(Content warning: references to suicide follow). When you are entrenched in both the world of comics commentary, and the larger community of practice that surrounds it, you are constantly aware…
While stories of addiction – in all its multiple forms – are an established sub-genre of graphic medicine it could be argued that when that dependency is alcohol-related the amount…
Hot on the heels of our recent review of PeePee-PooPoo #420 here last week at BF we have a preview of the upcoming November issue below! PeePee PooPoo #80085 By Caroline…
With the obvious exclusion of Johnny Alpha when characters in 2000 AD die they usually tend to stay dead. This week’s Prog sees the end of the road for Judge…
The first title in the new Tripwire Presents imprint, Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders: The Gene Genie was successfully funded on Zoop earlier this summer. Check out a four-page…
There’s more Everything Sucks coming from Michael Sweater and Silver Sprocket this Autumn. Take a look at the preview below and then make sure it’s on your pull list! Everything Sucks:…
There has certainly been something of a noticeable uptick in children’s books being offered for review to us at Broken Frontier of late that combine narrated illustration and traditional comics….
Can it really be 20 years since The Walking Dead first hit the pop cultural consciousness? Apparently so, and Top Cow have plans to celebrate that anniversary with a series…
Many people who have been around the UK small press scene for decades rather than years have a version of the same anecdote; of how when they first discovered small…
After an Ignatz win in 2022 for Outstanding Minicomic and a 2023 nomination for Outstanding Artist, there’s far, far more than just a growing buzz around Caroline Cash’s PeePee-PooPoo anthology…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, September 7th for an Ignatz-themed Special. Not only do our…
Joe Kessler’s singular vision has been one of UK indie comics’ greatest gifts to us over the last decade. Not solely because of his astonishingly intuitive understanding of the form,…
Shout-outs for crowdfunding campaigns are something we haven’t been so good at over this very busy Summer period. Here’s one from the direction of the ever excellent Quindrie Press who…
A recent Ignatz nominee in the Best Artist category, Darlin’ and Her Other Names Part 1: Marta is described as a werewolf-western-horror-romance comic. If that blending of genres doesn’t immediately…
After recently winning the first Caliburn Prize Michael Lomon’s The Palace of Tears is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. More details in the press release below and you can read a…
Simon Russell begins a series of articles today looking at upcoming projects that are still in progress and speaking to the voices behind them. He starts today with a focus…
The jury has returned and the results are in for the Alison Brown Young Comics Maestro Award 2023, the award that honours Alison Brown, our much-missed friend and an integral…
I have bemoaned the marginalisation of old school DIY culture on multiple occasions here at Broken Frontier; that ethos that declares self-publishing comics and zines gives a voice to everyone…
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