Wrapping Up Thought Bubble Month 2024 at Broken Frontier!
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! So that was Thought Bubble Month at BF… When our festival report goes up next week we will have exceeded our ambitious plan to get 50…
Author: Andy Oliver
A Pocket Chiller: Skeleton Hearts – A Haunting Winter Tale from Jenny Robins and Strip for Me
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! A perennial favourite in the Broken Frontier Awards in the Best Periodical Series category, Strip for Me’s A Pocket Chiller series has produced some truly disquieting one-shot…
Tall Tales & Short Stories – The Vibrancy, Versatility and Brilliance of the UK Small Press Scene Brought to the Fore in this Year’s WIP Comics Anthology
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If anyone ever tells you that the UK small press comics scene is in a state of decline…
Living with the Living #1 – John Lynott and Shane Melisse Bring Us a New Supernatural Sitcom Comic Series
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Living with the Living originally saw life a few years ago as a webcomic but went on hiatus…
Pricks #4 – The Latest Issue of Geesin and Rowan’s Darkly Comedic Skewering of Patriarchal Attitudes Ends with the Greatest Cliffhanger in the History of Comics
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Pricks, in all its multi-named and numbered incarnations, has become one of my favourite Thought Bubble print fixtures, albeit a delightfully…
Nostos – Annabel Hewitson Emphasises the Very Human in Her Science Fiction Minicomics Series
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Annabel Hewitson’s Nostos minicomics follow the adventures of Alexandros and m3.tis, the AI aboard his spaceship, as the pair travel through the stars. To date there…
There’s a Party in My Body (and You’re All Invited) – Mereida Fajardo Takes Us on a Biological Rave in One of Our Thought Bubble Comics of the Festival
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Every year at Broken Frontier as part of our Thought Bubble coverage we like to pick out one…
Haru: Book 1: Spring – Joe Latham’s All-Ages Dark Fantasy is an Instant Classic of Its Genre
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! There are times when you read comics work that is so captivating and so delightful that you immediately fall in love with it. This was my…
Queer Knights – Three Medieval Romances with an LGBTQ Twist from KitsuneArt, Audrey Molinatti and Atlantisvampir
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! With a remit to explore “queer love stories in medieval/historical fantasy settings” Queer Knights features three stories; one from KitsuneArt who has featured on a number…
Hometown – Psychogeography and Interacting with Our Pasts Examined in Harl Jones’ Haunting Minicomic
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! In Hometown Harl Jones explores feelings that will, no doubt, be familiar to many. This minicomic short examines that odd sense of displacement that can occur…
Fifteen Minutes – Reality and Fantasy Collide in Kai Dylan’s Slice-of-Life Tale of Sudden, Social Media-Inspired Fame
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Kai Dylan’s work first came to my attention via our most recent Broken Frontier Connects day of one-to-one Zoom mentoring sessions. The title Fifteen Minutes is…
Sport – Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley’s Flipbook Comics Project Returns with a Match-Winning Formula
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Over the years there have staples of Thought Bubble debut books that have come to represent certain eras of…
Cryptids of Leeds – The Leeds Comics Collective Investigate Urban Cryptozoology with Work from Anna Readman, Cara Brown, James Patricks, James Lawrence, Frank Deacon and More
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! We are all about the idea of comics community here at Broken Frontier and today’s review subject is certainly a fine example of that. Cryptids of…
The Complete[d] Saucer Country – Revisiting Paul Cornell and Ryan Kelly’s Gripping Blend of Political Thriller and UFO Mythology
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Circumstances dictated that Paul Cornell and Ryan Kelly’s Saucer Country took a particularly tortuous route to eventual completion. Originally published by DC’s Vertigo imprint between 2012…
Autobiography Has Become a Stone in My Shoe – Peony Gent’s Meditation on the All-Pervading Presence of Social Media
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! “We become what we consume > Your life is just the total sum of all the things you…
“Comics Are a Realm Where Multiple Dimensions of Time and Space Coexist on a Single Page” – Zhenyi Zheng on Experimenting with the Boundaries of the Form
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Zhenyi Zheng is one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists whose work particularly caught my…
This Comic is Haunted #4 – The 77 Publications Tap Into the Nostalgia of a Classic Era of British Comics with this Eerie Collection of Supernatural Stories
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! One of the two covers to this flipbook-style issue of This Comic is Haunted #4 – the supernatural-themed anthology from The77 Publications – is niche in…
Uncle Zaxlor’s Robot Repair Shop – All-Ages Sci-Fi with a Mechanised Twist from Leo Healy and Torgo Wells
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Last year at Broken Frontier I reviewed a rather fun minicomic from writer Leo Healy and artist Torgo Wells titled So You’ve Been Conquered By the…
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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2025 – Spotlighting the Work of Beatrijs Brouwer AKA Beastly Worlds, Cara Brown, Chris King, Rein Lee, Shuning Ji and Zen K.January 15, 2025
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“Portrayal of a Person with a Long Term Disability Living Their Life is So Rare” – Jeremy Whitley on ‘Navigating with You’, His Slice-of-Life Graphic Novel Collaboration with Cassio RibeiroJanuary 10, 2025
“There is a Beauty in What is Forgotten” – Chris Shepherd Talks About ‘Anfield Road’, His Graphic Novel Love Letter to the City of LiverpoolNovember 14, 2024
“I Love Visual Storytelling: It Conjures Up Atmospheres and Feelings Difficult to Put Into Words” – Beatrijs Brouwer aka Beastly Worlds Talks New Projects and Inspirations Ahead of Her Thought Bubble DebutNovember 13, 2024