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The act of invention is rarely just about machines or ideas. It’s also about survival and resilience, and finding ways to imagine freedom when the world insists on restraint. In…
“One night in April 2022”, begins Hayley Gullen’s memoir, “PAIN PAIN PAIN. [thought bubble:] That’s weird… Wrong time of the month and only one boob. Oh. It’s stopped. [Yawn] I’ll…
Niki Bañados describes her new comic Seeing in the Watery Underworld in the following intriguing terms: “A comic in which we descend 60 metres underground and meet prawnlike creeps with…
“I’d like to join your hellish crusade of monsters in the quest to destroy mankind and all that it stands for!” That’s a sentence that quickly becomes a most effective…
Hal Weaver is based in Riga, Latvia, also home of publishing house kuš! comics. He published seven issues of Reluctant Sadist from 1985 to 1989 (with an additional collected edition)…
With the Bristol-based small press fair extravaganza that is Zinezilla coming around again this Sunday, September 7th it’s pleasing to see the return of the event’s signature anthology as well….
A few years ago, not long after her debut Stone Fruit had won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics, and was listed as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,…
Sometimes when it comes to social commentary in comics – and in any medium to be frank – humour can be far more effective than more heavy-handed moralising. Belgian-Mexican creator…
Kiera Won’s Toto Bunny Zine – the first two of which we will be looking at today at Broken Frontier – take us into genuinely minicomic territory, given that each…
I am not sure why there’s been such a long gap in between reviews of Rob Jackson comics at Broken Frontier. The versatile, genre-jumping creator behind projects like Slaves of…
There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he puts out. The first are those who can’t help…
The plot of The Stoneshore Register is both simple and elusive. A refugee called Fadumo turns up looking for a job in a fishing town called Stoneshore, on the north…
Earlier this year, an English translation of Shirato Sanpei’s celebrated tale of ninjas in seventeenth century Japan was published by Drawn & Quarterly. This was remarkable for several reasons, starting…
“You should just always be reaching a little further than you think is actually possible.” The fitting words of small press creator Will Powers from an interview we ran with…
When you review serialised comics as rarely as I do one immediate and obvious observation you make is that comics commentary on a first issue is like critiquing the first…
If I was asked what graphic novel I thought was most comparable to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, but set in the early 2000s, I might say The Players, The…
“Girls like you…men just want you for your body. I’m a man. I would know.” The comment raises all kinds of red flags, for men as well as women, because…
Allegory by its very nature is, of course, a perfect narrative delivery system for deeper truths. By couching life lessons in the fantastic or the relatable their messages become all…
Cartoonists for Gaza Part 4 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Rufus Dayglo, Peter Kuper, Zara Slattery, Oscar Zárate and Corinne HalbertAugust 29, 2025
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