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Ellice Weaver’s beautifully constructed short narratives make stunning yet delicately crafted use of colour to evoke mood and enhance atmosphere. Her work has a genuinely distinctive visual identity while her subject matter has…
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Fresh from her Ignatz triumph this weekend, Broken Frontier 2015 Breakout Talent Award winner Tillie Walden has announced her latest project On a Sunbeam – a self-published, sci-fi style webcomic. It…
Collecting a selection of diary strips from Alex Hahn’s webcomic series, Post Conatus: Going Home details a specific period in the illustrator’s life in 2013 when, prior to beginning a…
Simon Moreton’s work has always been an enduring reminder that the seemingly smallest moments of life can be the most profound, that the fragility of existence can be captured in…
Circuitous in narrative and largely indefinable in premise beyond the most superficial terms, Patrick Kyle’s Don’t Come in Here from the ever essential Koyama Press is a meandering yet gloriously oblique…
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For a creator who is so adept at eliciting such powerful emotional responses in his readership there’s perhaps something surprisingly sedate about the pacing of an Andy Poyiadgi comic. It’s…
Triumphantly flamboyant exhibitionism to some… ludicrous, pointless pantomime to others… the world of wrestling is certainly a divisive one. Josh Hicks embraces these contradictions in his self-published short comic Glorious…
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Last Driver – the latest project from London-based micropublisher Dead Canary Comics – hits Kickstarter today and gives Dead Canary co-publisher C.S. Baker the dream opportunity to see his dystopic sci-fi romp brought…
Back in the early 1980s Altered Images memorably sang about the forgotten fate of ‘Dead Pop Stars’ reaching out from beyond the grave to implore fans to remember their one-time…
Championing work we believe in, promoting creators with something important to say, and spotlighting publications that are worthy of far wider attention are staples of Broken Frontier’s philosophy of coverage. Every…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! For well over a decade Decadence Comics have been showcasing their own particular brand of socio-political sci-fi, with their eponymous anthology comic acting as the micropublisher’s flagship…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Throughout this past week at Broken Frontier we’ve been previewing some of the new releases from Breakdown Press that you can pick up at Safari Festival this…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Continuing our preview coverage of Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival releases, we’re looking today at the comic/record combo pack Live at the Drive by Sorority, the band consisting…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei’s artistic practice ranges from his satirical blackout poetry to his his powerfully honest autobio comics. His self-deprecating humour often makes telling points but he’s as comfortable utilising it for throwaway gags…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Debuting at Safari Festival Matthew Pettit’s Wax #1 is the first issue of a three-colour risograph “solo anthology” showcasing his work. Pettit describes the book as “made up of…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! One of the great joys of an event like Safari Festival is discovering creators whose work you may not be so familiar with. One such artist at…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! From the introductory moments when we’re introduced to the self-deprecatingly skewed on-page personas of Krent Able and Julian Hanshaw – one squatting Gollum-like in his subterranean kingdom…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Today’s pre-Safari Festival preview of Breakdown Press’s new releases looks at Palace #0, a collection of seldom seen gems from Breakdown regular Antoine Cossé. I was particularly taken…
“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
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
