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…
Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse return to Patience with Resident Alien: Your Ride’s Here from Dark Horse Comics, which poses the ultimate question: will Harry Vanderspeigle finally be going home?…
If you associate Peter Morey’s name with the hard-hitting and earnest autobio comics like Endswell or with his psychogeographical zines then his new comic Animal Spirits will come as something…
Last month at Broken Frontier we drew your attention to anthology The BAYlies, curated by Lawrence Lindell (From Truth with Truth) and featuring the work of “22 Bay Area Cartoonists…
Today marks the publication of Biscuits (assorted), the debut graphic novel of Broken Frontier’s very own Jenny Robins, published by Myriad Editions. The winner of the Myriad First Graphic Novel…
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Given how beautifully rendered her pencilled pages are it’s easy to overlook one of the subtler aspects of Katriona Chapman’s storytelling. It’s something that is undoubtedly one of her greatest…
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Following up on last year’s collection of Geesin goodies, Journey to the Surface of the Earth #2 is another compilation of vastly different comics strips and styles. Its mix of…
I’d been meaning to contact you for a long time. I tell everyone and anyone. Compelled to justify that drift – a thing that happens often and endlessly, to almost…
The nights are drawing in so what better way to cheer yourself up as winter approaches than to join in our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink…
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A tragicomic tale of relationships, interpersonal connections, and loneliness, Joe Stone’s new comic Neurotic Fiction is an expert blend of explicit gags, snappy dialogue and very human fragility. It follows…
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