Amazing Art: Dave Wachter Recaps HeroesCon 2013
Dave Wachter, artist on Breath of Bones: Tales of the Golem, released today from Dark Horse and reviewed by us here, has posted an overview of the best sketches he…
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Bite-sized chunks on what’s going on in the comics industry and beyond.
Process #3: Discussing the Mechanics of the Comics Page
Process is a comics workshop and discussion group that meets up on the first Wednesday of every month at London’s Gosh! Comics from 7-9 pm. The idea is to have…
Anticipating Killjoys #1: Watch My Chemical Romance’s Na Na Na
He’s back! His debut with Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite and the Umbrella Academy: Dallas follow-up proved that he’s one of the most luminary and positively twisted young minds to write…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for June 12, 2013
Broken Frontier presents its staff picks for the comics released this week. If you want to know which books should be on your pull list, look no further! True…
HeroesCon 2013: Art Gallery
Taking place this weekend, June 7-9, in Charlotte, NC is HeroesCon 2013. Many comic book professionals are very coy about their love for the show because it’s one of the…
Formidable! – Looking Back on BD & Comics Passion 2013
Since its debut in the autumn of 2011, the BD & Comics Passion festival at London’s Institut français has rapidly become an essential – even obligatory – date for the diary in our…
Superman to Celebrate 75th Anniversary as Superman Blue?!
Rejoice! Superman – comic’s most iconic superhero – is celebrating his 75th anniversary this year. Bring out the cakes, the candles, and the spell checker just in case you’re responsible…
The Complete 2000 AD Zenith Reprinted!
2000 AD is to publish a complete collection of Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s ground-breaking superhero series Zenith for the first time. The limited edition hardback book will only be…
Com.x and Babble’s Bryan Coyle Nominated for Russ Manning Award
Com.x are a publisher whose output we’ve looked very favourably on here at Broken Frontier in the past. Their eclectic comics approach always covered a diverse range of genres, from the…
Get in on Elephantmen with Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection
Last week’s Image Comics press release announcing the 50th issue of Richard Starkings’s Elephantmen series instantly made me walk to my stacked graphic novel cupboard and pull out one of…
Warren Ellis and the Dead Pig Collector
One of comic-dom’s most revered authors, Warren Ellis, is also making a name for himself as a writer of novels. After the noir-tinted Crooked Little Vein and his exploration of…
BD & Comics Passion Hits London! Your Chance to Win Free Tickets…
Between May 30th and June 2nd the BD & Comics Passion festival reaches its third year at the Institut francais in Kensington, London with a host of comics-related events. Presenting…
Image Duplicator: Take Back the Art!
Thursday saw the opening of the Rian Hughes and Jason Atomic co-curated ‘Image Duplicator’ exhibition at London’s Orbital Comics. An intriguing counterpoint to the Lichtenstein retrospective, currently coming to the…
Days of Noir and Comics: You Have Killed Me
A solid chunk of the graphic novels that are currently populating my bookshelf are noir titles. I’ve been doing some in-depth research on this popular film genre of the 1940s…
Carmine Infantino and the Silver Age
A confession about superhero comics and sacrilegious comments on classic creators from the silver age. Broken Frontier is known for its focus on the fringe side of comic books published…
A Library of Comics
Last year I was invited to speak at a quarterly meeting of librarians about how to incorporate comics in to their growing collections. It was quite an honour to…
Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin Release The Private Eye #2
The second issue of Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin’s The Private Eye is now available on the comic’s website, Panel Syndicate. The series is available digital only for now,…
Experience the New Broken Frontier
Hello and welcome to Broken Frontier! Thanks for (once again) stopping by our modest digital endeavor. This page will fill you in on who we are, where we come from…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
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