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Mia Oberländer’s debut graphic novel Anna has already made its mark despite only being published this year: Awarded the Berthold Leibinger Foundation’s Comic Book Award, the German Youth Literature Award…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! A graphic memoir sequel to Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, Lewis Hancox’s Escape from St Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up continues in the…
Upon receiving my copy of Nervosa from Street Noise Books, I was surprised that I hadn’t come across the work of cartoonist Hayley Gold before. Gold seems to be a…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! To say that Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol run was ahead of its time would be an exercise in the most obvious of understatement. Despite having the unenviable…
Confession time. I LOVE blind boxes. It doesn’t matter what’s in them, something about those little, colourful boxes of joy gets me every time. The element of surprise, of trying…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! When we launched our Pride Month coverage earlier this month we promised you that our coverage would venture into territory not usually traversed at Broken Frontier. For…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! Despite constant pushback from non-progressive elements, there’s been a forward momentum to the concepts of gay marriage and equality in the law in many countries in recent…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! Bringing together the work of 29 trans and non-binary creators The Out Side is an often celebratory collection of stories focussing on themes of gender and identity….
There is a lot to digest in Dandelion, Image Comics’ anthology written by Sabir Pirzada with an all-star cast of artists. In Pirzada’s bold, yet alarming, vision of the not-too-distant…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! What immediately strikes the reader about IDW’s Pride Month Star Trek: Celebrations one-shot is how much its title is a statement of intent. This collection of five…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Four years ago as part of the online Small Press Day events on social media and in lieu of in-person events we…
Grog the Frog: The Book of Taurus is a short graphic novel about, you guessed it, a frog named Grog. However, Grog isn’t our ordinary run-of-the-mill frog. This frog is…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! One of the opportunities that our Pride Month celebrations provide each year is allowing us to revisit work that we may have missed the first time around….
PRIDE MONTH 2024! When it comes to building up a range of genuinely indie queer comics output there are few publishers the equal of San Francisco-based Silver Sprocket. They will…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! In the first issue of A Wolfgang Crowe’s four-part series Fractures the readers became witnesses to a homophobic assault the artist endured some years ago while working…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! The erasure of key LGBTQ+ figures and/or their queerness from history is a very deliberate and calculated exercise. It’s designed to enforce a rigid heteronormative view of…
There has always been a quiet confidence about Aminder Dhaliwal’s work, along with a sense of comfort that one is in the hands of a great storyteller. Consider her last…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
