While other entries in the mini kuš! series can be enjoyed for their aesthetics, narrative or abstraction, ‘BLJ’, #139 in the long-running minicomics series, is one of the most fascinating recent…
It’s been over a decade since I first covered Olivia Sullivan’s comics, back in the days when she was contributing to the much-missed Dirty Rotten Comics anthology. Since then, of…
Activism is a key part of the Broken Frontier ethos which is why we have spent so much time on developing our page of Broken Frontier comics resource lists for…
As a general rule we usually leave super-heroes to other sites to cover. But there are always exceptions. When we do give space to them at Broken Frontier it’s either…
This is, by now, a familiar story. Arts funding being hit hard is not a peculiarly British problem and, in their thirtieth anniversary year, Canadian publisher Conundrum Press have been…
Daryl Cunningham has a proven track record of communicating extensively researched graphic journalism/biography with a remarkably accessible eloquence. We’ve seen it before in books like Supercrash: How to Hijack the…
Back in the Twitter era I posted a few times on the subject of a possible archival collection of 2000 AD that would print compilations of full issue runs from…
Steven Ingram’s ThirdBear Press continues to provide a vital UK platform for cartoonists with the Boxes anthology, a publication reminiscent of a British small press heyday of similar collections which…
Publisher Dark & Golden’s mission to bring back some of the forgotten gems of UK indie comics has already seen a number of near lost rarities being seen by appreciative…
It’s impossible to overestimate just how far Alxndra Cook’s visual storytelling has come since I was first covering her work in zines like Eat Your Fruit!, well over a decade…
Artist, writer and colourist Bex Glendining made a real mark on us last year when their debut graphic novel On Starlit Shores got not just a very positive review at…
For this month’s ‘Andytorial’ I am opting not to give you our normal behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on at Broken Frontier over the last few weeks. Instead I want to…
Judy Powell’s Ways to Kill My Mother’s Lover (With Limited Pocket Money and Minimal Mess) isn’t quite the comic with the longest ever title to be reviewed at Broken Frontier…
Joff Winterhart’s previous graphic novels (Days of the Bagnold Summer and Driving Short Distances) have been explorations of the relationships between characters separated by both generations and attitudes. In his…
As its title obviously suggests Short Stories is a collection of Portuguese creator André Caetano’s shorter-form narrative for comics anthologies and other related venues. Publications like this are always a…
This is a very cool comics community project via Young Comics Laureate Ray and Comics Youth CIC. Ray is, of course, one of our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’…
Jules Valera’s A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath collects three A6 minicomics in a tactile vellum-banded compilation. The three titles – Jupiter & the Moon, Venus…
A. T. Pratt’s work redefines the idea of tactile comics. Take today’s example, Big Matinee Comics, which includes layer after layer of pop-up, foldout, concertina effect and detachable elements. It’s…
“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
