Pagans Against AI Fight Back Against AI “Art” with a New Spell-Casting Zine
We have been very clear about our stance on generative AI “art” here at Broken Frontier Towers. It’s a “one strike and you’re out” policy if you use it in…
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FOLD – Derby’s First Zine Fair Debuts on April 13th, 2024
We are always happy to give a shout-out to new zine and comics fairs here at BF, especially given how many we lost during the early years of the pandemic….
Inside Look: Myth & Lore – Everything You Need to Know About the Folklore Zine!
SLCZF 2023! Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…
The Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair Returns on February 11th, 2023
A new year is always an appropriate time to remind our audience that we’re always happy to spread the word on events that cater to the small press community, especially…
The 12th Annual East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest to Run as Hybrid Event in 2021 on Dec 11-12
We always like to give a boost to indie and grassroots publishing events at Broken Frontier. Details below on this year’s East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest. Don’t forget…
“If You Cannot See Yourself in the World Around You, then How Do You Know You Truly Exist?” – Andrew Kiwanuka on Celebrating Black Culture in His Zine ‘We Exist!’
Edinburgh-based Andrew Kiwanuka is a multi-disciplinary creative, who applies his DIY ethos and yearning for greater cultural diversity in the UK to creating a number of thought-provoking, mixed media projects….
A View from the Frontier – Getting Back to the Grassroots at DIY Cultures Fair 2017
“When I was making my early work zines were probably more important to me than comics, and exposure to the politics, aesthetics and DIY ethos of zine-making had a huge…
Zinewatch – A Round-Up of DIY Culture from Alys Jones, Alexandra Cook, Rozi Hathaway, Brigid Deacon and More
In the aligned worlds of self-publishing and DIY culture there’s a fertile cross-pollination between zine-making and comics creating. This column has never been shy about covering work that straddles both…
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“We Hope to Explain Our Passion for the Medium to Gallery Visitors Who May Not Have Any Idea about Comics” – Katriona Chapman on the Avery Hill Exhibition ‘Vision & Labour: Making Comics’ at the Mercer Gallery for Thought BubbleOctober 22, 2025
“There Are Hard Parts and There Are Wonderful Parts. I’m Just a Mum Trying Her Best” – Rachael Smith Gives Us the Lowdown on the Collected ‘Nap Comix’October 21, 2025
“Comics Bring Art at Its Highest Level to the People” – Alison Sampson Talks Comics and Architecture, Crossing Genres, and the Communicative Power of the FormOctober 20, 2025
“I’m Always Trying to Make Comics the Other Way Around” — An Interview with Portuguese Cartoonist Joana Mosi on Her Graphic Novels ‘The Mongoose’ and ‘Physical Education’October 13, 2025
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 4 – “So-Called Artificial Intelligence Has Been Crafted in Service to Power”September 10, 2025