John-Paul Kamath’s London Horror Comic has become an established self-publishing success story over the last few years. Its blend of classic supernatural themes with the horror of modern living ensuring…
Myriad Editions have announced the longlist for the second First Graphic Novel Competition – their biennial competition for first time graphic novelists. Sixteen creators have been selected by the competition…
A young wrestling fan learns the hard way that you should never meet your heroes, in Box Brown’s entertaining latest addition to the Retrofit Comics line. So who says that…
All-New Ultimates, by Michel Fiffe and Amilcar Pinna, offers the perfect concept for Marvel’s Ultimate Universe. However, the story still has some steps to take. When the Marvel Ultimate Universe…
The creators of Batman’s newest series deliver a solid and dependable comic with everything we have come to expect from this top-selling team. But the title of ‘Bat of the…
Shutter is the new urban fantasy/adventure series from Image Comics, brought to you by the creative talents of Joe Keatinge and Leila del Duca, who first met and bonded at…
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Found in a rubbish heap one winter’s morning, French artist Barroux rescued the diary of a soldier in the First World War and turned it into a compelling graphic novel….
While 2013’s The Encyclopedia of Early Earth was the graphic novel that brought Isabel Greenberg to a deservedly wider audience – indeed she was the winner of our Breakout Talent…
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…
Taut, gut-wrenching horror with a lurking malignancy at its core. Set in Jamaica in the summer of 1978, Casey Seijas and Amancay Nahuelpan’s Duppy ’78 is a sprawling tale of…
Veteran comics scribe Dan Jurgens (Superman, Thor) takes the helm for Aquaman’s first leading role in a team book, and he’s off to a great start. Springing from the pages…
Alternative Press have announced the line-up here of exhibitors for the London Radical Bookfair & Alternative Press Takeover at the Bishopsgate Institute – the former home of the Comica Festival…
566 Frames takes an approach to storytelling that is not only unique and innovative, but at the same time universal and timeless. You may have heard about stories coming from beyond…
Lighter than My Shadow is an outstanding and courageous use of the graphic novel format to inform, to elucidate and to share. Arguably, the graphic memoir is the strand of…
After the richness of its League of Extraordinary Gentlemen antecedents, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s brief dip into the world of German expressionism comes as a disappointment. One of Alan…
Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato are the new high priests in the temple of Detective Comics. #30 is their sermon; a renewal of the comic-book faithful’s belief in the Dark…
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Here’s our monthly spotlight on accessible online work covering creators who have appeared in ‘Small Pressganged’ in the past at Broken…
The Uncle Bob Adventures allow Darryl Cunningham to mischievously genre jump, opening up a world of story opportunities for his most affable central character. Darryl Cunningham has become renowned over the…
“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
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
