Your must-read on Broken Frontier.
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If you’re reading this article then the chances are high that you’re already an advocate of the unique storytelling power of biographical comics – that powerful ability to so empathetically immerse…
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 or digital storefront, the…
An exotic, richly detailed setting and universal themes draw the reader into Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña’s gritty high-fantasy epic. All the best comics, regardless of genre, essentially serve as…
He may be one of the most genial gents in comics that you could meet in the flesh but the artist known to the public as Krent Able (aka…
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 or digital storefront, the…
Arguably the most anticipated release of the year, Snyder and Lemire’s first collaboration as writer and artist more than lives up to the hype. An instant classic of science-fiction, transcending…
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There are a number of small press serial comics that probably never quite get as much attention as they deserve in this column. The reason for that is a very…
A harrowing spy thriller that pits the “wickedest man in the world” against Adolf Hitler’s Nazi occultists, Aleister & Adolf is a thoroughly well-researched, beautifully illustrated journey through the secret…
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Can we really be at Dirty Rotten Comics #8 already? (And with a ninth issue imminent!). When this much respected anthology – in its present incarnation – burst onto 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 or digital storefront, the…
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‘State of the Small Press Nation’ was the umbrella title for Broken Frontier’s ground-breaking series of reports last year on the UK’s rapidly expanding self-publishing world and the challenges it faced…
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Back in the mists of time – in the very infancy of ‘Small Pressganged’ in fact – Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi’s eerie Built of Blood and Bricks was one…
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 or digital storefront, the…
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There’s something almost gleefully cathartic about reading autobio comics work that centres on other people bemoaning the tribulations of their day-to-day employment. Whether those accounts focus on a particular position,…
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You would think – given that she was one of our inaugural Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ – that Rozi Hathaway would have made life easier for…
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Anja Uhren’s What is ‘Home’? invites us to consider how we characterise a concept that on one level embodies the most comfortable familiarity and yet on another proves to be nebulous…
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 or digital storefront, the…
Crank the volume to 11! Alex de Campi fronts a new super-group of comics talent, in this immersive, balls-to-the-walls rock opera of a spy thriller. It’s important to note when…
“I’ve Always Loved Storytelling through Images” – Yu-Ching Chiu Talks Comics without Words, Raising your Creative Profile, and Her Work-in-Progress Graphic NovelNovember 12, 2026
Inside Look: Jenny Robins’s Zines and Comics – “I Leant into Identity Politics to Get Arts Council Funding for My Comics Experiments, but the Work I Ended up Making Takes the Idea of Identity Labels Apart”November 12, 2026
“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
