PRIDE MONTH 2023! Photo comics are a fascinating alternative approach to the form. While they present themselves as following the same sequential structure as their more traditional illustrated counterparts the…
It’s a way off yet but Shook! A Black Horror Anthology from Dark Horse Comics and Second Sight Publishing looks like one to watch in early 2024 for sure. Details in…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! With a new hardcover edition coming later this month, a review of Mike Curato’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel Flamer seems most appropriate for our Pride Month coverage. Set…
With over a decade’s experience of comics publishing and a focus on bringing translated French language comics to English-speaking audiences, Nicolas Rossert’s Sloth Comics has become a regular fixture on…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! As our reviews go, today’s look at Tillie Walden’s Alone in Space is going to be a slightly different reading experience. This collection of Walden’s first three…
Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and already virtually at its target, Rusalka – Whispers of the Forest is the latest comics work from our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! Even if you haven’t read all-ages graphic novel The Real Riley Mayes yet the chances are you will have heard of it. Rachel Elliott’s book has been…
Some books carry with them the palpable weight of their creator’s lived experience. One can sense the ambition, a reaching for something big, or the effort poured into getting all…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! The last time we reviewed Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay was for our Pride Month celebrations in 2022, so it’s fitting that we…
It’s Pride Month which means it’s a very good time to be sending us your LGBTQ+-related comics press releases. Coming around the Halloween season, Emmett Nahil and George Williams’s Let…
A new set of awards have been announced by the Jewish Comics Experience (JewCE) convention with a focussed commitment to recognising Jewish comics narratives and coverage. More on the JewCie…
I love comic conventions. There’s no better way to spend a weekend than walking around, basking in the enthusiasm and talent of fellow comic creators. I love seeing what everyone’s…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! June is Pride Month and, as you know, we like to occasionally event-theme our coverage here at Broken Frontier. At a time when rising levels of homophobia,…
The South London Comic & Zine Fair is back in July and, in conjunction with Avery Hill Publishing, their 2023 programming line-up has just been announced. For BF fanpersons it’s…
Writer David Hine has a longstanding association with BF given his time with us as a columnist some years ago and his contribution to the Broken Frontier Anthology in 2016….
There’s such a wealth of untranslated European comics work that it’s surprising and frustrating that so much excellent practice remains unreleased in an English language format. All the more reason…
For those of us of… a certain age… today’s announcement of an old-school hardback-style Treasury of British Comics Annual for 2024 will bring back nostalgic memories of Christmas stocking stuffers…
Given how heavily it drew from the Lee-Ditko era of Amazing Spider-Man, the status of The Leopard from Lime Street as one of the more celebrated strips of the 1970s…
“It’s About Queerness, Family, Loyalty, Grief, and at its Core Love in All its Forms”- Bex Glendining on Debut Graphic Novel ‘On Starlit Shores’April 2, 2026
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
