The Mongoose – Joana Mosi Takes on the Surreality of Grief and Loneliness
I have never read anything quite like Joana Mosi’s quietly powerful new graphic novel The Mongoose, from Pow Pow Press. The book follows a young woman named Julia who lives…
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Elon Musk: American Oligarch – Darryl Cunningham Provides an Outstanding Graphic Biography of a Real-Life Super-Villain
Daryl Cunningham has a proven track record of communicating extensively researched graphic journalism/biography with a remarkably accessible eloquence. We’ve seen it before in books like Supercrash: How to Hijack the…
Animan – An English Translation of Anouk Ricard’s Fabulous Creation is Finally Out Via Drawn & Quarterly and Every Page is a Delight
Sometime in 1983, Americans were treated to a television series about a superhero called Manimal. It featured a shape-shifting man who could turn himself into any animal he chose, and…
Action, Before the Ban: The Archival Collection Vol. 1 – The Controversial 1970s British Comic Returns to Print and Proves to Be a Vital Socio-Political Record of its Era
Back in the Twitter era I posted a few times on the subject of a possible archival collection of 2000 AD that would print compilations of full issue runs from…
Something Alien Anthology – PJ Fairweather’s New Micropress Offers a Sampling of the Stars in Their Debut Anthology
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…
Romo the Wolfboy – Mysterious Happenings in the Picaresque World of a Victorian Travelling Circus in ILYA’s New Graphic Novel From SelfMadeHero
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…
Appleguy & Beefwood – Fun, Pithy and Full of Unpretentious Wisdom, Cedar Van Tassel’s Graphic Novel is an Undeniable Gem
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…
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
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…
Was that Normal? – Alex Potts’ Quagmire, to Find Human Connection or to Be
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…
2 x Carol Swain – Dark & Golden Bring Two Carol Swain Character Studies of Lives on the Fringe Back to Print
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…
Sparrowsong – Alxndra Cook Leans Into Myth and Folklore in Her Latest Gorgeously Illustrated Graphic Novel from Koguchi Press
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…
Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists – Jessica Campbell Provides a Sly and Subversive Take on Male Artists, Patriarchy and the Art World
‘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….
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
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…
Dear Historian – Joff Winterhart Provides a Touching Examination of an Intergenerational Friendship via Jonathan Cape
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…
Sanctuary – Jenny Mure’s Haunting Fairy Tale of Motherhood, Magic and the Limits of Protection
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…
Short Stories – André Caetano Takes Us on a Trip into the Imagination in this Collection of Beautifully Rendered Work
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…
The Girl Who Draws on Whales – Ariela Kristantina’s Visually Arresting Water-World Story from Dark Horse Comics
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…
A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath – Jules Valera’s Abstract Trilogy Uses Cosmic Metaphor to Explore Very Human Experiences
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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