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It’s impossible to overestimate just how far Alxndra Cook’s visual storytelling has come since I was first covering her work in zines like Eat Your Fruit!, well over a decade…
‘The Birth of Venus’, painted by Sandro Botticelli in the 1480s, is often cited as a blatant example of the ‘male gaze’ that has long dominated art in the West….
Judy Powell’s Ways to Kill My Mother’s Lover (With Limited Pocket Money and Minimal Mess) isn’t quite the comic with the longest ever title to be reviewed at Broken Frontier…
Joff Winterhart’s previous graphic novels (Days of the Bagnold Summer and Driving Short Distances) have been explorations of the relationships between characters separated by both generations and attitudes. In his…
Launched at 2025’s Thought Bubble Comic Festival, Sanctuary by Jenny Mure, an illustrator and comics creator based in Nottingham, is a self-published comic about motherhood, loss and longing. Set in…
As its title obviously suggests Short Stories is a collection of Portuguese creator André Caetano’s shorter-form narrative for comics anthologies and other related venues. Publications like this are always a…
The Girl Who Draws on Whales is an environmentalist story set in a futuristic flooded world. Wangi, the lead character, lives on an island which is visited every year by…
Jules Valera’s A Very Fragile Release Coming Along as a Light Breath collects three A6 minicomics in a tactile vellum-banded compilation. The three titles – Jupiter & the Moon, Venus…
A. T. Pratt’s work redefines the idea of tactile comics. Take today’s example, Big Matinee Comics, which includes layer after layer of pop-up, foldout, concertina effect and detachable elements. It’s…
The Thought Bubble convention is a smorgasbord of amazing comic works. So much so that I have only just got around to finishing all the books and zines I bought…
Written by Nikesh Shukla (editor of The Good Immigrant) and illustrated by Camille Aubry (A Journey to Motherhood) – the latter of whom I first met at an ELCAF portfolio…
Alexandra Gallant-Lee’s This Place is a Prison, These People Aren’t Your Friends is a zine-style exploration of a subject that is unafraid to ask difficult questions. Using her background in…
As I’ve said before when reviewing the Colossive Cartographies series there’s sometimes a dilemma as to whether the reader should bring their own interpretation to their fold-out zine narratives or…
Tor Freeman’s Boss of the Underworld series so far (Shirley vs. The Green Menace and Shirley vs. The Huge Beast) gives us two funny books for kids, but the humour…
The winner of the 2025 Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction, Mohammad Sabaaneh’s 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide was one four comics offerings on the atrocities in…
What can one say about the work and influence of the late Kevin O’Neill that has not been said before? As a child growing up during the Golden Age of…
I probably say it to the point of tedium but on the few occasions that we do review super-hero comics at Broken Frontier it’s because they have something different to…
1909. A bespectacled young man, Henry Naughton, has recently returned from the city, following his father’s death, to stay with his mother and younger brother on the family farm in…
“It’s About Queerness, Family, Loyalty, Grief, and at its Core Love in All its Forms”- Bex Glendining on Debut Graphic Novel ‘On Starlit Shores’April 2, 2026
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
