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Last year here at BF we looked at Bigger, a previous minicomic from 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mike Armstrong, and one that in thematic terms used fantasy…
Writer and creator Asa Wheatley’s Sagas of the Shield Maiden anthology series has from the outset taken a very different approach to its historical tales. Rather than exploring a linear…
When I am asked what I look for when selecting artists for our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six Creators to Watch’ initiative the answers I could give would be multitudinous. But…
Barely having polishing off his morning pancakes, retired dog-detective Stanley is hoping for some much-needed peace and quiet, when he receives an intriguing offer he can’t refuse – not even…
Andy Oliver reviewed Fizzle #1-3 on this site in the halcyon pre-pandemic days. Today we revisit the long-running Whit Taylor series with its latest issue being published earlier this year…
The licensing complexities and how behind-the-scenes wranglings continued to affect the Action Force feature in weekly UK comic Battle Action Force make for as interesting a read as the strips…
The rather enticing thing about kuš! comics’ mini kuš! range is that their method of delivery – a batch of four releases every few months – means that in one…
Denis Kitchen’s introduction to Nancy and Sluggo’s Guide to Life is certainly not the usual twee and 100% gracious foreword that collections like this often begin with. Nor should it…
Published in print at the tail end of 2024 but added to online through the year, anthology/website Cartoonists for Palestine was undoubtedly one of the year’s most important comics projects….
It’s one of the last great survivors of a classic era of British comics on newsagents’ shelves and for decades the digest-sized Commando series has been presenting old-school tales of…
From the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A Memoir, Briana Loewinsohn, comes a brand new coming-of-age biography, based on Loewinsohn’s experience of high school: Raised by Ghosts. Also published by Fantagraphics,…
Conor B. is an artist/writer who has self-published more than half a dozen mini-comics and is currently touring the West coast of the U.S. in support of their debut graphic…
Ah, abstract comics and that ironic aspect where their dissociative qualities actually bring the reader closer to their subject matter. ‘Silent Observations’ by Apolonija Lučić is #128 in the kuš!…
To attempt to encapsulate the story of the 2011 Arab uprisings and those that would follow in the years thereafter into a 150-page anthology collection of graphic memoirs is an…
A decade or so ago, bestselling American journalist David Grann published a collection titled The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession. It brought to light several…
There’s something undeniably interesting about how sometimes the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies zines benefit from the added context on the Colossive site. If you do this the right way around…
With a tongue-in-cheek take on body horror Walker Tate’s ‘Swelling’, #127 in Latvian publisher kuš!’s mini kuš! minicomics series, initially seems less experimental than some of the more opaque or…
I won’t pretend that I’ve ever been someone that’s particularly into their hair. Would I like it to look beautifully curled or glossily straight? Yes. Will I ever go to…
Inside Look: Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood – Lonnie Mann Provides a Creator Commentary on the Evolution and Process of His Gay, Jewish, Coming-of-Age StoryJune 24, 2025
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
