So You Want to Kickstart Your Comic…
So you have an awesome idea for a comic, you’ve got a kick-butt creative team, and you’re just crazy enough to think it’s a good idea to take your comic…
A Long Walk – A Victorian Murder Mystery Recreated by Abbey Massey
In December 1881 Georgina Moore disappeared from outside her school in London. Some hours later the child’s body would be discovered in a river near Yalding. Numerous eyewitnesses saw her…
The Unwritten: Apocalypse #1
The 12-issue finale of metafictional mystery series The Unwritten starts with a virtuoso performance by writer Mike Carey and artist Peter Gross that brings the series and its protagonist very…
Batman: The Real Deal – The Dark Knight, Superhero Comics, and the “Illusion of Change”
Guest writer Joe Krawec analyses the thorny issue of “the illusion of change” in superhero comics with special reference to the Batman mythos and the unofficial Batman: The Deal webcomic…
Space Circus
Viper’s Space Circus delivers zany, appropriately Pixar-esque antics in a formulaic (but fun) all-ages package. Guys, I have bad news. I won’t draw this out or try to sugarcoat it….
Digital Comics vs. the Immortal LCS
A lot has changed for comics in the past decade or so, but the most significant change hasn’t been the boom in superhero movies, any major publisher relaunch, or even…
Deadly Class #1
With a powerful script from Rick Remender and a masterclass in stylish high-energy storytelling by Wes Craig and Lee Loughridge, Deadly Class is a comic that hits its target. As…
The Black Feather Falls Book One: Ellen Lindner’s Period Murder Mystery Comes to Soaring Penguin Press
A lavish and opulent visual feast of a comic with a gripping plot at its heart, Ellen Lindner’s historical drama is a must-buy affair. London, the 1920s, and American Tina…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for January 22, 2014
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 Diary of Anna Tank
The Diary of Anna Tank is not a nice story, but it is an extremely powerful story and one that speaks with a rare authenticity and straightforwardness The Diary of Anna Tank…
Enter My Working World – The Employment Misadventures of Elizabeth Querstret
Those soul-destroying jobs we did for little pay as teenagers. The positions we took straight out of university because the truth was we really had very little idea what we…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Stories from Potato Country
Tragic and comical painted stories from the southwest of the capital of Europe where time stood still and Man still sloughs in the mud he has risen from. Southwest of…
Mike Kunkel’s Squiggle Project
When you stop and think about it, every art project begins with a single line. Where it goes from there unlocks personal creativity, and that’s what makes it art. Cartoonist…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Lucy the Octopus #2: I’ll Take What I Can Get – Richy K. Chandler’s Aquatic Webcomic in Second Collection
If ever a comic added entirely new layers to the term “guilty pleasure” then it’s Richy K. Chandler’s Lucy the Octopus. The tale of a young schoolgirl cephalopod ostracised by…
Superior Spider-Man #25
More revelations and big events as the series looks towards its conclusion I was pleasantly surprised to see Superior Spider-Man high up on a number of critic’s best of 2013 lists….
EGOs #1
Sci-fi meets superheroes in the far future! Brilliantly written and efficiently illustrated, Stuart Moore’s EGOs makes a solid debut. The superhero team known as the Earth/Galactic Operatives – the eponymous…
Curse #1
With sharp scripting by Moreci and Daniel and blistering art from Rossmo and Lorimer, the opening issue of Curse, a four-parter from BOOM! Studios, takes a relevant and contemporary look…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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