THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Time to catch up with another of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists as we talk to First Graphic Novel Award finalist Yu-Ching Chiu…
PINNED POST! Introducing Broken Frontier Connects, the next stage in our evolution! Broken Frontier Connects is our new initiative designed to extend our community hub philosophy. BF already has an…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Folk horror has several hallmark traits, in film and literature, that make it linger in the imagination. The 1973 film The Wicker Man remains a seminal…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Reviving our old Inside Look feature today as a special one-off (with an eye on reviving it properly in 2027) as Jenny Robins (Biscuits (assorted)) talks…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Heaven is an Afterparty #1-3 are brought to us by Finn Kidd, a London-based multidisciplinary creator in comics, music, education, and academic studies; and, Los Angeles-based…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Chie Hosaka is not new to the comics scene. In 2025, she created Tia and Guthrie, a warm short comic tracing the path of budding love….
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Off Register Press’s latest comics anthology subCULTURE: On In-Crowds & Outliers defines itself in the following terms: “It salutes the subsets & coteries of the 20th…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! It’s always reassuring to see new comics publishing ventures popping up on the UK scene given how many outlets we have lost over the last few…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Way back in November 2020, in another lifetime that we’d probably prefer to forget and when Thought Bubble stepped back to an online incarnation, I reviewed…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Virtually all of UK indie comics is, of course, united in moral solidarity against the existential threat of generative AI “art”. It’s the one and only…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! There has been something of a break between issues of this anthology series but if you’ve been eagerly anticipating the return of the SkrawlLordz collective (and…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Four years ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed a self-published one-shot from Beck Kubrick introducing us to their Dead Girls comic characters. So impressed was I…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! The frenetic energy of an all-ages book like Beccy Blake’s Chicken Hill: Attack of the Zombie Cactus is a joy to behold. Published by Bloomsbury, this…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Today’s latest offering is a graphic novel debut: Strange Cases: A Graphic Novel by creator Riotbones, a queer Filipino illustrator and comic artist with a passion…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Zen K.’s manga-style narratives have had very positive feedback here at Broken Frontier over the last couple of years including her sci-fi story Runaway Mayhem and…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Last year at Broken Frontier we looked at the collection of Viraj Joshi’s Eliza – The Ghost in Every Machine, a compilation of strips exploring complex…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Skai Campbell (aka Skhoshbell) recently spoke about the origins of his Jungul Man-Thology comic in his spotlight Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ interview here, saying: “I…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Every Douglas Noble comic we have reviewed here at Broken Frontier over the years has been notable for its experimentation, its manipulation of both the form…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2026! Studio Ghibli meets gothic horror in Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares, the wonderfully weird new graphic novel from creative duo John Chalmers and Sandra…
The Selkie Awards, the spiritual successor to the Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance awards (SICBA) aim to “promote Scotland’s thriving independent and small-press comics scene.” We’ve been a little late…
“I’ve Always Loved Storytelling through Images” – Yu-Ching Chiu Talks Comics without Words, Raising your Creative Profile, and Her Work-in-Progress Graphic NovelNovember 12, 2026Inside Look: Jenny Robins’s Zines and Comics – “I Leant into Identity Politics to Get Arts Council Funding for My Comics Experiments, but the Work I Ended up Making Takes the Idea of Identity Labels Apart”November 12, 2026“It Started with a Compulsion to Draw a Room with Giant Eyeballs in Curtains” – John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs (Metaphrog) on Bringing the Weird and Wonderful World of ‘Wilomina’ to LifeNovember 10, 2026
“Comics Gradually Became a Way for Me to Bring Together Everything I Enjoyed” – Abu Amaan Pal on His Autobiographical Comic ‘Ranna Banna!’, Comics Community, and the ‘Indians for Palestine’ AnthologyNovember 9, 2026
“Mugshot Has Been in My Brain for About 6 Years” – Rachael Smith on Her New Webcomic, the ‘Nap Comix: First Steps’ Kickstarter and Upcoming ProjectsNovember 9, 2026
