Your must-read on Broken Frontier.
While Luke Pearson’s Netflix success Hilda series may be getting all the immediate (and much deserved) crossover attention in the wider media at the moment there’s another Nobrow all-ages album series…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
Shintaro Kago’s Dementia 21 is a surprising graphic novel in that it takes his well-known ability to render characters in grotesque situations and uses it as a way to tackle…
Just days after Gary Groth’s extensive interview with Tomi Ungerer in the relaunched print version of The Comics Journal came the news that the veteran artist had passed away at the…
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Slice-of-life comics that document the everyday moments of family life resonate, of course, because they connect with their audience on the most fundamentally human level. We empathise, we recognise and…
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It’s always an absolute privilege to be asked to write the introduction to the published work of a creator we have championed here at Broken Frontier. In the case of…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
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Over the course of the last few days on Twitter you may well have seen an explosion of interest in the comics of Anna Readman. Attention that only goes to…
Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
There’s a text piece by writer J.M. DeMatteis at the end of the first issue of The Girl in the Bay – the latest book from the acclaimed Dark Horse Comics/Berger…
We’re always very keen to promote initiatives that spearhead a sense of comics community here at Broken Frontier. So we’re very pleased today to welcome artist Joe Stone to the…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
Collecting the long-running webcomic (previously presented in a number of self-published print issues over the years), Jessica Kingsley Publishing’s Lucy the Octopus brings together all of the adventures of Richy…
When we last reviewed an issue of Fantagraphics’ bumper-sized anthology series Now at Broken Frontier we described it as “a vitally important piece of comics curation that deserves to be…
Danish artist Rikke Villadsen’s The Sea – her debut English language comics offering from Fantagraphics – is as much extended visual metaphor as it is narrative. Its protagonist is a seaworn…
Two years to the day that he left the site to pursue his own storytelling dreams it seems very fitting today to be talking to Broken Frontier founder Frederik Hautain…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
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“There’s magic in all music!” Defining Ricky Miller and Jules Scheele’s Metroland is not a simple task, stubbornly defying as it does any easy categorisation. This grand and sweeping (yet…
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
“It’s about Fame, Friendship, and Just How Long You’re Willing to Fake it to Make it” – Duane Murray and Ahmed Raafat Talk ‘Who Are the Power Pals?’ from Dark HorseNovember 6, 2025
“It’s Tough Out There, But You’re Absolutely Not Alone!” – Dave Cook on ‘Killtopia: Phantoms’, Challenging Times for Crowdfunding, and Returning to Thought BubbleNovember 5, 2025
“My Brain Broke, and Out Came Donuts” – Neill Cameron Looks Back on ‘Mega Robo Bros’ and Forward with ‘Donut Squad’, the Latest Smash Hit Strip from the Pages of ‘The Phoenix’November 4, 2025
“The Biggest Challenge for Me Was Having to Think More Like a Director” – Michael Schwartz on Writing for Comics for the First Time and His Supernatural Ghost Story ‘Armored’October 31, 2025
