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Earlier this year I reviewed the first issue of Havva Bird’s The Misadventures of Jay + Han here at Broken Frontier. A comic that sat within the grassroots area of…
Rik Worth and Jordan Collver return with the second issue of Hocus Pocus: Magic, Mystery and the Mind, and it does not disappoint. The book continues its fun, multi-hyphenate approach…
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The first anthology from new micropublishing venture Obsolete Comics, Crisis underlines their stated socially conscious mission with its profits going to the UK homelessness charity that shares the comic’s title….
The Treasury of British Comics imprint from Rebellion Publishing demonstrates a welcome commitment to the rich comics heritage of this country. Producing reprints alongside original material featuring British comic characters…
Potatoes! Love them or hate them, you can’t ignore them! (Certainly not if you grew up in an Irish family in the 1970s.) Anyway, one of those magnificent jewels of…
Something of a curio and a sidestep in the annals of Jim Woodring’s Unifactor stories And Now, Sir — Is THIS Your Missing Gonad? takes his signature anthropomorphic Frank character…
In Wine: A Graphic History, Benoist Simmat, Daniel Casanave, and SelfMadeHero offer an accessible glimpse into the centuries-spanning history of the nectar of the vine. From pioneers of the natural…
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This past Saturday, to celebrate Small Press Day in a very Broken Frontier way, I took to Twitter to write one-tweet reviews of small press comics with the hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW….
The Dreams of Queer Utopia combines 13 different takes on the theme, compiled by editor and Finnish comic artist H-P Lehkonen and Paju Ruotsalaine from artists all over the world…
At the end of last year Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins interviewed Instagram sensation Amber Fossey, aka @Zeppelinmoon. Jenny described Fossey as “part of a growing movement of irreverent Instagram cartoonists…
The Lulu Moppet who first appeared in February of 1935 was a far cry from the girl millions of readers have grown familiar with in the decades since. That first…
I was very pleased when Henry McCausland’s Eight-Lane Runaways appeared on the scrawled sheet of “new bukks” (sic) that Andy Oliver pushes under our cell doors every Sunday morning. It…
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Zebedee and the Valentines is not the first time 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Abs Bailey has been published by Avery Hill. Two years ago, in the Comic…
Launched in June, the Insider Art digital anthology aims to provide financial help for female and non-binary retailers as a response to the repercussions of the pandemic. With a playfully…
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A loving homage to the Japanese Kaiju mega-monster genre of science fantasy, Tobias Hamilton and Shane Melisse’s The Last Kaiju (published by the Ishan Comics imprint) nevertheless manages to surpass…
What makes the characters in Anna Sommer’s The Unknown so compelling is that they are all such flawed and, in some cases, almost broken individuals. Yet such is the subtlety…
Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point tells the story of Ellen, a young woman who returns to the seaside town she grew up in – the titular town – and brings…
Isabel Greenberg’s previous books from Jonathan Cape – The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The One Hundred Nights of Hero – adapted and re-imagined myth and legend to create a…
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
