One of the best things about the first and second issues of Live/Work by Pat Palermo is that they feel like comics from a different era, specifically the early 2000s….
It’s nearly Halloween which means our penultimate Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is here! And, as ever, we have a line-up of the most utterly splendid guest…
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Cathy Brett’s Who Killed JoJo? had already achieved significant critical renown this year before even a single page of it had been published. Brett’s debut graphic-novel-in-progress was shortlisted for both…
News of a new Gareth Brookes exhibition of embroideries, prints and drawings at London’s 155a Artists Space will no doubt be of huge interest to regular Broken Frontier readers given…
Lessons from classic comic creators for making it as an indie! It’s time for another Bullpen Boot-Camp column by UK small presser Nick Prolix! Nick is the creator behind The Sheep and…
Our Bullpen Boot-Camp columnist Nick Prolix has been building up an ever-growing audience of fans over the last few months for his fortnightly illustrated feature at Broken Frontier. The column…
Any good M.R. James story — or more appropriately, what with this being a comics site and all, any good Hellboy short — will see an old, seemingly forgotten myth…
Considering the site’s ethos we’re obviously huge fans here at Broken Frontier of any projects that look to showcase the grassroots scene and boost alternative comic talent; especially those that…
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…
Much of the work of a cartoonist is simply that, cartooning. They exaggerate and amplify in the hopes of capturing that which is invisible or hard to define. Told primarily…
Over the weekend at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival the news broke that the third UK Comics Laureate will be Hannah Berry who takes over the role from Charlie Adlard…
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With a Jenn Woodall cover that evokes fond childhood memories of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books and the excitement that the illusion of narrative control had on our younger selves,…
While NYCC is certainly one of the premier comic conventions held each year, it also comes at the end of a very long con season. I’d already exhibited at eight…
It was precisely 39 years ago that the first issue of Marvel UK’s Doctor Who Weekly went on sale, cover dated 17th October (the date it was due to go…
In the depths of the forest, a close-knit father and son family of foxes are attempting to get through a brutally cold winter. But when the elder fox falls ill…
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…
Koyama Press’s release of Somnambulance by Fiona Smyth performs a tremendous service to comics readers by collecting a substantial volume of Smyth’s work within the medium. The book is valuable…
The ever excellent, innovative and boundary-pushing Koyama Press have announced their Spring 2019 line-up of books. There’s some cracking projects here, ready for us all to grab from the shelves…
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