Danish artist Rikke Villadsen’s The Sea – her debut English language comics offering from Fantagraphics – is as much extended visual metaphor as it is narrative. Its protagonist is a seaworn…
One of the earliest convention events of the year, the True Believers con, comes to Cheltenham this weekend and Broken Frontier columnist Nick Prolix (you can read all his Bullpen…
Regular Broken Frontier visitors will know we’re huge fans of what publisher Rebellion have been doing with the classic British IPC characters since they began acquiring the rights to so…
Two years to the day that he left the site to pursue his own storytelling dreams it seems very fitting today to be talking to Broken Frontier founder Frederik Hautain…
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…
Last year in this column I reviewed Ed Stockham’s minicomic Owl Goes for a Walk and was so taken by its titular avian protagonist’s nonchalant, jaunty journey through a series…
Moonstruck combines mystery, magic and friendship in a fun an engaging way. If you know anything about my taste in comics from my Broken Frontier reviews, you will be aware…
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“There’s magic in all music!” Defining Ricky Miller and Jules Scheele’s Metroland is not a simple task, stubbornly defying as it does any easy categorisation. This grand and sweeping (yet…
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The empathetic nature of comics as a communicative tool has seen an explosion of material in the area of graphic medicine over the last few years. Sequential art explorations of…
Of all the many IPC titles Rebellion recently acquired the rights to, Wildcat would seem on the face of it to be one of the least likely to qualify for…
Edited and published by João Sobral as part of the output of his micropublishing venture O Panda Gordo, the twice-yearly anthology Seven Stories takes its premise from nineteenth/twentieth century literary critic Arthur…
On a dark and stormy night in late December, a hooded stranger pulls into one of Tokyo’s struggling dive bars. He convinces its ageing female custodian to give him a…
Set in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity’s history has been largely forgotten outside of the mysterious Elder Race, J. Edward Scott’s The Blade of Arozone playfully fuses genres, bringing sword…
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…
Strangers in Paradise XXV represents the pinnacle of storytelling in the comics medium, and issue #9 is an absolute gem. No other creator working in comics today has single-handedly forged…
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Last Autumn when I reviewed the latest Comic Book Slumber Party anthology Escape from Bitch Mountain, published by Avery Hill Publishing, there were a couple of artists in that collaborative…
The first Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2019 is imminent! And we’re starting the year with a cracking line-up of small press artists on Wednesday January 30th. Indie…
Pantheon by Hamish Steele is one of my all-time favourite graphic novels, so I was really excited to read his new one DeadEndia. It’s pitched for a slightly younger audience…
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“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
“A Room Full of Comics People is a True Joy to See!” – Marc Jackson on Bringing MACC-POW! to Macclesfield and the Resurgence of Kids Comics in the UKMay 25, 2026
