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To read about loss is always hard, given how someone else’s pain inadvertently resonates with one’s own. What’s harder is coming to terms with loss that makes no sense, because…
Another worthy example of New York Review Comics’ vital role as an indie/alt/small press archival publisher Brad Neely’s Creased Comics compiles his offbeat gag cartoons, originally published between 1995 and…
The First Graphic Novel Award (formerly Competition) is one of those UK comics institutions that the scene would be all the poorer without. It provides the winner with a rare…
The worlds of 2000 AD as a shared universe have never been as intertwined in the same way as their American counterparts. There were obvious links between some strips in…
There are multiple directions from where you may have become familiar with the contributions of cartoonist David Ziggy Greene. Perhaps it was from his groundbreaking graphic reportage series Scene &…
There are some pages in this powerful tale that are hard to explain because they don’t appear to fit in with the larger narrative. There are images of feet, and…
Lee Daye, the protagonist of South Korean artist Choi Sungmin’s Narrow Rooms, is a young woman preparing for her annual art exam. Far from home and alone in the big…
Endsickness is both the title of Sofia Alarcon’s collection of environmentally themed short comics stories and a term denoting the existential angst many feel as the world around us becomes…
Very broadly speaking, the work that we tag for our socially relevant Broken Frontier comics resource lists falls into two camps. There’s the graphic memoir or biography side bringing personal…
While other entries in the mini kuš! series can be enjoyed for their aesthetics, narrative or abstraction, ‘BLJ’, #139 in the long-running minicomics series, is one of the most fascinating recent…
It’s been over a decade since I first covered Olivia Sullivan’s comics, back in the days when she was contributing to the much-missed Dirty Rotten Comics anthology. Since then, of…
The story that gives this collection its title is also a succinct introduction to what anyone unfamiliar with Michael DeForge can expect. The title of All the Cameras in My…
Activism is a key part of the Broken Frontier ethos which is why we have spent so much time on developing our page of Broken Frontier comics resource lists for…
As a general rule we usually leave super-heroes to other sites to cover. But there are always exceptions. When we do give space to them at Broken Frontier it’s either…
One of the most interesting things a fan of any artist can do is invest time and energy in following the evolution of said artist. When this is done long…
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…
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…
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…
“There’s Value in Being the Oddbeat Offering Which Has an Unusual Niche” – Steve Morris Talks about Shelfdust’s Approach to Comics Criticism and Where it All Went Wrong for Comics Commentary OnlineMay 11, 2026
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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
