There’s something that I like to think of as a sophisticated minimalism to Norwegian creator Fredrik Rysjedal’s short comic Cramp. It’s a simple enough premise. Rysjedal grew up living by…
Many years ago, on a panel at the late, lamented London shop Orbital Comics, I was asked about my role in comics journalism. My answer was a simple one. “I’m…
Described as “a darkly comic adventure through club culture, spanning space and time”, Acid Box is a multi-creator graphic novel with a difference, currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Written by Sara Kenney…
A 2024 Broken Frontier Award-nominated book in the Best Graphic Non-Fiction category, writer Fernando Trueba and artist Javier Mariscal’s They Shot the Piano Player is both a celebration of a period of…
A return to the UK small press world today and a look at one of the many comics I bought at Thought Bubble last year and have only just got…
“Cold Chips is simply one of the most confident first-time self-published efforts I have seen in my nearly two decades of reviewing at BF.” Those were my words earlier this…
With its vibrant use of colour and chaotic energy the cover of Sanika Phawde’s Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #1 instantly catches the reader’s eye and practically implores them to…
It has admittedly been a few years since I last reviewed work from Jamie Kinroy at Broken Frontier. Back in 2022 I covered Spit Dog, a two-feature comic with the…
Founded in the early part of the pandemic Guru Comics are a London-based micropublisher specialising in genre fiction comics that range from horror to science fiction, crime noir to satire….
Cara Brown may just be starting her comics practice but this 2025 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist has already amassed a small body of work that demonstrates her ability…
News today from the direction of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective, the independent collective of professionals from the UK comics community who have been collaborating since February 2023 to amplify…
Today we bring you the first of our interview series for the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists for 2025 and our initial subject is Zen K. aka Zenab Khan….
Described as “a newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism” the Comics Courier debuted last year not just to widespread praise but also notable enthusiasm for its method of presentation….
Something we perhaps discuss less frequently when we refer to the “language of comics” is how alternative forms of delivery can provide different storytelling tools. There are opportunities available in…
With the last few days of the Kickstarter campaign for her new book, Second Shift, winding down we’re taking the time to look at Kit Anderson’s first Avery Hill book…
Can it really be the tenth edition of Small Press Day? Founded by JAM Bookshop’s David Ziggy Greene (Private Eye, Scene & Heard), the event’s mission is to forge links…
While all the comics work we have recently covered on the genocide in Gaza has been deeply affecting, today’s addition to our Broken Frontier Palestine Resource List is particularly heartrending….
Over the last few weeks the comics community has been deeply concerned about the plight of British cartoonist R. E. Burke, detained for 19 days in the US by ICE…
“I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird” – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel ‘The Witch’s Egg’ from Avery Hill PublishingJuly 8, 2025
Inside Look: The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo Brings Her Boundary-Pushing Practice to Digital PresentationJuly 4, 2025
Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
