While we’re all missing our serial comics fix at the moment here’s an advance look at a new series from Vault Comics, announced today as debuting this summer. The full…
Daniel Bristow-Bailey’s The Screaming is a curious comics short, rife with ambiguity and yet oddly immediate at the same time. The catalyst for Bristow-Bailey’s dark short comes from his personal…
If keeping the kids occupied is something of a priority at the moment then, of course, there are plenty of UK comics distractions out there that fit the bill perfectly…
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John-Paul Kamath’s London Horror Comic is one of the true mainstays of the UK small press scene. It’s been around for longer than this column has been at Broken Frontier…
With current events forcing postponements or cancellations of festivals and conventions ELCAF (the East London Comics and Arts Festival) have announced that this year’s event will be moving online. Regular…
The title of Kate Charlesworth’s acclaimed graphic memoir/LGBTQ+ history comes from an old saying that implied the kind of woman who “preferred to wear sensible shoes” may have been, or…
We’re always interested at Broken Frontier in the ways that graphic medicine communicates and conveys personal experience. This week a new Humanoids graphic memoir by Valérie Villieu and Raphaël Sarfati…
While monthly comics from the US serial comics publishers are currently on hold a number of trades and collected editions are still on the publishing schedule. This week sees the…
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If you’re a regular on the indie comics circuit you may already have been aware of Alabaster Pizzo’s Mimi and the Wolves in its self-published incarnation. Beginning in 2013, Pizzo…
Strictly speaking, Canadian indie artist Howard Chackowicz’s Nothing to See Here isn’t actually comics given that it’s a book of mostly single illustration cartoons. But this Conundrum Press collection of…
Rebellion’s fourth collection of strips from the spooky late 1970s girls weekly comic Misty takes a slightly different approach than its predecessors. Rather than pairing a couple of collected serials,…
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J. Edward Scott’s The Blade of Arozone takes a post-apocalyptic scenario, mixes it with sword and sorcery elements, and then adds a liberal helping of social commentary to the recipe,…
*MAJOR SPOILER WARNING* – 2000 AD have a twist in the tale in today’s Prog so we’re not going to say too much in this introductory blurb and instead let…
The 1970s weekly Action has become something of a legend in the history of UK comics. The brainchild of Pat Mills, that most pivotal of figures in the British industry,…
Last night’s edition of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw was a frantic but hugely rewarding affair as we moved the fun online for the first time…
Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column here in the past. Today we return to this irregular feature…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this week, retooled and re-imagined as an online extravaganza! We’ll be kicking off tomorrow, Thursday March 26, at 7.30pm…
When something is spoken of as a story that “could only be told through comics” it’s always going to pique our interest here at BF. That’s how Fantagraphics publisher Gary…
