In recent years, Steven Appleby has been heard on occasion to speak two words in particular about what good art should be: ‘ambitious’ and ‘engaging’. Dragman is, of course, both….
Broadly speaking, coming-of-age tales are ostentatious affairs. They’re about profound discoveries, rites of passage and moments of epiphany on the road to whatever is loosely defined as adulthood. Sophie Yanow’s…
When I Came Out tells the story of Louise, a middle-aged woman who, as the title suggests, comes out. The book navigates her early life including her first crush, her…
One of the many problems facing aging freelance writer Max Winter is that his pulp-magazine publisher has taken the rights to his cowboy character, the Red Rover Kid, away from…
With a fictional universe founded on a most distinctive premise, and a publishing ethos that embraces a far wider sense of comics community, UK imprint mayamada have been building up…
We first became aware of Penn State University Press’s graphic novel output when they began publishing US editions of graphic medicine books from some our favourite graphic novelists, including Ian…
Thought Bubble – like so many festivals/conventions since March this year – has had to reinvent itself as an online experience for 2020. The UK’s largest comics festival event announced…
We have more digital drinking and drawing fun this Thursday September 17th as our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw retums! As usual we’re back again…
With an Ignatz Award win over the weekend in the category of Outstanding Anthology our review subject today is a timely one. Be Gay, Do Comics celebrates the queer experience…
The accomplishments of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists are always a delight to us at BF. So you can imagine how pleased we are tonight to hear that…
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The second place winner in 2019’s annual Manga Jiman competiton (held at the Japanese embassy in London), Alxndra Cook’s Kiyomi’s Prequel is now available to buy in print in an…
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One of our 2020 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ UK-based Polish artist Kamila Król, aka Pigeon, is very much at the start of her comics journey. Pigeon’s comparative lack…
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,…
Graduates of the Kubert School, Emma Kubert (also a third generation artist from that illustrious family name) and Rusty Gladd bring an appealing new fantasy world to comics in the…
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I don’t think I have ever known a year quite like 2020 for outstanding graphic novel debuts from UK-based creators. Of course there’s a surrounding sadness to that statement in…
John Reppion is a script writer, author, essayist, and writer of prose fiction. Since 2003 he has co-written comics in partnership with his wife, Leah Moore, as Moore & Reppion….
On his way to finally lay Effie to rest, Andy runs into a few unexpected surprises in Lemire and Nguyen’s Ascender #12 from Image Comics. Picking up after the heartwrenching…
Baron and Carbonetti lay out a lucid reimagining of one of music’s most iconic legends in Paul is Dead by Image Comics. To the well initiated, the legend of P.I.D….
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“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
