The Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Are Going to ARC! – Where to Catch Our Mentored Artists at the Festival this Weekend

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! As you will have been reading for the last two weeks here at BF the ARC Festival of contemporary comics hits London this weekend and there’s plenty of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists from our annual mentoring programme tabling there.

First up we have a Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ table at the event. The line-up will be different each day and you can expect to see the following artists on it selling their fabulous comics work:

Saturday, July 11th: Abs Bailey, Daisy Crouch, Tal Brosh, Shri Gunasekara and Zhenyi Zheng

Sunday, July 12th:  Dominique Duong, Manon Wright, Rein Lee, Skai Campbell and Zen K.

Elsewhere other Six to Watch-ers will have their own individual tables at ARC including:

Anna Readman

Blue Funnel Books/Francis Todd

Joe Stone

Miranda Smart

Olivia Sullivan

Peony Gent

Yu-Ching Chiu

… and no doubt others that I’ve forgotten or missed.

Do make sure to check out their work at ARC. They’re both some of the most exciting emerging voices in UK comics and some of the now established stars of the scene. Remember our ‘Six to Watch’ artists have gone on to be published by the likes of 2000 AD/Rebellion, Avery Hill Publishing, BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse Comics, Faber, Fantagraphics, Graphic Universe, Icon Books, Image Comics, Jonathan Cape, Koguchi Press, kus! comics, Myriad Editions, SelfMadeHero, Seven Stories Press, Street Noise Books, Titan Books and Z2 Comics.

That’s quite the list. When we tell you someone is worth watching our track record kinda speaks for itself.

And one final sidenote here. While I myself will be trying to avoid being behind the ‘Six to Watch’ table at ARC I will be around the fair for both days. So if you want to chat Broken Frontier please feel free to come over and grab me.

Blog post by Andy Oliver

— Andy Oliver

Andy Oliver is Broken Frontier’s Editor-in-Chief and site owner. He is also a co-organiser of the annual UK Small Press Day and has been a judge or committee member for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition, the British Comic Awards and the SICBA Awards.