Your must-read on Broken Frontier.
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Deadline hits you squarely in the head with a ruthless tale of revenge, while spotlighting a little-known aspect of the Civil War: the original “deadline”. A must-read for every Western fan…
In Bumperhead, Gilbert Hernandez returns to his hometown of Oxnard for a bildungsroman of music and adolescence in the 1970s – given his own stylistic spin. It can be a tough gig being an…
Don’t let the small furry animals fool you. In Invincible Days, Patrick Atangan’s elegantly simple, highly stylized visual storytelling draws the reader into the seasons of life with craft and guile. I’ll…
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2000 AD has released two new graphic novels onto the US market. Durham Red introduces the US audience to this enigmatic vampire bounty hunter in the classic tale The Bitch,…
Unabashedly “retro”, Nix Comics Quarterly – Ken Eppstein’s regular collection of the weird and wonderful world of rock – lambasts modern trends and tastes with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Despite an obvious…
Talk with Amy Reeder and you will be immediately aware that not only does she love comics, she truly understands them as a unique storytelling medium. Her collaboration with writer…
Small Press Expo 2014 (SPX) is over but the energy it generates isn’t gone yet. I’d love if I could always vibrate at the specific frequency this particular comic book…
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John Riordan and Dan Cox’s animated music industry parody Hitsville UK was one of the very earliest self-published comics to be featured in this column, and one I described at…
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Writer and artist Andrew Rae crafts a parable about growing pains using the teen comedy template, while injecting a dash of absurdity into this ever-popular storytelling arrangement. Life is a peach…
The early 1990s were, um, interesting times in British comics. And one of the most legendary tales was that of Tundra UK, a company set up by Kevin Eastman on the…
Portland takes center stage and serves as a strong argument for the use of setting as character in Greg Rucka’s newest ongoing series from Oni Press. Greg Rucka’s Stumptown first…
In the depression-era prequel to Alan’s War, cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert deftly creates a touching family memoir, an engaging piece of social history and a fitting tribute to a deep friendship….
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On June 28th 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was murdered. It was the spark that sets the world on fire. Artist and writer Henrik Rehr has burrowed into the life of the Archduke’s…
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For those outside of the world of comics Jessica Martin will be best known as a versatile performer on both stage and screen – whether as star of musical theatre,…
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Usagi Yojimbo, the comic series created by Stan Sakai about a long-eared samurai traveling the countryside of feudal Japan. Over these past three…
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When you cross over to “the sunny side of sinister” with small press artist EdieOP you enter the wicked imagination of a creator whose twisted and gleefully nefarious narratives are…
Writers Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col are off to a great start with the first two issues of Kill Shakespeare: The Mask of Night. A pirate adventure featuring Shakespearian…
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Joris Vermassen, aka stand-up comedian Fritz Van Den Heuvel, conveys an emotional heartbreaker about the impact of the dying upon the living, and how defeat in the face of death…
“These Stories Still Aren’t Told Enough Which is Why I Created Florrie” – Anna Trench on Recreating a Period in Sporting History in Her Queer Romance ‘Florrie: A Football Love Story’June 19, 2026
“How Damaging and Dangerous this Techno-Fascist Hellscape We Are Already Living in Is” – KitsuneArt on the Threat of Generative AI, LGBTQ+ Comics Anthologies and Building a Profile on the SceneJune 18, 2026
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
