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It has been four years since Dominican-born artist Freddy Carrasco took home the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Collection, as well as the Doug Wright Award for Best Small- or Micro-press…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! There have been a number of comics anthologies over the years that have focussed on fondly remembered pop cultural icons of yesteryear….
A project that brings together one of the most exciting breakout comics writers of recent years with one of the most promising emerging artists was always going to going to…
It has been a few years since we last reviewed comics work by Wallis Eates at Broken Frontier though, as can be seen by the list of tagged posts here,…
Does a graphic adaptation of a literary classic deserve to exist? It’s the kind of question that lovers of music tend to obsess over whenever a remixed version of an…
Around 70 pages and a little over 300 words: it’s amazing what these seemingly limiting numbers can yield in the hands of artists with a clear vision. The Mysteries has…
While the majority of the comics projects listed on our Broken Frontier Mental Health Awareness Resource List are autobiographical in nature it is important to remember that escapist fiction can…
I’ve always been a huge fan of Benji Nate’s graphic novels – from the hilariously deadpan Lorna, to sweet Catboy to the mysterious Hell Phone. So, when her latest project…
In 2021, the English translation of French illustrator Mirion Malle’s This is How I Disappear taught us to question how we look at sexual assault and its devastating impact. It…
One of the additional intriguing elements of Jonathan Baylis’s autobiographical So Buttons anthology series is that not only does it also give a deserved spotlight to the many artists he…
New York Review Comics’ output deserves significantly more acclaim given their capacity for bringing forgotten or unknown gems of comics publishing to new readerships. The splendidly titled Masters of the…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! The third incarnation of Bristol’s Zinezilla fair, as co-organised by 2022 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Mereida Fajardo, is coming this…
One of the things that teachers of young people believe in most is the importance of speaking to them at their level. This doesn’t mean talking down to them, nor…
The 1960s weekly Candy comic may have been a bizarre footnote in the history of both British comics and Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 productions, but there’s something so…
Natalie Norris’s Dear Mini is described by publisher Fantagraphics as “a vivid depiction of adolescent agency in the face of sexual trauma” so this would be an appropriate moment to…
This isn’t something we normally do at Broken Frontier but on this occasion it would feel critically irresponsible not to re-run our review of Lucy Sullivan’s Barking, given the new…
Those who scrutinised the results of the 2023 Broken Frontier Awards will remember that Caroline Cash’s PeePee-PooPoo won in the category of Best Periodical Series. And deservedly so. I have…
There’s an undoubtedly nebulous quality to defining what makes a comic a comic that can seem extremely arbitrary on occasion. Writer Angela Pham Krans and artist Thi Bui’s Finding Papa,…
“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
