With a continuity so convoluted that it matched DC’s Hawkman for complexity (for more on that see our article some years ago here) 2000 AD‘s Rogue Trooper strip eventually found…
You have to put up with a lot as a football fan. In that sense, they actually have a surprising amount in common with their natural nemesis: the comic book…
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Jonathan Baylis’s long-running collaborative project So Buttons hit its twelfth issue this Autumn with another collection of his autobio whimsy being brought to life by a roll call of diversely…
Framing the recognisable in the fantastic has always been a clever narrative tool for underlining the universality of certain human experiences. In the first volume of Space Trash, published by…
Announced over the weekend the awardees of the inaugural Kinnard Awards – set up to acknowledge deserving names working to the benefit of the comics community – were announced by…
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We have never been too hung up on rigid definitions of what comics are and are not when it comes to our coverage choices here at Broken Frontier. Whether you…
Two events in London and Brighton this weekend if you’re looking for small press-related events. Info on the Feminist Library Winter Fayre and the Cartoon County Comics Winter Fair below….
Bittersweet news from Rebellion today with the announcement of what looks like an absolutely stunning a Kevin O’Neill Apex Edition just a few weeks after his passing. Full details in…
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, December 8th with a ‘Drink and Draw All-Stars’ evening. Not…
Obviously there’s a lot of gross stuff flying about in (most) David Cronenberg films, but when I first encountered his work as a gore-hungry teen, I’d already had access to…
Given that I first reviewed his small press comics around a decade ago it feels rather strange to be describing the first volume of Birdking, published a couple of months…
What elevates a collection of classic comics material from impressive to outstanding is often the care with which a publisher curates its supplementary material. Ablaze’s Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips…
With the Charles Schulz centenary inspiring us all to dig out those Peanuts collections there’s timely news indeed this week via Top Shelf Productions. Coming next summer Funny Things is…
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What I have always appreciated about Dan White’s Cindy and Biscuit comics is the way in which the artist has constantly shifted his presentational (and as a result his narrative)…
Just a reminder that we are more than happy to run press about small press and DIY Culture events. Details on this year’s East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest…
Dark Horse have recently published a number of the classic EC Archives in paperback versions and the good news this week is that they’re set to do the same for…
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Sometimes the buzz around a new creator or title means events move too fast for even Broken Frontier to keep up. Such is the case with Becca Kubrick’s Dead Girls:…
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At the beginning of this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed Ant Story, a collection of brutally funny short strips by the King Louie’s Lab team of Fred Morris and…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
