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Here’s a thought that may crop up repeatedly while reading this fabulous biography: how is it that someone once referred to as the first Black American global sports superstar is…
A couple of years back at Broken Frontier I reviewed Kristina Stipetic’s bumper-sized collection Positive Worlds, Negative Spaces. A huge collection of work originally created between 2010 and 2024, it…
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…
“I Want to Build a Feeling of Curiosity and Wonder about the World” – Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell, on Exploring Environmental Themes in Comics, Navigating the Small Press Scene, and the Allure of HedgehogsNovember 5, 2026
“At the Base of Every Story I Tell is Some Aspect of Myself” – Michael Furler Talks Inspiration, Process, His ShortBox and Peow Work, and the Swiss Comics SceneOctober 26, 2026
“There’s a Real Joy in Giving a Story a Good End” – Kate Ashwin on Saying Goodbye to the Cast of Her Webcomic ‘Widdershins’ After an Impressive 15 YearsOctober 22, 2026
“There Have Been So Many Highlights!” – Publisher Andy Brown on 30 Years of Conundrum Press, Discovering Unique Voices in Comics, and the Realities of Arts Funding in CanadaOctober 20, 2026
“I Love Exploring Themes of Culture, Family and Siblinghood” – Shri Gunasekara on Experimenting with the Form, Colour as a Storytelling Device, and Artistic ProcessOctober 19, 2026
