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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…
It’s been several years now since we first covered the often dreamy, always lyrical work of John Cei Douglas at Broken Frontier in the early Great Beast collection of his…
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It’s hardly the most astute of observations to make that the major part of artist Tim Bird’s comics output has focused on the inter-relationship of place and memories, whether that…
2000 AD celebrates its 45th birthday in early 2022 and to mark that occasion publishers Rebellion have some special projects coming to print next year. Full details in the press…
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One of the neglected gems of the UK small press scene over the last several months has to be the A Pocket Chiller series from Douglas Noble’s Strip for Me…
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To describe Jonathan Baylis’s autobio work as Pekar-esque only goes so far in communicating his approach to this area of comics practice. So Buttons #11 is a short anthology collection…
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Currently funding on Kickstarter, Working In: The Arts is the latest anthology offering from the CHIP Collective. This collection of comics looks to highlight “the HUGE variety of potential career…
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I have said it before here at Broken Frontier and I shall say it again today. I do not believe we can overestimate how invaluable a social document pandemic comics…
Brecht Evens must have had a more productive time under a state of lockdown than most of us, which is why we were lucky enough to be able to review…
The most surprising thing in Friend of the Devil – the brilliant new entry in Ed Brubaker, and Sean and Jacob Phillips’ Reckless series – is when Ethan Reckless mentions…
There’s something intimately appealing about a graphic narrative that so deftly wrongfoots the reader by taking them in one assumed direction before turning their expectations on their head. I went…
Out this month from creators Nicole Goux and Dave Baker, with colours by Ellie Hall, Everyone Is Tulip is set to be one of the year’s most thought-provoking graphic novels….
Lee Lai’s debut graphic novel Stone Fruit is a tender and self-aware story with relationships at its heart: queer relationships, sibling relationships, parental relationships, and the self-referential relationships of our…
In ‘Covers Album’ we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for aesthetic reasons,…
As Rosie (the Rabbit) puts it part-way through Alex Graham’s Dog Biscuits, “there are certain aspects of being alive that are impossible to control.” This is true of her hormonal…
The artist said it himself and it’s set to be a cliché in relation to his work, but it’s true that Nathan Cowdry’s Crash Site is not for everybody. Not…
To open a new book like The City of Belgium by Brecht Evens is the equivalent of breaking out a bottle of fine wine: It marks a special occasion, warrants…
There is something particularly disconcerting about malevolence when it is being discussed in the form of a comic. That feeling of being disconnected from what is being revealed crops up…
“It Started with a Compulsion to Draw a Room with Giant Eyeballs in Curtains” – John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs (Metaphrog) on Bringing the Weird and Wonderful World of ‘Wilomina’ to LifeNovember 10, 2026
“Comics Gradually Became a Way for Me to Bring Together Everything I Enjoyed” – Abu Amaan Pal on His Autobiographical Comic ‘Ranna Banna!’, Comics Community, and the ‘Indians for Palestine’ AnthologyNovember 9, 2026
“Mugshot Has Been in My Brain for About 6 Years” – Rachael Smith on Her New Webcomic, the ‘Nap Comix: First Steps’ Kickstarter and Upcoming ProjectsNovember 9, 2026
“I Want to Build a Feeling of Curiosity and Wonder about the World” – Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell, on Exploring Environmental Themes in Comics, Navigating the Small Press Scene, and the Allure of HedgehogsNovember 5, 2026
“At the Base of Every Story I Tell is Some Aspect of Myself” – Michael Furler Talks Inspiration, Process, His ShortBox and Peow Work, and the Swiss Comics SceneOctober 26, 2026
