10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Your favourite online comics social is back as we return to our guest artist format! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw takes place this Thursday, January 25th as we give a spotlight to BF Six to Watch artists Mike Armstrong and Beck Kubrick. Not only do our online D&Ds keep all those who would meet at The King’s Arms in Soho, London every month (in those fondly remembered pre-March 2020 days) in regular contact, they also allow us to expand our reach for the event to a more global audience.
We’ll be starting this week at 7.15pm to give everyone taking part on Twitter the opportunity to introduce themselves to each other as we look to continue fostering an even stronger sense of community. Drawing rounds begin at 7.30pm UK time as usual.
(Poster art, above, by Joe Stone)
So, once again if you’re joining us online, here are the “rules”…
We’re using our regular pub format, adapted for a digital platform. So if you’ve never attended one of our monthly sessions this is how it will work. Our guest artists will each choose a drawing theme for three sessions across the evening. We’ll post each of these prompts with the hashtag #GoshBFDD in three batches at 7.30pm (UK time), 8.15pm and 9.00pm from the Broken Frontier Twitter account. You have 30 minutes to draw something fitting that theme, after which we’ll spend 15 minutes picking a winner before the next round begins. Don’t forget to post your drawings with the #GoshBFDD hashtag so everyone can see and join in. And also so we can easily retweet!
Let’s meet our guest artists…
Mike Armstrong is one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ whose vibrant cartooning style has been seen in WIP Comics anthologies WiPXL and Change. Mike has also self-published the short comic Bigger and at the moment is working on a soft reboot of his Lore Library series for younger readers (below) and a print collection of his Skeleton Crew webcomic,
Beck Kubrick was a BF ‘Six to Watch’ artist in 2023. Their work includes critically acclaimed comics like Coby, Alone, Dead Girls: Beach Day and Meat 4 Burgers (in collaboration with Christof Bogacs). Beck’s Don’t Worry, I Die at the End won the 2023 Broken Frontier Award for Best One-Shot.
Whether you’re a regular or a newbie all are welcome so please do join in and be part of our international Drink and Draw fun! And if you enjoy this event why not check out the Gosh! Comics webstore here?
2024 marks the tenth year of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch‘ initiative. Look for articles throughout the year celebrating the work of those artists who have been a part of the programme.
