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Back in the in the early 1990s, and riding the coat-tails of the success of the UK adult humour comic Viz, a slew of largely forgettable imitators suddenly burst onto…
While cartoonist Syd Hoff (1912-2002) is best known for his celebrated children’s book Danny and the Dinosaur, and syndicated newspaper strips like Tuffy and Laugh It Off, there’s a strand…
Abstract comics are a rich source of material for those interested in the possibilities and nuances of the form’s language. Trigger Shot by Tal Brosh (one of our 2022 Broken…
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…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
