It has long turned into a cliché: our collective need to hail books about the environment or environmentalism as timely or relevant. It is a cliché because, despite how good…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Thought Bubble is, of course, a time for discovery and if you have yet to dive into the world of fold-out zines in Colossive Press’s Colossive…
There are two predominant explanations of what a metanarrative is, when one engages in literary criticism. One refers to the idea of experimentation, where an author wilfully chooses to break…
The artist FLuX describes his work as ‘Trompe Nouveau’, a style and technique that combines hyper-realistic oil painting with the ornamentation of Art Nouveau. It makes for a mildly disconcerting…
Comics that deal with grief – especially the kind that comes from losing a close loved one – have long been providing creators with an outlet to process their feelings….
The beauty of comics is that, in terms of connecting with readers on an emotional level, they are such a sophisticated visual storytelling form that sometimes less really is more….
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! The most worrying thing about climate change is that we may already be beyond the point of no return in combatting humanity’s greatest existential threat. With vested…
In these times of deep environmental concern comics projects that raise ecological awareness and a love of the natural world among younger readers are vitally important. Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature…
SLCZF 2023! Back in April at Broken Frontier we ran one of our themed coverage events with a special Earth Day Week of reviews on the site. The material featured…
EARTH DAY WEEK! Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s Rain (published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse Comics in the US) is suffused with a feeling of…
EARTH DAY WEEK! Published as a 50th anniversary celebration of Last Gasp, Slow Death Zero takes the name of the underground publisher’s influential alt comics anthology, affixes an additional “numbering”…
EARTH DAY WEEK! The idea that concern about the destructive effects of humanity’s interaction with the environment is a relatively recent one is, of course, entirely fallacious in its supposition….
EARTH DAY WEEK! This week at Broken Frontier our Earth Day-themed review coverage has looked at comics and the environment from the perspectives of graphic journalism, biography, anthologies, satire and…
EARTH DAY WEEK! As regular Broken Frontier readers will know we have been slowly building up a number of socially relevant resource lists of comics material on the site. In…
EARTH DAY WEEK! While graphic journalism, graphic biography and comics social commentary on environmental issues is both valuable and vital in communicating and dissecting the realities involved another approach is…
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…
EARTH DAY WEEK! Where does one even begin with attempting to review such a colossal group effort as Dorling Kindersley’s The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save…
Compiling four short stories all, to some degree, with environmental themes at their heart Giorgio Pandiani’s A Day on the River (& Other Stories) is an anthology offering that is…
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
“All the Characters are Basically Me, in One Way or Another” — An Interview with Ned Wenlock on His Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel ‘Tsunami’ from Pow Pow PressApril 30, 2025
“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press SceneApril 24, 2025
