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LDComics Community has announced Lucy Bergonzi and Tor Freeman and as their special guests for a LDComics in person event at London’s Cartoon Museum next month, hosted by Rachael Bell

The Comics Time Capsule – Creating Comics UK and LDComics’ Much Anticipated UK Indie Comics Documentary Series Debuts on YouTube

The Comics Time Capsule, an eagerly anticipated documentary project from Creating Comics UK and LDComics, has debuted on YouTube. With interview contributions from 31 movers and shakers in the UK indie comics scene it’s an essential watch.  Speakers include Broken Frontier team members like Jenny Robins and EdieOP, BF ‘Six to Watch‘ artists including Sabba Khan, Mereida Fajardo and Jem Milton,…

Reveal! – More Details Announced by LDComics on the Initiative to Champion East African Comics Creators

A couple of months back we posted about ‘REVEAL! Women’s Comics East Africa-UK’ here at Broken Frontier, an initiative for championing the work of comics artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda, as well as UK artists with heritage from those countries. This week LDComics revealed more details about the competition and how eligible artists can submit their work. Check out the press release…

Reveal! – New Initiative Championing the Work of Women Comics Creators from East Africa Announced

Exciting news today from the direction of LDComics‘ latest newsletter that, following the receipt of a British Council International Collaboration award, the ‘REVEAL! Women’s Comics East Africa-UK’ initiative will soon be championing comics artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda, as well as UK artists with heritage from those countries. More details of this exciting development in the…

Jumping Mouse Volume 1 – The First Chapter of Ali Hodgson’s Graphic-Memoir-in-Progress Shows Great Promise

If, like me, your perception of time has become so skewed since March 2020 that a few months ago can seem simultaneously like years ago and also yesterday afternoon, then you may appreciate that my reviews backlog pile can take on an oddly timeless quality. Take Ali Hodgson’s Jumping Mouse, for example, a graphic-memoir-in-progress that was both longlisted for the LDComics Prize in 2021 and also…

Creating Comics UK Present ‘The Comics Time Capsule’ – A Two-Part Documentary Featuring Mereida Fajardo, Sabba Khan, Jenny Robins, EdieOP and Many More

  Friends of the site Creating Comics UK and LDComics have announced a new two-part documentary ‘The Comics Time Capsule’ which will feature interviews with 31 names from the comics world. They include a number of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators including Mereida Fajardo, Sabba Khan, Dominique Duong and Jem Milton, alongside BF’s very own Jenny Robins and EdieOP. Get the release date in…

Don’t Miss the LDComics Festival Online this Sunday, December 5th Including a Presentation on the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw

This Sunday December 5th sees the return of the LDComics Festival online. For those not in the know LDComics is the UK’s largest women-led comics forum. They describe their ethos in the following terms: “We believe in the transformative potential of the comics form to offer wellbeing through making and reading. The accessibility of the form as a storytelling medium has created fertile ground for…