The other week I was lucky enough to volunteer at the wonderful Yo Comics! – “a comic fair for kids and by kids”. Organised by comics advocate and educator Helen…
White All Around, translated by Montana Kane from Blanc autour, the bande dessinée by Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert, tells the important story of the Canterbury Female Boarding School –…
Comics auteur Tyler Boss clearly believes that If you want something done, you should do it yourself. For Dead Dog’s Bite, a four-issue mystery with hints of humour from Dark…
With its alluring design (in collaboration with Joe Kessler), Richard Short’s Klaus Magazine from Breakdown Press has been a welcome presence on the shelves over the past few years. Haway…
Guillem March has trodden the mean streets of Gotham in the past, with work on Batman, Catwoman and Harley Quinn for DC Comics. However, the Mallorcan artist is back on…
There really ought to be a law against people like Dave Chisholm. As well as being an acclaimed comics writer/artist (including the sci-fi series Canopus and the graphic novel Instrumental),…
When Karen Berger’s party train pulled out of UK Comics Central in the late 1980s, one passenger was left unexpectedly on the platform: writer John Smith, whose penchant for loopy…
Scottish artist Steven Ingram has been building up a substantial comics presence in recent years, including Left, a graphic novel about a cult survivor facing up to the past, and…
“Is it about a bicycle?” he asked. As a lover of tall tales, the first thing that bounced into my noddle when I picked up The Curious Case of Leonardo’s…
Sometimes it’s okay to be unhappy, see. Sometimes being miserable is a sane reaction to shitty circumstances. At the time of writing, Agent Mann, a leading player in this opening…
The work of Katie Skelly – a very welcome guest artist at a Broken Frontier/Gosh! Comics Drink and Draw back in 2017– is usually characterised by pop energy and playful…
Conspiracy theories have probably been with us since Ug had a bad day hunting on the plain and, back at the cave, thought it’d be easier to blame his misfortune…
In Vision, Julia Gfrörer pulls the reader into her haunted house mystery and slams the door. Julia Gfrörer’s disquieting and relevant new book from Fantagraphics sits very nicely with her…
Picture the scene, gentle reader. It’s the balmy spring of 2014, and a fresh-faced dreamer just setting out on his Broken Frontier journey reviews Titan’s collected edition of The Absence,…
Potatoes! Love them or hate them, you can’t ignore them! (Certainly not if you grew up in an Irish family in the 1970s.) Anyway, one of those magnificent jewels of…
I was very pleased when Henry McCausland’s Eight-Lane Runaways appeared on the scrawled sheet of “new bukks” (sic) that Andy Oliver pushes under our cell doors every Sunday morning. It…
Fights, Joel Christian Gill’s often bruising memoir, pretty much starts with his nightmarish earliest memory. The scared young Joel, dragged along by his mother after her release from prison, sees…
Way back when, Otto Von Bismarck famously said something along the lines of “laws are like sausages – it is better not to see them being made”. I’ve no doubt…
“Basically, I’m Hoping to Please Both Nostalgia Fans and Those Who Enjoy Pop Culture Critique!” – Paul Cornell on the Bronze Age Avengers, His First ‘Commando’ Comic, and New Publishing Venture Cosmic LighthouseOctober 23, 2025
“We Hope to Explain Our Passion for the Medium to Gallery Visitors Who May Not Have Any Idea about Comics” – Katriona Chapman on the Avery Hill Exhibition ‘Vision & Labour: Making Comics’ at the Mercer Gallery for Thought BubbleOctober 22, 2025
“There Are Hard Parts and There Are Wonderful Parts. I’m Just a Mum Trying Her Best” – Rachael Smith Gives Us the Lowdown on the Collected ‘Nap Comix’October 21, 2025
“Comics Bring Art at Its Highest Level to the People” – Alison Sampson Talks Comics and Architecture, Crossing Genres, and the Communicative Power of the FormOctober 20, 2025
“I’m Always Trying to Make Comics the Other Way Around” — An Interview with Portuguese Cartoonist Joana Mosi on Her Graphic Novels ‘The Mongoose’ and ‘Physical Education’October 13, 2025
