Designed to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked world of small press, self-published and altcomics.
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A bit of fun today as we head towards the end of the year and the end of the decade (and yes, technically, I know that’s actually really a year…
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Olivia Sualdea has always shown an acute understanding of how to utilise potent visual metaphor to convey emotional state through the delicate control of panel-to-panel flow in her pages. That…
Nick Prolix’s Slang Pictorial is one of those comics that we can file under “really should have had more coverage on Broken Frontier by now”. A year or two back…
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In a Stathis Tsemberlidis comic, narrative is almost secondary to the pure immersive visual experience the reader finds themselves engulfed by. Hisashi, his latest offering under the Decadence banner, is…
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Collecting the first chapters of Mei Lian Hoe’s webcomic series in print, My Husband is a Cultist is an offbeat romantic comedy that combines the amiable antics of its often…
We’ve spoken at length in the past here at Broken Frontier about the particular communicative strengths of comics as a medium in regard to exploring mental health issues. Indeed we…
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James Romberger’s For Real is a narrative of layers. Not just in the overlapping timeframes of its main comics story ‘The Oven’ but also in the supplementary essay that follows…
From his days overseeing Jazz Dad Books to his minicomics and self-published practice, one of the great joys of picking up an Ed Cheverton offering is that he always plays by…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! There’s been an ongoing theme in our Thought Bubble coverage this year with a deliberate focus on books and creators we feel should have been picked up…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The latest in the series of comics starring Los Angeles Trombone reporter Charles Fitzgerald, otherwise known as Chip McFitz, Matt Greaves’ Chip McFitz: Joint Fever sees the…
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Since we first covered their work prior to ELCAF last year we’ve become rather enchanted here at Broken frontier by the comics of Peter and Maria Hoey, the sibling partnership…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Dan White is a master storyteller on two main fronts. Let’s start with the first of those qualities and White’s marked ability to so empathetically portray the…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! We’ve seen a number of comics and graphic novels dealing with the Chernobyl disaster over the years, including Francisco Sánchez and Natacha Busto’s Chernobyl: The Zone from…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! As part of last year’s Thought Bubble coverage at Broken Frontier I was introduced to the South American dystopian worlds of Gustaffo Vargas in the pages of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! “Voyage into the known with these credible tales of the expected” says the cover copy of Journey to the Surface of the Earth, Fraser Geesin’s new collection…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Sometimes the slightest narratives can have the profoundest depths. In The Teeth Huw “Lem” Davies provides a tale of the natural world with anthropomorphic qualities that teaches…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Writer-artist Aaron Losty and letterer Becca Carey’s The Last Scarecrow is an expectation-defying one-shot. Initially presenting itself as a tale of ongoing gang warfare it gradually evolves…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Given the nature of the self-published area of comics that I focus on here at Broken Frontier the vast majority of the work I review tends to…
“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
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
“It’s about Fame, Friendship, and Just How Long You’re Willing to Fake it to Make it” – Duane Murray and Ahmed Raafat Talk ‘Who Are the Power Pals?’ from Dark HorseNovember 6, 2025
