The Ideal Copy – A Rip-Roaring, Rib-Tickling Romp from Ben Sears and Koyama Press
The first Double + story, starring the begoggled Plus Man and his robot buddy Hank, appeared on the Study Group Comics blog in 2014. In the four short years since…
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Anti-Gone – A Voyage to the Numb Limits of Sex, Drugs and Shopping by Connor Willumsen
Sometimes – maybe even most times – you pick up a comic because you know exactly how it’s going to look, exactly how it’s going to work and exactly how…
Sex Fantasy – Intimacy Isn’t Easy in Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Koyama Press Collection
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! A warning to the prurient: there is precious little sex in Sex Fantasy. Instead this collection of Sophia Foster-Dimino’s self-published comics investigates the…
Broken Frontier Awards 2017: Announcing the Winners – Social Commentary and Comics Activism Prevails, and Annie Koyama is Our First ‘Hall of Fame’ Inductee
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 14th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. I’m not sure if you can really do…
I’m Not Here – GG’s Study of Isolation from Koyama Press is Quiet and Sad but Not Devoid of Hope
For a hot minute at the turn of the millennium, the hot trend in superhero comics was for “widescreen” page layouts. That is, panels that took up the breadth of…
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Crawl Space – Exploring Jesse Jacobs’ Polychromatic, Psychedelic World in a Standout Offering from Koyama Press
With its kaleidoscopic manipulation of colour and deft exploitation/juxtaposition of the free form and the symmetrical, Jesse Jacobs’ Crawl Space is a remarkable celebration of the unique storytelling properties of…
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Sunburning – Autobiographical Comics at Their Most Engaging and Quietly Uncompromising from Keiler Roberts and Koyama Press
Two years ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed Miseryland by Keiler Roberts and described that self-published book as “autobiographical comics at their absorbing best – frank, blunt and forthright on…
Staff Picks for May 17, 2017 – Dirty Rotten Comics, 4 Kids Walk into a Bank, Outburst, Sunburning 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 or digital storefront, the…
You & a Bike & a Road – A Cross-Country Cycling Odyssey Brought to the Comics Page by Eleanor Davis and Koyama Press
You & a Bike & a Road is a remarkable achievement for both the cartoonist and the amateur cyclist behind it. In March of 2016, Ignatz Award winner Eleanor Davis embarked…
Don’t Come in Here – An Abstract Comics Masterpiece from Patrick Kyle and Koyama Press
Circuitous in narrative and largely indefinable in premise beyond the most superficial terms, Patrick Kyle’s Don’t Come in Here from the ever essential Koyama Press is a meandering yet gloriously oblique…
Canadian Indie Powerhouse Koyama Press Announces Another Eye-Catching Slate for Late 2016
Remember when you were a fresh-faced nipper and you just couldn’t wait for your birthday or Christmas or the Blood Feast of Xantabula? “Don’t be so quick to wish your…
Lose 7 – The Latest Issue of Michael DeForge’s ‘Comics Laboratory’ Mixes Style with Intriguing Substance
One of the most eagerly awaited publications of the year, the latest edition of Lose, Michael DeForge’s annual anthology from Koyama Press, doesn’t disappoint. Michael DeForge’s career so far epitomises what…
Staff Picks for September 23, 2015 – Ruins, The New Deal, Lose, Dressing, Lovelace and Babbage, Exit Generation and Schmuck
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…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for September 3: Doctor Mirage, The Names, God Hates Astronauts, Gardens of Glass, Death of Wolverine & More
It’s almost 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, BF…
Safari Honeymoon – Jesse Jacobs and Koyama Press Take Us to a Spellbinding Alien Environment
The basic premise of Safari Honeymoon may sound like something from a 2000 AD Future Shock – newlywed couple embark on a hunting trip to a bizarre alien landscape only to…
Fata Morgana – An Eerie Journey through the Dreamscape with Jon Vermilyea and Koyama Press
Taking its name from a complex form of optical illusion, Jon Vermilyea’s Fata Morgana is a wordless journey through a young boy’s dreamscape, published by the never less than impressive…
Everything Takes Forever
Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever, published by Koyama Press, is a collection of the Manhattan-situated artist’s splendidly peculiar and dreamlike comic strips. Characters with tacos for heads compete with the…
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