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Sara Lautman has firmly secured her place as a cartoonist and illustrator with her professional work for The New Yorker. While Lautman is highly competent at the single panel gag…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST GRAPHIC NON-FICTION WINNER! We talk a lot about the many unique ways in which comics – and particularly autobiographical comics – forge an intimate connection…
With eye-catching art by Jenn St-Onge and a heartfelt story by Tee Franklin, Bingo Love presents the tale of a lifetime of suppression and oppression. Through St-Onge’s bouncy art style, the reader is brought…
The task of the memoirist is much like that of any documentarian; sorting through millions of moments to edit and frame them for the audience. Laura Lannes’ By Monday I’ll…
Sherlock Holmes is a classics literary institution; one which The Baker Street Four takes and re-imagines through the eyes of the children involved in Holmes’ cases. The portrayal of Victorian London…
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and his Get Jiro! co-writer Joel Rose reunite to cook up Hungry Ghosts #1; the first instalment of a four-part miniseries via new Dark Horse imprint Berger Books. The…
Ink Toby by A.T. Pratt is a rare thing in the world of indie comics, simultaneously a take down of the scene’s at times Pollyanna-ish culture yet one so steeped…
Love is a universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Well, that’s what the poet Robert Graves had to say on the subject – although if…
In the Future, We Are Dead by Eva Müller is a collection of nine short comics thematically linked in their exploration of mortality. Some stories focusing on a young Müller coming…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC MATERIAL NOMINEE! Misunderstood in his short lifetime, mangaka Takashi Fukutani strove to give voice to the downtrodden through his art, drawing candid…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST LETTERER WINNER AND BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! When it was announced last year that 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creator Jey Levang had been picked…
It is always interesting to see a cartoonist step outside their artistic wheelhouse and try something new. What is somewhat unique within indie comics is that this new thing can…
Gritty, witty, and tenacious, Abbott #1 deftly combines hard-nosed crime with a supernatural twist. This debut from the creative team of writer Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä challenges the investigative…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL WINNER! Every year the comics critics’ “best of” lists start to congregate like wiry hairs in the internet plughole, and every year…
Only the End of the World Again began life as a short story commissioned for Steven Jones’ compilation of fiction inspired by H.P. Lovecraft: Shadows Over Innsmouth in 1994. It…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONE-SHOT NOMINEE! SelfMadeHero‘s 10th anniversary year in 2017 was packed full of high-profile releases that underlined the UK publisher’s always eclectic and dizzyingly diverse line-up….
What sustains an artist’s creativity on a series they have been working on for years? When you take a more aesthetic look at the current issue of Ed Luce’s Wuvable…
The first in a (presumed) series of books, Alexander Utkin’s Gamayun Tales: The King of Birds (translated by Lada Morozova) is an all-ages offering from Nobrow Press based on original…
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
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
