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Across the Widest Sea is a young adult graphic novel that portrays the transition from adolescence to adulthood metaphorically as a journey across an unpredictable sea in search of land….
In Tor Freeman’s Boss of the Underworld Book 1, a girl called Shirley drops a pound coin into a manhole, and while attempting to retrieve it she falls into the…
In 1957, a platypus named Penelope vanished from the Bronx Zoo in New York. Zookeepers were astonished to find that she could have tunnelled her way out or climbed over…
One of the nicest ways of spending an hour or so is with a book that hides more than it reveals. This is easier to do with a prose epic,…
You know a full-length graphic novel has caught the imagination of readers when it goes back to print in the same year it was published. Roman Muradov’s All the Living,…
For readers who were picking up Spider-Man comics in the 1970s but never saw the more ephemeral newspaper strips Clover Press’s The Amazing Spider-Man: Classic Newspaper Comics will be like…
In February 2026, a major study of adolescent bullying in the United Kingdom revealed the scale of challenges for health and education systems in that country. It surveyed over 8,400…
Tom Humberstone’s Just Work: The Gig Economy, Platform Capitalism and the Battle for Worker Rights is not simply representative of his graphic journalism. It’s also a fine example of how…
Less reboot or even reimagining and more business as usual, the new Oni Press incarnation of everyone’s favourite red-headed teenager debuted this month with Archie #1. If you were worrying…
This summer’s ARC Festival was a triumph not just in terms of showcasing indie and experimental work, or the new discoveries we all may have made there, but also for…
Previously at Broken Frontier we covered Steve Willis and Edward Bolman volumes from Tom Fellrath’s Phoenix Masters series, both of which explore absurdity in the extreme with a humorous, all-ages…
Few creators’ work has instantly grabbed my attention in the last couple of years as Keezy Young’s has. Their short comic Sunflowers, about living with bipolar disorder was an exceptional…
Mereida Fajardo and Marcy Fraser’s Zinezilla festival has become a welcome spiritual successor to the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair and now also occupies the same space as its geographical…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! It’s been fifteen years since Fantagraphics first published a collection of the first four stories of Jacques Tardi’s adventuring anti-hero. To celebrate the character’s 50th anniversary (some…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! When I interviewed creator Raquelle Jac about Bimbo Agitprop earlier this month at Broken Frontier I described it as one of my books of the year. This…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! The title Lost Marvels may be something of a misnomer (forgotten, obscure, rare… yes… lost? Not so much) but Fantagraphics’ reprint series of some of the hidden…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! As part of our celebration of 50 years of Fantagraphics, we’re highlighting their most revolutionary, their most out there, their most individual graphic novels of the last…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Reading a book as raw and candid as Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish the reader can’t help but ask themself the question of whether this truly singular approach…
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“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
