Bishakh Som’s Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir may be an intricately layered piece of storytelling but such is the elegance of its narrative structure that the reader only comes to that…
February 2021 seems to be a pivotal month in publishers’ schedules with a flurry of previews for new series having been sent to us this week. Today it’s another book…
Yet another preview of a new series debuting in February 2021 (it’s been quite a week for them!) hits our inbox today and this time it’s Chained to the Grave, a…
Hot on the heels of their latest Regened Special (which featured the art of 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Anna Readman and was reviewed here at BF) 2000…
Fantastic news for our friends at London’s Cartoon Museum who have been shortlisted as a finalist in the British Guild of Travel Writers’ International Tourism Awards in the category of…
“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…
If you’re a serial comics fan then early 2021 is already shaping up as a launching pad for a number of impressive looking new releases. Here’s news of yet another…
Erik Dieter always felt on the outside of things. He could never get close to his mother Alana, and when he returns home for her funeral in Blue in Green,…
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Given how many comics creators are on the team at Broken Frontier we have an unwritten rule on the site. While we may cover their work in terms of features…
There’s been a noticeable increase in previews for books debuting early in 2021 coming into our inbox over the last couple of weeks. The latest is Orcs! by cartoonist Christine…
On the surface of it, this book has nothing to do with the virus that has changed life as we know it. A tale about a middle-aged cartoonist coming to…
Telling her own story of growing up during those awkward teenage/univeristy years, Rebecca Burgess’s How to Be Ace offers a unique perspective on the coming-of-age genre through frank discussion of…
The ever-expanding world of Black Hammer gets a little bit bigger next year with the news of a new series of one-shots with guest creator takes on the characters and…
Maria Llovet’s sensual and dreamy art has seen her profile rise significantly of late. We reviewed her collaboration with Brian Azzarello on Faithless here at Broken Frontier earlier this year,…
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At the East London Comics and Arts Festival in 2019 David Biskup’s There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up won the ELCAF x WeTransfer Award. The prize gives…
In this most challenging of all years it’s still reassuring to see some of our favourite indies getting new projects out there and onto the shelves. BHP Comics have announced…
In Meredith’s bleak world the ultimate sanction is to find oneself IND-XED – a societal classification that negates someone’s very existence. The subject becomes a non-person, their identity cancelled and…
Here’s a neat idea from UK publisher SelfMadeHero to help some of our very favourite institutions in these challenging times. The #DrawYourBookshop initiative launches on Wednesday November 18th. Full details…
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