Broken Frontier Staff Picks for October 2, 2013
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Section: Eyecatcher
Your must-read on Broken Frontier.
The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs!
The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! is an absolute gem of all-ages storytelling – vibrant, animated and utterly endearing. Dave, Ronnie, Natasha, Thomas and Reggie aren’t your usual gang of…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Rork Returns
One of Europe’s greatest artists and virtually unknown across the ocean, the German writer and artist Andreas, is back with a reprint of his most famous creation Rork. Rork Volume…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Small Press Spotlight on… Richy K. Chandler
Richy K. Chandler is a comics creator whose work embraces both the tactile and the digital through his Tempo Lush publishing brand. The cartoonist behind the popular Lucy the Octopus…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
And then Emily Was Gone #1
Greg Hellinger, a former policeman who is now haunted by visions of monsters wherever he goes, is a troubled man. His world is about to get a lot more complicated,…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Cross Continental Heroes
On one side we have Judge Dredd: an American anti hero written by the finest UK creators. On the other side we have Blueberry: the stereotypical western hero created by…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Tiny Pencil #2.0: Mammals, Monsters & Mars!
Tiny Pencil, the artzine that celebrates all things graphite, returned this summer with a second issue focusing on all-ages fun, games and activities. This edition, subtitled Mammals, Monsters & Mars!,…
Picking Up Arms Again: Greg Pak Talks ‘Eternal Warrior’ Relaunch
The second ‘Summer of Valiant’ comes to a close with the launch of Eternal Warrior, in which Greg Pak and Trevor Hairsine bring Gilad Anni-Padda, the immortal hero created in…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for September 11, 2013
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Molly Danger Book One
There’s something about Molly! Jamal Igle raises the bar for all-ages superheroics in this smart, beautifully illustrated graphic album from Action Lab. Literally years in the making, Jamal Igle’s (The…
Forever Evil Has Arrived: Let’s Kill Nightwing!
Forever Evil is just around the corner, and with another new event comes new rumors of Nightwing’s death. What is Nightwing’s place in the DC Universe? Should he have been killed…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Scenes and Authors
Inspired by comics and movies, Robert Devriendt’s scenes of sequential paintings read like mini stories on canvas and Sam Dillemans goes all out in his Authors series with over 300…
Playing Out
Playing Out combines Medway’s lively cartooning comedy with an incisive eye for slice-of-life observational analysis. It’s most appropriate to be reviewing Jim Medway’s Playing Out at this time of year…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Planes, Aircraft Carriers and Bearteeth
Done in the tradition of aviation comics and mixed with political intrigue, Yann and Henriet produce an intriguing adventure comic about friendship, betrayals and the choices we make when we…
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is a quirky, acid-tinged expedition to pre-Columbian Central America, brimming with action, intrigue, and psychedelic encounters with rock stars and ancient gods. The time is the sixteenth century; the…
Batman ’66 #2
Batman ‘66 is one of the best books DC publishes, digital-first or not. Jeff Parker channels the tone of the original Batman TV series into a book that emphasizes fun…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Small Press Spotlight on… Rebecca Bagley
Rebecca Bagley is a name that will be familiar to long-term readers of ‘Small Pressganged’. She’s the creator behind the contemporary fable Tick, much championed in this column here and…
Man of Steel: The Superman Book that Never Got a Fair Chance
With Jon Bogdanove’s Strongman Kickstarter campaign unlikely to reach its too lofty funding goal, BF looks back at the artist’s defining run on Superman: Man of Steel, the ‘fourth’ Superman…
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