Remember when you were a fresh-faced nipper and you just couldn’t wait for your birthday or Christmas or the Blood Feast of Xantabula? “Don’t be so quick to wish your…
5,000 km Per Second, Manuele Fior’s delicate Angoulême-winning graphic novel, is a beautifully executed look at what time does to our hopes and our relationships. Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson, who died in…
Irmina, Barbara Yelin’s award-winning graphic novel, is a paradoxically beautiful and unsettling piece of work that avoids all the obvious choices to ponder how an independently minded young woman can…
Sonny Liew’s presentation of the life and work of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, an overlooked (fictional) Singaporean cartoonist, is a stunning amalgamation of history, politics, character and art. The name Charlie…
A chance encounter at the Malta Comic Con led artist Jimmy Broxton to the lost newspaper adventure strip Goldtiger – a classic document of 1960s comics. But that was only the…
Here at Broken Frontier we’re long-time fans of Box Brown’s Retrofit Comics imprint, which has gone from strength to strength since joining forces with Big Planet Comics, a chain of comic…
From his sculptural covers for Hellblazer and Sandman to his more recent narrative gallery shows, Dave McKean has always been an artist who’s ready to move his comics work into…
One of the most eagerly awaited books of 2016, Daniel Clowes’ Patience is a velvet glove of a time-travel thriller cast in the iron of exquisitely depicted human turmoil. Daniel…
In The Listening Post, Stephen Goodall expands the mysterious world of his Institute of Marine Research webcomics with an intriguing, atmospheric opening issue. As you might have gathered, we get a…
One of the things we enjoy most at Broken Frontier is following the development of exciting new talents. One such creator is Conor Stechschulte, who came to wider attention in…
In Hax, from Breakdown Press, artist Lale Westvind uses an powerful visual style to evoke a woman’s journey through a broken landscape. Hax, by New York-based artist Lale Westvind, hums with the…
Author Steve Haines and illustrator Sophie Standing talk about their collaborative process to convert therapeutic concepts into engaging visual language. As part of our series on the “graphic medicine” books of Singing…
Ed Brisson and his collaborators weave a gripping tale of flawed people trying to do the right thing, against a timely backdrop of gentrification and social exclusion. Writer (and letterer)…
With a dazzling portfolio ranging from licensed properties to edgy creator-owned projects, the work of Jordie Bellaire epitomises the vital contribution colourists can make to a comic. You probably don’t…
As The Sandman: Overture finally reached completion in 2015, artist JH Williams III demonstrated the full, staggering range of his imagination and technique. Let’s just admit it: it’s something we’ve all…
With hundreds of pages of new and classic comics and an abundance of fascinating interviews and profiles, this splendid book pays tribute to Drawn and Quarterly, from its origin as a floppy…
In their follow-up series to The Private Eye, digital comics pioneers Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martín weave a taut and enthralling tale of migration and border tension that doesn’t go…
In the energetic, enjoyable opening issue of Mystery Girl, Paul Tobin and Alberto Alburquerque introduce us to Trine Hampstead – a feisty young Londoner with a very special gift and a…
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
