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Something Alien Anthology – PJ Fairweather’s New Micropress Offers a Sampling of the Stars in Their Debut Anthology

  • by Andrea Magbual
  • April 13, 2026

The Something Alien Anthology is Don’t Fold Press’s debut comic project, introduced on their Instagram on April 28th, 2025 and fully funded by July 28th. Its Kickstarter states the anthology…

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Romo the Wolfboy – Mysterious Happenings in the Picaresque World of a Victorian Travelling Circus in ILYA’s New Graphic Novel From SelfMadeHero

  • by Harish P. I
  • April 10, 2026

In graphic novel Romo the Wolfboy, veteran artist ILYA takes his readers to the colourful world of a Victorian travelling circus. This is the first in a possible series of…

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Appleguy & Beefwood – Fun, Pithy and Full of Unpretentious Wisdom, Cedar Van Tassel’s Graphic Novel is an Undeniable Gem

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 9, 2026

There’s something oddly amusing about two adult men sitting around and talking about nothing in particular. What they say tends to make perfect sense to them, but not necessarily to…

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Boxes #4 – Mike Armstrong, Eleanor Sikorski, Jules Valera, Emilia McKenzie and Pictii Are Just a Handful of the Names in the Latest Issue of this Essential Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2026

Steven Ingram’s ThirdBear Press continues to provide a vital UK platform for cartoonists with the Boxes anthology, a publication reminiscent of a British small press heyday of similar collections which…

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Was that Normal? – Alex Potts’ Quagmire, to Find Human Connection or to Be

  • by Kay Sohini
  • April 7, 2026

In an unidentified town near London, a crumbling, half-finished edifice, which looks like the base of the Eiffel Tower, scatters its debris near and far, sometimes rather dangerously. We meet…

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2 x Carol Swain – Dark & Golden Bring Two Carol Swain Character Studies of Lives on the Fringe Back to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 6, 2026

Publisher Dark & Golden’s mission to bring back some of the forgotten gems of UK indie comics has already seen a number of near lost rarities being seen by appreciative…

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Sparrowsong – Alxndra Cook Leans Into Myth and Folklore in Her Latest Gorgeously Illustrated Graphic Novel from Koguchi Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 3, 2026

It’s impossible to overestimate just how far Alxndra Cook’s visual storytelling has come since I was first covering her work in zines like Eat Your Fruit!, well over a decade…

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Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists – Jessica Campbell Provides a Sly and Subversive Take on Male Artists, Patriarchy and the Art World

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 2, 2026

‘The Birth of Venus’, painted by Sandro Botticelli in the 1480s, is often cited as a blatant example of the ‘male gaze’ that has long dominated art in the West….

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Ways to Kill My Mother’s Lover (With Limited Pocket Money and Minimal Mess) – Judy Powell’s Account of Dysfunctional Family Life is a Poignant Character Study

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 31, 2026

Judy Powell’s Ways to Kill My Mother’s Lover (With Limited Pocket Money and Minimal Mess) isn’t quite the comic with the longest ever title to be reviewed at Broken Frontier…

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Dear Historian – Joff Winterhart Provides a Touching Examination of an Intergenerational Friendship via Jonathan Cape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 30, 2026

Joff Winterhart’s previous graphic novels (Days of the Bagnold Summer and Driving Short Distances) have been explorations of the relationships between characters separated by both generations and attitudes. In his…

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Sanctuary – Jenny Mure’s Haunting Fairy Tale of Motherhood, Magic and the Limits of Protection

  • by Lydia Turner
  • March 27, 2026

Launched at 2025’s Thought Bubble Comic Festival, Sanctuary by Jenny Mure, an illustrator and comics creator based in Nottingham, is a self-published comic about motherhood, loss and longing. Set in…

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Short Stories – André Caetano Takes Us on a Trip into the Imagination in this Collection of Beautifully Rendered Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 26, 2026

As its title obviously suggests Short Stories is a collection of Portuguese creator André Caetano’s shorter-form narrative for comics anthologies and other related venues. Publications like this are always a…

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The Girl Who Draws on Whales – Ariela Kristantina’s Visually Arresting Water-World Story from Dark Horse Comics

  • by Edward Picot
  • March 25, 2026

The Girl Who Draws on Whales is an environmentalist story set in a futuristic flooded world. Wangi, the lead character, lives on an island which is visited every year by…

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A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath – Jules Valera’s Abstract Trilogy Uses Cosmic Metaphor to Explore Very Human Experiences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2026

Jules Valera’s A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath collects three A6 minicomics in a tactile vellum-banded compilation. The three titles – Jupiter & the Moon, Venus…

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Big Apple Matinee – A. T. Pratt’s Minicomic Tribute to New York Iconography is a Pop-Up, Foldout, Tactile Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2026

A. T. Pratt’s work redefines the idea of tactile comics. Take today’s example, Big Matinee Comics, which includes layer after layer of pop-up, foldout, concertina effect and detachable elements. It’s…

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Ornithomancy – Lily Vie’s Gorgeously Glowing Pages Tell a Cathartic Sci-Fi Realism Story of Understanding the Other

  • by Ray McGrother
  • March 18, 2026

The Thought Bubble convention is a smorgasbord of amazing comic works. So much so that I have only just got around to finishing all the books and zines I bought…

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Mad Villain #1 – Nikesh Shukla and Camille Aubry’s Nazi-Punching Comic Combines Super-Heroics, Anti-Fascism and the Casually Dehumanising Realities of Racism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2026

Written by Nikesh Shukla (editor of The Good Immigrant) and illustrated by Camille Aubry (A Journey to Motherhood) –  the latter of whom I first met at an ELCAF portfolio…

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This Place is a Prison, These People Aren’t Your Friends – Alexandra Gallant-Lee Explores the Ethics of Our Relationships with Carceral Spaces

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2026

Alexandra Gallant-Lee’s This Place is a Prison, These People Aren’t Your Friends is a zine-style exploration of a subject that is unafraid to ask difficult questions. Using her background in…

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