Celebrating Pride Month! Sometimes in comics commentary you can be very aware of work that can only be described as a true publishing phenomenon without having directly experienced it yourself….
Celebrating Pride Month! Despite social awkwardness being at the heart of each instalment, Okura’s I Think Our Son is Gay is a truly delightful collection of short strips that sits…
Opening tomorrow at the Bookery Gallerie in London ‘The Graphic Novels of Mary Talbot’ is a new exhibition of original art by Bryan Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Alwyn Talbot from…
Celebrating Pride Month! As we move ever onwards into this year’s Pride Month it’s important to remember that, while graphic memoirs and graphic biographies exploring the prejudice and challenges faced…
Celebrating Pride Month! Arguably no publisher has done as much as Arche Comics in the last several years in terms of both taking decades-old iconic characters in radical new directions…
Celebrating Pride Month! Part of First Second’s History Comics series spotlighting pivotal points in history for younger readers, The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights is an obviously…
It hardly needs saying that science fiction has always been a powerful medium for allegorical explorations of contemporary socio-political issues. Lane Milburn’s graphic novel Lure, from Fantagraphics, is an excellent…
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With 8 years of creators featured in our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ initiative it seems long overdue that we start giving some regular reports on…
There are lots of reasons why now is a most opportune moment to be chatting with cartoonist David Ziggy Greene. The former long-time Private Eye artist was the founder of…
Of all the standards of horror fiction those that touch on our childhood fears have a particular resonance. They represent a time in our lives when the wider world was…
As so much previously uncollected, or otherwise near impossible to find, vintage material has become available in print compilations over the last decade or so, it hasn’t always been the…
Congratulations today to our very own Jenny Robins who has been shortlisted in the V&A Illustration Awards 2022 for her Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition-winning book Biscuits (assorted), published by…
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It would be remiss of me to describe “British manga” specialists mayamada as simply a micropublisher. Besides establishing an inter-related comics universe of their own through successful crowdfunding, their wider…
As reported by The Guardian today, Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Sabba Khan (Class of 2017 and, once again, we did tell you!) has been announced as the winner…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, May 26th with a very special ‘Anniversaries’ night. Not only…
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One of the things I learnt a long time ago about Douglas Noble collaborations is that the reader should never make assumptions about the particular creative alchemy going on behind…
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There are comics that feel like the subjects they touch on are inspired by direct personal experience, or that even if they are not their themes are so universal that…
One of the things I have come to admire so much about Canadian publisher Conundrum Press is that they have no easily categorised brand identity. If you sift through our…
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
“A Room Full of Comics People is a True Joy to See!” – Marc Jackson on Bringing MACC-POW! to Macclesfield and the Resurgence of Kids Comics in the UKMay 25, 2026
