To see new regional community hubs forming in the UK comics scene is always reassuring. Such networks organically foster a sense of mutual support and collaboration after all. Great oaks…
Bringing together two legendary comics titles from the late 20th century in one package, A1 Deadline is an anthology that both builds on the past and looks to the future….
It is not uncommon for us here at Broken Frontier to revisit self-published projects when they are picked up by publishers to provide commentary that both repurposes previous reviews and…
We’re a little late reporting on this (post-ARC Festival updating hangover) but congratulations to our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Mereida Fajardo for her Harvey Award nomination for…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! So… we all know the drill here. UK comics has very little in the way of infrastructure. It relies on volunteers, activists and those willing to give…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Finding a new angle on such a played-out genre as super-heroes is not an impossible one but it’s not an easy one either. While the Big Two…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! As you will have been reading for the last two weeks here at BF the ARC Festival of contemporary comics hits London this weekend and there’s plenty…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! “I think Limbo is probably the best work I’ve ever done in any medium.” When a creator makes a statement like that in an interview it’s obviously something…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! New issues of Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Pricks have been one of the highlights of the debut releases at Thought Bubble over the last few years….
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! When we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ back in January I spoke in more depth about why alt-style comics artist Francis Todd had been…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Back in 2020 Henry McCausland’s breakout work, Eight-Lane Runaways from Fantagraphics, caught our attention so much at BF that it earned the artist a nomination in the…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! For the uninitiated, UK cartoonist Ed Pinsent has been creating and self-publishing comics since the early 1980s. His characters psychic detective Drake Ullingsworth and companion Dog, the…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! A new indie micropress is always an exciting development on the UK circuit and when it’s as experimentally focussed as Francis Todd’s Blue Funnel Books all the…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Swedish artist Linnea Sterte has been stunning us with the most visually eloquent linework since their breakout work Stages of Rot nearly a decade ago. From alien…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Last year at Broken Frontier I was so taken by artist Shri Gunasekara’s experimental, landscape format comic Runner that I just knew she had to be a…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! In terms of themes or genre you never know quite what you’re going to get from a Joe Stone comic. Sometimes you are treated to the kind…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! The Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series is one of those absolute gems of UK small press publishing that will hopefully be finding an entire new audience of…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! It’s been a while since we gave time to the Underground Kingdom Comix crew so it seems fitting that we give some space to their most recent,…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
