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…
Billionaire Island is written by Broken Frontier Award-winning (Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles) and BF Award-nominated (Second Coming) scribe Mark Rusell with art by co-creator Steve Pugh, colours by…
Centrala are perhaps the UK’s most overlooked indie comics publisher, bringing international work to English-speaking audiences, but notably showcasing experimental and alt graphic narratives from less familiar European traditions of…
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London-based Japanese illustrator Takayo Akiyama is one of those mainstays of the UK small press scene who we really should have featured far more on Broken Frontier over the years….
A few years ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed Score and Script, the John Miers-led exercise in practical comics scholarship. That publication saw a veritable who’s who of early 2010s…
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Featuring his Immortal Ewan character, Claude TC’s Seller on the Threshold is a prime example of the artist’s particular mix of darkly irreverent humour and pop cultural parody, with a…
It’s time for the second Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw this week on Thursday February 27th, and this time we have faces old and new on the…
If you’re a Broken Frontier reader then you are already well aware of the power of graphic narrative to communicate, educate and inform. Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele’s Gender: A…
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Over the last few weeks we’ve been gradually catching up with some of the recent issues of Youth in Decline’s quarterly art and comics monograph series Frontier. The latest number…
Whit Taylor’s minicomics series Fizzle, published by Radiator Comics, has been something of a slow burn read to date, and that has very much been a huge part of its…
‘Family Business’, the first Bitter Root story arc, established the Sangerye family, a monster-hunting clan whose status had diminished over the years. Set in the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance,…
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When I say that I have always found Sajan Rai to be a curious creative voice I mean that in a distinctly positive way. His work feels notably different from…
An announcement this week preceding what looks set to be a banner year for Humanoids with the news that US comics writer Mark Waid has been announced as Publisher. The…
In a recent Avery Hill Publishing press release I was quoted as saying of the work of Charlot Kristensen that “Kristensen’s vibrant visual characterisation, immersive employment of colour and playful…
A few weeks ago when we made British Ice our ‘Comic of the Week’ at Broken Frontier we also noted that we have been following the progression of its creator…
A young woman. A promise she made. And the journey she undertakes to honour it. That’s the simple premise of Chloe Starling’s The Promise, another of the self-published comics I…
It’s back for its fifth year! Small Press Day 2020 will take place on Saturday July 18th! The brainchild of cartoonist David Ziggy Greene, its aim is to provide a…
From self-published minicomics focusing on a classic age of cinema (including It Girl and Vivacity), to her work for serial comics publishers like DC’s Vertigo imprint and Titan Comics, through…
“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
