FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Working conditions and fair recompense for comics creators is a subject that feels, unfortunately, eternally relevant and never-changing (in anything but a superficial degree.) Joe D’Esposito’s The…
Perhaps it may seem a little strange for me to be writing some form of report on a two-day programming-driven festival that I was only at for day one. But…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Years in the making, Joe D’Esposito’s The Outsider comes to us next month from Fantagraphics detailing the life, career and struggles of the legendary EC Comics artist…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we reported that cartoonist Peter Kuper (Ruins, Spy Vs. Spy, World War III Illustrated) had been announced as a 2026 Pulitzer…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! There’s something about Katriona Chapman’s The Pass that reminds the reader of the structure of a stage play. It’s a nuanced character study to start with. But…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! In the first of our spotlight interviews for our celebratory Fantagraphics month at Broken Frontier we chat with cartoonist Jesse Moynihan about the epic Forming, first published…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! We like putting on event coverage here at Broken Frontier Towers and it’s become something of a staple of our output over the years. And you, our…
Back in June for our Pride Month coverage at Broken Frontier I interviewed a number of creators for the very first time. One of those subjects was Nessie Mooo whose…
With no less than twenty events taking place in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and even the US, this year’s Small Press Day built on the foundations of last year’s reinvigorated…
It’s been an astonishing twelve years since the last time I reviewed a comic from Kate Hazell, the rather idiosyncratic Single Black Glove telling the story of a singular item…
Deepesh Sangtani’s Konni-Chhua comes to us from Kutty Press who we interviewed here at Broken Frontier earlier this year. Sangtani and co-founder Bhavani Balasubramanyam describe their publishing output as being…
Lots of reasons that this SDCC announcement is notable, not the least of which is that it means we get Tango art on a new series. Full details on Mad…
A few years back at BF I reviewed Giorgio Pandiani’s ecologically-themed short story collection A Day on the River (& Other Stories) saying of it then that it was “solid…
You’d have to be very new to the scene not to be aware that this Saturday July 25th is Small Press Day across the UK and Ireland and there’s a…
Blackheath Folk: Local History and Folklore is the kind of zine project that really sums up the spirit of Small Press Day. It’s been put together by the volunteer staff…
To see new regional community hubs forming in the UK comics scene is always reassuring. Such networks organically foster a sense of mutual support and collaboration after all. Great oaks…
Bringing together two legendary comics titles from the late 20th century in one package, A1 Deadline is an anthology that both builds on the past and looks to the future….
It is not uncommon for us here at Broken Frontier to revisit self-published projects when they are picked up by publishers to provide commentary that both repurposes previous reviews and…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
