THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! It’s been far too long since we had the opportunity to talk about work by 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Manon Wright (Children of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Robert ‘bele’ Sienicki is a comics creator from Poland, and he let’s his work speak for itself, bringing us an interesting portrait of life and comics…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! As we cosy up for autumn and drift towards winter, short story collections feel like the perfect comfort read. There’s something so relaxing about curling up…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Experimental comics work is, as all our readers know, a huge part of our coverage remit here at Broken Frontier. As such, work like Shri Gunasekara’s…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! KitsuneArt (aka, Lucia Fioretti) is no stranger to Broken Frontier readers or Thought Bubble. At Thought Bubble 2025 KitsuneArt will be part of the Very Tiny…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! I am often asked exactly what I am looking for when I select artists for our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ programme every year. That is…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Originally presented in digital format as part of the LDComics Fair this past Summer, Abs Bailey’s Mother will be available in print at this year’s Thought…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! So this is a somewhat different theme for a comics anthology. MD Penman (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) has put together a very impressive line-up…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Writer Chad Bilyeu’s The Re-Up (illustrated by Juliette de Wit) has already proven itself to be some of the most uncompromising autobio comics you are ever…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! We like our Thought Bubble traditions here at Broken Frontier and Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley’s flipbook comics (one half by each cartoonist) are a staple…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! If this year’s Thought Bubble coverage has a human interest story then the origins of debuting anthology Beyond the Black Void is surely it. A titanic…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Angry Duck (Arga Ankan in Swedish) is the creation of KA aka Karen Anna aka Karen Anna S. Sandholm, a Norwegian cartoonist attending Thought Bubble for the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Current Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph and LICAF Breakthrough Initiative artist Abbigayle Bircham come together on My Dad Fights Demons!, a book that in some ways feels…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! I have made no secret of my belief that community groups in the form of creative collectives are an absolutely vital part of the comics ecosystem…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Over a decade ago at Broken Frontier Tom Murphy reviewed the Chrissy Williams and Tom Humberstone-edited poetry comics anthology Over the Line calling it “a selection…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Aaron Losty is originally from Ireland and currently working from Canada. He has built a strong portfolio of unique publications including: his webcomic on Patreon, Clearwater; The Waves…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! It’s been incredibly exciting over the last few years to see the new wave of Scottish creators emerging on the indie and small press scene there….
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! That we learn more about the characters and their world from the short blurb on the back of Ria Grix’s short comic Bicycle Vampire Hunters is…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“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
