Porcelain: A Gothic Fairy Tale
More like Dickens than Disney, Porcelain is a wonderfully structured, hard to resist fantasy tale. The opener of Porcelain shows a group of children facing a large gate, as the…
Cyborg 009, Chapter 000
The classic Shotaro Ishinomori manga returns revamped for a fast-paced Western audience. A young boy awakens after a hazy dream and finds he’s cuffed to a table with maniacal robots…
Image Duplicator: Take Back the Art!
Thursday saw the opening of the Rian Hughes and Jason Atomic co-curated ‘Image Duplicator’ exhibition at London’s Orbital Comics. An intriguing counterpoint to the Lichtenstein retrospective, currently coming to the…
Days of Noir and Comics: You Have Killed Me
A solid chunk of the graphic novels that are currently populating my bookshelf are noir titles. I’ve been doing some in-depth research on this popular film genre of the 1940s…
Carmine Infantino and the Silver Age
A confession about superhero comics and sacrilegious comments on classic creators from the silver age. Broken Frontier is known for its focus on the fringe side of comic books published…
Tiny Pencil #1: Into the Woods We Go
Founded and co-edited by Amber Hsu and Katriona Chapman, Tiny Pencil is the latest anthology publication to burst onto the British small press scene. As its name suggests, the raison…
The Dream Merchant #1
Edmondson and Novosadov create a strange, new modern mythology plumbing the depths of our dreams. There once was a boy named Winslow, who dreamed big dreams every night. In fact,…
Desert Island Comics
This time around a special edition of Crossing Borders. The United Kingdom’s most popular comics blog, the Forbidden Planet blog has a feature where comics industry people name their favourite…
The Green Bean Volume 4, Issue 1
Katie Green’s The Green Bean is something of a phenomenon. Perhaps the best way to describe it would be to call it an “illustrated journal zine” but that feels a…
Welcome to Your Awesome Robot
Viviane Schwarz’s Welcome to Your Awesome Robot was the first title to be published under Nobrow Press’s Flying Eye Books imprint for children. Nobrow, of course, already have a proven…
A Library of Comics
Last year I was invited to speak at a quarterly meeting of librarians about how to incorporate comics in to their growing collections. It was quite an honour to…
The Storytellers and California
Rob Jackson is a small press comics creator who could never be accused of falling into a genre-specific rut. The Storytellers and California for example – the two projects I’m…
Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas!
With an Eisner Award nomination for the previous volume, Philippe Coudray’s Benjamin Bear books are a series with an established pedigree. Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas! contains twenty-seven playfully inventive…
Small Press Spotlight on… Owen D. Pomery
Owen D. Pomery’s Between the Billboards is a remarkable debut comic with a stark and misanthropic central premise. It tells the tale of James Ebner, a recluse who has voluntarily…
Chin Music #1
Stunning artwork and a script that keeps you guessing anchor Image’s latest high-profile creative coup, in Niles and Harris’ occult investigation of Al Capone’s Chicago. There are very few comic…
X #1
Fast-paced, straight-ahead action and a new vulnerability herald the return of Dark Horse’s mysterious, ultra-violent vigilante. Formerly the product of Dark Horse’s ill-fated but critically acclaimed 1990s superhero initiative, Comics’…
Heads in the Clouds: Jeff Ellis and Bevan Thomas Dream Big as Members of Cloudscape Comics Society
Denny O’Neil, comics writer and editor extraordinaire and one of the smartest guys on the planet when it comes to funny books, once said: “There is seldom one absolute, unarguable,…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
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