Sour Grapes – Rein Lee Portrays “an Asexual’s Worst Nightmare” in this Haunting Minicomic
PRIDE MONTH 2025! It will come as no surprise to anyone who is a regular visitor to Broken Frontier just how much of an amazing prospect I believe 2025 Broken…
Author: Andy Oliver
Thought Bubble and Travelling Man Team Up to Provide Another Round of Micro-Bursaries in 2025 for Early Career, Marginalised Creators
We are all very aware of what harrowing times we are living in and of the challenges now facing marginalised communities. At the beginning of the year we spoke about…
Young Men in Love: New Romance – A Heady Mix of Genres Makes for a Rewarding Read in A Wave Blue World’s Latest LGBTQIA+ Anthology
PRIDE MONTH 2025! A Wave Blue World’s queer comics anthologies have garnered deserved critical acclaim in recent times. Indeed they have also become a staple of our annual Pride Month…
DC Pride 2025 #1 – The DCU’s LGBTQIA+ Characters Come Together in a Sprawling Narrative Built on a Foundation of Love
PRIDE MONTH 2025! It is, of course, very rare for us to cover super-hero comics here at Broken Frontier. But Pride Month is one of those occasions when we are…
Treading Water – Rowan Frewin’s Story of Gender Identity and Self-Realisation Spreads a Welcome and Positive Message
PRIDE MONTH 2025! We’ve reviewed a number of projects featuring Rowan Frewin’s work over the last year and a half here at Broken Frontier, encompassing a number of different formats….
The Metalhead Next Door – Mamita’s Gay Love Story of the Awkward Relationship Between Neighbours is a Slowly Building Yet Intense Character Piece
PRIDE MONTH 2025! As love stories go, Mamita’s The Metalhead Next Door is something of a slow burn. This is not a criticism because this pensive, introspective pacing is very…
Boy Island – Leo Fox Takes Us to an Allegorical Fantasy World as He Again Explores the Realities of the Trans Lived Experience
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Last year for Pride Month at Broken Frontier I covered Leo Fox’s My Body Unspooling, a remarkable study of dysphoria and trans identity. Here we are, almost…
Florrie: A Football Love Story – Anna Trench Brings Us a Touching Queer Love Story Set in the Early Years of Women’s Football
PRIDE MONTH 2025! When a project has been shortlisted for both the First Graphic Novel Competition and the LDComics Prize you know it has quite the impressive back story. Anna…
Tidal Waves – Homophobia and Cycles of Abuse Explored in Rein Lee’s Unflinching Portrayal of a Toxic Relationship
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed our 2025 ‘Six to Watch’ creator Rein Lee’s comic My Taxidermy Angel declaring it to be “incredibly confident early…
Happy Pride Month! – Welcome to Broken Frontier’s 2025 Celebration of Our Queer Comics Community
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Although LGBTQIA coverage is a regular all year round part of our posting at BF, Pride Month is always extremely important to us as an even more…
Don’t Fold Press Presents the ‘Something Alien’ Anthology – Established Indie Creators Team Up with Exciting New Voices in this Debut Comic from a New UK Micropublisher
It’s always exciting to see a new micropublishing venture on the UK scene and PJ Fairweather’s Don’t Fold Press makes its debut with an anthology mixing familiar small press names…
Generative AI Art and Comics, an Articles Series at Broken Frontier – Guidelines for Contributors
There are few discussions that have brought the comics community together as firmly in recent years as the threat of generative AI “art”. In the same vein as some of…
Colossive Cartographies #66 – davidt dunlop’s ‘Heartbroken’ is a Striking and Powerful Contribution to the Fold-Out Zines Series
Every Colossive Press-related review at the moment needs to start with a reminder that the South London micropublisher will be celebrating five years of their Colossive Cartographies series with a…
Preview: Cimarron (The Wild One) – The Story of Explorer and Chief Scout Dwayne Fields Comes to Comics Courtesy of Soi Books, Sophie McVeigh and BF Six to Watch 2025 Artist Shuning Ji
Hearing that one of our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators has been picked up by a publisher is always an absolute joy for us here at Broken Frontier…
Kusama: Polka Dot Queen – Simon Elliott’s Graphic Biography of the Influential Artist is an Intriguing Entry Point into Her Practice
Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has been the subject of a spotlight in comics form before. Back in 2021 Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins reviewed Elisa Macellari’s Kusama: The Graphic Novel,…
Colossive Cartographies #65 – Hayley Gullen Shares Her ‘Adventures in Pictland’
Even with their fifth anniversary party coming up at London’s Gosh! Comics it’s hard to believe now that Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines have been such a…
Cramp – Fredrik Rysjedal Obsesses Over a Fear of Drowning in this Slyly Funny Take on Autobio Comics
There’s something that I like to think of as a sophisticated minimalism to Norwegian creator Fredrik Rysjedal’s short comic Cramp. It’s a simple enough premise. Rysjedal grew up living by…
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press Perspective
Many years ago, on a panel at the late, lamented London shop Orbital Comics, I was asked about my role in comics journalism. My answer was a simple one. “I’m…
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“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
“I Think ‘Limbo’ is Probably the Best Work I’ve Ever Done in Any Medium” – Ferry Gouw on His New Book from Breakdown Press, Cross-Media Work on ‘Major Lazer’, and Adapting His Style for Different ProjectsJune 30, 2026
“Trans People Are Facing Pronounced Challenges to Our Rights Across the World Right Now” – Jua OK! on ‘Road to Chimera’ and Finding Spiritual Meaning in the Trans JourneyJune 29, 2026
“Don’t Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Done – Finish Things” – AJ O’Neill on Finding Your Voice in Comics, Queer Autobio, and Experimenting with the FormJune 25, 2026