Nicole Goux has become something of a semi-regular presence here at Broken Frontier over the last four years. Goux’s collaborations with Dave Baker in Fuck Off Squad, Everyone is Tulip…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, June 15th with a Pride Special. Not…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! Edmund White’s semi-autobiographical novel A Boy’s Own Story was first published in 1982 and became the first in a trilogy of queer coming-of-age books. It has been…
I have been saying for a few years now that the comparative dearth of new UK small press anthologies is not healthy for the scene so it’s always pleasing to…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! My Life in Transition is the second collection of Julia Kaye’s Super Late Bloomer series detailing her trans journey. We reviewed the first volume here last year…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! Photo comics are a fascinating alternative approach to the form. While they present themselves as following the same sequential structure as their more traditional illustrated counterparts the…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! With a new hardcover edition coming later this month, a review of Mike Curato’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel Flamer seems most appropriate for our Pride Month coverage. Set…
With over a decade’s experience of comics publishing and a focus on bringing translated French language comics to English-speaking audiences, Nicolas Rossert’s Sloth Comics has become a regular fixture on…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! As our reviews go, today’s look at Tillie Walden’s Alone in Space is going to be a slightly different reading experience. This collection of Walden’s first three…
Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and already virtually at its target, Rusalka – Whispers of the Forest is the latest comics work from our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! Even if you haven’t read all-ages graphic novel The Real Riley Mayes yet the chances are you will have heard of it. Rachel Elliott’s book has been…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! The last time we reviewed Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay was for our Pride Month celebrations in 2022, so it’s fitting that we…
Given how heavily it drew from the Lee-Ditko era of Amazing Spider-Man, the status of The Leopard from Lime Street as one of the more celebrated strips of the 1970s…
Over the last four years at Broken Frontier we have covered the collaborative work of the Nicole Goux-Dave Baker team on a number of projects, including Fuck Off Squad, Everyone…
Georgia Holland’s Before They Lay You Down is ostensibly a short story in the Western comics tradition. In reality, though, Holland’s minicomic is far more universal in its themes, exploring…
One of the less appealing aspects of “mainstream”/super-hero comics in the last decade and a half has been a propensity for confusing mocking the conventions of the form with self-referential…
Another of Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s ‘Conundrum 25’ celebratory series of graphic shorts, Billy Mavreas’s Next Time Around sits somewhere on the border between graphic medicine and graphic poetry. We’ve…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, May 18th with a special Quindrie Press night pushing their…
“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
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
