The Selkies – New Scottish Indie Comics Awards Announced for 2024
Awards specifically for UK comics are a rare commodity right now and have been since the British Comic Awards disappeared several years ago. One of the last holdouts was the…
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BrewZine – New Zine and Comics Fair Debuts this Sunday, July 7th at the Gipsy Hill Brewery in London
Sunday sees the debut of the first BrewZine – another new event on the small press calendar – at the Gipsy Hill Brewery in London. Mixing a zine and small…
“The Whole Purpose is to Introduce Comics to People Who Don’t Know Them” – Checking out Graphic Novel Reading Room’s First London Pop-Up!
On Thursday 27th June, I had the pleasure of attending London’s first-ever Graphic Novel Reading Room pop-up! Having heard about the event from collaborator SelfMadeHero, I was super excited that…
inQ! Debuts on September 7th, 2024 – New London Comics and Zine Fair Set to Spotlight the UK’s Queer Comics Community
PRIDE MONTH 2024! And here’s a most welcome new comics event to be able to announce in Pride Month. inQ! is a curated event spotlighting the UK’s queer comics community….
With a General Election Looming the Comics Cultural Impact Collective Suggest YOU Create Comics for Your New (and Old!) MPs
With a whole new intake of MPs coming after this July’s general election in the UK the Comics Cultural Impact Collective have a suggestion for you. Why not underline the…
LDComics to Celebrate Their 15th Birthday with an Online Comics Fair in 2025
We’ve had a longstanding relationship with comics community group LDComics for many years now with our own Andy Oliver having spoken at their events on multiple occasions and the first…
Check Out Our Dedicated Broken Frontier Resource List for Mental Health Awareness Week
This week (May 13th-19th) is Mental Health Awareness Week so just the shortest of posts to remind you that here at Broken Frontier we have been tagging relevant comics resources…
Comics Cultural Impact Collective 2 – Comics Stakeholders Strike Back on May 7th
Just a reminder that the second meeting of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective is scheduled for the evening of May 7th, 2024. This is such an important initiative with a…
Portsmouth Comic Con 2024 to Hold Comics Talent Search
Opportunities for emerging artists to get their work seen by established figures in the comics scene are a rarity. That’s one of the reasons we hold our twice-yearly one-to-one Zoom…
Comics Youth Launch a Publishing Inclusion Charter to Challenge Publishers to Adopt More Inclusive and Accessible Practices
There are lots of very important conversations finally being engaged in of late about comics and inclusion, many of those being led by activist groups like the Comics Cultural Impact…
Behind the Scenes at Broken Frontier – Two Weeks in the Life of a Comics Culture Site Editor-in-Chief
What you are about to read is, on one level, probably the most self-indulgent piece I have ever written for Broken Frontier. On another, though, I would argue its necessity…
Preparing for Pride Month at Broken Frontier – Creator Commentary Opportunities for Your Queer Comics in June!
Pride Month is a big deal every year here at Broken Frontier. Last year at BF we managed to get a review, interview, feature or creator commentary up every single…
The Comics Cultural Impact Collective Launches Their Report on the State of Comics in the UK
If you attended the Comics Cultural Impact Collective online meeting in January (and the turn-out was huge) you will already be aware of the multi-perspective conversations being had about the…
“Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…”: An Exploration of the Unfulfilled ‘Tales from the Quarantine’ Kickstarter, Part 3 – How the Comics Community Pulled Together in the Wake of TFTQ
In our (possibly!) final look at the saga of the still as yet unfulfilled Tales from the Quarantine Kickstarter we hear from those within the comics community about how they…
“Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…”: An Exploration of the Unfulfilled ‘Tales from the Quarantine’ Kickstarter, Part 2 – TFTQ’s Effect on Confidence in Crowdfunding Analysed
Embracing that Stan Lee ethos of every issue is someone’s first we have elected in this, our second entry in our examination of the as yet unfulfilled Tales from the…
“Everybody Has a Tale to Tell…”: An Exploration of the Unfulfilled ‘Tales from the Quarantine’ Kickstarter, Part 1 – Contributors Talk About the Impact on Them
It’s one of the most notorious as yet unfulfilled crowdfunding campaigns in comics history and yet the saga of Tales from the Quarantine drags on and on. Conceived by organiser Frazer…
Give the Cartoon Museum a Lift! – Crowdfunding Campaign Looks to Make a Fave London Comics-Related Venue Accessible to All Again
Time for a comics community shout-out on behalf of our pals at London’s Cartoon Museum where Broken Frontier has appeared at multiple events over the last decade-plus, at both its…
Happy New Year! – News on Our Ten Years of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Celebrations and How You Can Help Safeguard BF’s Future in 2024
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Happy New Year, one and all! And with a new year comes some news about our plans for 2024. This year marks…
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