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Sometimes brevity can be the most powerful tool in expressing emotion or message. Floating by Pigeon (aka Kamila Król, one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists) is…
With recent events already having a notable impact on comics retail, our friends and collaborative partners at London’s Gosh! Comics have sent us this open letter to comics readers about…
Back in the 1980s when Marvel had a little more… shall we say… restraint about their Conan license they published a couple of issues of “imaginary” series What If…? that…
It’s not the first time that the worlds of 2000 AD have come to audio with Dirk Maggs producing a Judge Dredd series for BBC Radio in the 1990s and…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
While artist Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack ( & Brain) and Malty Heave) may be more familiar to Broken Frontier readers, his collaborative partner on Department of the Peculiar…
It’s been a productive couple of years for Belgian creator Max de Radiguès whose work has spanned releases from such purveyors of indie and alternative comics excellence as Fantagraphics (Hobo…
There are many reasons to appreciate Jules Scheele’s approach to the form, from the expressive clarity of their cartooning to the raw and insightful honesty of their autobio work. But…
From Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss through to J.K. Rowling it’s no secret that some of the classics of children’s illustrated storytelling have weirder, darker undercurrents to them. Kids often…
Pat Mills and Simon Bisley’s classic 2000 AD strip Sláine: The Horned God returns in a special Collectors’ Edition this May. We have a preview below to intrigue the uninitiated and evoke…
Courtesy of BOOM! Studios, we have a preview of the finale of the Broken Frontier Award-nominated Folklords series. If you’re already reading the book we don’t need to tell you…
With critical hits like Prez, The Flintstones, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles and Second Coming, Mark Russell has proved himself to be the master of serial comics satire of…
Faith’s playful interest in magic is considered a harmless quirk among her social set but when a seeming chance coffee shop encounter with the mysterious Poppy leads to a passionate…
Of all Rebellion’s recent forays into the history of classic British weekly comics characters The Vigilant was perhaps the most enticing nostalgia-fest for long-time readers. Bringing favourite names back with…
Visual interpretations of depression and anxiety understandably tend to use similar metaphorical standards to express the experience of living with those conditions. That however is never a weakness underlining, as…
We’ve been huge fans of Joe Todd-Stanton’s Brownstone’s Mythical Collection series from Flying Eye Books (you can read reviews of the first three books here at Broken Frontier). So we’re…
It’s a few months away yet but when we see art as breathtaking as the following preview from BOOM! Studios we feel duty bound to share it. Origins hits store…
Sibling creative duo Peter and Maria Hoey’s Coin-Op anthologies have had some significant coverage here at Broken Frontier over the last couple of years We’ve reviewed the most recent issues…
Nominated in the 2018 Broken Frontier Awards in the Best Artist category, Alexander Utkin’s Gamayun Tales series (translated by Lada Morozova) has so far run to three books of what…
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“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
