In Vision, Julia Gfrörer pulls the reader into her haunted house mystery and slams the door. Julia Gfrörer’s disquieting and relevant new book from Fantagraphics sits very nicely with her…
Something of a curio and a sidestep in the annals of Jim Woodring’s Unifactor stories And Now, Sir — Is THIS Your Missing Gonad? takes his signature anthropomorphic Frank character…
I was very pleased when Henry McCausland’s Eight-Lane Runaways appeared on the scrawled sheet of “new bukks” (sic) that Andy Oliver pushes under our cell doors every Sunday morning. It…
Fantagraphics have announced something we can all look forward to at the beginning of 2021 – a new graphic novel from comics legend Barry Windsor-Smith. With a new generation discovering…
When something is spoken of as a story that “could only be told through comics” it’s always going to pique our interest here at BF. That’s how Fantagraphics publisher Gary…
Coming this September, Kyle Gass and Jack Black’s comedy rock duo Tenacious D come to comics via Fantagraphics with the graphic novel Post-Apocalypto. We have a preview courtesy of Fantagraphics…
Fantagraphics’ anthology series Now (subtitled The New Comics Anthology) has gained deserved critical acclaim in its seven-issue life to date. Indeed it was nominated in both our 2017 and 2019…
A few years back Paco Roca’s graphic novel Wrinkles was understandably acclaimed for its bittersweet portrayal of later life. It would go on to become an animated film, with voice…
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 event or digital…
News today from Fantagraphics about their new graphic novel series The Cloven by Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth. The full press release is below. SEATTLE, WASH., OCTOBER 8, 2019—Fantagraphics is…
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 event or digital…
It’s 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 event or digital storefront,…
BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore is not only an artistic highpoint for both its creators; it is a stunning reminder of the power of comics to…
One of the greatest strengths of comics is that in being a purely visual medium, they can use evocative cartooning to charge even the most threadbare of plots with meaning….
Hobo Mom is not the first comics link between The End of the Fucking World‘s Charles Forsman and Belgian creator Max de Radiguès (Weegee: Serial Photographer). If you were a subscriber…
Fantagraphics have had a steady presence in our reviews section here at Broken Frontier this year with coverage of some standout books like Now, The Sea and Dementia 21. You…
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 event or digital…
Shintaro Kago’s Dementia 21 is a surprising graphic novel in that it takes his well-known ability to render characters in grotesque situations and uses it as a way to tackle…
