A return in 2026 for BF’s Staff Picks feature where members of the team give a monthly overview of recommended new releases, designed to spotlight just a few key releases…
An interesting assessment of Joe Ollmann’s work appears early on in his own introduction to this latest collection. It comes from the late American critic Tom Spurgeon who once reportedly…
Welcome back to another beginning of the month look at our behind-the-scenes happenings at Broken Frontier. January shot by but, of course, our key posts this month were the results…
A winner in this year’s Broken Frontier Awards, in the category of Best Collection of Classic Material, The Smythes is a handsome oversized collection of Rea Irvin’s (the New Yorker’s…
Steve Willis is a Washington state-based creator who has been self-publishing his own particular brand of strange and surreal comics out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States since…
Through his Fred Egg Comics micropublishing venture David Robertson has provided anthology platforms that spotlight other creators and embraced a lo-fi, grassroots style of self-publishing. In the latter case one…
Keezy Young’s win in the Best Artist category in the Broken Frontier Awards this year was all the more noteworthy for the incredibly strong shortlist of names nominated. Young’s first…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…
One final post for the week with the Friday afternoon news of Ben Harel’s Hotel Limbo, coming from Top Shelf in April… Top Shelf Checks In at Hotel Limbo for a Glimpse…
And another opportunity for aspiring creators to spotlight today at BF. Details of the mentoring initiative from Helioscope below. Helioscope Announces New Mentorship Program The interdisciplinary program pairs the next generation…
Another opportunity for emerging creators to spotlight here at BF. Details on the Top Cow Talent Hunt 2026 below… Top Cow Productions, Inc. Announces the Witchblade and The Darkness Top…
From New Yorker cartoonist Walker Tate, Laser Eye Surgery comes to its audience via the Fantagraphics Underground imprint. It represents Tate’s first full-length comics offering and centres on an unnamed…
There are many names throughout literature that are known as ‘the greats’: Dickens, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, and countless others. And amongst them sits one of the most radical female…
The Lexicon of Comicana by cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) was something of a thematic forerunner of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. It represents Walker’s attempt to catalogue…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 22nd annual BF Awards, as voted for by you, our readers, and the BF team. Socio-political reportage, comics for the 7-14 years…
What perhaps sets Adieu Birkenau apart from some other graphic memoirs/biographies is the time-shifting commentary on events from its subject Ginette Kolinka. We observe Kolinka both as a young woman…
It’s the end of the week so it’s time to go into the weekend with a Friday afternoon preview! This week we’re taking a look at Twin Lotuses by Zhang…
We have, admittedly, a little bit of catching up to do with our coverage of the Colossive Press series of Colossive Cartographies fold-out zines. So we are going to endeavour…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
