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PRIDE MONTH 2024! Coming out is likely always going to be a momentous event for many but to do so within the context of a religiously strict family environment adds…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! If it’s Pride Month at Broken Frontier then it must be time for another review of Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay. We covered…
“To everyone who wonders if you have a story worth sharing… you do.” These profound lines open Elizabeth A. Trembley’s eye-opening graphic memoir Look Again, a refreshingly truthful and personal…
Heebie Jeebies is a book that I requested to review when I saw writer, Matthew Erman, previewing his new middle-grade graphic novel on X. Now, I know that we shouldn’t…
What do cowboys look like? Can nonbinary people survive on their own in the woods? How are gender roles assigned? These are some of the questions that popped into my…
Released by Image Comics just last week, Hexagon Bridge is a new trade paperback collecting Richard Burke’s captivating five-issue miniseries. In this celebration of science fiction, Burke is both writer…
There’s an immediacy to comics that makes them a particularly powerful medium when it comes to communicating themes of mental health awareness. Not that any Broken Frontier readers would be…
My dad loves horror. So does my sister. I, on the other hand, usually do not. However, as my four-month-old slept, The Butcher’s Boy #1 suddenly made its way to…
Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s commitment to giving a voice to Indigenous creators has been notable in recent years. You can read more about Conundrum publisher Andy Brown’s feelings about that…
There are two predominant explanations of what a metanarrative is, when one engages in literary criticism. One refers to the idea of experimentation, where an author wilfully chooses to break…
Saturday AM brands itself as providing “the world’s most diverse manga-inspired comics.” A quick perusal of its publishing line-up underlines the strength of that claim with a plethora of titles…
What continues to delight about the publishing catalogue of New York Review Comics is the way in which it embraces every era of comics, from republishing William Gropper’s 1930 proto-graphic…
The Last Delivery is an upcoming graphic novel from Iron Circus Comics created by Evan Dahm, a creator who has been hailed as one of the pre-eminent fantasy cartoonists of…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! The second of Koguchi Press’s self-titled Koguchi Magazine anthology series comes with the subtitled theme of ‘Neo-Future’ and compiles seven short, complete,…
Vivid in glossy hardback, my first thought when looking at the cover of Daughters of Snow and Cinders was awe. The cover is an absolute work of art. A traveller…
An Alien Who is Also a Mum is a whimsical 16-page comic book created and published by Philippa Rice. Through beautifully painted illustrations, Rice explores the universal theme of motherhood,…
‘Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons and wizards and green knights and kings who pulled swords out of stones. But now, the doors to the Otherworld have…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Norm Konyu comics are designed to unsettle. Not in an outrageously over-the-top or gratuitous way. More in the manner of a narrative…
“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
