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Focussed on mental health awareness, the new UK small press comics anthology Over-Inkers debuted recently with a first issue theme of “strength”. Full disclosure first. Over-Inkers is edited by Broken…
To check out artist Rina Ayuyang’s Instagram is to find oneself awash in art and colour, offering insights into what inspires her. These colour-pencilled hues inform The Man in the…
It’s been a little while since we had the opportunity to review an Alice Urbino comic here at BF but we can today as one of our original 2015 Broken…
We talk a lot about the tactile possibilities of self-publishing here at Broken Frontier but Xiaoyi Hu’s comic Fire Flowers adds extra emphasis on that quality (as can be seen…
EARTH DAY WEEK! Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s Rain (published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse Comics in the US) is suffused with a feeling of…
EARTH DAY WEEK! Published as a 50th anniversary celebration of Last Gasp, Slow Death Zero takes the name of the underground publisher’s influential alt comics anthology, affixes an additional “numbering”…
EARTH DAY WEEK! The idea that concern about the destructive effects of humanity’s interaction with the environment is a relatively recent one is, of course, entirely fallacious in its supposition….
EARTH DAY WEEK! This week at Broken Frontier our Earth Day-themed review coverage has looked at comics and the environment from the perspectives of graphic journalism, biography, anthologies, satire and…
EARTH DAY WEEK! As regular Broken Frontier readers will know we have been slowly building up a number of socially relevant resource lists of comics material on the site. In…
EARTH DAY WEEK! While graphic journalism, graphic biography and comics social commentary on environmental issues is both valuable and vital in communicating and dissecting the realities involved another approach is…
EARTH DAY WEEK! What adds an extra layer of relevancy to World War 3 Illustrated’s most recent themed anthology Frontlines of Repair is that it goes beyond just insightful commentary…
EARTH DAY WEEK! Where does one even begin with attempting to review such a colossal group effort as Dorling Kindersley’s The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save…
Collaborative comics where the entire creative team are perfectly and harmoniously in synch are probably far rarer than we could care to admit. Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, horror comic The…
To borrow from Stan Lee every Colossive Cartographies review is somebody’s first so if you’re unaware of the format of what has become micropublisher Colossive Press’s signature series keep reading….
The first time we meet the unnamed main character of Jiří Franta’s Single he is a distant speck, a potentially overlooked feature of the scene, alone and stranded on top…
To describe Forest Hills Bootleg Society merely as a coming-of-age story seems woefully inadequate given the number of thematic strands that run through its pages. As a revealing afterword notes,…
Rich Tommaso has a reasonable claim on the title of “Hardest Working Man In Comics.” That was true even before this, his current venture. Black Phoenix is a serialised anthology published…
When Sophie and Scarlett Rickard adapted Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists for SelfMadeHero in 2021 they introduced an always relevant socialist masterpiece to a new audience of readers at…
“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
“It’s about Fame, Friendship, and Just How Long You’re Willing to Fake it to Make it” – Duane Murray and Ahmed Raafat Talk ‘Who Are the Power Pals?’ from Dark HorseNovember 6, 2025
