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If you read Broken Frontier with any degree of regularity you will know that I often long wistfully for the days when small press comics self-publishing in the UK had…
It did not surprise me when investigating the work of Dina Omut further that her story in mini kuš! #138 was apparently based on a dream she had a couple…
Matthew Dooley is undoubtedly one of the wittiest people working in comics today. Sometimes that wit can be biting and dark, as in his alternate universe story of a failed…
“What if we met outside of time? Would we be friends? Or would we never understand each other? There is nothing left to see, but there is much left to…
Adapting Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s best-selling study Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States to a slimmer comics format while retaining its core essence is, of course, an achievement in itself. As…
Reading the sleekly illustrated mini kuš! #136 (‘Rain in Tears’) directly after its predecessor, #135’s loose and meandering ‘The Boy and the Worm’ only serves to underline just how much the…
At the heart of Kay Sohini’s This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is the idea of perception. As a graphic memoir it also fits into that strand of comics narrative we have…
Expecting the unexpected is, of course, a standard when reading one of kuš! comics’ mini kuš! offerings. Heather Loase’s ‘The Boy and the Worm’ in mini kuš! #135 is no…
An interesting assessment of Joe Ollmann’s work appears early on in his own introduction to this latest collection. It comes from the late American critic Tom Spurgeon who once reportedly…
A winner in this year’s Broken Frontier Awards, in the category of Best Collection of Classic Material, The Smythes is a handsome oversized collection of Rea Irvin’s (the New Yorker’s…
Steve Willis is a Washington state-based creator who has been self-publishing his own particular brand of strange and surreal comics out of the Pacific Northwest of the United States since…
Through his Fred Egg Comics micropublishing venture David Robertson has provided anthology platforms that spotlight other creators and embraced a lo-fi, grassroots style of self-publishing. In the latter case one…
Keezy Young’s win in the Best Artist category in the Broken Frontier Awards this year was all the more noteworthy for the incredibly strong shortlist of names nominated. Young’s first…
From New Yorker cartoonist Walker Tate, Laser Eye Surgery comes to its audience via the Fantagraphics Underground imprint. It represents Tate’s first full-length comics offering and centres on an unnamed…
There are many names throughout literature that are known as ‘the greats’: Dickens, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, and countless others. And amongst them sits one of the most radical female…
The Lexicon of Comicana by cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) was something of a thematic forerunner of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. It represents Walker’s attempt to catalogue…
What perhaps sets Adieu Birkenau apart from some other graphic memoirs/biographies is the time-shifting commentary on events from its subject Ginette Kolinka. We observe Kolinka both as a young woman…
We have, admittedly, a little bit of catching up to do with our coverage of the Colossive Press series of Colossive Cartographies fold-out zines. So we are going to endeavour…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
