Featuring a veritable who’s who of Broken Frontier-featured artists (including our own Jenny Robins!) All About the Ink! is a new exhibition of “contemporary cartoonists and comics art” at the…
That great comics activist Sean Azzopardi, the man behind the Crouch End Comics Art Festival, has curated ‘Framed’, a new exhibition of the work of UK indie comics creators at…
If you’re a fan of the work of Mark Stafford, one of the most imaginative cartoonists on the UK scene and the Artist-in-Residence at London’s Cartoon Museum, then you’ll be…
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Fondly sending up a certain decades-old bastion of fantasy magazine publishing (the clue is in the anagrammatical title) Robert Wells and Phil Elliott’s Malty Heave makes a welcome end-of-year return…
We’re back this Thursday October 29th as our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw for a Halloween Spooktacular! As usual we start at 7.30pm BST on…
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While artist Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack ( & Brain) and Malty Heave) may be more familiar to Broken Frontier readers, his collaborative partner on Department of the Peculiar…
We have an extensive preview of Heavy Metal #298 today at BF (the magazine that, of course, published work by our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Miranda Smart…
Friday 29th April was a banner day for Broken Frontier. Not one but two BF collections of comics were launched at the esteemed Gosh! Comics shop in London’s Soho. The Broken…
Save Our Souls is the brainchild of Private Eye cartoonist David Ziggy Greene whose Scene & Heard strips in that satirical magazine over the last few years have so formidably…
In the aftermath of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and the run-up to Thought Bubble it’s hardly surprising that some deserving crowdfunding projects may have got lost in the…
A compelling distillation of the character study that is at the true heart of Hugo’s novel. Mention Victor Hugo’s 1869 novel The Man Who Laughs to a mainstream comics fan…
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…
With less than two weeks to go until the next Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw, Mark Stafford’s fantastic new poster for the event (below) is now doing the rounds…
After last month’s hugely successful inaugural evening, the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw night returns on Thursday July 30th hosted by BF Editor in Chief Andy Oliver…
Mark Stafford has built up a reputation in UK comics in recent years for visual storytelling that is eerily macabre in tone and atmosphere. A frequent collaborator with David Hine on…
Writer (and sometime artist) David Hine has been treating readers to his intense and intelligent chills for years. We talk to him about his career so far, the power of…
It’s no secret that, while the profile of the graphic novel has never been higher, at the other end of comics’ demographic market sequential art for children continues to struggle…
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…
“We Wanted this to Be a Fast-Paced, Funny Adventure” – Rob Williams and Pye Parr on ‘Petrol Head’, Their “Fast & the Robo-Furious” Sci-Fi Series from Image ComicsSeptember 22, 2023
Down a (Welsh) Rabbit Hole – A Work-in-Progress Look at ‘The Noisy Valley’ by Myfanwy TristramSeptember 1, 2023
“Our Internal Shorthand for AHOY is Funny Vertigo” – Celebrating Five Years of Acclaimed Satire and Humour with AHOY Comics’ Tom Peyer and Stuart MooreAugust 16, 2023
Looking Back on Small Press Day 2023 – A Remarkable Celebration of the Creative Affluence of the Small Press Scene in the UK and IrelandAugust 14, 2023
“Trust Yourself Enough to Stick to Your Vision” – Beck Kubrick on the Comics Publishing JourneyAugust 3, 2023
