Vote for Broken Frontier in the 2022 Tripwire Awards!
Broken Frontier celebrates its 20th anniversary later in 2022 so it’s very pleasing to see our work in comics commentary and comics community recognised in this year’s Tripwire Awards with…
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Hocus Pocus #5: Levitation – The Finale to Worth and Collver’s Paranormal Investigation Series Proves Its Eisner-Nominated Credentials
One of the great delights of this year’s Eisner nominations was the inclusion of small press comic Hocus Pocus on the ballot. An investigative series focussing on the history and…
Preview: Doughnuts and Doom – Balazs Lorinczi’s LGBTQ+ Teen Romance from Top Shelf Hits Shelves Next Week
A struggling witch, a failed musician and “a fantastical love story” are the key elements of Balazs Lorinczi’s Doughnuts and Doom, a new graphic novel debuting next week from Top…
Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator – Darryl Cunningham’s Latest Graphic Journalism Charts Vladimir Putin’s Chilling Ascent to Power
It would perhaps be of some tiny comfort if we could say that when Darryl Cunningham’s Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator was published by Myriad Editions in the…
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Puke Banter – A Classic Animated Fave Gets a Vomit-Splattered Makeover Courtesy of James the Stanton and Silver Sprocket
There’s something undeniably appealing about pop cultural parodies when their targets are not the obvious easy objects of biting ridicule but, rather, the cooler and more assured characters of our…
Georgia O’Keeffe – Maria Herreros’ Graphic Biography Gets to the Wild, Brave Heart of this Legendary Painter
The newest edition to SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters series, Georgia O’Keeffe is a graphic biography written and illustrated by Maria Herreros and translated from the Spanish edition from Astiberri Ediciones. The…
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, September 1st for a ‘Salamanca Blues’ Special with Guest Artist Alba Ceide
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, September 1 stwith a Salamanca Blues Special with guest artist…
Preview: Book of Slaughter #1 – The Next Chapter in the World of ‘Something is Killing the Children’ is Coming from BOOM! Studios in December
BOOM! Studios have announced the next project for the rapidly expanding ‘Slaughterverse’. Book of Slaughter hits shelves in December. BOOK OF SLAUGHTER Opens a New Chapter in the Slaughterverse Discover the…
Death Threat – Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee Tackle the Subject of Transphobic Abuse with “a Compelling Act of Resistance”
One of our stated commitments to our Broken Frontier readership is the creation of resource lists for work covering socially relevant subject matter or championing marginalised voices. One of those…
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Kate Beaton Returns to D+Q and Jonathan Cape with a Memoir as Disturbing as it is Unforgettable
“The world’s most destructive oil operation.” That is the description National Geographic went with for a 2019 profile of Alberta’s oil sands region north of Fort McMurray. A distressing report…
Dark Horse to Publish New Horror Graphic Novel ‘Skinner’ in 2023
Coming to comic stores next year on May 3rd and to bookstores on May 16th, Skinner is a new horror graphic novel from Dark Horse who certainly have an excellent…
2000 AD Prog 2296 – Long May the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’s All-Ages Regened Initiative Continue!
It’s indicative of the current levels of entitled toxicity in certain demographics of UK fandom that although apparently consisting of some of the highest selling issues of the year 2000…
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Salamanca Blues Part 1: Sand – Alba Ceide’s Latest Ecological Drama Marks Her First Longer-Form Comics Offering
With a timely relevance Alba Ceide’s Salamanca Blues Part 1 was recently launched on IndieGoGo, bringing her first longer-form work one step closer to a print edition. Part of Ceide’s…
Quindrie Press to Publish ‘Tilt: Six Tales’, an Anthology of Comics Stories from UK Talents
Now live on Kickstarter, Tilt: Six Tales is a new anthology from Broken Frontier Award-winning publisher Quindrie Press. The book features a new story by 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to…
Arts in Health Charity Re-Live to Publish ‘Coming Home’, an Anthology Focussing on Veterans and Mental Health Featuring the Final Work of Artist Ian Kennedy
Mental health awareness issues and veterans are rarely touched on in UK comics (Samuel C. Williams’s At War with Yourself being a notable exception). Welsh Arts in Health charity Re-Live…
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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Spotlights Six Projects from the #SPDBFREVIEW One-Tweet Reviews on Small Press Day 2022
While the UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day adopted a hybrid approach for 2022 one online aspect we didn’t want to jettison was the popular one-tweet reviews on Twitter. Using…
“Comics Are Just Unbelievably Elastic” – Emily McGovern Talks ‘Twelve Percent Dread’ from Dark Horse, Social Commentary, and Interweaving Plot Threads
This summer, Dark Horse Comics released Emily McGovern’s Twelve Percent Dread, a graphic novel that combines explorations of complex social issues with the everyday lives of its ensemble cast. The…
A New Foray into the Hellboy Universe in November in Mignola, Stenbeck and Stewart’s ‘Koshchei in Hell’
News from Dark Horse of a new entry in the Hellboy universe this November. Full details on Koshchei in Hell in the press release below… Legendary Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola,…
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