Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we looked at the Zarjaz Special that acted as prelude to the third volume of the long-running small press anthology series based on characters…
That Abod Nasser’s Strategies for Survival is presented in an unrefined, uncorrected format makes it all the more important an historical document of the genocide in Gaza. Capturing the artist’s…
The chances are that I will be long dead before Josh Simmons’ Jessica Farm reaches its projected conclusion around 25 years from now. And yet, perhaps peculiarly, this harsh reality…
We’re back again this week with another set of canvassed opinions from across the worlds of comics on the effects of Generative AI on the form. Here’s our standard intro…
Just a quick reminder today of the message you will already have received from our chums on the Thought Bubble team. And a couple of quick notes on FAQs and…
Niki Bañados describes her new comic Seeing in the Watery Underworld in the following intriguing terms: “A comic in which we descend 60 metres underground and meet prawnlike creeps with…
“I’d like to join your hellish crusade of monsters in the quest to destroy mankind and all that it stands for!” That’s a sentence that quickly becomes a most effective…
With the Bristol-based small press fair extravaganza that is Zinezilla coming around again this Sunday, September 7th it’s pleasing to see the return of the event’s signature anthology as well….
Can it really be September now at Broken Frontier Towers? I somehow seem to be keeping up with these beginning-of-the-month round-ups and previews of activity from us here at BF….
And we’re ending up the week with part four of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able…
We’re back again with part three of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put together…
Sometimes when it comes to social commentary in comics – and in any medium to be frank – humour can be far more effective than more heavy-handed moralising. Belgian-Mexican creator…
And today we’re back with part two of our Cartoonists for Gaza gallery series… In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…
Kiera Won’s Toto Bunny Zine – the first two of which we will be looking at today at Broken Frontier – take us into genuinely minicomic territory, given that each…
I am not sure why there’s been such a long gap in between reviews of Rob Jackson comics at Broken Frontier. The versatile, genre-jumping creator behind projects like Slaves of…
This is exactly the kind of initiative we exist to support at Broken Frontier. In response to the genocide in Gaza UK cartoonists Rachael Ball and Krent Able have put…
When the return of the Caption small press comics festival was announced for 2025, after an 8-year absence, it was with the following description of its ethos and mission: “Caption…
Welcome to a third look from across our community on the effects of Generative AI on comics. Here’s our standard intro for the series… AI “art” is already encroaching on…
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