A return in 2026 for BF’s Staff Picks feature where members of the team give a monthly overview of recommended new releases, designed to spotlight just a few key releases…
Welcome back to another beginning of the month look at our behind-the-scenes happenings at Broken Frontier. January shot by but, of course, our key posts this month where the results…
A winner in this year’s Broken Frontier Awards, in the category of Best Collection of Classic Material, The Smythes is a handsome oversized collection of Rea Irvin’s (the New Yorker’s…
Through his Fred Egg Comics micropublishing venture David Robertson has provided anthology platforms that spotlight other creators and embraced a lo-fi, grassroots style of self-publishing. In the latter case one…
Keezy Young’s win in the Best Artist category in the Broken Frontier Awards this year was all the more noteworthy for the incredibly strong shortlist of names nominated. Young’s first…
One final post for the week with the Friday afternoon news of Ben Harel’s Hotel Limbo, coming from Top Shelf in April… Top Shelf Checks In at Hotel Limbo for a Glimpse…
From New Yorker cartoonist Walker Tate, Laser Eye Surgery comes to its audience via the Fantagraphics Underground imprint. It represents Tate’s first full-length comics offering and centres on an unnamed…
The Lexicon of Comicana by cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) was something of a thematic forerunner of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. It represents Walker’s attempt to catalogue…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 22nd annual BF Awards, as voted for by you, our readers, and the BF team. Socio-political reportage, comics for the 7-14 years…
What perhaps sets Adieu Birkenau apart from some other graphic memoirs/biographies is the time-shifting commentary on events from its subject Ginette Kolinka. We observe Kolinka both as a young woman…
We have, admittedly, a little bit of catching up to do with our coverage of the Colossive Press series of Colossive Cartographies fold-out zines. So we are going to endeavour…
Once again at this point in the year I am going to repeat the sentiments of twelve months before. Every time we make our Broken Frontier Six to Watch announcement…
Collecting shortform comics stories together in one package provides an excellent means for self-published creators to showcase their storytelling abilities over multiple themes and approaches. In Lotus’ Dream artist Wilson…
We have covered a lot of comics and cartooning work on the genocide in Gaza over the last year. Some of it has come directly from those living the nightmare….
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week after a vacation break with a New Year Special and we’re inviting you to join…
In my opening 2026 Broken Frontier article I mentioned that this year we wanted to underline our commitment to covering socially relevant comics work with a renewed vigour. That will…
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 22nd annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine is described as “an anthology of new short comics from an international community of Palestinian creators and their allies that speak to the Palestinian ability…
“It’s About Queerness, Family, Loyalty, Grief, and at its Core Love in All its Forms”- Bex Glendining on Debut Graphic Novel ‘On Starlit Shores’April 2, 2026Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
