Imagine attending a school with violent teachers, barbed wires fences, and torture devices. Worse, imagine being unable to remember how or why you ended up there. Introducing Shadowplay: Volume 1:…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Kazimir Lee Iskander is a 2008 graduate of the Minnesota College of Art and Design (BFA, Animation), as well as a 2016 graduate of the Center For…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! George Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek. In 2019 he published They Called us Enemy, a graphic memoir which tells how he and his family,…
One thing I have come to expect from the work of Dave Baker (as seen in our coverage at Broken Frontier of his multiple comics collaborations with Nicole Goux) is…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! We have covered many graphic memoir accounts of trans lived experiences over the years here at Broken Frontier but in the pages of Élodie Durand’s Transitions: A…
Check out some preview pages from the highly anticipated The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic below… Legendary Magician/Author Alan Moore Joins Steve Moore and Five Artists to Present…
(Content warning: references to suicide follow). When you are entrenched in both the world of comics commentary, and the larger community of practice that surrounds it, you are constantly aware…
Admittedly we are catching up a little with some important press releases post-SLCZF including this one from Top Shelf Productions spotlighting November’s releases of Transitions: A Mother’s Journey by Élodie…
One of the particular perks of being a part of a platform like Broken Frontier is getting to see work-in-progress long before it reaches publishers and eventually book shop shelves….
PRIDE MONTH 2023! Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical novel A Boy’s Own Story was first published in 1982 and became the first in a trilogy of queer coming-of-age books. It has been…
A new year means new releases to plug. Below we have a first look at Álvaro Ortiz’s Ashes from Top Shelf Productions, hitting stores on February 7th. Polly, Moho, and…
With the Charles Schulz centenary inspiring us all to dig out those Peanuts collections there’s timely news indeed this week via Top Shelf Productions. Coming next summer Funny Things is…
A struggling witch, a failed musician and “a fantastical love story” are the key elements of Balazs Lorinczi’s Doughnuts and Doom, a new graphic novel debuting next week from Top…
If you love comics that tell stories in ways that only comics can then the work of sibling duo Peter and Maria Hoey is undoubtedly for you. We’ve given them…
The work of Peter and Maria Hoey under Coin-Op banner has had extensive coverage here at Broken Frontier in recent years. The sibling partnership are having something of a high…
Described by no less a cartooning legend than Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau as a “beautifully-rendered account of a rookie’s initiation into state politics: an exhilarating baptism of fire, and a…
Broken Frontier Award-nominated creators Peter and Maria Hoey of Coin-Op fame have a new comics anthology collection coming from Top Shelf Productions this December. The duo’s work is very highly…
There’s something intimately appealing about a graphic narrative that so deftly wrongfoots the reader by taking them in one assumed direction before turning their expectations on their head. I went…
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
“It’s about Fame, Friendship, and Just How Long You’re Willing to Fake it to Make it” – Duane Murray and Ahmed Raafat Talk ‘Who Are the Power Pals?’ from Dark HorseNovember 6, 2025
