Green Thumbs – Nature Clashes with Domesticity in Alice Urbino’s Eerie New Horror Comic Tale
It’s been a little while since we had the opportunity to review an Alice Urbino comic here at BF but we can today as one of our original 2015 Broken…
Fantagraphics to Reprint Marvel’s 1950s Atlas Comics Beginning this Autumn
Good news today for those still mourning the loss of Marvel’s Atlas Masterworks from around a decade-plus years ago. Fantagraphics have today announced they will be publishing editions of these…
Silver Sprocket’s Publishing Schedule for the Second Half of 2023 Revealed – Including Work from Cam Marshall, Kimberly Wang and Mariah-Rose Marie
Silver Sprocket, Broken Frontier’s Best Publisher Award winners for 2022, have announced their publishing schedule for this autumn. Check out the list below for undoubtedly some of the very best…
“Adding a Layer of ‘Weird’ also Helps to Decipher Reality” – Aisha Franz Takes a Cold, Hard Look at the Absurdity of Our Times With ‘Work-Life Balance’
There are moments of recognition on almost every page of German artist Aisha Franz’s latest book; moments that make one nod, then sigh in frustration at the manner in which…
Ahoy Comics to Publish Paul Cornell and Marika Cresta’s ‘CON & ON’ in July – A New Series Satirising the Comics Industry and Its Conventions
With this many pull quotes as testaments to its worth you really can’t argue that Paul Cornell and Marika Cresta’s upcoming CON & ON from Ahoy Comics is going to…
Fire Flowers – Xiaoyi Hu’s Riso Comic Follows a Young Blind Woman’s Walk Around Her Neighbourhood and Treats Us to a Journey of Parallel Perceptions
We talk a lot about the tactile possibilities of self-publishing here at Broken Frontier but Xiaoyi Hu’s comic Fire Flowers adds extra emphasis on that quality (as can be seen…
Rain – Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot Revisit the Catastrophic Floods of 2015 and Underline that an Ethical Ecological Approach Should Not Be a Prisoner of Privilege and Influence
EARTH DAY WEEK! Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s Rain (published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse Comics in the US) is suffused with a feeling of…
Slow Death Zero: The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror – Last Gasp’s Anthology Provides a Fittingly Bleak Collection of Environmental Terror Tales
EARTH DAY WEEK! Published as a 50th anniversary celebration of Last Gasp, Slow Death Zero takes the name of the underground publisher’s influential alt comics anthology, affixes an additional “numbering”…
Dark Horse Comics to Publish Deluxe Art Book ‘Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean’ in November
Well this looks rather gorgeous. Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean is coming from Dark Horse in November just in time for your Christmas lists… LEGENDARY ARTIST DAVE MCKEAN’S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE…
The Effluent Society – Norman Thelwell’s 1971 Collection is a Sad Reminder of How Little Our Attitudes to the Environment Have Changed in 50 Years
EARTH DAY WEEK! The idea that concern about the destructive effects of humanity’s interaction with the environment is a relatively recent one is, of course, entirely fallacious in its supposition….
Quindrie Press’s New Graphic Novel Line-Up to Debut in a Kickstarter Campaign this May
Quindrie Press, the Edinburgh-based micropublisher founded by Eve Greenwood, have just announced a new set of books for 2023 to be launched on Kickstarter in May. A couple of years…
Junk Rabbit #1 – Jimmie Robinson Takes Us to a Dystopian Future of Trash Mountains and Domed Cities
EARTH DAY WEEK! This week at Broken Frontier our Earth Day-themed review coverage has looked at comics and the environment from the perspectives of graphic journalism, biography, anthologies, satire and…
Karl Stock’s ‘Comic Book Punks’, a Group Biography of British Creators Who Reinvented the Medium, Coming from Rebellion in 2023
Rebellion’s expansion into books covering of British comics-related history is set to continue this year with Comic Book Punks by Karl Stock. More in the press release below. Rebellion to…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, April 20th with Guest Artist Manon Wright
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 20th with guest artist Manon Wright, of our 2022…
š! #44 – kuš! comics Go ‘Back to Nature’ as Artists from Five Continents Look at Our Relationship with the Environment
EARTH DAY WEEK! As regular Broken Frontier readers will know we have been slowly building up a number of socially relevant resource lists of comics material on the site. In…
Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear – Trang Nguyen and Jeet Zdung Bring the Subject of Conservation to a Younger Readership
EARTH DAY WEEK! While graphic journalism, graphic biography and comics social commentary on environmental issues is both valuable and vital in communicating and dissecting the realities involved another approach is…
Introducing ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ – The Next Step in BF’s Ethos of Proactive Comics Community Support
PINNED POST! Introducing Broken Frontier Connects, the next stage in our evolution! Broken Frontier Connects is our new initiative designed to extend our community hub philosophy. BF already has an…
World War 3 Illustrated #52: Frontlines of Repair – From Environmental Disaster and the Pandemic to Community Building and Social Activism, the Acclaimed Left-Wing Comics Anthology Explores Our Approach to Our Broken World
EARTH DAY WEEK! What adds an extra layer of relevancy to World War 3 Illustrated’s most recent themed anthology Frontlines of Repair is that it goes beyond just insightful commentary…
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