Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, May 26th with a very special ‘Anniversaries’ night. Not only…
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One of the things I learnt a long time ago about Douglas Noble collaborations is that the reader should never make assumptions about the particular creative alchemy going on behind…
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There are comics that feel like the subjects they touch on are inspired by direct personal experience, or that even if they are not their themes are so universal that…
One of the things I have come to admire so much about Canadian publisher Conundrum Press is that they have no easily categorised brand identity. If you sift through our…
Unlike many of the books we have covered here at Broken Frontier that deal with the trans experience Call Me Nathan is a semi-fictionalised account of that journey rather than…
“One of 2020’s most remarkable achievements in comics” was how I described Quarantine Comix, Rachael Smith’s autobiographical series of comic strips a year or two back at Broken Frontier. Originally…
Generally in the preamble to an interview we summarise the topic in hand with a brief overview of creator/project. But in the case of of R.D. Hunter’s Black Boy’s Blues:…
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Small press comics that act as samplers to an artist whose work you have not previously discovered are always a welcome entry point into a creator’s oeuvre. Stefan Gruber’s Scentagons…
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It’s endlessly fascinating to see how varied the approaches to pandemic comics have been over the last couple of years. From the earnest and the profound to the metaphorical and…
If you follow UK comics social media to any degree then you will surely have come across the work of artist Lyndon White, even if you don’t immediately recognise his…
What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…
As we revealed last month, this year’s Small Press Day will take place on Saturday, August 13th and will adopt a hybrid approach. This will allow for both in-person events…
Small press anthologies just don’t seem to have the prevalence they had several years ago when they seemed to almost swamp the self-published shelves in UK comics stores. That Comic…
Long held to be a masterpiece of socialist literature, Robert Tressell’s classic novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was first published in 1914. Set in the town of Mugsborough, it features…
Some years ago when I was making my weekly trip to London’s Gosh! Comics the late, great Steve Walsh (the most recent inductee into our Broken Frontier Hall of Fame)…
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Over the last couple of years our Broken Frontier ‘One-Tweet Reviews’ event for Small Press Day – an opportunity for artists to post four pages of their work on Twitter…
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The UK comics scene is particularly blessed at the moment with a rich surfeit of abstract comics goodness from a number of boundary-pushing practitioners. Peony Gent, Olivia Sullivan, Mereida Fajardo,…
The winner of the Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction in 2021, writer Rebecca Hall and artist Hugo Martinez’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts is not…
Inside Look: The Junction – My Error Strewn Path to PublicationMay 25, 2022“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics PageMay 16, 2022
“Religious Groups Claim Moral Superiority but Target the Most Vulnerable” – Jessica Campbell Makes Her Case With ‘Rave’, For Drawn & QuarterlyMay 4, 2022
“Making Art is How I Transcend My Self” – Matthew Thurber on ‘Mr Colostomy’, His New Graphic Novel for Drawn & QuarterlyApril 18, 2022
“I’m Not Surprised Canada Isn’t Helping Us” – Emily Carrington on Confronting Her Painful Past with Drawn & Quarterly’s ‘Our Little Secret’April 1, 2022
