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“I Hope that My Work Evokes Emotion” – Alxndra Cook on Embarking on Her Comics Journey, Self-Publishing and Her Wider Artistic Background

by Andy Oliver
July 28, 2021

London-based illustrator and designer Alxndra Cook first featured a few years ago on Broken Frontier when we covered some of her lively and quirky zines. Her relatively recent move into…

Spiny Orb Weaver #2 and #3 – Drew Lerman, Christopher López, Jamila Rowser & buttercup Provide Another Showcase for the South Florida Comics Scene

by Andy Oliver
July 27, 2021

Rounding out the first “season” of Spiny Orb Weaver – the spotlight publication on artists from the South Florida scene – the second and third issues of this Radiator Comics…

Chad in Amsterdam #1-5 – Chad Bilyeu’s “Misadventures of an Atypical American Living in Amsterdam” Have a Perceptive Pekar-esque Quality

by Andy Oliver
July 26, 2021

I feel I’ve used the term Pekar-esque a little too freely at Broken Frontier of late. But in the case of Chad Bilyeu’s Chad in Amsterdam it seems particularly appropriate…

“I Want to Use the Medium to Tell Stories that Could Only Exist as Comics” – Mereida Fajardo Talks Abstract Comics, Experimental Practice and the Importance of Comics Community

by Andy Oliver
July 22, 2021

Back when we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ I spoke about today’s interviewee Mereida Fajardo in the following terms: “I always gravitate towards creators…

“Feeling Part of the Community is a Big Reason I Make Comics” – Matthew Dooley on the UK Indie Scene and His Eisner Award-Nominated Graphic Novel ‘Flake’

by Andy Oliver
July 21, 2021

Matthew Dooley has an off-centre, idiosyncratic, and often bleakly humorous view of the world; something that has been a constant on the UK indie scene since his work first started…

In. – Will McPhail’s Debut Graphic Novel Seems Almost Tailor-Made for the World We Currently Inhabit

by Lindsay Pereira
July 20, 2021

There is a simple but effective trick that Will McPhail deploys whenever Nick Moss, the 20-something protagonist of his debut graphic novel, In., opens up to the world around him….

“You Need to Make an Effort to Stand Out” – Robert Wells on 30 Years in the UK Indie Scene and His New Project ‘Love Her Madly’

by Andy Oliver
July 19, 2021

Robert Wells is currently celebrating a whopping three decades as part of the UK indie comics scene in which time he has self-published work, collaborated with fellow small press mainstays…

The Roles We Play – Sabba Khan’s Exploration of Identity and Self as a Second-Generation Muslim Migrant is One of the Key Releases of 2021

by Andy Oliver
July 16, 2021

To a certain extent I have been fortunate enough to have had something of a unique perspective on the development of the comics practice of Sabba Khan, whose debut long-form…

The Secret to Superhuman Strength – Alison Bechdel’s Book about Physicality Proves to Be Almost Entirely Cerebral

by Jenny Robins
July 15, 2021

The Secret to Superhuman Strength may be to read this new brick of a book by Alison Bechdel, but the heavy lifting required to do so, both physical and mental,…

Vicious Creatures – Sarah Gordon’s Own Brand of Graphic Melancholy Creates Something Unique Out of the Recognisable Standards of the Horror Genre

by Andy Oliver
July 14, 2021

Over the last few years artist Sarah Gordon had been producing a series of delightfully disturbing short horror comics with such a prolific zeal that I could barely remember from…

Future – Woodman and Smissen’s Twisting Time-Travel Tale is a Beautiful Celebration of Love and the Devotion it Inspires

by Andy Oliver
July 13, 2021

It would be very easy when talking about Tom Woodman and Rupert Smissen’s graphic novel Future to prioritise describing it in terms of its complex and inventive science fiction elements….

“Where is Evil?” – A Comics Essay by Tony Wolf

by Tony Wolf
July 12, 2021

I found myself beginning to write this short comics essay during the summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests filled the headlines of the day. Very much inspired by…

“Visual Metaphors and Analogies Allow Me to Make Sense of Things” – Mollie Ray on Creative Process, Graphic Medicine and Her Upcoming Graphic Novel ‘Giant’ from Faber & Faber

by Andy Oliver
July 9, 2021

Mollie Ray was one of the many artists who submitted four pages of comics for our BF one-tweet reviews event on Twitter as part of last year’s Small Press Day celebrations….

Families, Parenting and Saving Face – Weng Pixin on Her New Book, ‘Let’s Not Talk Anymore’

by Lindsay Pereira
July 7, 2021

Writing about family is possibly the easiest thing to do, and the hardest. For the artist Weng Pixin, it was an opportunity to try and understand her mother, and the…

“I Literally Just Create what I Feel Like” – Shane Melisse on Working in Multiple Genres and Participating in the UK Small Press Scene

by Andy Oliver
July 6, 2021

Shane Melisse is one of our Broken Frontier 2021 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists and a creator who I’ve been covering for a number of years here at BF. Over the…