EARTH DAY WEEK! Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s Rain (published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse Comics in the US) is suffused with a feeling of…
“The world’s most destructive oil operation.” That is the description National Geographic went with for a 2019 profile of Alberta’s oil sands region north of Fort McMurray. A distressing report…
Matthew Dooley has an off-centre, idiosyncratic, and often bleakly humorous view of the world; something that has been a constant on the UK indie scene since his work first started…
The Secret to Superhuman Strength may be to read this new brick of a book by Alison Bechdel, but the heavy lifting required to do so, both physical and mental,…
Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated releases of 2021. Published in the UK this May by Jonathan Cape, the cover to the…
In recent years, Steven Appleby has been heard on occasion to speak two words in particular about what good art should be: ‘ambitious’ and ‘engaging’. Dragman is, of course, both….
Isabel Greenberg’s previous books from Jonathan Cape – The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The One Hundred Nights of Hero – adapted and re-imagined myth and legend to create a…
There’s something of the psychogeographical to the opening of Matthew Dooley’s Flake. Dooley, of course, is a Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica short story competition winner and a prolific fixture on the UK…
I’m sure it’s in the post, as they say, but I’ve always been uncommonly jammy with my health. Having lumbered around the earth for half a century now, I’ve never…
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 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…
Three years ago at Broken Frontier I covered Sarah Lippett’s graphic memoir Stan and Nan here; a comics record of the life of the grandfather she never knew and the…
In 1871, the French poet, surrealist, traveller, soldier, trader, arms dealer, and explorer Arthur Rimbaud wrote a poem called Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat). He was 16 at the…
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…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER AWARD WINNER AND BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD NOMINEE! When 2017 Broken Frontier Award-winning creator Hannah Berry announced last year in an interview with our…
Back in 2013 Isabel Greenberg was the winner of the Breakout Talent category in our annual Broken Frontier Awards for her much lauded debut graphic novel The Encyclopedia of Early…
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 or digital storefront, the…
Glamorous camping? Can there really be such a thing? Joe Decie’s new book Collecting Sticks from Jonathan Cape recounts the Decie family’s “glamping” holiday – camping from the “comfort” of…
“The Sort of Events Depicted in this Book Now Seem Far Less Remote” – Chris Oliveros Brings a Lesser-Known Part of Montreal’s History to Life With ‘Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?’ from D+QNovember 14, 2023
“It Was Wonderful to Connect with Others Who Are in My Place” – Rachael Smith Talks New Motherhood and ‘Nap Comix’October 30, 2023
Wales Millennium Centre Responds to the United Condemnation of the Comics Community – Their Upcoming AI Art Graphic Novel “Creation” Course Will Run RegardlessOctober 20, 2023
“Magical, Transcendental, Visibly Muslim, But Also Ordinary and Mundane” – Sabba Khan Talks About Her Graphic Memoir ‘The Roles We Play’/’What is Home, Mum?’October 12, 2023
“We Wanted this to Be a Fast-Paced, Funny Adventure” – Rob Williams and Pye Parr on ‘Petrol Head’, Their “Fast & the Robo-Furious” Sci-Fi Series from Image ComicsSeptember 22, 2023
