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      The UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 Has Launched!

      • by Broken Frontier Staff

      It’s back! The UK Comics Creator Survey 2025 has launched. Five years after the results of the first survey it’s time to make your voice heard again! UK COMICS CREATOR…

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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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    Pigeon’s ‘The Ecstasy of Jenny D’ Comes to Kickstarter for Its Much Anticipated Print Edition

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • September 5, 2025

    “Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.” That’s the hook for the new comic by 2020 Broken Frontier Six to Watch…

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    This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story – Hayley Gullen’s Funny, Frank and Insightful Graphic Memoir

    • by Edward Picot
    • September 4, 2025

    “One night in April 2022”, begins Hayley Gullen’s memoir, “PAIN PAIN PAIN. [thought bubble:] That’s weird… Wrong time of the month and only one boob. Oh. It’s stopped. [Yawn] I’ll…

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    Seeing in the Watery Underworld – Ecological Deliberations from Niki Bañados Who Takes Us on a Trip to the Microscopic World of Stygobites

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 4, 2025

    Niki Bañados describes her new comic Seeing in the Watery Underworld in the following intriguing terms: “A comic in which we descend 60 metres underground and meet prawnlike creeps with…

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    Broken Frontier Staff Picks for September 2025 – Including This Slavery, Acid Box, Cannon and More!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • September 3, 2025

    Pre-2020, BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the team giving a weekly overview of recommended new releases. Now, retooled and re-imagined to fit the site’s…

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    I ♡ Kill – Monsters, Fantasy and Pointless Bureaucracy All Come Together in April Newton’s Frenetically Funny Comics One-Shot

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 2, 2025

    “I’d like to join your hellish crusade of monsters in the quest to destroy mankind and all that it stands for!” That’s a sentence that quickly becomes a most effective…

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    Reluctant Sadist #9 – Hal Weaver’s Old School Minicomic with a Bigfoot Theme 

    • by Gary Usher
    • September 1, 2025

    Hal Weaver is based in Riga, Latvia, also home of publishing house kuš! comics. He published seven issues of Reluctant Sadist from 1985 to 1989 (with an additional collected edition)…

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    Zineapalooza – Party On as the Zinezilla Comics Anthology Returns with Work from Mereida Fajardo, Beastly Worlds, C A Strike, Rein Lee and More

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 1, 2025

    With the Bristol-based small press fair extravaganza that is Zinezilla coming around again this Sunday, September 7th it’s pleasing to see the return of the event’s signature anthology as well….

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    Preview: Coin-Op #10: Wet Cement – Maria and Peter Hoey’s Acclaimed Series Returns with a New Story Via Kickstarter

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • September 1, 2025

    We have been enormous fans over the years of the form-pushing work of Maria and Peter Hoey. Whether it be via their long-running self-published Coin-Op anthology series and one-shots or…

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    Broken Frontier Andytorial, September 2025 – Looking Forward to UK Festival Season as Zinezilla, LICAF, Thought Bubble and More Loom Large!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 1, 2025

    Can it really be September now at Broken Frontier Towers? I somehow seem to be keeping up with these beginning-of-the-month round-ups and previews of activity from us here at BF….

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    Thought Bubble Announce More Guests for 2025 Including Comics Journalism Pioneer Joe Sacco

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • August 29, 2025

    Thought Bubble have announced another batch of guests for 2025 including the legend that is Joe Sacco, the cartoonist behind Palestine and War on Gaza. For more on comics about…

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    Cartoonists for Gaza Part 4 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Rufus Dayglo, Peter Kuper, Zara Slattery, Oscar Zárate and Corinne Halbert

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 29, 2025

    And we’re ending up the week with part four of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able…

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    Preview: Action: The Archival Edition – From the 1970s, the UK’s Most Controversial Weekly Comic is Collected by Rebellion

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • August 28, 2025

    No doubt following the success of the format of the Scream! archives Rebellion have announced a similar collection for the first twelve issues of the seminal UK weekly anthology series…

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    Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF

    • by Tom Humberstone
    • August 27, 2025

    “If your concept of prgress doesn’t put people at the center of it, is it even progress?” Last year at BF we reviewed Tom Humberstone’s collection of comics social commentary…

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    Cartoonists for Gaza Part 3 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from John Sadler, MariNaomi, Paul Peart-Smith, Tony Thorne and Myfanwy Tristram

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 27, 2025

    We’re back again with part three of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put together…

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    Cannon – Lee Lai Lives Up to All the Promise of Her Award-Winning Debut ‘Stone Fruit’ with a Powerful, Bittersweet Follow-Up

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • August 27, 2025

    A few years ago, not long after her debut Stone Fruit had won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics, and was listed as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,…

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    mini kus! #131: Animal Denial – Émilie Gleason Looks at Animal Rights, Factory Farming and the Environment in this Memorable Satirical Minicomic

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 27, 2025

    Sometimes when it comes to social commentary in comics – and in any medium to be frank – humour can be far more effective than more heavy-handed moralising. Belgian-Mexican creator…

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    Cartoonists for Gaza Part 2 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Krent Able, Charlie Adlard, Danny Noble, Fumio Obata and Corinne Pearlman

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 26, 2025

    And today we’re back with part two of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…

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    Toto Bunny Zine #1 and #2 – Kiera Won’s Minicomics Are a Delightful, Fold-Out Experience

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 26, 2025

    Kiera Won’s Toto Bunny Zine – the first two of which we will be looking at today at Broken Frontier – take us into genuinely minicomic territory, given that each…

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