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….
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! This weekend Thought Bubble hosts drop-in portfolio review sessions. Organised by that great comics community booster Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard, The Department of Truth, Sleeping Beauties)…
This isn’t something we normally do at Broken Frontier but on this occasion it would feel critically irresponsible not to re-run our review of Lucy Sullivan’s Barking, given the new…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! With the recent news that artist Lucy Sullivan’s breakout work Barking – her hugely atmospheric exploration of loss, grief and mental health, originally published by Unbound –…
With the Comica Festival 20th anniversary celebrations continuing apace this month we have a very special opportunity for Broken Frontier readers! This Thursday March 23rd sees another of the Comica…
SHELTER: Early Doors is a profound and emotive story, where paint-strokes portray trauma in such a versatile and up-close way that you cannot help but feel yourself involved. This results…
New work by Lucy Sullivan is always an exciting prospect and last week saw the crowdfundr launch for her new comic SHELTER: Early Doors. Sullivan is the Broken Frontier…
SLCZF WEEK! Lucy Sullivan’s debut graphic novel Barking was met with widespread plaudits on its debut a couple of years back. Informed by her own experiences it took a notably…
A new digital, app-led anthology Yoshin; Tales of the Tohoku Earthquake Ten Years On features illustrations from a number of Broken Frontier-championed artists including our ‘Six to Watch’ creators Jem Milton…
In Meredith’s bleak world the ultimate sanction is to find oneself IND-XED – a societal classification that negates someone’s very existence. The subject becomes a non-person, their identity cancelled and…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! When I first saw Lucy Sullivan’s early art for Barking (back when we were initially supporting the Unbound Books crowdfunding campaign for the book) I was immediately…
Over the course of Small Press Day we’ll be uploading pages from the special dream-themed collborative comic being put together by Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics from the amazing line-up…
Earlier this year I spoke to artist Lucy Sullivan here at Broken Frontier about her work-in-progress graphic novel Barking, an allegorical examination of loss and depression (currently crowdfunding through Unbound Books)….
Over the last year or so, we’ve been following a number of crowdfunding campaigns here at Broken Frontier for the Unbound Books line of graphic novels – beginning with an…
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF every week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
