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Oni Press’s EC Comics revival has been notable not just for bringing non-super-hero genre comics fiction to the fore but for being at the front of a mini resurgence in…
Hog Hog: A Hedgehog Anthology comes to us via 2026 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell. Its origins lie in the artist’s recent fascination with hedgehogs,…
“The first generation were quiet, the second generation felt they couldn’t ask, and now the third generation tries to find out what happened.” It’s a framing that haunts Remember Us…
While the Colossive Cartographies series constantly crosses through illustrative mediums its sixty-ninth issue, ‘A Fragile Obsession’ by Mel Gale, undeniably fits into the category of minicomic. Its 16-panel comic strip…
Stories about quiet seaside towns with something dark to hide feel almost like a sub-genre of British horror in themselves. Dix’s The Idris File follows the 1970s exploits of teenage…
In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago burst onto the comic scene with his English debut: Dementia 21 (reviewed here at Broken Frontier), a collection of absurdist short stories. Reminiscent of…
Billed as “a slice of North-Eastern crime” The Closing Hour is that all too rare thing in one-shot comics genre fiction – a satisfying complete-in-one story that also blends deep…
Since we reviewed the first issue of Sanika Phawde’s Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas here last year at BF the comic has gone on to win in the Outstanding Series…
When a comic is described as “a 40-page exploration of thinking and perceiving, a love letter to the brain (and hate mail to AI) that champions the beauty of thinking…
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…
“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
