Night Terror – Grisly, Whimsical and Sinister Dreams from John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics
A viscous, elongated creature with the body of a large crow, the skull of a man, and a gaping mouth full to the brim of sharp teeth shrieks down at…
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The Weight – D+Q Gives Melissa Mendes’s Beautiful Webcomic the Attention It Has Long Deserved
A decade or so ago, while speaking about her plan for The Weight, which had yet to be completed, American artist Melissa Mendes spoke of her love of family sagas that spanned generations….
Raging Clouds – Yudori Confronts Patriarchy with a Story of Resilience, Friendship and Freedom
The act of invention is rarely just about machines or ideas. It’s also about survival and resilience, and finding ways to imagine freedom when the world insists on restraint. In…
This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story – Hayley Gullen’s Funny, Frank and Insightful Graphic Memoir
“One night in April 2022”, begins Hayley Gullen’s memoir, “PAIN PAIN PAIN. [thought bubble:] That’s weird… Wrong time of the month and only one boob. Oh. It’s stopped. [Yawn] I’ll…
Seeing in the Watery Underworld – Ecological Deliberations from Niki Bañados Who Takes Us on a Trip to the Microscopic World of Stygobites
Niki Bañados describes her new comic Seeing in the Watery Underworld in the following intriguing terms: “A comic in which we descend 60 metres underground and meet prawnlike creeps with…
I ♡ Kill – Monsters, Fantasy and Pointless Bureaucracy All Come Together in April Newton’s Frenetically Funny Comics One-Shot
“I’d like to join your hellish crusade of monsters in the quest to destroy mankind and all that it stands for!” That’s a sentence that quickly becomes a most effective…
Reluctant Sadist #9 – Hal Weaver’s Old School Minicomic with a Bigfoot Theme
Hal Weaver is based in Riga, Latvia, also home of publishing house kuš! comics. He published seven issues of Reluctant Sadist from 1985 to 1989 (with an additional collected edition)…
Zineapalooza – Party On as the Zinezilla Comics Anthology Returns with Work from Mereida Fajardo, Beastly Worlds, C A Strike, Rein Lee and More
With the Bristol-based small press fair extravaganza that is Zinezilla coming around again this Sunday, September 7th it’s pleasing to see the return of the event’s signature anthology as well….
Cannon – Lee Lai Lives Up to All the Promise of Her Award-Winning Debut ‘Stone Fruit’ with a Powerful, Bittersweet Follow-Up
A few years ago, not long after her debut Stone Fruit had won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics, and was listed as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,…
mini kus! #131: Animal Denial – Émilie Gleason Looks at Animal Rights, Factory Farming and the Environment in this Memorable Satirical Minicomic
Sometimes when it comes to social commentary in comics – and in any medium to be frank – humour can be far more effective than more heavy-handed moralising. Belgian-Mexican creator…
Toto Bunny Zine #1 and #2 – Kiera Won’s Minicomics Are a Delightful, Fold-Out Experience
Kiera Won’s Toto Bunny Zine – the first two of which we will be looking at today at Broken Frontier – take us into genuinely minicomic territory, given that each…
Silent Planet – Rob Jackson Takes Us on a Visually Led Journey to an Alien World
I am not sure why there’s been such a long gap in between reviews of Rob Jackson comics at Broken Frontier. The versatile, genre-jumping creator behind projects like Slaves of…
Physics For Cats – Tom Gauld Showcases his Caustic Wit to Celebrate the Geeks Who Walk Amongst Us
There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he puts out. The first are those who can’t help…
The Stoneshore Register – A Subtle Story about Unresolved Mysteries from G. Willow Wilson, M.K. Perker and Dark Horse
The plot of The Stoneshore Register is both simple and elusive. A refugee called Fadumo turns up looking for a job in a fishing town called Stoneshore, on the north…
The Legend of Kamui Vol. 2 – Drawn & Quarterly Takes Shirato Sanpei’s Saga Forward with a Second Volume of the Manga Classic
Earlier this year, an English translation of Shirato Sanpei’s celebrated tale of ninjas in seventeenth century Japan was published by Drawn & Quarterly. This was remarkable for several reasons, starting…
Blood Doughnut – Will Powers Shows Us the Other Side of Vampire Life
“You should just always be reaching a little further than you think is actually possible.” The fitting words of small press creator Will Powers from an interview we ran with…
Total Recall of the Heart #1 – Phoebe Hedges and Lizzie Styles Give Us a Queer Cyberpunk Love Story with a Grimy Allure
When you review serialised comics as rarely as I do one immediate and obvious observation you make is that comics commentary on a first issue is like critiquing the first…
The Players, The Fool and a Few Fish – Madzillus Calls Upon Timeless Theatrical Tropes in this Queer Melodramatic Debut Graphic Novel
If I was asked what graphic novel I thought was most comparable to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, but set in the early 2000s, I might say The Players, The…
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