Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
Holding the hardcover edition of The Labyrinth in 2019 is a special feeling for a number of reasons. For a start, it shouldn’t even be here, given that it will…
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Walking a fine line between cutting satire and fond parody, Malty Heave is a one-shot, tongue-in-cheek, sci-fi special collaboration between Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain)) and Phil Elliott;…
“I don’t want to be a girl. I don’t want to be a boy either. I just want to be myself.” By the very nature of the form – that…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
One of the most vitally important indie publishers in comics have announced their Fall 2019/Winter 2020 line-up and it’s an awe-inspiring collection of projects and creators. Koyama Press‘s next batch…
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) has been held since 2003. That piece of information came to us not from Wikipedia, but from legendary artist Seth, who had stopped by…
Part biography, part social commentary, and part scathing skewering of fearmongering and dubious science, Box Brown’s Cannabis: An American History (published in the UK by SelfMadeHero and in the US…
It is important to keep in mind, whenever one picks up a book by Rich Tommaso, that he began his career a quarter of a century ago with the 3-issue…
Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…
True narrative horror is as much about what isn’t said – what is left to the readers’ interpretation and imagination – as it is about the genre’s more overt and…
In breaking news today – and indicative perhaps of the ever changing landscape of US comics publishing – the merger of Oni Press and Lion Forge has just been announced….
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Hot on the heels of her recent minicomic Blindenhund comes Babyface, another enticingly macabre graphic medicine/body horror hybrid comic from the distinctive vision of original Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press…
With a number of respected London small press and indie fairs like CECAF, SLCZF and Safari Festival either on hiatus for the moment or having drawn to a close over…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
Harar, Ethiopia, the early 2000s, and Sam is struggling to fit in at her new school. Constantly uprooted due to her father’s work, she makes a new friend in local…
Starting with a joke about the annoyance of teaching parents technology, the main story in the latest issue of Giant Days is centred around a cricket match, in which Graham…
Nonsense is an underrated tradition in literature, now relegated to dusty shelves alongside the verse of Edward Lear and lesser-known works by Lewis Carroll. Almost two decades after he passed…
“May God watch over you, and protect you and keep you safe.” Lulu’s mother “enjoyed watching Gene Kelly dance and sniffing round an old poetry book. She abandoned her acting…
