Fantagraphics to Publish ‘Keeping Two’ by Jordan Crane in March of 2022
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….
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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 Any Sort of Continuity in this World
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…
Fantagraphics to Publish ‘The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Follies’ Ahead of the New Animated Series
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 – Manuele Fior’s Anticipated New Release Immerses the Reader in an Ethereal Dreamscape of Ever-present Villains, Mindreaders and Lovers, from Fantagraphics
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…
Stone Fruit – Lee Lai’s Poignant Graphic Novel Debut on Queer Love, Family and the Detriment of Expectations, from Fantagraphics
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…
Crash Site – Nathan Cowdry’s Graphic Novel Tickles Your Ribs and Also Strikes Them a Few Times with a Hot Poker
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 – A Charcoal and Smoke-Filled Tribute to the ’60s Argentinian Art-Scene
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 – Mannie Murphy Excavates Portland, Celebrities and White Nationalism in this Extraordinary Underground History
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…
Monsters – A Must-Read Masterpiece of Trauma by Barry Windsor-Smith, a Book Which Was Decades in the Making
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…
The Thud – Mikaël Ross Explores Themes of Developmental Disability, Community and Mortality in a Poignant Tale from Fantagraphics
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…
Ed Piskor’s ‘Red Room’ Debuts this May from Fantagraphics, Promising a “Shared Universe of Sci-Fi Horror”
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,…
Maids – Katie Skelly’s Treatment of a Notorious Historical Murder is a Class Act – With Reservations
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…
Ghostwriter – Rayco Pulido’s Tense and Ever Twisting Thriller Expertly Manipulates the Reader’s Expectations
The first English language comics work of Spanish cartoonist Rayco Pulido, Ghostwriter is a book full of contradictions… but oddly reconcilable ones. It’s uncomfortably bleak, for example, but in that…
Vision – Julia Gfrörer Pulls the Reader into Her Haunted House Mystery and Slams the Door
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…
And Now, Sir — Is THIS Your Missing Gonad? – A New Perspective on the Unsettlingly Alluring World of Jim Woodring’s Frank
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…
Eight-Lane Runaways – Henry McCausland’s Debut Graphic Novel is a Riot of Comics Invention With Its Roots in the UK Small Press
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…
Preview: Monsters – Barry Windsor-Smith’s Epic Graphic Novel, 35 Years in the Making, to be Published by Fantagraphics in 2021
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…
Preview: Stone Fruit – Lee Lai’s Debut Graphic Novel Coming in 2021 from Fantagraphics
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…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
Welcoming Steve Walsh into the Broken Frontier Hall of Fame and Celebrating His Incredible Work in Building Comics Community in the UK in the Last DecadeJanuary 14, 2022
Inside Look: I Am a Leader of My House – PositiveNegatives’ New Webcomic with The New Humanitarian and Fahmida Azim Tells the Stories of Two Rohingya Women in Their Fight for EqualityDecember 21, 2021
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – The History of a Comics Community Success StoryDecember 6, 2021
“Comics is Where I Live” – Taki Soma on Her Powerful Graphic Memoir ‘Sleeping While Standing’ and the Avery Hill KickstarterDecember 3, 2021
“I Think There’s So Much Room in Comics for Experimentation – George Wylesol on His “Point and Click” Graphic Novel ‘2120’ and the Avery Hill KickstarterNovember 29, 2021