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    “Themes Around Human Connection and Loneliness Are a Constant Throughline in All of My Works” – Rein Lee on Exploring Identity and Queerness in Comics, and Finding Your Way in the Small Press Community

    • by Andy Oliver

    THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! When I discovered the work of self-published comics artist Rein Lee at the inQ! queer comics fair last year I pretty much instantly knew that they were…

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Introducing ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ – The Next Step in BF’s Ethos of Proactive Comics Community Support

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2023

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…

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The Gloriously Untrue Adventures of Sapphira #1 – Bending Reality with Sapphira Olson and Her Fictionalized Versions of Herself (and Her Cat, Felicette)

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 28, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Sapphira Olson is a novelist and poet (Woman in the Ship, Parables, The Dandelion Tree, Android Author, Anna Newton Destroys the World, Stanley Park), but around…

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The Tale Spinner – Karrie Fransman’s Immersive Peepshow/3D Comic that Can’t Be Replicated by Al Comes to Thought Bubble

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 28, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Is there anyone in UK comics who thinks more deeply about taking comics into new spaces and finding uses of the form that push at its…

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Dougborne – Light-Hearted ’90s Animated Sitcom ‘Doug’ and Gritty Video Game ‘Bloodborne’ Converge in this Unlikely Shanefaced Mash-Up

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! The ever versatile Shane Melisse, aka Shanefaced, has proven himself at home in multiple genres but one of the things he does the very best is…

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Deadly Knitshade Launches the ‘Very Tiny Comics Anthology’ at Thought Bubble – 25 Minicomics from Top Talents Available from a Vintage Gumball Machine

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 27, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Something a little different launching at Thought Bubble for those who like a tactile edge to their comics. Deadly Knitshade’s Very Tiny Comics Anthology #1: Monsters…

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Aimé – L. Adassovsky Weaves a Whimsical Fairy Tale of Magic, Melancholy and Wonder

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 27, 2025

Having had the pleasure of reviewing L. Adassovsky’s Hibernation Guide for Rabbits and Hares at Broken Frontier for last year’s ShortBox Comics Fair, seeing her name pop up again in…

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“It’s Fascinating How Many People React with Total Disbelief that Disability Hate Crime is an Actual Thing” – Al Davison on ‘The Spiral Cage’ and ‘Muscle Memory’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! An early entry in the graphic medicine area of comics, Al Davison’s The Spiral Cage was first published in 1988 and followed his life living with…

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BOOM! Studios Announce Blumhouse Have Secured Film and TV Rights to ‘Something is Killing the Children’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 24, 2025

Hit horror series Something is Killing the Children is coming to the acreen Full details in the press release below and you can read our review of the first trade…

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Everything Amplified – Sarah Lippett and Ziggy Hanaor Capture the Chaos and Heart of Teenage Life

  • by Swati Nair
  • October 24, 2025

Everything Amplified, written by Ziggy Hanaor and Sarah Lippett, is a YA graphic novel that captures the throbbing chaos of adolescence. It’s that stage in life where music seems to…

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UK Publisher Dark & Golden Books to Debut Three Titles Featuring Forgotten Comics by Carol Swain, Kevin Woodcock and Dave Gibbons at Thought Bubble 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 24, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! An exciting trio of comics coming from those specialists in forgotten indie gems at Dark & Golden. These cracking comics debut at Thought Bubble and include…

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The Waiting Room – Chie Hosaka Gives Us a Concise Yet Touching Human Drama in this Short A4 Riso Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 24, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! I was rather taken by Tia and Guthrie, Chie Hosaka’s LDComics Fair offering, a few months ago when I reviewed it here at Broken Frontier. Affable…

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Bertilo the Little Baldy – Jingo Li and Bertit Butturini’s Bertilo is Topless, Tiny and Totally Iconic

  • by Lydia Turner
  • October 23, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! If there’s one thing you need to know about Bertilo, it’s that he’s a “chubby bald Italian fella who loves pizza and is always topless. He…

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Watch Andy Luke on Making Northern Ireland’s Most Seen Comic from Caption Festival 2025 Here at BF!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 23, 2025

We’re very pleased to again present another video from this year’s Caption Festival today. Thanks to Caption’s Andy Luke for providing the information on ‘Making Northern Ireland’s Most Read Comic’…

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Preview: Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition – Oni Press to Publish Expanded Version of Maia Kobabe’s Graphic Memoir in 2026

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 23, 2025

Maia Kobabes’s Gender Queer is one of the most important graphic memoirs of the 21st century. News today from Oni Press of a new annotated edition coming in 2026. Check…

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“Basically, I’m Hoping to Please Both Nostalgia Fans and Those Who Enjoy Pop Culture Critique!” – Paul Cornell on the Bronze Age Avengers, His First ‘Commando’ Comic, and New Publishing Venture Cosmic Lighthouse

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 23, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! It’s been another busy year for writer Paul Cornell who has dipped his toes into more pop cultural pools over the course of 2025 than most…

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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 Bubble

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 22, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Last year at Thought Bubble Avery Hill launched the Adrift on a Painted Sea exhibition which combined work from Tim Bird’s graphic memoir about his late…

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Pamphlet 01 – Bryan Lim Junyan and Singaporean Micropublisher PPIPPIPRESS’s “Interuniversal Newsletter for Humanoids” is a Fun, Tactile Artefact

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 22, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! So this is an intriguing little curiosity. Pamphlet 01 (subtitled The Interuniversal Newsletter for Humanoids) comes to us via creator Bryan Lim Junyan and new Singaporean…

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Watch the ‘Sustaining Safe Spaces’ Panel from Caption Festival 2025 Here at BF!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 21, 2025

We’re delighted to present another panel video from this year’s Caption Festival today. Thanks to Caption’s Andy Luke for providing the information on ‘Sustaining Safe Spaces’ below. Sustaining Safe Spaces (55m)…

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Down North, Where No One Goes #1 – Ramón Perales Cano and Company’s Brutal Far Future Tale of Conquest and Greed

  • by Gary Usher
  • October 21, 2025

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! Spanish artist Ramón Perales Cano is a first time exhibitor at TB under the moniker of “Ramonkey Perales”. He may best be remembered for editing and…

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