Look Straight Ahead
Elaine M Will’s self-publishing success story uses every tool in the cartoonist’s kit to depict vividly the experience of mental illness. As you enter ‘Paul Klee: Making Visible’, a major…
Mr. Yang Fights Aliens Part 1- Science Teacher Turns Extraterrestrial-Buster in New Series from Illustrator: Lam
A science teacher with attitude takes on otherworldly invaders in Mr. Yang Fights Aliens, Mickey Lam’s tale of an extraterrestrial incursion in London. Ostensibly a recently qualified schoolteacher with a…
Black Science #1
Remender and Scalera cook up old school sci-fi with an anarchist twist and a side of psychedelia in Black Science. Scientist Grant McKay and his Anarchist League of Scientists have…
Letter 44 #2
Nothing is quite what it seems on Earth or in space. Letter 44 messes with your mind, and you won’t mind at all. While newly elected President Blades is being…
Sea Change – A Choose-Your-Own-Way Story from Caitlin Skaalrud
‘Stories from the St. Louis’ is the banner tagline under which Caitlin Skaalrud has grouped all of the self-published work I’ve read from her to date, including the nostalgically structured…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for December 5, 2013
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…
RhiZome Volume 1 – Jackson and Baddeley-Read Launch New Brit Sci-Fi Small Press Anthology Comic
Rob Jackson and Kyle Baddeley-Read’s sci-fi anthology RhiZome is a conscious attempt to create a comic that hearkens back to an edgier time of experimental small press publishing, as noted…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
You Smell of Crime and I’m the Deodorant
Al Ewing & Henry Flint’s hilarious and rather outrageous undead crime-fighter is back. THIS IS COMICS: weaponized zombies, mega-brained pop music moguls, male stripper minds in butt transplants, gung-ho military…
Uncanny Avengers #14
The themes of Remender’s multiple “Uncanny” titles come together in a devastating issue This issue of Uncanny Avengers has been well hyped this week as a game changer, promising plenty of death…
Boxers and Saints
Through the lives of two young people in 19th century China, Gene Luen Yang provides a powerful look at the dangers of fanaticism and the difficulties of faith. Without a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Hatchlings – Manga Jiman Winners Come Together in the First Cross#atch Anthology
Cross#atch are a small collective of five manga creators from a variety of cultures who all share the experience of success in the UK Manga Jiman short story competition. Their…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for November 27, 2013
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 Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story
Tiwary and Robinson exquisitely meld history and fiction in this fully painted graphic biography of the legendary Beatles manager. By the time Brian Epstein met the Beatles in 1961, they…
Join the Army – Darren Cullen’s Anti-Armed Forces Recruitment Comic
Reading the background information which arrived with my copy of London artist Darren Cullen’s Join the Army I wasn’t surprised to note the polarised reactions this most uncompromising of anti-war…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
John Tiffany on the Run
A lackluster bounty-hunter-on-the-run plot is turned into a spectacular action movie by the stunning visuals of the brand new & re-invented nineties artist Dan Panosian. Starting out as a Rob…
Red Plains: Accidents Will Happen
The old West as it really was. That’s the mission statement behind Caryn A. Tate’s western series Red Plains… When I was preparing to write this review I was rather…
Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore
Lance Parkin’s biography provides a revealing examination of the life and work of one of comics’ most influential and divisive figures. Like a lot of comics readers of a certain…
Room for Love
Room for Love is no conventional, sweet and cheerful, happy-ending love story. It’s a painful, sometimes bitter, account of the unlikely collision of two people’s lives told with sincere authenticity…
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