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…
Collecting Sticks is the perfect showcase offering for the singular talents of this most distinctive practitioners of autobio comics. I will confess to never having heard the term “glamping” before…
It’s pleasing indeed to see such an exciting and distinctive newer talent as Grace Wilson getting the attention their work so readily deserves. Whenever I have encountered the work of…
A revealing reflection on the relationships that guide our passage through life and the richness of the bonds of family. It’s hardly the most perceptive of observations to make but…
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 or digital storefront, the BF…
Karrie Fransman is something of a regular fixture when it comes to the annual Broken Frontier Awards. Her debut full-length work The House that Groaned was nominated in our 2012…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 12th annual BF Awards. Our 2015 awards saw a record-breaking number of votes come in from our readers, and unprecedented interest in…
One of the UK’s most passionate exponents of the possibilities of the comics form, graphic novelist Karrie Fransman is no stranger to the Broken Frontier audience. Her debut GN The…
A celebration of the sprawling possibilities of comics as a form? A dissection of the fundamental nature of a creator’s relationship with their audience? Or a slice-of-life drama about growing…
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Hubert, Belgian artist Ben Gijsemans’ parable of an introverted art lover, speaks to the human condition, isolated in the chaos of modern life, determined to avoid all opportunities less they should lead…
“I view comics as a medium, not a genre, so I have a desire to tell a variety of stories. And my approach is different depending on the story I…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“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
