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Following up on her original short-form zine offering from last year, Eleanor Crewes’s The Times I Knew I Was Gay presents a fragmentary series of autobiographical vignettes in an often…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
As if the six books already scheduled for 2018 were not enough of a draw, Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award-winning Avery Hill Publishing have announced a further three graphic novels today to…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! A warning to the prurient: there is precious little sex in Sex Fantasy. Instead this collection of Sophia Foster-Dimino’s self-published comics investigates the…
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…
John Allison’s work with in the Scary Go Round universe has been a long-standing high water mark of quality webcomics. Particularly after his shift in the late 2000s to a…
For several years now the Laydeez do Comics group have provided a vital supportive platform for new voices in comics through their popular monthly meet-ups. A combination of creator presentations…
DC’s Young Animal line was set up to try new approaches to storytelling, and last year’s Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye fully embraced that mission statement, resurrecting a near…
Our third Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is next week! And, as ever, we have three of the movers and shakers of the UK small press world…
For all his success in mainstream comics and, subsequently, animation (as one of the creators of Ben 10), the comics work I’ll always associate with Steven T. Seagle is It’s…
The classic pulp detective story and the self-loathing alternative comic are two genres that, on paper, couldn’t be more different. Nonetheless, they make for strange yet surprisingly simpatico bedfellows in…
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…
We have been so very busy behind the scenes at Broken Frontier these last few months that our customary ‘A View from the Frontier‘ opener to the week has had…
Lemon by Kelsey Wroten is a brief but potent distillation of her abilities as both a cartoonist and a writer. This minicomic from 2016 displays a strong talent for rendering…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST NEW SERIES NOMINEE! While the US serial comics anthology seems unlikely to enjoy a populist re-emergence in the immediate future – as Dark Horse’s abrupt…
Nobrow’s 2018 East London Comics & Arts Festival (ELCAF) is on the horizon and the first guest announcements have been released today with the news that this year’s “artist in residence”…
When Myriad Editions released Ottilie Hainsworth’s Talking to Gina last year I will admit to the presumption that its subject matter would be somewhat outside the publisher’s usual boundary-pushing use of…
It’s 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 storefront,…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER AWARD WINNER AND BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD NOMINEE! When 2017 Broken Frontier Award-winning creator Hannah Berry announced last year in an interview with our…
Inside Look: Cindy and Biscuit Vol. 2: Wild, Wild Life – Dan White’s Exclusive Creator Commentary on the Latest Oni Press Adventures of Our Favourite Monster-Hunting DuoAugust 13, 2025
Cable Cars in Barcelona, Fezzes in Istanbul – An Interview with Italian Comics Artist Vittorio GiardinoAugust 7, 2025
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” Part 2 – “We May Be Led Down a Creative Bottleneck of Conformity”August 5, 2025
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
