Part biography, part social commentary, and part scathing skewering of fearmongering and dubious science, Box Brown’s Cannabis: An American History (published in the UK by SelfMadeHero and in the US…
Humanity’s complex relationship with the technology it creates, relies on and arguably becomes subservient to is fertile ground for sci-fi/horror hybrid parable. SelfMadeHero’s anthology I Feel Machine explores those ideas in…
Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman by Box Brown is a graphic novel that should work, but on many levels does not. Which is perplexing as, given…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
After yet another year of rapid growth at Emerald City Comicon that led to some reorganization of the show floor, including moving Artist Alley all the way up to the…
A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN Here at Broken Frontier we’re long-time fans of Retrofit Comics, a boutique publisher established by prolific cartoonist Box Brown via a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2011….
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
If there’s one thing I have wanted to see more of in the nevertheless always very worthy free anthology Off Life in its short life to date then it’s been a greater…
Screwjob – the recent anthology comic from Rhode Island micropublisher Hidden Fortress Press – adopts a distinctly frenetic, in-yer-face attitude in its celebration of both the extreme showmanship and the…
Prolific cartoonist and publisher Box Brown takes time off from his Retrofit Comics duties to produce this exquisitely designed little poke at cults and social media for Yeah Dude Comics. Box…
Box Brown brings his distinctive graphic style to a well-researched and entertaining biography of wrestling colossus Andre the Giant. When ah were a lad, growing up in northern England in…
A young wrestling fan learns the hard way that you should never meet your heroes, in Box Brown’s entertaining latest addition to the Retrofit Comics line. So who says that…
One of the things that’s pleased me most about comics this year has been the discovery of small press subscription services. While the Internet makes it easy(-ish) to keep tabs…
“I Always Think that Humor is the Best Way to Get Any Message Across” – Eric Nguyen on Subverting a Narrative Trope in ‘White Savior’ from Dark HorseJanuary 17, 2023
Inside Look: A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings – Will Betke-Brunswick Talks About Their Graphic Memoir on the Mother-Child Relationship, Loss, and Coming Out as GenderqueerJanuary 17, 2023
“I Am My Favourite Subject” – Paul B. Rainey on ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’, His First Work with D+QJanuary 12, 2023
Broken Frontier at 20 – The Comics Community on Creators They’ve Discovered During Two Decades of BF!November 4, 2022
“Community Growth Continues to Be a Positive Area of Development” – Sean Azzopardi on Taking the Medium to New Audiences and His Own Autobio Comics PracticeNovember 4, 2022
