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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON for an ARC Festival Special – Meet Our Guest Artists Matt Seneca, Niall Breen and Mark Stafford on Friday, July 10th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 3, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns at our regular venue of The Royal George on Friday, July 10th, 2026. And this time…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON – Meet Our Guest Artists Peony Gent, Joe Stone and Mark Stafford on Friday, March 20th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 16, 2026

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns at our regular venue of The Royal George on Friday, March 20th, 2026. And this time we have an…

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Magical – Mark Stafford Gives Us a Typically Cynical Take on the Standards of Fairy Tales

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! In a more just universe Mark Stafford would be one of the industry’s most sought after and renowned cartoonists. His work, with its singular visionary blend…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON for a Halloween Special – Meet Our Guest Artists Zen K., Shane Melisse and Mark Stafford on Friday, October 31st

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 10, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw In-Person returns for its fifth revived outing at our new venue of The Royal George on Friday, October 31st, 2025. And…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns IN PERSON – Celebrate 10 Years of Our D&D Event with Guests Mark Stafford, Lucy Sullivan and Dominique Duong on Friday, June 27th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 30, 2025

Nearly a decade ago on Friday, June 25th, 2015 the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw was born. That first meet-up was held in the John Snow pub…

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All About the Ink! – A New Exhibition of Contemporary Cartooning at London’s Bookery Gallerie Featuring Mark Stafford, Shaky Kane, Sarah Gordon, Jenny Robins and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 27, 2023

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…

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Framed – Sean Azzopardi Curates a New Comics Exhibition Including Work from Sarah Gordon, Olivia Sullivan and Dan White as He Looks to Make Hull “a Magical Comics City!”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2022

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…

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Soaring Penguin Press to Publish ‘Salmonella Smorgasbord’ Collecting Comics Work by Mark Stafford

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 4, 2021

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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Malty Heave #2 – Phil Elliott and Robert Wells Return with a Second Horror-Themed Edition of the Parody Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 29, 2020

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…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, October 29th for a Halloween Spectacular with Mark Stafford and Douglas Noble!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 28, 2020

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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Department of the Peculiar Goes POP! #1 – The UK’s Unlikeliest Super-Team Returns Courtesy of Rol Hirst and Robert Wells

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2020

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…

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Preview: Heavy Metal #298 – Venerable Comics Anthology Magazine Goes Back to its Sci-Fi Roots and Journeys to the “Furthest Reaches” in March

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2020

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…

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Broken Frontier Launch at London’s Gosh! Comics – BF Anthology and Small Press Yearbook Creators Get Their Moment in the Spotlight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2016

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…

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Save Our Souls #1 – Graphic Reportage Sits Side-by-Side with Written Journalism in David Ziggy Greene’s Promising New Anthology Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 22, 2016

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…

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Last Chance to Back David Ziggy Greene’s ‘Save Our Souls’ Magazine on Indiegogo – Includes Contributions from Mark Stafford, Verity Glass, Joe Sparrow and Fumio Obata

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2015

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…

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The Man Who Laughs – Hugo’s Novel Brought to Macabre Life by Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Guest Creators Hine and Stafford

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2015

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…

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Staff Picks for July 29, 2015 – Not Funny Ha-Ha, Grindhouse, Sea Urchin, Meanwhile… and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 28, 2015

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…

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Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw July 2015 – Guest Creators Mark Stafford, David Hine and Danny Noble Profiled Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 17, 2015

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…

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