Not every comic we feature here at Broken Frontier has to experimental, alternative or boundary-pushing. After all, there are times when all of us will just want to pick up…
Olympia’s extra-sized opener marks the first chapter of a series that was conceived by comics writer Curt Pires and his father Tony during the latter’s cancer treatment. It’s a book…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
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Collecting the first chapters of Mei Lian Hoe’s webcomic series in print, My Husband is a Cultist is an offbeat romantic comedy that combines the amiable antics of its often…
We’ve spoken at length in the past here at Broken Frontier about the particular communicative strengths of comics as a medium in regard to exploring mental health issues. Indeed we…
While Christmas may still seem a long way off, the pre-holidays solicits are full of festive themed comics. BOOM! Studios have announced the latest entry in their own annual Yuletide…
As the comics events calendar winds to a close we’re preparing here at BF for our final tabling appearance of the year at the Catford Comic & Zine Fair at…
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James Romberger’s For Real is a narrative of layers. Not just in the overlapping timeframes of its main comics story ‘The Oven’ but also in the supplementary essay that follows…
The immediate thing the reader takes away from the first issue of Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and company’s Folklords is what a sublimely perfect issue it is in terms of…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
From his days overseeing Jazz Dad Books to his minicomics and self-published practice, one of the great joys of picking up an Ed Cheverton offering is that he always plays by…
From its opening pages, moodily lit by Ryan Cody’s muted and yet quietly oppressive colours, there’s an immediate sense of the foreboding about Family Tree, the new ongoing Image series…
It’s our last Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of the year on Thursday November 28th and we’re going out with a festive bang! We’re seeing out 2019…
One more Mignola-centric press release at BF this week as Drak Horse announce the sequel to classic Hellboy story ‘The Crooked Man’… Legendary Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola, Acclaimed Artist Zach…
I decided to hand over Lynda Barry’s book, Making Comics, to a 9-year-old. I did this because it made sense to test the former’s long-held hypothesis that we can all…
If you read it the first time round in the late ’80s you’ll be aware of just what an impact the uncompromising social commentary of Third World War had on…
If you thought typography was boring, David Rault and his roster of 11 comic artists will make you eat your words – each chapter a delightfully different visual course in…
AHOY have been building up a solid rep for some entertainingly off-centre serial comics runs with Russell, Pace and company’s Second Coming being a particular highlight. So their plans for…
“I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird” – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel ‘The Witch’s Egg’ from Avery Hill PublishingJuly 8, 2025
Inside Look: The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo Brings Her Boundary-Pushing Practice to Digital PresentationJuly 4, 2025
Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
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
