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Drake & Dog Armed – Meta and Absurdist Detective Fiction from UK Small Press National Treasure Ed Pinsent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! For the uninitiated, UK cartoonist Ed Pinsent has been creating and self-publishing comics since the early 1980s. His characters psychic detective Drake Ullingsworth and companion Dog, the…

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Smoke – Fidelia Schlegl’s Wordless Abstract Narrative Asks Us to Consider How We Interact with the Medium

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! A new indie micropress is always an exciting development on the UK circuit and when it’s as experimentally focussed as Francis Todd’s Blue Funnel Books all the…

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Built for Love – Shri Gunasekara Reflects on the Concept of Love in this Beautifully Illustrated Short Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 3, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Last year at Broken Frontier I was so taken by artist Shri Gunasekara’s experimental, landscape format comic Runner that I just knew she had to be a…

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Absolute Cinema and Other Stories – Joe Stone Interrogates the Form in an Outstanding Collection of Comics Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! In terms of themes or genre you never know quite what you’re going to get from a Joe Stone comic. Sometimes you are treated to the kind…

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Colossive Cartographies #71 – Matt Canning’s Cyclical Comic ‘Autoloop’ is a Playful and Fun Use of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! The Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series is one of those absolute gems of UK small press publishing that will hopefully be finding an entire new audience of…

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Filth – Underground Kingdom Comix Take a Transgressive Turn in an Anthology Including Mat Greaves, Vincent Bell Robertson and Struan Sloan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! It’s been a while since we gave time to the Underground Kingdom Comix crew so it seems fitting that we give some space to their most recent,…

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Dot Comics #1 – A. T. Pratt Reminds Us of the Full Potential of the Physicality of the Form in Another Remarkably Tactile Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I took a look at A. T. Pratt’s tribute to New York iconography in Big Apple Matinee; a remarkable pop-up comic…

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The Interpretant – Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro Return with More Intriguing Questions About the Nature of Humanity 

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 30, 2026

One of the many things that make comic books great is how they can be used to explore existential questions. This may be because visual metaphors are always great for…

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Alas, – Sajan Rai Brings Us a Wonderfully Absurd Tale of an Alien Grey, a Gnome and Shakespeare

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Originally published digitally via the ShortBox Comics Fair, Alas, has the kind of premise for a comic that you could only expect from Sajan Rai. We’re thrown…

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Big Comic for Boy – Andrés Magán’s Gloomy Existentialism Has a Strangely Enticing Appeal

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2026

ARC FESTIVAL 2026! Compiling comics created by Andrés Magán in small notebooks between November 2025 and January 2026 the strips in Big Comic for Boy combine absurdism with off-centre reflections…

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The House My Father Built – Mollie Ray Tells Sophie Shamieh Mukarker’s Story of the 1940s Displacement of Palestinians with Power and Empathy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2026

The incredible work that the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival (LICAF) are doing to bring the stories of those affected by events in Gaza needs far more acknowledgment. Their From…

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Hotel Limbo Book 1 – Ben Harel Teams with 28 Artists in this Layered Supernatural Story from Top Shelf

  • by Lydia Turner
  • June 26, 2026

It may not quite be spooky season yet for those of us who love all things ghostly and ghoulish, but Hotel Limbo by Ben Harel, published by Top Shelf Productions,…

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Ace of Hearts: Lessons in Love from an Asexual Girl – Love Without Sex Examined in Cooklin’s Insightful Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 24, 2026

PRIDE MONTH 2026! Described as “a thoughtful and immersive coming-of-age memoir about one girl’s struggle to figure out and then claim her asexual identity” Cooklin’s Ace of Hearts: Lessons in…

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Superheroes in the Park – Ian Eagleton and Hayley Wells Take Us on a Journey into Imagination on a Two-Dad Family Day Out

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2026

PRIDE MONTH 2026! Over the course of Pride Month at Broken Frontier we have included coverage of a number of children’s books on the grounds that there’s a growing adoption…

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First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth – Angélique Roché, Alvin Epps, Bex Glendining and Millicent Monroe Bring the Inspiring Story of a Remarkable Woman to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2026

As a graphic biography First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth could not be more relevant in 2026. Sadly, its celebratory tone is, to a degree, contrasted by…

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Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative – A Thorough and Absorbing Guide to Graphic Journalism by Eleri Harris and Shay Mirk

  • by Edward Picot
  • June 19, 2026

Eleri Harris and Shay Mirk are “award–winning graphic journalists and long-time editors of the critically acclaimed graphic journalism site, The Nib”, and Making Nonfiction Comics is described in the blurb…

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Charity & Sylvia – Tillie Walden Uses a Profound Record of Same-Sex Love to Paint a Broader Picture of 19th Century America

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 17, 2026

PRIDE MONTH 2026! A little over a decade ago, the American Canadian historian Rachel Hope Cleves published a book titled Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. It…

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I Didn’t Ask for This — Influencer Culture Criticized in Jennie Wood, Josh Cornillon and Maverick’s Young Adult Graphic Novel

  • by Harish P. I
  • June 15, 2026

One of the biggest revolutions that social media brought into the world is the culture of influencers. Product marketing and endorsement, dominated by celebrities and professional models, became democratized. The…

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