Hot on the heels of their double Broken Frontier Awards win this week we have the first press release of the year from publisher Fantagraphics. Details of Hogbook and Lazer…
Winner of the Outstanding Graphic Novel in the 2022 Ignatz Awards, No One Else is a sensitively observed family drama from The New Yorker cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson. It’s one…
Years before Itchy and Scratchy were satirising the cartoon violence of Tom and Jerry on The Simpsons Italian artist Massimo Mattioli was providing far more brutal parodies of the animated…
With Love and Rockets – the seminal series by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez – reaching its landmark 40th anniversary this year there’s lots planned in celebration. With a special 40th…
It hardly needs saying that science fiction has always been a powerful medium for allegorical explorations of contemporary socio-political issues. Lane Milburn’s graphic novel Lure, from Fantagraphics, is an excellent…
As so much previously uncollected, or otherwise near impossible to find, vintage material has become available in print compilations over the last decade or so, it hasn’t always been the…
News of a major new release from Fantagraphics coming in the first quarter of next year. The full press release with details of Keeping Two by Jordan Crane runs below….
In It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be, Lizzy Stewart shows us in her gentle, raw way, how beautiful and foolish we look, trying to live our lives with…
News today of a new series of volumes from Fantagraphics reprinting the misadventures of Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. An excellent entry point into the comics for the uninitiated,…
Celestia, the latest graphic narrative from Manuele Fior, immerses readers in a vast and ethereal dreamscape of the future, where complex interpersonal dynamics are one of many aspects to simultaneously…
Lee Lai’s debut graphic novel Stone Fruit is a tender and self-aware story with relationships at its heart: queer relationships, sibling relationships, parental relationships, and the self-referential relationships of our…
The artist said it himself and it’s set to be a cliché in relation to his work, but it’s true that Nathan Cowdry’s Crash Site is not for everybody. Not…
Beatnik Buenos Aires informs us early on that “at night we are all ashes. We seek a fire that gives up meaning.” Amongst the torrents of cigarette smoke inside dimly-lit…
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is bookended (although they are heavily featured in the middle too) by two young men. One is River Phoenix, the beautiful young actor…
Much like the abused test-subject at its centre, Monsters is years in the making. Barry Windsor-Smith planned his macabre epic as a Hulk story, way back in 1984. Clashes with…
Mikaël Ross’s The Thud takes its inspiration from the real life inclusive German village of Neuerkerode, a location largely populated and run by residents with learning disabilities. Ross spent two…
In what for many will no doubt be one of the most exciting announcements of 2021 so far Fantagraphics have announced a new Ed Piskor (Hip Hop Family Tree) series,…
The work of Katie Skelly – a very welcome guest artist at a Broken Frontier/Gosh! Comics Drink and Draw back in 2017– is usually characterised by pop energy and playful…
“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
