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…
If there were ever a time to “wage war on billionaires”, as the promo blurb for Patrick Horvath’s Free For All puts it, it is right here and now. This…
A third outing for UK small press comics legend Ed Pinsent in the Colossive Cartographies series from Colossive Press acts as a welcome reminder of the unique vision of this…
Hitting us on an annual schedule Jonathan Baylis’s So Buttons anthology series sees Baylis collaborating with numerous artists to bring largely autobiographical snapshots to life. One of its greatest selling…
If Assorted Crisis Events #1 is just one thing then it’s a book for the spirit of the age. In this first issue, writer Deniz Camp and artist Eric Zawadzki…
UPDATE: Becky is home! This one is very personal to the Broken Frontier team. R. E. Burke (who wrote for Broken Frontier as Rebecca Burke between 2020 and 2023) is…
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…
As the cartoonist behind Palestine, unquestionably a seminal piece of graphic journalism, and its follow-up Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco’s commentary on the genocide in Gaza over the last year…
Josh Pettinger describes the first issue of his Pleasure Beach series simply as “a PTSD fever dream about going home.” That though, and the apparent subtitle of ‘Hot Summer Megadepression’,…
When Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One hit shelves back in 2017 it was, as we all know, an indie phenomenon. Ostensibly a murder mystery wrapped in…
Last year here at BF we looked at Bigger, a previous minicomic from 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mike Armstrong, and one that in thematic terms used fantasy…
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