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I probably say it to the point of tedium but on the few occasions that we do review super-hero comics at Broken Frontier it’s because they have something different to…
1909. A bespectacled young man, Henry Naughton, has recently returned from the city, following his father’s death, to stay with his mother and younger brother on the family farm in…
There are scores of talented cartoonists on the Bluesky social media network. sleepyhouse2 from Detroit, Michigan stands out among the crowd with her sometimes haunting posts and colourful serialized comics…
Oni Press’s EC Comics revival has been notable not just for bringing non-super-hero genre comics fiction to the fore but for being at the front of a mini resurgence in…
Hog Hog: A Hedgehog Anthology comes to us via 2026 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell. Its origins lie in the artist’s recent fascination with hedgehogs,…
“The first generation were quiet, the second generation felt they couldn’t ask, and now the third generation tries to find out what happened.” It’s a framing that haunts Remember Us…
While the Colossive Cartographies series constantly crosses through illustrative mediums its sixty-ninth issue, ‘A Fragile Obsession’ by Mel Gale, undeniably fits into the category of minicomic. Its 16-panel comic strip…
Stories about quiet seaside towns with something dark to hide feel almost like a sub-genre of British horror in themselves. Dix’s The Idris File follows the 1970s exploits of teenage…
In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago burst onto the comic scene with his English debut: Dementia 21 (reviewed here at Broken Frontier), a collection of absurdist short stories. Reminiscent of…
Billed as “a slice of North-Eastern crime” The Closing Hour is that all too rare thing in one-shot comics genre fiction – a satisfying complete-in-one story that also blends deep…
Since we reviewed the first issue of Sanika Phawde’s Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas here last year at BF the comic has gone on to win in the Outstanding Series…
When a comic is described as “a 40-page exploration of thinking and perceiving, a love letter to the brain (and hate mail to AI) that champions the beauty of thinking…
If you read Broken Frontier with any degree of regularity you will know that I often long wistfully for the days when small press comics self-publishing in the UK had…
It did not surprise me when investigating the work of Dina Omut further that her story in mini kuš! #138 was apparently based on a dream she had a couple…
Matthew Dooley is undoubtedly one of the wittiest people working in comics today. Sometimes that wit can be biting and dark, as in his alternate universe story of a failed…
“What if we met outside of time? Would we be friends? Or would we never understand each other? There is nothing left to see, but there is much left to…
Adapting Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s best-selling study Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States to a slimmer comics format while retaining its core essence is, of course, an achievement in itself. As…
Reading the sleekly illustrated mini kuš! #136 (‘Rain in Tears’) directly after its predecessor, #135’s loose and meandering ‘The Boy and the Worm’ only serves to underline just how much the…
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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
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