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The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear may seem like an unwieldy title for a book but sometimes getting the point across from the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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….
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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…
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 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,…
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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…
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….
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…
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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….
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…
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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…
Guy Delisle sounds exactly the way one imagines he would. The thought popped into my mind seconds after his quiet voice echoed on the phone from the South of France,…
Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot on the…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
