ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Alex Norris, aka Dorris McComics of Webcomic Name fame, approached the trend of relatable comics with a format that works through any number of layers of irony (including none) and…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Rebecca K. Jones is a London-based illustrator and comic artist, recently shortlisted for the Laydeez do Comics prize for her graphic novel project Boomerang. Her work addresses contemporary social…
Why Art? Not What Art or When Art or How Art Thou? Eleanor Davis tackles one of those kind of stupid while at the same time super important questions with…
What is a cat but poetry in motion? Pure, silky, sinuous, graceful, deadly, and then in one moment suddenly utterly ungraceful as they fall off something, or into something. A…
The special Centenary Edition of International Aces is a beautiful white boxed set of 4 volumes, each chronicling the lives of different flying aces from World War I; 14 in…
Only the End of the World Again began life as a short story commissioned for Steven Jones’ compilation of fiction inspired by H.P. Lovecraft: Shadows Over Innsmouth in 1994. It…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER, BEST ARTIST AND BEST ONGOING SERIES NOMINEES! ‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that…
I have to say that I love Portugal more than any comic I’ve read since Moon and Ba’s Daytripper. I don’t know why, I must actually have a thing for…
What if you were writing a biography, and the (deceased) subject of your work was trying to stop you? No wait, that’s too simple. What if you didn’t want to…
Visually somewhere in the territory between Tekkonkinkreet and Henry Selick’s Coraline, the small in A Small Revolution can refer to the pre-teen anti-heroes at its heart. From the beginning, the mini-protagonist…
In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…
Angelic – a candy coloured anthro-cyber-post-apocalyptic fun fest with obligatory sinister undertones. Pretty impossible to dislike, unless you don’t like the idea of verbose flying dolphins and winged monkeys dressed…
“What is a comic?” is not that different a question from “what is art?”, although it may be debated less often and by different people. Don’t shoot me if I…
I was very much up for reviewing Samurai Chef because it seemed to combine two things I enjoy – battle manga and competitive cooking shows. Turns out there’s more of…
The premise of Mania, the series of comics put out by A.L.Ex Studios and soon to number three issues, had promise. Nothing new in the dystopian metropolis, the super-powered renegades, the…
Attending the various comics and small press fairs in the calendar, we live in hope of those moments when you pick up something you’ve never seen before and fall utterly…
From London comics publisher Knockabout, this full length crime thriller/farce is the latest incarnation of a character first born to his creators Bobby Joseph and Joe Samuels in their ’90s…
Eartha is not so much a tale of two cities, as of two halves of the same paradox. The soft edges and subtle tones of Cathy Malkasian’s artwork and hand-drawn…
“I See Myself as a Cheerleader for the Medium” – Gabi Putnoki on the Graphic Novel Reading Room and Taking the Form to New ReadersJune 29, 2022
“I’d Love To Be Cancelled. Sounds Extremely Profitable” – Luke Healy Does What He Does Best on D+Q and Faber’s ‘The Con Artists’June 24, 2022
“Two of the Great Things in Life are Music and Comics” – Cartoonist David Ziggy Greene Talks Small Press Day, Graphic Reportage and His New Venture Jam BookshopJune 3, 2022
Inside Look: The Junction – My Error Strewn Path to PublicationMay 25, 2022
“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics PageMay 16, 2022
