#ArtMubarak 2022 is imminent! The hashtag-led social media event aiming to celebrate art from the Muslim community and uplift the voices of Muslim artists from around the world returns for…
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SLCZF WEEK! After a break of four years the hugely popular South London Comic and Zine Fair (SLCZF) is back on Sunday July 10th at Stanley Arts, and this time…
With a very well-received long-form collection of stories recently released, and a growing body of genre comics work building up, Ramsey Hassan (aka RAMZEE) still manages to impressively juggle his…
As you all know, comics community is very important to us here at Broken Frontier so we are always keen to put a spotlight on projects and initiatives that bring…
Celebrating Pride Month! Collecting the recent four-issue Dark Horse Comics miniseries, Killer Queens is a snappy, high-speed, intergalactic romp with a queer comics focus. If the title doesn’t give a…
Celebrating Pride Month! Given that we have been running a number of reviews this month for Pride 2022 it feels appropriate to also give some space to relevant work that…
Last week at Broken Frontier we looked at Tales of the Talented Tenth, another comics biographical publication that put a spotlight on notable Black figures of the past largely forgotten…
Interesting developments today as Marvel have revealed that they have regained the license to the Planet of the Apes comics for the first time since the 1970s. Part of the…
Celebrating Pride Month! Taking a Scottish folk ballad dating back to the sixteenth century as its starting point Aven Wildsmith’s Tamlin, from Knight Errant Press, brings queer romance, mythology and…
Projects like Joel Christian Gill’s Tales of the Talented Tenth may be celebratory in intent, but they are also a vital reminder of how much work there is still to…
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…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“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
