Articles and interviews on all things comics-related.
The other week I was lucky enough to volunteer at the wonderful Yo Comics! – “a comic fair for kids and by kids”. Organised by comics advocate and educator Helen…
Here at Broken Frontier, we recently had the pleasure of reviewing Paige Hender’s debut graphic novel The Confessional from Silver Sprocket. ‘Sensual, grisly and totally unique’, this compelling horror focuses…
Described as “a newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism” the Comics Courier debuted last year not just to widespread praise but also notable enthusiasm for its method of presentation….
Something a little different today at Broken Frontier as Avery Hill Publishing creators B. Mure and Kit Anderson chat about their work, inspirations and world-building in fiction. Mure you will…
The time has come again for our Broken Frontier Six to Watch announcement. This is our most anticipated and well-read article of the year and let me say straight out…
First as part of our now retired ‘Small Pressganged’ feature, and now as an annual standalone feature, we have been running our ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to…
Recently named as one of the School Library Journal’s Best Graphic Novels of 2024 writer Jeremy Whitley, artist Cassio Ribeiro and letterer Nikki Foxrobot’s Navigating with You, from Mad Cave’s Maverick…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Film-maker Chris Shepherd’s debut graphic novel Anfield Road – a working class coming-of-age story set in 1980s Liverpool – is already receiving critical acclaim, including an…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Lovers of all things warm, fuzzy and cute will surely have heard of creator Beatrijs Brouwer, professionally known as Beastly Worlds. Renowned for her delicate prints (largely…
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…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! When it comes to genre fiction comics Dave Cook is a staple of the UK indie scene. With numerous successful Kickstarter campaigns behind him, and the recent…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Moving from a career as an economist to one as a comic book writer is certainly an atypical entry point into the industry but’s the one…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Shuning Ji first came to prominence as part of SelfMadeHero’s Graphic Anthology Programme a couple of years ago. That initiative was designed to champion the work…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Sometimes in this whole comics commentary game you realise to your great surprise that there’s someone whose work you have been covering on and off for…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Two important boxes immediately checked here in today’s Thought Bubble Month interview. Firstly we have an example of the power of comics community in the shape…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! One of the international creators whose work you should be looking out for at Thought Bubble this year is Emilia Strilchuk who will be at Harrogate with…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Published earlier this year by Rosarium, Colleen Douglas’s graphic novel Silk Cotton (with collaborators Jesus C. Gan and Lorenzo Palomobo) has garnered a growing level of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It must say something intriguing about our UK indie comics community that since Thought Bubble moved to Harrogate the thing that has most captured their imagination…
“It Oozed Creativity, Comics Community Spirit and FUN” – Yo Comics! Proves that Kids Can’t Get Enough of ComicsApril 11, 2025“All I Had at the Beginning Was Vampire Brothel, Priest, Period Setting, Sexy!” – Paige Hender Tells All about ‘The Confessional’ from Silver SprocketApril 10, 2025“The Comics Courier is Really a Love Letter to Comics Criticism” – Tiffany Babb on Bringing Comics Commentary Back to Print in the Acclaimed Newspaper-Style PublicationApril 2, 2025B. Mure and Kit Anderson in Conversation – The Avery Hill Artists on Creating Visual Fantastical Worlds, ‘Second Shift’ and the ‘Ismyre’ SeriesMarch 17, 2025Six 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
