Wrong Songs
Dan Cox’s Wrong Songs is a collection of inventively bizarre takes on children’s nursery rhymes from the same gent who co-created the madcap music industry book Hitsville UK (shortly to…
Small Press Spotlight on… Katriona Chapman
Katriona Chapman can count comics as just one part of a varied career in the world of illustration. Co-editor of the recently launched anthology artszine Tiny Pencil, Katriona’s self-published work…
The Pre-Apocalypse Is Near: Ed Brisson Talks Sheltered
By now it’s pretty clear that those Mayans got it wrong. The world didn’t explode on December 21, 2012. But that doesn’t mean humanity is completely out of harm’s way,…
The Complete 2000 AD Zenith Reprinted!
2000 AD is to publish a complete collection of Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s ground-breaking superhero series Zenith for the first time. The limited edition hardback book will only be…
The Deep Needs Train
Winner of the 2011 Manga Jiwan competition, Elena Vitagliano’s The Deep Needs Train is a succinct yet highly expressive piece of fantasy storytelling. It centres on a mysterious steam train…
Trading Up: The Simon & Kirby Library: Science Fiction
Over the last few years Titan Books have published a number of handsome collections of classic comics work by legendary creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. These have included volumes…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
My Muse is Lounging on the Sofa
Contemporary absurdism ahoy in Wide Vercnocke’s ode to his sofa. My Muse is Lounging on the Sofa by Wide Vercnocke This is the titanic tale of a man…
Com.x and Babble’s Bryan Coyle Nominated for Russ Manning Award
Com.x are a publisher whose output we’ve looked very favourably on here at Broken Frontier in the past. Their eclectic comics approach always covered a diverse range of genres, from the…
The Orphans Who Had Parents
Lisa Grant’s The Orphans Who Had Parents examines a social issue that you may well be unfamiliar with: the exploitation of children in Cambodia by institutions that purport to be…
Get in on Elephantmen with Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection
Last week’s Image Comics press release announcing the 50th issue of Richard Starkings’s Elephantmen series instantly made me walk to my stacked graphic novel cupboard and pull out one of…
The Private Eye #2
The Private Eye is modern noir without the shadows. The bursting of the Internet and stampede of secrets that toppled lives, businesses, and the culture of information resulted in a…
Warren Ellis and the Dead Pig Collector
One of comic-dom’s most revered authors, Warren Ellis, is also making a name for himself as a writer of novels. After the noir-tinted Crooked Little Vein and his exploration of…
Reads #3
Avery Hill Publishing’s Reads is an anthology that is steadfastly unashamed of its old school, grassroots small press approach. As diverse a collection – in terms of both genres and…
BD & Comics Passion Hits London! Your Chance to Win Free Tickets…
Between May 30th and June 2nd the BD & Comics Passion festival reaches its third year at the Institut francais in Kensington, London with a host of comics-related events. Presenting…
Bryan J.L. Glass: The End of Mice Templar
Little creatures on a big adventure is normally something you’d associate with Disney, but Image Comics’ The Mice Templar is closer to fantasy epics by J.R.R. Tolkien, or George R.R….
Edgar Allan Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher #1
Something is rotting in the House of Usher, and it might just be the story. A lone traveler makes a journey through thick woods and into a thicker fog that…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Odalisques & Cylinders
We explore the titanic combination of Bastien Vivés and Ruppert and Mulot and look at Joris Van de Moortel’s use of comics to present his art books. Cylinder 1-2…
Small Press Spotlight on… Jade Sarson
Jade Sarson’s online Cafe Suada series is the epitome of feelgood comics. To great comic effect it depicts the ongoing feud between Geraldine, manager of the Piyo Piyo teahouse and…
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