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FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we reported that cartoonist Peter Kuper (Ruins, Spy Vs. Spy, World War III Illustrated) had been announced as a 2026 Pulitzer…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! There’s something about Katriona Chapman’s The Pass that reminds the reader of the structure of a stage play. It’s a nuanced character study to start with. But…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Graphic Medicine as a genre did not exist in 1955 when Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein cast their editorial net wide after their EC horror comics were…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The 1920s in occupied Korea saw the beginning of Japan’s bunka seiji, or cultural policy. Behind a veneer of modern progress, Koreans were allowed more freedom of…
Back in June for our Pride Month coverage at Broken Frontier I interviewed a number of creators for the very first time. One of those subjects was Nessie Mooo whose…
It’s been an astonishing twelve years since the last time I reviewed a comic from Kate Hazell, the rather idiosyncratic Single Black Glove telling the story of a singular item…
Deepesh Sangtani’s Konni-Chhua comes to us from Kutty Press who we interviewed here at Broken Frontier earlier this year. Sangtani and co-founder Bhavani Balasubramanyam describe their publishing output as being…
A few years back at BF I reviewed Giorgio Pandiani’s ecologically-themed short story collection A Day on the River (& Other Stories) saying of it then that it was “solid…
Blackheath Folk: Local History and Folklore is the kind of zine project that really sums up the spirit of Small Press Day. It’s been put together by the volunteer staff…
To see new regional community hubs forming in the UK comics scene is always reassuring. Such networks organically foster a sense of mutual support and collaboration after all. Great oaks…
It is not uncommon for us here at Broken Frontier to revisit self-published projects when they are picked up by publishers to provide commentary that both repurposes previous reviews and…
Rae Whitlock is a multidisciplinary creator from Richmond, Virginia. She earned a MFA in Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Some of her previous self-published…
Pomegranate Flowers runs on the trigger association between memories. I re-read this piece many times and slowly, I could start to connect one moment’s meaning to another, even if they…
Sometime towards the end of 1969, an American musical group called The 5th Dimension recorded the opening of the Declaration of Independence for a song they performed on national television….
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Finding a new angle on such a played-out genre as super-heroes is not an impossible one but it’s not an easy one either. While the Big Two…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! “I think Limbo is probably the best work I’ve ever done in any medium.” When a creator makes a statement like that in an interview it’s obviously something…
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! New issues of Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Pricks have been one of the highlights of the debut releases at Thought Bubble over the last few years….
ARC FESTIVAL 2026! When we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ back in January I spoke in more depth about why alt-style comics artist Francis Todd had been…
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
