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The Customer is Always Wrong, Mimi Pond’s sequel to the critically lauded Over Easy, is a semi-autobiographical account of Margaret – an inspiring comic book artist and waitress at 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 events or digital…
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A few months back we reported on ‘It’s Going to Be Okay‘, an exhibition of the work of cartoonist Matt Boyce at Beer Rebellion in London’s Gypsy Hill (above) at…
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I’ve said this before in this column but Richy K. Chandler is one of the great facilitators of the UK small press scene – a creator who, through his various…
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Last night saw the opening of Burnt Roti magazine’s ‘The Beauty of Being British Asian’ at the Old Truman Brewery on London’s Brick Lane – an exhibition that includes new…
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,…
For all their differences in subject matter, illustrative style and setting, Los Bros Hernandez have one thing in common with their ongoing Love and Rockets epics: the history weighing down…
They say to never judge a book by its cover but I am a shallow, aesthetic-obsessed illustrator so that is a big deciding factor in how I choose my comics,…
Every fortnight-(ish) we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF every week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Because all the Safari Feestival debuts would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks this week we decided to cover just some of the handful of…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Outside of a a couple of upcoming festival appearances, Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s feminist zine micropublisher and distro One Beat Zines are currently on hiatus until the…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I’ve probably expressed similar sentiments before at Broken Frontier over the years but for those about to discover micropublisher 2dcloud for the very first time at this…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Impenetrable yet eerily familiar, indefinable yet focused, unique in delivery but soaked in the standards of pop culture, metaphysical and still fundamentally human… Alexander Tucker’s work is…
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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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes helplessness is the greatest horror of all. Matthew Pettit’s The Fields Beyond – a book that debuts this weekend at the fourth annual Safari Festival – bills…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The many nuanced layers on which sequential art can connect with its audience ensure that work that is indistinct and minimalist in presentation can be just as…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I first came across Luke Stuart’s work when tabling next to him at last year’s Safari Festival, whereupon I was struck by his black and neon poster…
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…
“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
