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There’s just two months to 2018’s East London Comics & Arts Festival, undoubtedly one of our favourite events on the UK comics calendar and a weekend that champions the kind…
The crime noir opener to Ho Che Anderson’s latest output via Fantagraphics reveals a man blindfolded and held at gunpoint. Painted contours depict a masked kidnapper, his motivations as shadowy…
Sometimes – maybe even most times – you pick up a comic because you know exactly how it’s going to look, exactly how it’s going to work and exactly how…
Why Art? Not What Art or When Art or How Art Thou? Eleanor Davis tackles one of those kind of stupid while at the same time super important questions with…
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 events or digital…
The four-panel diary gag strip is a form that has been run into the ground. Much of this has to do with there only being so much that can be…
The longlist for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced today and, as you’d expect from a publisher of Myriad’s acclaim, it’s a list full of diverse artistic…
‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that we think should be on your pull list. Whether it’s because of its…
That spark of attraction can flare up in the most unlikely of circumstances. Just imagine: you’re stood in a comic shop, rainwater sloshing around your leaky brogues, the podcasty bantz…
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 events or digital…
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As writer Douglas Noble and artist Sean Azzopardi’s Sightings of Wallace Sendek was designed structurally to be periodically added to with new material interspersed among older work, it seems only…
Jim Campbell’s At the Shore is a graphic novel that highlights the changing tides in indie comics from the early part of the 2000s to the present. Much of that…
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As I said when we chose the latest issue of Rob Carter’s annual music-themed anthology Radio On as one of our Staff Picks last month, its a project that is…
In his book Parklife, journalist Nick Varley traced the relationship between football and the British working classes, from the inception of the professional game to the then-present day of 1999….
It’s 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 events or digital storefront,…
While one or two of Avery Hill’s big-hitting breakout stars have dominated “the conversation” of late, a few of the publisher’s other titles seem to have slipped under the radar a little….
Last weekend attendees of Funhouse: An Interactive Bookfair were able to experience a comics festival unlike any other. The past few years have given rise to a host of new…
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Following up on her original short-form zine offering from last year, Eleanor Crewes’s The Times I Knew I Was Gay presents a fragmentary series of autobiographical vignettes in an often…
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
