It’s been a summer of comics success for our Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’. As we revealed exclusively here at BF, 2018 inductee Shanti Rai will be…
The nature of autobiographical comics forces the cartoonist to examine their past and try to assemble meaning from it. Noah Van Sciver in his book One Dirty Tree from Uncivilized…
When you’re a child the adult world can seem a nonsensical, mystifying environment, full of arbitrary rules and baffling contradictions. But what if, in your family unit, you’re not only…
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We’ve given significant coverage this summer to the projects of Baguette Trousers – the small creative collective who are made up of artists Chloe Elise Dennis, Sinae Carrotate Park and…
Over the course of the summer I had the pleasure of meeting BHP Comics’ Sha Nazir when we were both speaking at the ‘Sustaining Comics: What the Future Holds‘ event…
Here in the UK the tradition of comic strips revolving around the conflicts between childhood adversaries has given us some of our most fondly remembered characters. From the British Dennis…
Wannabe actor Leo Joof’s life is a mess. Living off his partner Rachael in a near future LA, and reduced to ambush marketing stunts for recognition, even the entertainment news…
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 events or digital…
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There’s a slight sense of caution when approaching Luke Healy’s Permanent Press for review. Healy’s second graphic novel, published this year by Avery Hill Publishing, ostensibly explores a central theme…
Can we really be two thirds of the way through the year already? Our eighth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is nearly upon us! And, as will…
While there is a narrative in Rachel O’Regan’s This is Not an Appropriate Climate for Your Survival it’s actually the least interesting aspect of this intriguingly bizarre, almost visual stream-of-consciousness offering….
Spinning out of the Mean Girls Club one-shot that was published as part of Nobrow Press’s 17 x 23 series a few years back, Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn reunites…
‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that we think should be on your pull list. Whether it’s because of its…
Like Tom Sicoli redrawing a chapter of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure from memory, Al Gofa’s Dark Angels of Darkness is a self-referential, handmade, aggressively masculine and incredibly goofy action comic. Its…
Earlier this year I spoke to artist Lucy Sullivan here at Broken Frontier about her work-in-progress graphic novel Barking, an allegorical examination of loss and depression (currently crowdfunding through Unbound Books)….
Back in 2015, Robert Goodin’s The Kurdles proved to be an eerie delight of a graphic novel from Fantagraphics Books. It told the story of Sally, a teddy bear separated…
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 events or digital…
Fans of the cult BBC TV comedy programme Big Train, first broadcast in 1998 and 2002, will no doubt recall that show’s most memorable running gag sketch, the animated World…
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 1 – “Nothing it Offers Has Any Tangible Value or Originality”July 28, 2025
“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
