Articles and interviews on all things comics-related.
The new series of Doctor Who has started, and much has been made in the media of the arrival of new companion Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie), who has been heavily…
Last year I had the good fortune to not only read the excellent three-issue series Chum, but also to interview its creators, writer Ryan K Lindsay and artist Sami Kivela….
Alterna Comics goes retro with their new line of comics by printing on newsprint, distributing to newsstands and rolling back cover prices to $1.50. These days there seems to be…
Glamorous camping? Can there really be such a thing? Joe Decie’s new book Collecting Sticks from Jonathan Cape recounts the Decie family’s “glamping” holiday – camping from the “comfort” of…
With the tenth series of the relaunched Doctor Who debuting this Saturday on the BBC, Broken Frontier’s Tony Ingram looks back today on over 50 years of the good Doctor’s…
Jessica Martin is another of those now established rising stars of the UK indie comics scene who you first heard about here at Broken Frontier. She was a finalist in…
With their unique crowdfunding approach to publishing, Unbound have already had a number of very notable success stories including Nikesh Shukla’s The Good Immigrant and the Booker Prize-nominated The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth. This…
“Over 100 artists present positive political actions that anyone can take.” That’s the soundbite that beautifully embodies the Draw the Line project – an idea dreamt up by UK small…
Almost exactly a year ago this week, I published my first article here on Broken Frontier, fulfilling a long-held dream of becoming a writer in whatever capacity I could make…
Forty years ago, in February 1977, a green-skinned alien from Betelgeuse who absolutely, quite categorically was not editor Kelvin Gosnell in a joke shop mask hurled Britain’s comics readers into…
In over ten years of writing for Broken Frontier, there have been few comics I have reviewed that have come close to matching Ravi Thornton’s HOAX Psychosis Blues in terms of…
Image Comics celebrated its 25th anniversary this past Wednesday with an event called “Image Day” that saw many of their creators head out to retailers across the globe to meet…
With plenty of experience dealing with the supernatural in the pages of Hellboy’s B.P.R.D. and Rumble, writer John Arcudi sets out to prove that true-to-life thrillers can be just as…
One-time BF columnist and fan-favourite creator of The Sixth Gun Cullen Bunn stole some time from his busy schedule to discuss his latest creator-owned work, his first from indie publisher…
Dean Haspiel (Beef with Tomato, The Fox) recently turned heads in the comics community with his keynote speech at this year’s Harvey Awards. In many ways, the acclaimed creator’s latest…
In the opening story arc of their new series, the creators of Angel City peel back the glamorous facade of 1930s Hollywood to expose the dark underworld beneath. It’s a…
Veteran comic writer Greg Pak is no stranger to world-building; just take a look at what he did with Planet Hulk or even his indie series Code Monkey Save World….
Ted Naifeh is no stranger to working across genres. He’s already made the shift from pirates to gothic teens to barbarians. But up until this point, most of his main…
