Articles and interviews on all things comics-related.
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…
Today at Broken Frontier we welcome back Ricky Miller (below right with Avery Hill’s David White and Rachael Smith) – Co-Publisher of the acclaimed Avery Hill Publishing – to give…
ELCAF WEEK! Of all the exhibitors appearing at ELCAF 2017 this weekend, those perhaps travelling the greatest distance are the artists who make up the Organisation of Illustrators Council Singapore, or…
Last week I had the pleasure of chairing a panel discussion at London’s Gosh! Comics focusing on the new graphic novel line from Unbound Books. It was an opportunity to…
“Watch the stars!” screamed the cover of issue #1, cover dated 13th May 1978, and for the next six months readers did just that, courtesy of IPC’s classic science…
Described as “a fast-paced 21st century espionage tale, influenced by TV’s The Prisoner and the mind-bending science fiction stories of Philip K Dick” Borderliners: True Realities is the brainchild of…
Leo Baxendale passed away in April, aged 86. Not a bad innings by anyone’s standards. Many comics readesr these days won’t be aware of that, or even aware of Leo,…
MYRIAD WEEK! He’s the gent who gave us the term ‘graphic medicine’ and the original driving force behind the respected website of the same name. He’s also a comics self-publisher…
MYRIAD WEEK! The winner of the very first Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition for his debut book The Black Project, Gareth Brookes is an artist whose reach straddles both the…
MYRIAD WEEK! Way back in 2012 in my ‘Small Pressganged’ column at Broken Frontier I first alerted our readership to a promising new talent I had come across in the…
MYRIAD WEEK! This week at Broken Frontier we’re celebrating the spirit of Myriad Editions and what better way to start our series of reviews, interviews and features than with the…
The new series of Doctor Who has started, and much has been made in the media of the arrival of new companion Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie), who has been heavily…
Last year I had the good fortune to not only read the excellent three-issue series Chum, but also to interview its creators, writer Ryan K Lindsay and artist Sami Kivela….
Alterna Comics goes retro with their new line of comics by printing on newsprint, distributing to newsstands and rolling back cover prices to $1.50. These days there seems to be…
Glamorous camping? Can there really be such a thing? Joe Decie’s new book Collecting Sticks from Jonathan Cape recounts the Decie family’s “glamping” holiday – camping from the “comfort” of…
With the tenth series of the relaunched Doctor Who debuting this Saturday on the BBC, Broken Frontier’s Tony Ingram looks back today on over 50 years of the good Doctor’s…
Jessica Martin is another of those now established rising stars of the UK indie comics scene who you first heard about here at Broken Frontier. She was a finalist in…
With their unique crowdfunding approach to publishing, Unbound have already had a number of very notable success stories including Nikesh Shukla’s The Good Immigrant and the Booker Prize-nominated The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth. This…
“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
