THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Our final Thought Bubble post every year is the customary festival scrapbook round-up (from a very Broken Frontier perspective of course) and, with the festival’s double move…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! One last preview for this weekend’s Thought Bubble now and it’s an old favourite at Broken Frontier. We’re big fans of Alex Hahn’s alien explorer Blop and…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! There’s been an ongoing theme in our Thought Bubble coverage this year with a deliberate focus on books and creators we feel should have been picked up…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! When I first saw Lucy Sullivan’s early art for Barking (back when we were initially supporting the Unbound Books crowdfunding campaign for the book) I was immediately…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The Sloth Comics crew will have a third volume of Roulot and Martinage’s Goblins series (subtitled ‘Failing Apart’) debuting at Thought Bubble this year. Sloth put out…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The latest in the series of comics starring Los Angeles Trombone reporter Charles Fitzgerald, otherwise known as Chip McFitz, Matt Greaves’ Chip McFitz: Joint Fever sees the…
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Since we first covered their work prior to ELCAF last year we’ve become rather enchanted here at Broken frontier by the comics of Peter and Maria Hoey, the sibling partnership…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Dan White is a master storyteller on two main fronts. Let’s start with the first of those qualities and White’s marked ability to so empathetically portray the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The winner of last year’s Best New Series in our annual Broken Frontier Awards, anthology Jazz Creepers debuts its newest edition at Thought Bubble this weekend. The…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! We’ve seen a number of comics and graphic novels dealing with the Chernobyl disaster over the years, including Francisco Sánchez and Natacha Busto’s Chernobyl: The Zone from…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! As part of last year’s Thought Bubble coverage at Broken Frontier I was introduced to the South American dystopian worlds of Gustaffo Vargas in the pages of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Adapting the stories of Soren Narnia from the Knifepoint Horror podcast the Knifepoint Horror Anthology is a Thought Bubble-debuting collection that includes the work of a number…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! “Voyage into the known with these credible tales of the expected” says the cover copy of Journey to the Surface of the Earth, Fraser Geesin’s new collection…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! “They see what they want to see, don’t they? The Devil in the long grass and old gods scratching behind the moon.” Other Horrible Folk dances through…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Sometimes the slightest narratives can have the profoundest depths. In The Teeth Huw “Lem” Davies provides a tale of the natural world with anthropomorphic qualities that teaches…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! One of my annual traditions for Thought Bubble in years past was to devour that year’s Thought Bubble Anthology on the train journey up to Leeds. What…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Writer-artist Aaron Losty and letterer Becca Carey’s The Last Scarecrow is an expectation-defying one-shot. Initially presenting itself as a tale of ongoing gang warfare it gradually evolves…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Given the nature of the self-published area of comics that I focus on here at Broken Frontier the vast majority of the work I review tends to…
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“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
