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Given how many comics creators are on the team at Broken Frontier we have an unwritten rule on the site. While we may cover their work in terms of features…
On the surface of it, this book has nothing to do with the virus that has changed life as we know it. A tale about a middle-aged cartoonist coming to…
Telling her own story of growing up during those awkward teenage/univeristy years, Rebecca Burgess’s How to Be Ace offers a unique perspective on the coming-of-age genre through frank discussion of…
Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse return to Patience with Resident Alien: Your Ride’s Here from Dark Horse Comics, which poses the ultimate question: will Harry Vanderspeigle finally be going home?…
The first issue of Giga from Vault Comics is, quite simply, an object lesson in how to write an opening chapter of a monthly comic. That’s an art that has been…
“Who is more real: Us? Or Superman?”. This is the provocative question that opens the anticipated new Image series Crossover by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Dee Cunniffe and John J….
Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson bring us a bite-sized morsel of psychedelic Stoker set in the 1970s with Dracula, Motherf*cker! from Image Comics. Vampire fans, rejoice! If you’re tired…
Sometimes it’s okay to be unhappy, see. Sometimes being miserable is a sane reaction to shitty circumstances. At the time of writing, Agent Mann, a leading player in this opening…
Part of the 2000 AD ‘Regened’ initiative that provides accessible, all-ages, one-shot issues with complete-in-one stories every few months, Prog #2206 of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic is a heady mix…
It’s an unfortunate reality in serial comics publishing that the necessity of providing enticing pre-publication hooks means that plot twists that should have been the readers to discover in their…
An autumnal visit from horror hosts Misty and Ghastly McNasty has become something of a Rebellion tradition in recent years. The 2020 Misty & Scream! Special (perfect for Halloween reading)…
A procrastinating and distracted Rowan can’t dodge her hereditary responsibilities much longer as the forces of good and evil close in. Glorious story tension and gorgeous art enchant Black Magick…
The work of Katie Skelly – a very welcome guest artist at a Broken Frontier/Gosh! Comics Drink and Draw back in 2017– is usually characterised by pop energy and playful…
The first English language comics work of Spanish cartoonist Rayco Pulido, Ghostwriter is a book full of contradictions… but oddly reconcilable ones. It’s uncomfortably bleak, for example, but in that…
Jim Terry never understood why his parents drank. “They never seemed happier when drunk”, Terry reflects in his autobiography Come Home, Indio, “just sad or angry. And mean”. Alcohol only…
Back in 2018, online comics sensation Branson Reese won our Broken Frontier Best Webcomic Award for Swan Boy. Hell Was Full is the first print collection of Reese’s work and…
Memoirs in the form of graphic narratives have long moved from the realm of novelty to that of genuinely intriguing exploration. The medium has, over the past decade alone, been…
Artistry and mountain climbing might seem like radically different interests. One is physical and dangerous, requiring tactile grasping with Nature, while the other is quiet, contemplative and achieved through reflecting…
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
“I Think ‘Limbo’ is Probably the Best Work I’ve Ever Done in Any Medium” – Ferry Gouw on His New Book from Breakdown Press, Cross-Media Work on ‘Major Lazer’, and Adapting His Style for Different ProjectsJune 30, 2026
“Trans People Are Facing Pronounced Challenges to Our Rights Across the World Right Now” – Jua OK! on ‘Road to Chimera’ and Finding Spiritual Meaning in the Trans JourneyJune 29, 2026
“Don’t Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Done – Finish Things” – AJ O’Neill on Finding Your Voice in Comics, Queer Autobio, and Experimenting with the FormJune 25, 2026
“At its Heart, ‘Bone Broth’ is a Story about Transgender Rage and Defiance” – Alex Taylor on His First Graphic Novel Award-Winning Debut Book from SelfMadeHeroJune 23, 2026
