Readers may see the major plot twist of Joe Sparrow’s Cuckoo coming well in advance and, indeed, it’s hardly disguising itself given that it’s there front and centre in the…
As a general rule we don’t encourage copying large swathes of text directly from the publicity of work we review at BF. But in the case of Isabel Greenberg’s The…
With a title that uses a simple but wonderfully catchy play on words Huda Fahmy’s Huda F Are You? is another collection of the cartoonist’s experiences as an American Muslim…
Coming in November from Image Comics, Rob Williams and Pye Parr’s Petrol Head is a fast-paced foray into a future ravaged by climate change. It brings together an unlikely hotrod-racing…
London’s Cartoon Museum played host to the Tripwire Awards last night (Wednesday, September 20th) and Broken Frontier were there to pick up the 2023 Award for Best Comics-Related Website/Publication. A…
In these times of deep environmental concern comics projects that raise ecological awareness and a love of the natural world among younger readers are vitally important. Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, September 21st for a Tripwire Awards Special. Not only do…
Your must-read comics article of the weekend! If you are active in comics community you may already be aware of the work of a small group of comics activists have…
For a certain generation of Roy of the Rovers fans there’s one era of the popular football strip (US readers may hereon mentally insert “soccer” into each reference to football…
(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…
While stories of addiction – in all its multiple forms – are an established sub-genre of graphic medicine it could be argued that when that dependency is alcohol-related the amount…
There has certainly been something of a noticeable uptick in children’s books being offered for review to us at Broken Frontier of late that combine narrated illustration and traditional comics….
Many people who have been around the UK small press scene for decades rather than years have a version of the same anecdote; of how when they first discovered small…
After an Ignatz win in 2022 for Outstanding Minicomic and a 2023 nomination for Outstanding Artist, there’s far, far more than just a growing buzz around Caroline Cash’s PeePee-PooPoo anthology…
Joe Kessler’s singular vision has been one of UK indie comics’ greatest gifts to us over the last decade. Not solely because of his astonishingly intuitive understanding of the form,…
A recent Ignatz nominee in the Best Artist category, Darlin’ and Her Other Names Part 1: Marta is described as a werewolf-western-horror-romance comic. If that blending of genres doesn’t immediately…
I have bemoaned the marginalisation of old school DIY culture on multiple occasions here at Broken Frontier; that ethos that declares self-publishing comics and zines gives a voice to everyone…
As something of a lapsed reader of 2000 AD as a weekly phenomenon, who these days dips into trade collections rather than following short serialised strips, I find the comic’s…
“We Wanted this to Be a Fast-Paced, Funny Adventure” – Rob Williams and Pye Parr on ‘Petrol Head’, Their “Fast & the Robo-Furious” Sci-Fi Series from Image ComicsSeptember 22, 2023
Down a (Welsh) Rabbit Hole – A Work-in-Progress Look at ‘The Noisy Valley’ by Myfanwy TristramSeptember 1, 2023
“Our Internal Shorthand for AHOY is Funny Vertigo” – Celebrating Five Years of Acclaimed Satire and Humour with AHOY Comics’ Tom Peyer and Stuart MooreAugust 16, 2023
Looking Back on Small Press Day 2023 – A Remarkable Celebration of the Creative Affluence of the Small Press Scene in the UK and IrelandAugust 14, 2023
“Trust Yourself Enough to Stick to Your Vision” – Beck Kubrick on the Comics Publishing JourneyAugust 3, 2023
