One of the greatest strengths of comics is that in being a purely visual medium, they can use evocative cartooning to charge even the most threadbare of plots with meaning….
Hobo Mom is not the first comics link between The End of the Fucking World‘s Charles Forsman and Belgian creator Max de Radiguès (Weegee: Serial Photographer). If you were a subscriber…
Fantagraphics have had a steady presence in our reviews section here at Broken Frontier this year with coverage of some standout books like Now, The Sea and Dementia 21. You…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
Shintaro Kago’s Dementia 21 is a surprising graphic novel in that it takes his well-known ability to render characters in grotesque situations and uses it as a way to tackle…
Just days after Gary Groth’s extensive interview with Tomi Ungerer in the relaunched print version of The Comics Journal came the news that the veteran artist had passed away at the…
When we last reviewed an issue of Fantagraphics’ bumper-sized anthology series Now at Broken Frontier we described it as “a vitally important piece of comics curation that deserves to be…
Danish artist Rikke Villadsen’s The Sea – her debut English language comics offering from Fantagraphics – is as much extended visual metaphor as it is narrative. Its protagonist is a seaworn…
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…
Even with its minimalist style, blank slate characters, and a complete lack of dialogue, Penguins – Nick Thorburn’s collection of tragi-comic strips – is still acutely able to tap into the anxieties…
Back in 2015, Robert Goodin’s The Kurdles proved to be an eerie delight of a graphic novel from Fantagraphics Books. It told the story of Sally, a teddy bear separated…
We view press releases at BF as a springboard for potential future coverage rather than content in and of themselves. But every so often we receive one that contains news…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital storefront,…
The crime noir opener to Ho Che Anderson’s latest output via Fantagraphics reveals a man blindfolded and held at gunpoint. Painted contours depict a masked kidnapper, his motivations as shadowy…
Why Art? Not What Art or When Art or How Art Thou? Eleanor Davis tackles one of those kind of stupid while at the same time super important questions with…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST NEW SERIES NOMINEE! While the US serial comics anthology seems unlikely to enjoy a populist re-emergence in the immediate future – as Dark Horse’s abrupt…
