Anti-Gone – A Voyage to the Numb Limits of Sex, Drugs and Shopping by Connor Willumsen
Sometimes – maybe even most times – you pick up a comic because you know exactly how it’s going to look, exactly how it’s going to work and exactly how…
Why Art? – Eleanor Davis Tackles the Big Question of Aesthetics with Acres of Wit and Pathos
Why Art? Not What Art or When Art or How Art Thou? Eleanor Davis tackles one of those kind of stupid while at the same time super important questions with…
Staff Picks for April 18, 2018 – Charley’s War, The Bridge, Tank Girl, Dirty Rotten Comics and More!
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…
Introducing ‘The Vigilant’ – Rebellion Brings Back Classic Fleetway/IPC Characters in a New One-Shot this Summer
After the success of last year’s Scream! and Misty Halloween Special (reviewed here at Broken Frontier), 2000 AD publisher Rebellion are raiding the vaults of their recently acquired back catalogue…
Loud & Smart – The Humor of Alex Krokus Reflects the Anxiousness of Living in an Era of Uncertainty and Cynicism
The four-panel diary gag strip is a form that has been run into the ground. Much of this has to do with there only being so much that can be…
Preview: Shortbox #8 – Pre-Order the Latest Edition of the Acclaimed Independent Comics Box Featuring Work by Niv Sekar, Lottie Pencheon, Joe Sparrow, Anatola Howard, George Mager and Egle Zvirtblyte
Pre-orders for the latest edition of Zainab Akhtar’s carefully curated independent comics box ShortBox went live today and you have until April 27th to make sure you get hold of this…
A View from the Frontier – Leam Comic Con Acts as a Welcoming Prologue for the UK Spring and Summer Festival Season
For the first time in 2018, the Broken Frontier t-shirt went on in an official capacity this past weekend for what was a relaxed and welcoming prologue to the UK…
Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2018 Longlist Announced – Includes Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Sabba Khan and BF’s Own Jenny Robins
The longlist for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced today and, as you’d expect from a publisher of Myriad’s acclaim, it’s a list full of diverse artistic…
3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘Scooby-Doo! Team-Up’ by Sholly Fisch and Dario Brizuela
‘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…
Crushing – Sophie Burrows Shows Chops and Charm in Her Tale of a Lovelorn Londoner
That spark of attraction can flare up in the most unlikely of circumstances. Just imagine: you’re stood in a comic shop, rainwater sloshing around your leaky brogues, the podcasty bantz…
Staff Picks for April 11, 2018 – Clover Honey, Algeria is Beautiful Like America, Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman and More!
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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Sightings of Wallace Sendek – A Genuine UK Small Press Classic Returns in an Unnervingly Creepy New Expanded Edition from Noble and Azzopardi
As writer Douglas Noble and artist Sean Azzopardi’s Sightings of Wallace Sendek was designed structurally to be periodically added to with new material interspersed among older work, it seems only…
At the Shore – Tracing the Evolution of Jim Campbell’s Coastal Zombie Horror Comedy
Jim Campbell’s At the Shore is a graphic novel that highlights the changing tides in indie comics from the early part of the 2000s to the present. Much of that…
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Radio On: Broadcast #4 – Another Music-Based Anthology Sampling of UK Small Press Talent Including Emily Rose Lambert, Joel Benjamin and Darrell Thorpe
As I said when we chose the latest issue of Rob Carter’s annual music-themed anthology Radio On as one of our Staff Picks last month, its a project that is…
Tottenham’s Trojan Horse? – Mark Panton and Amanda Lillywhite Provide Dire Warnings About Gentrification in the Name of Football
In his book Parklife, journalist Nick Varley traced the relationship between football and the British working classes, from the inception of the professional game to the then-present day of 1999….
Sugar: Life as a Cat – A Mesmerizingly Beautiful Rendition of the World According to the Cats of Serge Baeken; Eponymous Tomcat Sugar Will Steal Your Heart with His Deadpan Wisdom
What is a cat but poetry in motion? Pure, silky, sinuous, graceful, deadly, and then in one moment suddenly utterly ungraceful as they fall off something, or into something. A…
Staff Picks for April 4, 2018 – Your Black Friend and Other Strangers, The Times I Knew I Was Gay, Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures and More
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,…
R – Future War Taken to Its Brutal and Inevitable End in DCWB’s Sci-Fi Minicomic from Undimensioned
The second book, following Entity Reunion, from Undimensioned Press, the new micropress venture from Alexander Tucker (World in the Forcefield), R echoes its predecessor’s slightly oblique but hypnotically compelling narrative…
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