News broke this week that One Beat Zines, the creative collective championing women and non-binary creators and responsible for such acclaimed publications as the Broken Frontier Award-nominated anthology Identity, are…
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It’s been a year of major and much deserved achievement for 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Sabba Khan. An artist whose work I’ve described as combining “moments of…
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Describing her work as examining “first world city life as a second generation Pakistani Muslim migrant” Sabba Khan is the last of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators…
B. Mure is a creator who has maintained a steady presence on the UK small press circuit over the last few years with both their own self-published comics titles and…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Outside of a a couple of upcoming festival appearances, Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s feminist zine micropublisher and distro One Beat Zines are currently on hiatus until the…
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It’s the tenth Thought Bubble comic art festival at the weekend and this week at Broken Frontier we’re taking a tour of just some of the debut book highlights. Up until…
Championing work we believe in, promoting creators with something important to say, and spotlighting publications that are worthy of far wider attention are staples of Broken Frontier’s philosophy of coverage. Every…
The last time feminist small press collective and distro One Beat Zines (co-founded by Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele) published an anthology project we liked it so much here at Broken…
After their British Comic Awards nomination for Fairytales for Bad Bitches it seemed a given that the Comic Book Slumber Party collective would return to their signature character Greasy with…
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We’re a little later than usual this year with my annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ round-up; a yearly feature celebrating the diversity and rude health of the…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Of all the relatively new players on the UK small press scene this year it’s probably Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s One Beat Zines who were…
It’s festival season again in the UK and here at Broken Frontier we’re gearing up for the plethora of exciting new debut comics that entails. One of those is the…
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In 2014 Rachael Smith‘s debut graphic novel House Party propelled her unforgettably into the collective consciousness of the larger UK comics community. The rave reviews for her tale of a trio…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s zine-making collective/distro One Beat Zines burst onto the small press scene at the end of last year with their well-received multi-creator…
Jess Milton first came to the attention of many small press readers when her acclaimed short story ‘Canary Girls’ was published in the alternative First World War anthology To Arms!…
The first DIY Art Market of 2015, Patt Kelley’s new comic from Hic and Hoc, the Film Night anthology and One Beat Zines feature in our latest round-up of what…
“There is a Beauty in What is Forgotten” – Chris Shepherd Talks About 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
“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 FormNovember 11, 2024
“If You Have a Story You Can’t Wait to Tell, then Just Start Making It” – Dave Cook Talks the Collected ‘Killtopia’ from Titan and Taking Your First Steps Into ComicsNovember 7, 2024
“I Talk about Capitalism, Mental Health, Corporate Greed and More” – Peruvian Creator Oscar Osorio Gives Us the Lowdown on His Comics Work Ahead of His Thought Bubble 2024 AppearanceOctober 31, 2024
