SLCZF 2023! Last year at Broken Frontier we followed the progress of the Reveal! Awards; an initiative for championing the work of women comics artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and…
EARTH DAY WEEK! What adds an extra layer of relevancy to World War 3 Illustrated’s most recent themed anthology Frontlines of Repair is that it goes beyond just insightful commentary…
Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and themes…
They’re referred to as ‘truth bombs’, defined as ‘blunt, undiplomatic statements of something true that others may not want or expect to hear.’ You can experience a whole lot of…
We are in something of a renaissance period when it comes to archival collections of socially relevant work like Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End from New…
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In this post-2020 era time can sometimes take on a deceptive quality. That seems to be very much the case sometimes when I check on our coverage of some of…
When looking back at our previous coverage of Wash Day, the minicomic that acted as precursor for Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s Wash Day Diaries, I was somewhat surprised to…
What elevates a collection of classic comics material from impressive to outstanding is often the care with which a publisher curates its supplementary material. Ablaze’s Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips…
While work exploring socially relevant subject matter has been a growing area of comics publishing over the last decade a relatively newer phenomenon has been the surge of graphic biographies…
Comics as a medium has historically been frequently targeted by the forces of censorship. One of the reasons often posited as to why this is the case is that comics…
With a very well-received long-form collection of stories recently released, and a growing body of genre comics work building up, Ramsey Hassan (aka RAMZEE) still manages to impressively juggle his…
Last week at Broken Frontier we looked at Tales of the Talented Tenth, another comics biographical publication that put a spotlight on notable Black figures of the past largely forgotten…
Projects like Joel Christian Gill’s Tales of the Talented Tenth may be celebratory in intent, but they are also a vital reminder of how much work there is still to…
Generally in the preamble to an interview we summarise the topic in hand with a brief overview of creator/project. But in the case of of R.D. Hunter’s Black Boy’s Blues:…
What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…
The winner of the Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction in 2021, writer Rebecca Hall and artist Hugo Martinez’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts is not…
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It’s a marker of the distinctive properties of comics narrative that sometimes so much more can be expressed and communicated with an economy of line than the most detailed artwork…
Reading RAMZEE’s first long-form book LDN I was struck by how his role with this anthology collection went beyond that of creator (he writes the multiple stories compiled herein and…
“We Wanted this to Be a Fast-Paced, Funny Adventure” – Rob Williams and Pye Parr on ‘Petrol Head’, Their “Fast & the Robo-Furious” Sci-Fi Series from Image ComicsSeptember 22, 2023
Down a (Welsh) Rabbit Hole – A Work-in-Progress Look at ‘The Noisy Valley’ by Myfanwy TristramSeptember 1, 2023
“Our Internal Shorthand for AHOY is Funny Vertigo” – Celebrating Five Years of Acclaimed Satire and Humour with AHOY Comics’ Tom Peyer and Stuart MooreAugust 16, 2023
Looking Back on Small Press Day 2023 – A Remarkable Celebration of the Creative Affluence of the Small Press Scene in the UK and IrelandAugust 14, 2023
“Trust Yourself Enough to Stick to Your Vision” – Beck Kubrick on the Comics Publishing JourneyAugust 3, 2023
