Fantagraphics Announces the Return of ‘The Comics Journal’ to Print in 2019
We view press releases at BF as a springboard for potential future coverage rather than content in and of themselves. But every so often we receive one that contains news…
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Staff Picks for July 4, 2018 – Escaping Wars and Waves, Royal City, Catwoman, Girls and More!
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 events or digital…
Staff Picks for May 9, 2018 – Afterwords, Barrier, My Boyfriend is a Bear, Beasts of Burden and More!
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 events or digital…
Staff Picks for April 25, 2018 – Permanent Press, The Pervert, The Beef, The Prisoner and More!
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 events or digital storefront,…
Godhead – Ho Che Anderson’s Intriguing Foray into Speculative Fiction is Impressively Rendered and Ambitious in Scale
The crime noir opener to Ho Che Anderson’s latest output via Fantagraphics reveals a man blindfolded and held at gunpoint. Painted contours depict a masked kidnapper, his motivations as shadowy…
Why Art? – Eleanor Davis Tackles the Big Question of Aesthetics with Acres of Wit and Pathos
Why Art? Not What Art or When Art or How Art Thou? Eleanor Davis tackles one of those kind of stupid while at the same time super important questions with…
Now #2 – The Fantagraphics Anthology Series Underlines Its Role as a Vital and Informative Portal into the Work of Boundary-Pushing Creators
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST NEW SERIES NOMINEE! While the US serial comics anthology seems unlikely to enjoy a populist re-emergence in the immediate future – as Dark Horse’s abrupt…
Staff Picks for March 7, 2018 – Shade the Changing Woman, Swords of the Swashbucklers, Gideon Falls, Why Art? and More!
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 events or digital…
Staff Picks for January 31, 2018 – Hungry Ghosts, The Weird World of Lagoola Gardner, Lazaretto, Godshaper and More!
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 events or digital…
My Favorite Thing is Monsters – Emil Ferris’s Tour de Force Debut Sweeps the Board as Book of the Year
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL WINNER! Every year the comics critics’ “best of” lists start to congregate like wiry hairs in the internet plughole, and every year…
Staff Picks for January 24, 2018 – Mine!, Now, The Lie and How We Told It, Abbott and More!
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 events or digital storefront,…
Staff Picks for November 29, 2017 – Faceache: The First 100 Scrunges, The Green Hand and Other Stories, Zegas, Minor Leagues and More!
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 events or digital storefront,…
Staff Picks for November 22, 2017 – Giant Days 2017 Holiday Special, Winnebago Graveyard, Forlorn Funnies and More!
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 events or digital storefront,…
My Pretty Vampire – Katie Skelly’s Supernatural Tale of Freedom and Repression Fuses Sensuality, Gore and Psychedelic Colour
It’s been a significant period of time since I last covered the work of alt comics artist Katie Skelly here at Broken Frontier. In fact, it was back on the…
Staff Picks for August 16, 2017 – Mage: The Hero Denied, Cloudia & Rex, Silver Surfer and More!
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 events or digital storefront,…
Love and Rockets Vol.4 #3 – History is Hard to Shake in the Latest Issue of Los Bros Hernandez’s Epic Series
For all their differences in subject matter, illustrative style and setting, Los Bros Hernandez have one thing in common with their ongoing Love and Rockets epics: the history weighing down…
Staff Picks for August 9, 2017 – Mister Miracle, Tank Girl: World War Tank Girl, My Pretty Vampire, Redlands and More!
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 events or digital…
Staff Picks for August 2, 2017 – The End of the F***ing World, God Country, Education and More!
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 events or digital…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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