Giant – Mollie Ray’s Outstanding Debut Graphic Novel is a Tender and Moving Story of Family and Healing
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Four years ago as part of the online Small Press Day events on social media and in lieu of in-person events we…
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Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles – Revisiting Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Outstanding Queer Comics Re-Imagining of a Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Favourite
PRIDE MONTH 2024! One of the opportunities that our Pride Month celebrations provide each year is allowing us to revisit work that we may have missed the first time around….
Skin Deep – Flo Woolley’s Queer Horror Romance from Silver Sprocket Has a Strangely Unsettling Appeal
PRIDE MONTH 2024! When it comes to building up a range of genuinely indie queer comics output there are few publishers the equal of San Francisco-based Silver Sprocket. They will…
Fractures Book Two – A Wolfgang Crowe Depicts the Appalling Aftermath of Homophobic Brutality in the Second Issue of this Powerful Series
PRIDE MONTH 2024! In the first issue of A Wolfgang Crowe’s four-part series Fractures the readers became witnesses to a homophobic assault the artist endured some years ago while working…
BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Mereida Fajardo Longlisted for the World Illustration Awards for ‘Zayani Zam’
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the tenth year of our ‘Six Creators to Watch’ mentorship programme we’re determined to spotlight as many new achievements of our…
Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben – Trujillo and Hastings Ask Questions of How History Remembers Queer Voices
PRIDE MONTH 2024! The erasure of key LGBTQ+ figures and/or their queerness from history is a very deliberate and calculated exercise. It’s designed to enforce a rigid heteronormative view of…
My Body Unspooling – Leo Fox Meditates on the Philosophical Question of the Mind-Body Problem Via Silver Sprocket
PRIDE MONTH 2024! There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for…
Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann’s Story of Self-Discovery in a Strict Jewish Community
PRIDE MONTH 2024! Coming out is likely always going to be a momentous event for many but to do so within the context of a religiously strict family environment adds…
I Think Our Son is Gay Vol. 5 – The Focus Shifts in the Final Volume of Okura’s Heartwarming Manga Tale of Family and Acceptance
PRIDE MONTH 2024! If it’s Pride Month at Broken Frontier then it must be time for another review of Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay. We covered…
Happy Pride Month! – Welcome to Broken Frontier’s 2024 Celebration of Our Queer Comics Community
PRIDE MONTH 2024! For the last couple of years here at Broken Frontier we have been adding to our year-round commitment to our LGBTQIA community with a dedicated month of…
“Comics in Libraries Just Makes Sense” – The British Comics Now Delegation Talks About Their TCAF Experience
BRITISH COMICS NOW! If you followed all our pre-TCAF coverage then you’ll know the drill by now but let’s recap on what the British Comics Now programme is all about…
Exclusive Preview! Stingray: Deadly Uprising – New Comics Collections Featuring the Classic Supermarionation Characters Coming Soon as Part of the Multi-Platform 60th Anniversary ‘Stingray’ Event
“Anything can happen in the next half hour!” Those scene-setting words are just one of the many fondly remembered elements associated with 1960s pop cultural phenomenon Stingray. First broadcast in…
Sunflowers – Keezy Young’s Remarkable and Powerful Account of Living with Bipolar Disorder from Silver Sprocket
There’s an immediacy to comics that makes them a particularly powerful medium when it comes to communicating themes of mental health awareness. Not that any Broken Frontier readers would be…
Bad Medicine – Christopher Twin’s Conundrum Press Horror Anthology Takes Inspiration from Cree Folklore
Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s commitment to giving a voice to Indigenous creators has been notable in recent years. You can read more about Conundrum publisher Andy Brown’s feelings about that…
Gunhild Vol. 1 – Fred Tornager’s Endearingly Witty Manga Fantasy Series Blends Humour and Norse Mythology
Saturday AM brands itself as providing “the world’s most diverse manga-inspired comics.” A quick perusal of its publishing line-up underlines the strength of that claim with a plethora of titles…
Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos – New York Review Comics Bring Jay Jackson’s Seminal, Anti-Racist, Sci-Fi Newspaper Strip Back to Print
What continues to delight about the publishing catalogue of New York Review Comics is the way in which it embraces every era of comics, from republishing William Gropper’s 1930 proto-graphic…
Koguchi Magazine #2: Neo-Future – Dystopian Future Tech Runs Amok Courtesy of Alxndra Cook, Bon Idle, Justin Morales and Company
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! The second of Koguchi Press’s self-titled Koguchi Magazine anthology series comes with the subtitled theme of ‘Neo-Future’ and compiles seven short, complete,…
Watch the British Comics Now Video Celebrating the Work of the First TCAF Delegation!
BRITISH COMICS NOW! As you no doubt know by now after our interview coverage and, as mentioned at Broken Frontier earlier this year, six British/UK-based comic creators will be attending…
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