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Out this month from creators Nicole Goux and Dave Baker, with colours by Ellie Hall, Everyone Is Tulip is set to be one of the year’s most thought-provoking graphic novels….
Trying to describe My Begging Chart, the new book by Keiler Roberts, is like trying to capture what everyday life is like: we all seem to think we can explain…
Fictional Father, by legendary Canadian cartoonist Joe Ollmann, declares its intention at the outset, its ingenious cover image pointing to what lies within. This is a faux memoir, supposedly written…
For the best part of a decade Rachael Smith’s comics journey has weaved in and out of our coverage at Broken Frontier with a remarkable regularity. From her early self-published…
One of a crop of outstanding British first-time graphic novels to hit the shelves in 2020, Mongrel by Sayra Begum incorporates autobiographical elements elements to tell the story of Shuna,…
Over the past decade, few creators have been as active as Jeff Lemire. Not only the volume of work he produces is crazy, it becomes even more spectacular when you…
Announced last month here at Broken Frontier, Creating Women is a new online interview series set to debut later this month and one that will include a number of interviewees…
TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! As part of our themed mini-event this week we’re rounding up some of our previous coverage of the Treasury of British Comics reprint range today…
TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! Continuing our coverage this week of Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics range of reprint volumes and all-new Specials we caught up with Rebellion Senior Graphic…
Returning across the planet to find a world on fire, a world contained, and the time to stop, listen to nature and try to hear what it has to tell…
If you’re at all involved in that nebulous entity we refer to as “Comics Twitter” then you will no doubt have seen the flurry of activity over the last few…
Following on from his review of Michael DeForge‘s Heaven No Hell last week at Broken Frontier, Lindsay Pereira talks to DeForge about his art, being productive during a pandemic, and…
Natasha Natarajan’s book FML Comics Collected 2016-2020 was part of Good Comics‘ Kickstarted bundle of books last year and compiles her autobiographical comic strips from 2016-2020. Evolving intuitively and ranging…
Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele‘s Graphic Guides from Icon Books have already been met with great critical acclaim for their concise and easily digestible account of the intricacies of the…
It’s safe to assume Zack Davisson spends as much time in the spirit world as he does in Seattle. It comes with the territory, given his roles as writer, lecturer,…
It has been three decades since John Porcellino began sharing his singular view of the world in the form of self-published minicomics. What began as an experiment in tune with…
This is a long overdue blog piece but it seems a particularly appropriate article to be posting today… As we’re all aware Koyama Press, the publishing outfit that have exhausted…
Launching today, Khidr Comix Lab is a new micropublishing venture seeking to provide a platform for Black, Brown and Muslim storytellers. Having had an advance look at some of the…
“The Central Conflict in Any Artist’s Life is Inherently Compromise” – Dave Baker and Nicole Goux Talk About ‘Everyone Is Tulip’ from Dark Horse ComicsJune 11, 2021“Everything Feels More Fragile and Less Permanent” – An Interview with Keiler Roberts on ‘My Begging Chart’, Her Latest Book for D+QMay 31, 2021“I Think All of Us Are Marked By Some Kind of Tragedy” – An Interview with Joe Ollmann on ‘Fictional Father’, Published by Drawn & QuarterlyMay 24, 2021“I Hear Again and Again that ‘Quarantine Comix’ Helped People Get through this Awful Year, and that is Just Amazing to Hear” – Rachael Smith Talks About Her Acclaimed Comics Series on Life in LockdownMay 19, 2021“I’ve Connected with So Many Other Second-Generation Muslims as They Opened Up to Me About Their Experiences” – Sayra Begum on Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Mongrel’ and the Responsibilities of Autobio WorkMay 18, 2021
