FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! In retrospect there’s an added layer of poignancy to writer Salomé Parent-Rachdi and artist Deloupy’s Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis…
“The first generation were quiet, the second generation felt they couldn’t ask, and now the third generation tries to find out what happened.” It’s a framing that haunts Remember Us…
What perhaps sets Adieu Birkenau apart from some other graphic memoirs/biographies is the time-shifting commentary on events from its subject Ginette Kolinka. We observe Kolinka both as a young woman…
There is a page, midway through this excellent biography, that documents how comics were printed in 1936. It shows how artwork was transferred from paper to copper plates, then mounted…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! Coming out is likely always going to be a momentous event for many but to do so within the context of a religiously strict family environment adds…
Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis is one of the most remarkable projects to come out of the Berger Books line at Dark Horse Comics to date. This graphic novel is…
It has been a little over 15 years since Hungarian-born American artist Miriam Katin’s award-winning memoir We Are on Our Own (the story of Katin and her mother’s escape from…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! In 2015 cartoonist Danny Noble was among the number of our very first Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ programme; an initiative that, perhaps…
What marks out Shelby Criswell’s Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me as different from many of the other excellent graphic biographies on queer activists/pioneers is its…
Reading RAMZEE’s first long-form book LDN I was struck by how his role with this anthology collection went beyond that of creator (he writes the multiple stories compiled herein and…
With an Ignatz Award win over the weekend in the category of Outstanding Anthology our review subject today is a timely one. Be Gay, Do Comics celebrates the queer experience…
Danny Noble’s comics have been extensively featured here since 2014 when we first covered her autobiographical work in the pages of Monday Morning. She was one of our original Broken…
In graphic memoir Shame Pudding, artist Danny Noble takes a markedly different approach to autobiographical comics work than her past practice in this area. Noble, one of Broken Frontier’s first…
Carol Isaacs, aka The Surreal McCoy, is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Spectator and the Sunday Times. Her debut graphic novel The Wolf of…
To describe Sarah Lightman’s The Book of Sarah as simply autobiography would be to miss the important questions it also poses on identity, belonging and the familial threads that connect…
“The story of one man’s journey from a geeky, awkward, Jewish, shy teenager in Cape Town to a geeky, awkward, Jewish, shy adult in Oxford” is how Ian Norris’s autobiographical comic Fixed…
Comics legend Will Eisner’s insightful treatment of Dickensian tropes sheds light on dark issues of prejudice and bigotry. Dark Horse Comics presents a new printing of Will Eisner’s graphic novel…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
