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This frenetic first issue by Jim Zub and Steven Cummings layers chaos upon chaos, allowing their teenage hero’s resilience and maturity to shine through. It’s a strong debut issue in which…
Prolific cartoonist and publisher Box Brown takes time off from his Retrofit Comics duties to produce this exquisitely designed little poke at cults and social media for Yeah Dude Comics. Box…
It must be a strange feeling that while going about your daily eat-work-eat-sleep routine, the very fabric of time and space starts to crumble, with you as the centre point….
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Though the regular Spirou series is still going strong with their all-ages action-adventure approach, for older readers the real fun lies in Spirou by… , a new creator-driven series. Each album…
Andy Warhol said, “In the future, people will be famous for fifteen minutes.” In the opening page of Pop #1, that duration is amended to fifteen seconds. That’s because in…
A superhero support group run by a narcissistic therapist battles interdimensional invaders. Or do they? Are they heroes or a collection of crackpots? Writer Tim Seeley and artist Jim…
I first became a champion of Jeremy Whitley’s comic-book writing in 2011, when he contacted me about reviewing a little book called Princeless. At the time, the future Eisner-nominated series had…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Judge Dredd is famous for showing no emotion and upholding justice, but what happens when the citizens of Mega-City One want to cut loose, let their hair down and really,…
Athena Voltaire first soared into our imaginations over a decade ago, as one of a handful of those newfangled “webcomics”. However, Steve Bryant’s exciting and vivacious adventuress was more than just…
Like all good storytellers, Ryan Burton knows that to hook his audience from the get-go, it’s best to start the story in the middle. There is no quicker way to…
One of the mostly highly anticipated graphic novel debuts of the year has been The Wrenchies. But there is, perhaps, no one more relieved by the book’s eventual release (by First…
If there’s a perception in the comic industry that there are aren’t enough characters that serve as role models for young, female readers, none of the blame should be placed…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Since its publication in 1993, Tardi’s It Was the War of the Trenches (C’était la Guerre des Tranchées) has set the standard for World War I comics. But after 20 years there’s a…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
I first came across Kat Leyh’s vibrant cartooning style when I reviewed her minicomic Pancakes here at Broken Frontier in 2013. Like that short story her graphic novel Bird Witch…
When Nightworld #1 makes its debut this week, the new miniseries blending the occult, superheroes and gothic romance is bound to be one of the most unique looking comics on…
Joe Casey and his crew of crack artistic rangers launch Jack Kirby’s cosmic defender into new frontiers of identity and the imagination. Dynamite Entertainment’s latest foray into the Kirbyverse, as…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
In a book that could provide comics creators with a few lessons, graphic maestro Hugo Puttaert sets out an extensive overview of his achievements in the design world, combining discipline and social…
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For indie comics fans this has been – as ever – an outstanding year for exhibitions in the gallery space at London’s Orbital Comics. Liz Prince, Shaky Kane, Satanic Mojo…
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“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
