Breakdown Press have been one of the most important publishers over the last several years when it comes to boundary-pushing and experimental comics practice, bringing a wide range of diverse…
With its alluring design (in collaboration with Joe Kessler), Richard Short’s Klaus Magazine from Breakdown Press has been a welcome presence on the shelves over the past few years. Haway…
This March sees three new titles from Breakdown Press, those fine purveyors of cutting edge and boundary-smashing sequential art whose back catalogue has long been admired here at Broken Frontier….
Potatoes! Love them or hate them, you can’t ignore them! (Certainly not if you grew up in an Irish family in the 1970s.) Anyway, one of those magnificent jewels of…
“Television star, father of three, professional gambler, writer, cartoonist, pioneer”. Add in mop rental salesman, and there reads the resumé of Ebisu Yoshikazu; the alternative mangaka whose raw, visceral and…
Breakdown Press – those fine purveyors of the alternative, the cutting edge and the forgotten classics – have two new books debuting in November. We have the press releases and…
HCZF FORTNIGHT! When Anna Haifisch received an email from Vice magazine in 2015 inviting her to do a weekly cartoon strip she said yes right away. Given a blank slate,…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Compiling all-new material alongside the third and fourth volumes of Joe Kessler’s Windowpane series, this latest incarnation of the artist’s signature title was released at the end of…
Reading a review of The Prince on a reputable US comics site, I was surprised to read that Liam Cobb might be best known in that part of the world…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Lengthy gaps between issues is one of the problems with serial storytelling in comics. However, in his mysterious drama Generous Bosom, Conor Stechschulte has created a sense of…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Because all the Safari Feestival debuts would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks this week we decided to cover just some of the handful of…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The many nuanced layers on which sequential art can connect with its audience ensure that work that is indistinct and minimalist in presentation can be just as…
There are graphic narratives that exist to be experienced and absorbed rather than to be read and dissected in a traditional sense. Musician and artist Alexander Tucker’s World in the…
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Laughing at the pretensions and idiosyncrasies of the art world – whether doing so with fond and gentle humour or scathingly acidic wit – is hardly new ground to tread….
It’s the tenth Thought Bubble comic art festival at the weekend and this week at Broken Frontier we’re taking a tour of just some of the debut book highlights. Up…
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It’s the tenth Thought Bubble comic art festival at the weekend and this week at Broken Frontier we’re taking a tour of just some of the debut book highlights. Over the…
Comprised of the two short pieces ‘The Prime Minister of Canada’ and ‘Talking Sweat’, Michael DeForge’s latest Risograph release via London’s Breakdown Press sees the prolific comics artist operating within…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Throughout this past week at Broken Frontier we’ve been previewing some of the new releases from Breakdown Press that you can pick up at Safari Festival this…
“We Try to Remain as True as Possible to the Original Work” – Digital Publisher Europe Comics on Bringing the Very Best of European Comics Practice to Wider AudiencesSeptember 21, 2021
“Art Should Never Be a Point of Privilege” – Nora Goldberg on the ‘Ink Well’ Exhibition Bringing Comics to the Community as Part of Hackney Comic + Zine FairSeptember 14, 2021
Inside Look: Such, Such Were the Joys – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on Pluto Press’s George Orwell Adaptation by Sean Michael Wilson and Jaime HuxtableSeptember 2, 2021
“She is Beginning to Realize that She is Not so Young Anymore” – An Interview with Walter Scott, Creator of WendyAugust 30, 2021
“Feeling Part of the Community is a Big Reason I Make Comics” – Matthew Dooley on the UK Indie Scene and His Eisner Award-Nominated Graphic Novel ‘Flake’July 21, 2021
