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Married Bay Area cartoonists Breena Nuñez and Lawrence Lindell recently released the latest installment of their two-person anthology Laneha House, which also happens to be the name of their publishing…
Last year here at BF we looked at Bigger, a previous minicomic from 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mike Armstrong, and one that in thematic terms used fantasy…
Writer and creator Asa Wheatley’s Sagas of the Shield Maiden anthology series has from the outset taken a very different approach to its historical tales. Rather than exploring a linear…
When I am asked what I look for when selecting artists for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Creators to Watch’ initiative the answers I could give would be multitudinous. But…
Barely having polishing off his morning pancakes, retired dog-detective Stanley is hoping for some much-needed peace and quiet, when he receives an intriguing offer he can’t refuse – not even…
Andy Oliver reviewed Fizzle #1-3 on this site in the halcyon pre-pandemic days. Today we revisit the long-running Whit Taylor series with its latest issue being published earlier this year…
The licensing complexities and how behind-the-scenes wranglings continued to affect the Action Force feature in weekly UK comic Battle Action Force make for as interesting a read as the strips…
The rather enticing thing about kuš! comics’ mini kuš! range is that their method of delivery – a batch of four releases every few months – means that in one…
Denis Kitchen’s introduction to Nancy and Sluggo’s Guide to Life is certainly not the usual twee and 100% gracious foreword that collections like this often begin with. Nor should it…
Published in print at the tail end of 2024 but added to online through the year, anthology/website Cartoonists for Palestine was undoubtedly one of the year’s most important comics projects….
It’s one of the last great survivors of a classic era of British comics on newsagents’ shelves and for decades the digest-sized Commando series has been presenting old-school tales of…
From the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A Memoir, Briana Loewinsohn, comes a brand new coming-of-age biography, based on Loewinsohn’s experience of high school: Raised by Ghosts. Also published by Fantagraphics,…
Conor B. is an artist/writer who has self-published more than half a dozen mini-comics and is currently touring the West coast of the U.S. in support of their debut graphic…
Ah, abstract comics and that ironic aspect where their dissociative qualities actually bring the reader closer to their subject matter. ‘Silent Observations’ by Apolonija Lučić is #128 in the kuš!…
To attempt to encapsulate the story of the 2011 Arab uprisings and those that would follow in the years thereafter into a 150-page anthology collection of graphic memoirs is an…
A decade or so ago, bestselling American journalist David Grann published a collection titled The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession. It brought to light several…
There’s something undeniably interesting about how sometimes the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies zines benefit from the added context on the Colossive site. If you do this the right way around…
With a tongue-in-cheek take on body horror Walker Tate’s ‘Swelling’, #127 in Latvian publisher kuš!’s mini kuš! minicomics series, initially seems less experimental than some of the more opaque or…
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
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