Bringing together two legendary comics titles from the late 20th century in one package, A1 Deadline is an anthology that both builds on the past and looks to the future….
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…
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 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 storefront,…
Richard Starkings, Tyler Shainline and Shaky Kane set out to stun with their new comic The Beef: Tainted Love via Image. In the making since 2014, this first of five…
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…
As the year begins to come to a close so do too the London comics events slowly begin to wind down but there are a few last hurrahs for 2017…
The Shaky Kane Renaissance continues apace this weekend after the recent exhibition of his work returned to Orbital Comics in a new expanded incarnation! Saturday sees a special Shaky-themed party…
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…
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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Dead Canary Comics have always had an off-kilter approach to genre comics storytelling – think weird western Reddin, the bizarre escapades of Frog Man or the alt-history of The Fitzroy for examples…
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 until…
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Debuting at Thought Bubble! To date, the output of UK micropublisher Dead Canary Comics has perhaps veered more towards the genre fiction end of the market with super-hero parody like…
It’s 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 BF…
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Last Driver – the latest project from London-based micropublisher Dead Canary Comics – hits Kickstarter today and gives Dead Canary co-publisher C.S. Baker the dream opportunity to see his dystopic sci-fi romp brought…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! With less than 24 hours to go until the second staging of the Safari Festival, it’s time to go back to where we started with…
It’s almost 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, BF…
David Quantick and Shaky Kane’s one-shot collaboration is a veritable maelstrom of cop-film clichés, eye-straining artwork, and unrestrained imagination. It is an undeniably fun – if not wildly confusing – piece of…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“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
