When David Bowie took his final bow (with typical panache) in 2016, cultural luminaries queued up to testify to the liberating and even life-changing inspiration he had provided. And one…
With so much uncertainty for comics stores at the moment it’s well worth making a note of some of the most exciting upcoming serial comics projects with an eye to…
The Comedy Women in Print Prize has announced its shortlists today. Lots to check out across the categories but obviously our focus at Broken Frontier is on the new ‘Humorous…
Now fortnightly due to popular demand! The online version of our monthly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw has been such a success that we’re now running it…
With the Eisner Award nominations for 2020 published this week we thought it would be an ideal opportunity to point you towards our reviews over the last year or so…
Coming this August via Knockabout Comics, those fine purveyors of underground and alt style comics, is a graphic memoir we’ve been looking forward to for some time here at Broken…
Thomas Von Steinaecker and Barbara Yelin interweave moments from the life of Gerda, an elderly lady in a care home, who dedicates the majority of her present to wandering through…
Currently crowdfunding on IndieGoGo, The Epics of Enkidu combines super-heroics, graphic medicine and mythology. Series creator Ahmed Alameen talks about the project in the press release below. ‘The Epics of Enkidu’…
For all the superficial veneer of its big guns, fast cars and uber violence, Coffin Bound is a profoundly philosophical comic series. Dan Watters and Dani’s initial story arc was…
Fantagraphics have announced something we can all look forward to at the beginning of 2021 – a new graphic novel from comics legend Barry Windsor-Smith. With a new generation discovering…
As anyone who visits Broken Frontier on even a semi-regular basis knows, championing the next generation of comics creators is at the very core of everything this site stands for….
Canadian illustrator, sculptor and writer Walter Scott asks a seemingly simplistic question here: What is it like to study art at university? His answer, spelled out over a little under…
Set in a remote rural Italian village, Davide Reviati’s melancholy and haunting coming-of-age story Spit Three Times is a project several years in the making. Translated by Jamie Richards, and…
Of course, it’s possible that “@TheJeremyHaynes” – who apparently “helps take personal brands to 7 figures monthly” (sic) from his Miami headquarters – is actually the creation of a skilled…
Ley Lines, previously covered on Broken Frontier here, gives comic artists “a platform… to directly engage with influences beyond the realm of comics.” It’s a quarterly series put out by…
It is always tricky, from a male critic’s perspective, to look at any work of art that has everything to do with a woman’s body and no place for a…
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Pleasingly recreating the visual appeal of a European album-style comic but with a cheekily alt sensibility, E.S. Glenn’s Unsmooth #1 from Floating World Comics merges crime caper, urban fantasy, anthropomorphic…
Now fortnightly due to popular demand! Thanks to your continued enthusiasm for the online version of our monthly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw we’re now running it…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
