In a sharp change of direction from his usual insights into troubled youth, acclaimed cartoonist and publisher Charles Forsman joins the nostalgic trend for low-brow exploitation comics. I’m sure someone much…
A new book by Michael DeForge is always worthy of attention, and even a slender volume like First Year Healthy provides stylish food for thought. With his mesmerising style, prolific output…
In a beautifully produced edition from Breakdown Press, the first part of Generous Bosom, a major new work from rising star Conor Stechschulte, is a startling comic. Without a lot…
In The Late Child and Other Animals, Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger team up again to produce a lyrical, visceral and expressionistic memoir of a difficult childhood. Even if…
Here at Broken Frontier we’re all about looking beyond the obvious in our coverage. But for our staff and our readers, one thing can’t be ignored: with unstoppable momentum, Image…
A complex occult mystery spanning four periods with four different artists, Bodies shows that Vertigo hasn’t lost its appetite for taking a risk. With most of the creator-owned thunder currently emanating from…
The contribution made to comics by their color artists has never been more important or appreciated, and her work on four high-profile Image books has made Elizabeth Breitweiser the first winner…
In Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro transcend their “exploitation film” tropes to produce a hard-hitting and relevant series opener. The pitch for Bitch Planet and its opening cover…
Although the “c-word” doesn’t appear anywhere, Giacomo Bufarini’s Parabola di G exhibition at London’s Howard Griffin Gallery is another example of how comics can burst off the page and become an…
Twenty-five years on from its original publication in Raw, Richard McGuire has expanded his innovative six-pager ‘Here’ into a lavish visual symphony of time and place, eternity and ephemerality. Back…
In Ody-C, one of the year’s most ambitious and talked-about books, Matt Fraction and Christian Ward take Homer’s original and forge a dazzling new comics idiom out of it. By…
Alienation; the relentless oppression of modern life; the sense that we’re trapped like lab rats in a vast, nightmarish and illogical system in which we can never truly comprehend any…
The four stories in Nothing is Forgotten, published following a highly successful Kickstarter campaign, showcase a confident cartoonist with a flair for the enigmatic. There are so many talented cartoonists at…
In Probably Nothing, her visual diary of pregnancy and cancer, Matilda Tristram uses wit and charm to relate what the cover of her book somewhat euphemistically calls “A diary of not-your-average…
The Kitchen, Vertigo’s period crime story set in the edgy environment of late-1970s New York, was one of last week’s best received comics. Telling the story of three mob wives who…
Another month, another space western. But in the hands of Ivan Brandon, Nic Klein and designer Tom Muller, Drifter, from Image Comics, becomes something altogether more rich and strange. In the…
With strong artistic back-up from Ming Doyle and Jordie Bellaire, writer Ollie Masters makes a confident debut at Vertigo with The Kitchen – a tale of mob wives picking up where their…
In Loverboys, a brisk whizz through life and love in a small town, comics legend Gilbert Hernandez revives the flavour of his greatest creation. The Great Comics Spirit is being…
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
