Hellboy in Hell #6 – Mike Mignola’s Latest Effort is a Visceral Experience
As Hellboy continues to adjust to the afterlife, his journey hinges on the active participation of the reader – an incredible gesture of trust on the part of creator Mike…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for May 14, 2014: Hellboy In Hell, United States of Murder Inc., Shutter, The Amateurs, Superman: Doomed & More
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, BF…
The Woods #1 – James Tynion IV’s Immersive Original Story is Held Back by Inconsistent Art
Tynion’s skill and creativity are on full display in his first foray into creator-owned comics, but missteps in the artwork of Michael Dialynas do the story a disservice. James Tynion…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Hermann’s Station 16 Puts Art Before Story in a Visually Tense but Cliched Time-Travel Horror Story
Hermann Huppe is a legend of the European comics scene, having been responsible for such classic series as Comanche, Jeremiah and Bernard Prince, among others. In more recent years he has teamed up with…
Love Looks Away – Memory and Family History Explored in Line Hoven’s Beautifully Crafted Graphic Memoir
Love Looks Away is a graphic memoir that emphasises the underlying delicacy of memory; of how small, isolated and fragile moments combine to create our own personal narratives. In Love…
Comics Unmasked Presents ‘European Literature Night : The Graphic Novelists’ this Wed 14th May – Your Chance to Win Free Tickets Here!
This Wednesday 14th May, the Comics Unmasked exhibition programme of events will see esteemed British comics commentator Paul Gravett talking to four leading European graphic novelists about their work and…
Batman/Superman #10 – A Disappointing Departure, Despite Jeff Lemire’s Entertaining Script
Fun story, inconsistent art: please, DC – don’t screw up this series! With characters as well established in the pantheon as DC’s flagship super-heroes Batman and Superman, you’d think that presenting…
Nailbiter #1 – Image Comics’ Solid Serial Killer Tale Has More to Give
Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson bring incredible individual talent to this dark, intriguing comic, but fall just short of a cohesive approach to storytelling. What makes a serial killer? Is…
Madame Frankenstein #1 – Jamie S Rich and Megan Levens Make a Slow Start in Their 1930s Riff on a Horror Classic
A strong black-and-white debut from artist Megan Levens is hindered by a sketchy set-up and elusive characterisation. In Billion Year Spree, his history of science fiction, Brian Aldiss hails Mary Shelley’s…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Small Press Spotlight on… Avery Hill Publishing – the Creators
Yesterday at Broken Frontier we published the first instalment of a two-part interview with Ricky Miller and Dave White, the team behind Brit micropublishers Avery Hill Publishing. In day two…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Small Press Spotlight on… Avery Hill Publishing – the Editorial Team
British micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing are no longer the new kids on the small press block. In 2013 their comics output expanded rapidly. Critically acclaimed books like Jazz Greenhill’s The…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for May 7, 2014: The Woods, Nailbiter, Miles Morales Ultimate Spider-Man, Futures End & More
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, BF…
Andre the Giant – Box Brown’s Labour of Love Is a Fitting Tribute to a Man Who Cast a Big Shadow
Box Brown brings his distinctive graphic style to a well-researched and entertaining biography of wrestling colossus Andre the Giant. When ah were a lad, growing up in northern England in…
Brass Sun #1 – Edginton and Culbard’s Clockpunk World Delights and Intrigues in 2000 AD’s New Serial US Comic
Ever since Rebellion Developments bought 2000 AD in 2000 (when else?), it has stuck to its successful forumla of publishing trade paperback collections of the most successive serials. However, Brass Sun repackages…
HOAX Psychosis Blues – Ravi Thornton, Bryan Talbot, Hannah Berry, Karrie Fransman and Company Underline the Astonishing Power of the Graphic Memoir
HOAX Psychosis Blues is the ultimate expression of the graphic memoir’s unique power to share and communicate personal experience. A hauntingly beautiful masterpiece. Back in 2012, Ravi Thornton and Andy…
Who Made the Final Six on the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition Shortlist? Find Out Here!
Myriad Editions is delighted to announce the shortlist for their First Graphic Novel Competition 2014, revealed today to coincide with the first week of Comics Unmasked, the UK’s largest-ever exhibition of British comics…
Aranha – Brazilian Creators Luisa Doria and Rafael Baliú’s Arachnid-Based Tale of Childhood Terror
Although, to date, I’ve covered work from four continents in ‘Small Pressganged’ Brazil is virgin territory for this feature. For that you have Impossible Books – those fine UK online…
Small Press Round-Up, May 2014 – Lizz Lunney at Pictoplasma, Esther McManus on Self-Publishing, Alys Jones’s New Project & More
Lizz Lunney (above), Esther McManus, Howard Hardiman, Alys Jones and more feature in May’s round-up of what the great and the good of the small press scene are up to,…
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