With the Angoulême buzz still at the forefront of the comics world’s collective consciousness we welcome 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ artist and Hackney Comic +…
Monthly comics in that traditional US format can often feel inaccessible with their long story arcs designed for trade collections and a lack of easy entry, self-contained individual issues. American…
Fantagraphics’ anthology series Now (subtitled The New Comics Anthology) has gained deserved critical acclaim in its seven-issue life to date. Indeed it was nominated in both our 2017 and 2019…
The lurching feeling in your stomach as you find yourself endlessly falling into a void. It’s a triggering sensation that will have abruptly woken many of us from our slumber…
Carol Isaacs, aka The Surreal McCoy, is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Spectator and the Sunday Times. Her debut graphic novel The Wolf of…
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A week or two back at Broken Frontier we began a game of catch-up by looking at some of the recent issues of publisher Youth in Decline’s acclaimed and award-recognised…
Welcome to 33rd century America, a country almost unrecognisable from our the one we know and yet imbued with fragmentary echoes of its past. Here, in a world that appears…
It’s been an exciting few months in terms of recognition for our favourite art form with a number of major awards – including the Arts Foundation Future Awards and the…
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To call Lizzy Stewart’s Walking Distance “a book about walking” seems both an elegantly succinct if obvious encapsulation of its contents and yet also a woefully inadequate summation of its…
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…
In addition to war, Seinfeld and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, America is known for its sports fanaticism. Nothing unites this melting pot of socially siloed people than wearing overpriced…
Returning to covering more grassroots self-publishing is one of my main aims for ‘Small Pressganged’ this year at Broken Frontier and, after my recent look at Beatrice Mossman’s The Lure…
Americana is an undeniably passionate and sincere reflection on both the physical and metaphorical America – the country, the culture and the ideal. Luke Healy’s masterful graphic memoir tells the…
Saturday was February 1st which also meant it was #HourlyComicDay2020. Cartoonists the world over provided a short comic strip for every hour they were awake and posted it online to…
As we all know, comics is a medium of infinite possibilities. And as a long-overdue openness about mental health has become increasingly prevalent, it’s no surprise that creators have used…
Written by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by Mathieu Sapin, the second volume of the popular French comics Akissi stories from Flying Eye Books is another delightful collection of short strips…
The longlist for this year’s LDC Awards (formerly known under the Laydeez do Comics banner) has been announced. The names of the selected artists for this women-only prize for graphic-novels-in-progress,…
Depicting the devastating culmination of the long-running Sri Lankan Civil War between the government and the independent state-seeking Tamil Tigers (a clash with its origins firmly placed in the days…
“It’s About Queerness, Family, Loyalty, Grief, and at its Core Love in All its Forms”- Bex Glendining on Debut Graphic Novel ‘On Starlit Shores’April 2, 2026
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
