A 2024 Broken Frontier Award-nominated book in the Best Graphic Non-Fiction category, writer Fernando Trueba and artist Javier Mariscal’s They Shot the Piano Player is both a celebration of a period of…
A return to the UK small press world today and a look at one of the many comics I bought at Thought Bubble last year and have only just got…
“Cold Chips is simply one of the most confident first-time self-published efforts I have seen in my nearly two decades of reviewing at BF.” Those were my words earlier this…
With its vibrant use of colour and chaotic energy the cover of Sanika Phawde’s Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #1 instantly catches the reader’s eye and practically implores them to…
It has admittedly been a few years since I last reviewed work from Jamie Kinroy at Broken Frontier. Back in 2022 I covered Spit Dog, a two-feature comic with the…
Founded in the early part of the pandemic Guru Comics are a London-based micropublisher specialising in genre fiction comics that range from horror to science fiction, crime noir to satire….
Cara Brown may just be starting her comics practice but this 2025 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist has already amassed a small body of work that demonstrates her ability…
News today from the direction of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective, the independent collective of professionals from the UK comics community who have been collaborating since February 2023 to amplify…
Today we bring you the first of our interview series for the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists for 2025 and our initial subject is Zen K. aka Zenab Khan….
Described as “a newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism” the Comics Courier debuted last year not just to widespread praise but also notable enthusiasm for its method of presentation….
Something we perhaps discuss less frequently when we refer to the “language of comics” is how alternative forms of delivery can provide different storytelling tools. There are opportunities available in…
With the last few days of the Kickstarter campaign for her new book, Second Shift, winding down we’re taking the time to look at Kit Anderson’s first Avery Hill book…
Can it really be the tenth edition of Small Press Day? Founded by JAM Bookshop’s David Ziggy Greene (Private Eye, Scene & Heard), the event’s mission is to forge links…
While all the comics work we have recently covered on the genocide in Gaza has been deeply affecting, today’s addition to our Broken Frontier Palestine Resource List is particularly heartrending….
Over the last few weeks the comics community has been deeply concerned about the plight of British cartoonist R. E. Burke, detained for 19 days in the US by ICE…
A return to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner feature today at BF where we spotlight campaigns we have either discovered ourselves or by sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests…
And so to the final release from the latest clutch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! minicomics (catch up with our most recent reviews of the series here). Ukranian…
A week or so back on social media I spoke of an upcoming review of a book that you would not have heard of yet but was going to be…
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
“All the Characters are Basically Me, in One Way or Another” — An Interview with Ned Wenlock on His Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel ‘Tsunami’ from Pow Pow PressApril 30, 2025“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press SceneApril 24, 2025“I Think it’s so Valuable to Have More Vulnerable Works Out There” – Cara Brown on Mental Health in Comics, Creative Process and Starting Her Artistic JourneyApril 23, 2025“I Think Comics Have So Much Versatility in the Way They Can Tell a Story” – Zen K. Talks Comics Craft and Language, Manga Inspirations, and Being Published by Koguchi PressApril 16, 2025
