One of those pivotal moments in 2000 AD history, Pat Mills and Simon Bisley’s Sláine: The Horned God will be published in a special “Collector’s Edition” next year. The full…
A young boy spending a hazy summer’s day collecting frogs in a tin sets the scene for Frogcatchers, Jeff Lemire’s new graphic novella from Simon and Schuster imprint Gallery 13….
After the recent announcement of the shortlisted artists in the comics section of this year’s Arts Foundation Futures Awards there’s an opportunity to hear the final four creators in conversation…
News today from Fantagraphics about their new graphic novel series The Cloven by Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth. The full press release is below. SEATTLE, WASH., OCTOBER 8, 2019—Fantagraphics is…
Having ripped off the mob in the 1990s in one last big job, Martin (the former feared masked criminal Dead Eyes) has spent the intervening decades looking after his disabled…
Autumn is festival time in the UK and, after last month’s fantastic inaugural Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, the Broken Frontier team were at two established events this past weekend….
Exciting news today via UK small press mainstay Douglas Noble that his Strip For Me imprint will be bringing the work of Paul Jon Milne, whose comics we’ve covered in…
Those of you who follow my own rather self-indulgent social media streams as well as the official Broken Frontier one will be aware of my posts over the summer focusing…
Some of the most powerful slice-of-life work speaks to us so eloquently not through an overt attempt at ostentatious profoundness but rather because it reveals familiar truths with a quiet…
It would be inappropriate to describe B. Mure’s Ismyre series of books as indie comics’ best kept secret. The first two volumes have been consistently critically acclaimed, after all, with…
Recently, we covered the crowdfunding campaign for the collection of Dan Cox and John Riordan’s Hitsville UK here at Broken Frontier and, as this veritable institution of UK self-publishing reaches its…
Eisner and British Comic Awards-nominated creator Rob Davis’s trilogy of graphic novels that began in The Motherless Oven five years ago is set to conclude in the coming month with…
Three years ago at Broken Frontier I covered Sarah Lippett’s graphic memoir Stan and Nan here; a comics record of the life of the grandfather she never knew and the…
Undoubtedly the most delightful hidden gem in the Big Two’s super-hero publishing schedules, DC’s Scooby-Doo Team-Up came to an end this month with a fittingly celebratory 50th anniversary issue. Over…
If your vague memories of the 1970s UK girls comics market were limited to twee tales of ballerinas and boarding schools then Rebellion’s recent Treasury of British Comics volumes will…
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If you were reading US serial comics in the 1990s you’ll remember the craze for “cover enhancements” during that period, when the major publishers became locked in an ever escalating…
The full press release for the shortlisted artists for the Arts Foundation Futures Awards for the Comics category runs below. Congratulations to the shortlisted quartet! Esther McManus, Danny Noble, Zara Slattery and Jess Taylor have…
We’re always pleased to publicise the wider artistic activities of our annual ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ here at Broken Frontier and, for the second time this year (after…
