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Despite the writer/artist’s fantastical illustrations, Volume One of Tyler Crook’s The Lonesome Hunters from Dark Horse Comics soars too close to the sun and drowns in its own story. First,…
“Mr. Fibby said, “I never lie. I am the Prime Minister and I am going to save the National Health Service £350 million a second by taking the power back…
To describe the Treasury of British Comics’ A Very British Affair: The Best of Classic Romance Comics as a labour of love seems like an understatement that borders on gross…
Comics anthologies that give space to emerging voices alongside established and renowned creative forces on the indie scene are always to be admired. It’s been a little while since we…
When I interviewed Ed Firth last year about his queer comics series Horny & High he gave me an editor’s dream pull quote for the article title: “One friend said…
Joy San’s Sugar & Other Stories is a collection of short horror stories presented in a variety of narrative styles and visual techniques. If you’re expecting conventional twist-in-the-tale comics horror…
Compiling four short stories all, to some degree, with environmental themes at their heart Giorgio Pandiani’s A Day on the River (& Other Stories) is an anthology offering that is…
The nicest thing about picking up a book by Canadian artist Nick Maandag is not knowing what the next page will bring. Will there be hilarity? There almost always is….
Who could ignore a tagline like “More frozen screams from the post-industrial wasteland” on an alt comics collection’s cover? Samuel Hickson’s Liquid Realm returned recently with a second issue of…
In the past here at Broken Frontier I have described Patrick Kyle’s practice as something akin to an “abstract comics masterpiece”. A description that, unsurprisingly, ensures his approach to the…
One of the greatest strengths of comics as a form is its ability to communicate experiences with a profound eloquence in an often concise and deceptively minimalist way. Huda Fahmy’s…
Penge-based micropublisher Colossive Press have been providing us with a positive feast of eclectic zine and book publishing for a few years now. A Wolfgang Crowe’s Fractures is their first…
SHELTER: Early Doors is a profound and emotive story, where paint-strokes portray trauma in such a versatile and up-close way that you cannot help but feel yourself involved. This results…
When we reviewed Ugly Mug #5 here at Broken Frontier last year it marked the biggest gap between issues of any title we have ever covered on the site. Somewhere…
In 1994, in the aftermath of the Rwandan Civil War, young Alice Cyuzuzo and her family were forced to flee the country and make their way to what was then…
Rachelle Meyer’s The Last Guide to Literary Conflict You’ll Ever Need put me in instant mind of micropublisher O Panda Gordo’s Seven Stories. That much-missed series took Arthur Quiller-Couch’s contention…
There has always been something incongruously appealing about the gloomy existentialism to be found in the comic strips of Alex Potts. The long-time UK small press figure is probably best…
J.G. Ballard was a great writer, but his books could always be shorter. That’s not a critique — the man himself was always reaching for greater brevity, the better for…
“Our Work is Rooted in South Asian Identity and Community-Led Histories” – Exploring the Publishing Output and Ethos of Kutty Press with Bhavani Balasubramanyam and Deepesh SangtaniMay 18, 2026
“There’s Value in Being the Oddbeat Offering Which Has an Unusual Niche” – Steve Morris Talks about Shelfdust’s Approach to Comics Criticism and Where it All Went Wrong for Comics Commentary OnlineMay 11, 2026
“It’s About Queerness, Family, Loyalty, Grief, and at its Core Love in All its Forms”- Bex Glendining on Debut Graphic Novel ‘On Starlit Shores’April 2, 2026
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
