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As reported by The Guardian today, Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Sabba Khan (Class of 2017 and, once again, we did tell you!) has been announced as the winner…
In 1974, David Bowie created 3 songs inspired by Orwell’s novel 1984, as a proposal towards crafting an entire musical theater piece based on the iconic dystopian book. Orwell’s widow…
Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…
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One of the things I learnt a long time ago about Douglas Noble collaborations is that the reader should never make assumptions about the particular creative alchemy going on behind…
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There are comics that feel like the subjects they touch on are inspired by direct personal experience, or that even if they are not their themes are so universal that…
Recently described as the “most banned book in the country in 2021” by the New York Times, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer: A Memoir receives a new “Deluxe Edition” printing from…
One of the things I have come to admire so much about Canadian publisher Conundrum Press is that they have no easily categorised brand identity. If you sift through our…
Unlike many of the books we have covered here at Broken Frontier that deal with the trans experience Call Me Nathan is a semi-fictionalised account of that journey rather than…
“One of 2020’s most remarkable achievements in comics” was how I described Quarantine Comix, Rachael Smith’s autobiographical series of comic strips a year or two back at Broken Frontier. Originally…
Generally in the preamble to an interview we summarise the topic in hand with a brief overview of creator/project. But in the case of of R.D. Hunter’s Black Boy’s Blues:…
A new I.N.J. Culbard project is always news worthy of a shout-out. Coming later this year from Berger Books and Dark Horse Comics Culbard’s Salamandre debuts in November. More details in…
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Small press comics that act as samplers to an artist whose work you have not previously discovered are always a welcome entry point into a creator’s oeuvre. Stefan Gruber’s Scentagons…
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It’s endlessly fascinating to see how varied the approaches to pandemic comics have been over the last couple of years. From the earnest and the profound to the metaphorical and…
If you follow UK comics social media to any degree then you will surely have come across the work of artist Lyndon White, even if you don’t immediately recognise his…
What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…
School libraries in America banned more books in 2021 than ever before. Adding to this disturbing fact is the possibility that the LGBTQ+ community in that country is under attack….
Long held to be a masterpiece of socialist literature, Robert Tressell’s classic novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was first published in 1914. Set in the town of Mugsborough, it features…
Some years ago when I was making my weekly trip to London’s Gosh! Comics the late, great Steve Walsh (the most recent inductee into our Broken Frontier Hall of Fame)…
“I See Myself as a Cheerleader for the Medium” – Gabi Putnoki on the Graphic Novel Reading Room and Taking the Form to New ReadersJune 29, 2022
“I’d Love To Be Cancelled. Sounds Extremely Profitable” – Luke Healy Does What He Does Best on D+Q and Faber’s ‘The Con Artists’June 24, 2022
“Two of the Great Things in Life are Music and Comics” – Cartoonist David Ziggy Greene Talks Small Press Day, Graphic Reportage and His New Venture Jam BookshopJune 3, 2022Inside Look: The Junction – My Error Strewn Path to PublicationMay 25, 2022“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics PageMay 16, 2022
