well over a…
Reading a review of The Prince on a reputable US comics site, I was surprised to read that Liam Cobb might be best known in that part of the world…
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF every week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
The second Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is imminent! And we have a top trio of guest creative talent next Wednesday February 28th when Andy Barron, Liam Cobb and…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Because all the Safari Feestival debuts would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks this week we decided to cover just some of the handful of…
In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…
It’s the tenth Thought Bubble comic art festival at the weekend and this week at Broken Frontier we’re taking a tour of just some of the debut book highlights. Up…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes we use the word “experimental” far too casually to describe intriguing new comics work when the practitioners in question are not so much experimenting as perceptively…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! As mentioned in their interview with Broken Frontier last week, UK artists Liam Cobb, Tom Kemp and Will Tempest have collaborated to produce an anthology comic,…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN With a minimum of formatting and simply subtitled ‘An online magazine for comic book makers’, Comics Workbook has become one of the more interesting online destinations for…
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“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
