Your must-read on Broken Frontier.
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…
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…
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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)…
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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…
Always pleasing to see bigger publishers teaming up with educational organisations to provide material aimed at a younger audience. Full details on Dark Horses and Trackers Earth’s Captain Nick &…
The introduction to the striking Movements and Moments anthology makes an interesting point that doesn’t often crop up in discussions about comics. It points out that while there have been more…
Given the current cost-of-living crisis and the UK’s imminent descent into a debilitating, Brexit-influenced recession, a graphic novel that touches on the housing crisis (the only thing we are not…
Translated from the original Spanish edition, Voices That Count is described by English language publishers IDW as an “anthology [that] dissects what it means to be a woman in today’s…
Hunting ghosts is a messy business, you’d think. Cobwebs getting in your hair, ectoplasm spraying this way and that, decrepit old houses absolutely covered in dust. That’s no excuse for…
In May 2021, when cartoonist Keiler Roberts published My Begging Chart, she was asked how she viewed her work and if there was any distance between her and the person depicted…
Details below about a new multi-media comics venture looking at the importance of vaccines and immunisation. This is exactly the kind of socially responsible project we like to get behind…
“Is it possible to build a strong home that transcends one’s history and culture?” asks Maureen Burdock, the award-winning graphic storyteller in Queen of Snails. As much as it is…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Cliché-ridden as it may sound you can always expect the unexpected when it comes to the WIP Comics group’s annual anthology. WIP is a regular meet-up of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! To say I am far more interested in Zoe Thorogood’s work when it’s her own pure and unfiltered artistic vision rather than when she’s illustrating someone else’s…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Sometimes you only need the smallest sampling of material to know an artist has both that extra special understanding of the mechanics of comics and also that…
Broken Frontier at 20 – The Comics Community on Creators They’ve Discovered During Two Decades of BF!November 4, 2022
“Community Growth Continues to Be a Positive Area of Development” – Sean Azzopardi on Taking the Medium to New Audiences and His Own Autobio Comics PracticeNovember 4, 2022
“It Exists to Perpetually Publish Cool Comics” – Zach Clemente on the Ethos and Philosophy of Bulgilhan PressNovember 4, 2022
Inside Look: Salamanca Blues – Alba Ceide Gives Us an Intimate Insight into Her Creative Process on ‘Salamanca Blues’November 4, 2022
“We Make Art Because We Must. We Make Art to Push Back. We Make Art to Question Authority” – Tony Wolf Introduces His ‘Tales From The Wolf’ Anthology Collecting 15 Years of ComicsNovember 3, 2022
