Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Over twenty tales of public humiliation from creators across the indie comics scene make up Birdcage Bottom’s Cringe: An Anthology of Embarrassment, a collection of shorts detailing those best forgotten…
Henni, a new original graphic novel, presents readers with a fable-like world of religious extremism and oppression not all that unlike our own. The eponymous main character, a young, curious girl, begins…
With a foot in both the worlds of comics and traditional children’s storybooks, Richy K. Chandler and Sally-Anne Hickman’s Bang! Crash! Whizz! is a delightful piece of storytelling designed primarily…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
A fear of authoritarian surveillance has been a motif throughout literary history (Nineteen Eighty-Four, anyone?), but in a post-Snowden, NSA era it’s perhaps more relevant than ever. Cue Gianluca Bonomo’s CCTVYLLE, a…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
The brain child of Belgian artist Pieter De Poortere, Dickie (Boerke) has been around for more than 15 years and has been published in French, Spanish, Hungarian and Finnish. Don’t you want…
Brigid Deacon’s work has cropped up in a number of anthologies lately – from Eyeball Comix to the second issue of Donya Todd’s Bimba – and has immediately grabbed my…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Snackies is a compilation of the previously self-published minicomics work of cartoonist Nick Sumida – alongside some new material – collected by San Francisco-based micropublisher Youth in Decline. Sumida’s comics…
Write and Draw Your Own Comics strives to build a participatory relationship between its target audience and the medium of comics. How do we get children more involved with comics?…
In The Late Child and Other Animals, Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger team up again to produce a lyrical, visceral and expressionistic memoir of a difficult childhood. Even if…
Comic fans got their first chance to pick up Lady Killer #1 when it hit the stands on January 7, but for creators Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich it’s been…
“Women have come so far in the comics community in spite of the harassment and discrimination they have faced, which I think sends a very powerful message to viewers.” –…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Is the rapidly expanding number of UK comics-related shows, fairs and festivals to exhibit at an advantage? Or is this level of growth actually stretching small press creators and their…
A true artist doesn’t just draw pretty pictures; he excels at telling stories. On just six issues of Moon Knight, Declan Shalvey showed the world why he’s comics’ newest superstar….
In Lady Killer, Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich have crafted a Space-Age crime fantasy that drips red, white, and blue (but mostly red). The first issue of Lady Killer…
Here at Broken Frontier we’re all about looking beyond the obvious in our coverage. But for our staff and our readers, one thing can’t be ignored: with unstoppable momentum, Image…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Comic Book Slumber Party may exist primarily to promote the work of women creators from across the globe but it also seeks to showcase the work of newer creative voices…
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
