FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Blending documented fact and speculative fiction Marcelo D’Salete’s Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom is a meticulously researched re-creation of the story of…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Raquelle Jac’s long-form comics debut, Bimbo Agitprop, debuted this month from Fantagraphics and, for what it’s worth, it’s already one of my books of the year. It’s…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Working conditions and fair recompense for comics creators is a subject that feels, unfortunately, eternally relevant and never-changing (in anything but a superficial degree.) Joe D’Esposito’s The…
Perhaps it may seem a little strange for me to be writing some form of report on a two-day programming-driven festival that I was only at for day one. But…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Years in the making, Joe D’Esposito’s The Outsider comes to us next month from Fantagraphics detailing the life, career and struggles of the legendary EC Comics artist…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier we reported that cartoonist Peter Kuper (Ruins, Spy Vs. Spy, World War III Illustrated) had been announced as a 2026 Pulitzer…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! There’s something about Katriona Chapman’s The Pass that reminds the reader of the structure of a stage play. It’s a nuanced character study to start with. But…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! In the first of our spotlight interviews for our celebratory Fantagraphics month at Broken Frontier we chat with cartoonist Jesse Moynihan about the epic Forming, first published…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! We like putting on event coverage here at Broken Frontier Towers and it’s become something of a staple of our output over the years. And you, our…
Back in June for our Pride Month coverage at Broken Frontier I interviewed a number of creators for the very first time. One of those subjects was Nessie Mooo whose…
With no less than twenty events taking place in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and even the US, this year’s Small Press Day built on the foundations of last year’s reinvigorated…
It’s been an astonishing twelve years since the last time I reviewed a comic from Kate Hazell, the rather idiosyncratic Single Black Glove telling the story of a singular item…
Deepesh Sangtani’s Konni-Chhua comes to us from Kutty Press who we interviewed here at Broken Frontier earlier this year. Sangtani and co-founder Bhavani Balasubramanyam describe their publishing output as being…
A few years back at BF I reviewed Giorgio Pandiani’s ecologically-themed short story collection A Day on the River (& Other Stories) saying of it then that it was “solid…
You’d have to be very new to the scene not to be aware that this Saturday July 25th is Small Press Day across the UK and Ireland and there’s a…
Blackheath Folk: Local History and Folklore is the kind of zine project that really sums up the spirit of Small Press Day. It’s been put together by the volunteer staff…
To see new regional community hubs forming in the UK comics scene is always reassuring. Such networks organically foster a sense of mutual support and collaboration after all. Great oaks…
Bringing together two legendary comics titles from the late 20th century in one package, A1 Deadline is an anthology that both builds on the past and looks to the future….
“There Have Been So Many Highlights!” – Publisher Andy Brown on 30 Years of Conundrum Press, Discovering Unique Voices in Comics, and the Realities of Arts Funding in CanadaOctober 20, 2026
“I Love Exploring Themes of Culture, Family and Siblinghood” – Shri Gunasekara on Experimenting with the Form, Colour as a Storytelling Device, and Artistic ProcessOctober 19, 2026
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
