LICAF have announced a major new initiative for the festival this year. Full details below on ‘Belgian Comics Now’. Best of Belgian Talent comes to the Lake District to celebrate…
The incredible work that the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival (LICAF) are doing to bring the stories of those affected by events in Gaza needs far more acknowledgment. Their From…
If 2026 has proved anything it’s that our UK comics events calendar has well and truly revived itself after the pandemic years cost us so many established fixtures. Coming up…
You may notice that this month’s round-up of the behind-the-scenes happenings at BF has been somewhat delayed. That’s because Covid finally made itself an unwelcome house guest at Broken Frontier…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week with a pre-Lakes International Comic Art Festival Special and we’re inviting you to join in…
That Abod Nasser’s Strategies for Survival is presented in an unrefined, uncorrected format makes it all the more important an historical document of the genocide in Gaza. Capturing the artist’s…
While all the comics work we have recently covered on the genocide in Gaza has been deeply affecting, today’s addition to our Broken Frontier Palestine Resource List is particularly heartrending….
A week or so back on social media I spoke of an upcoming review of a book that you would not have heard of yet but was going to be…
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,…
It’s important, I think, to firstly put my visit to last weekend’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival into some kind of personal context because when you haven’t been to a…
He’s the fifth UK Comics Laureate and also the first person of colour to fill that position, and creator Bobby Joseph is obviously relishing his time in that role! An…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, September 19th. This time we’re celebrating the upcoming Lakes…
Announced this week, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival‘s new British Comics Now programme is set to give UK indie creators some amazing opportunities in the course of coming months….
In partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival the New Scriptorium – an an artist-designed and built structure sited inside the historical grounds of Arbroath Abbey – is looking…
Creating opportunities for creators and for the form in the UK is a hot talking point at the moment. The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has its own contribution to…
With the ominous spectre of Brexit looming ever closer here’s a reminder of something comics-related designed to foster links within the European comics community. The UK’s Lakes International Comic Art…
A contributor to such esteemed comics for kids as The Beano and Moose Kid Comics, Marc Jackson is also the man behind the Macc-Pow! comic festival. One of his most…
There’s less than a month to go until this year’s Thought Bubble – rescheduled to September this year – which means the Broken Frontier team are preparing for the best part of…
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
