PRIDE MONTH 2025! As love stories go, Mamita’s The Metalhead Next Door is something of a slow burn. This is not a criticism because this pensive, introspective pacing is very…
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 2025! Last year for Pride Month at Broken Frontier I covered Leo Fox’s My Body Unspooling, a remarkable study of dysphoria and trans identity. Here we are, almost…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! When a project has been shortlisted for both the First Graphic Novel Competition and the LDComics Prize you know it has quite the impressive back story. Anna…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! George Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek. In 2019 he published They Called us Enemy, a graphic memoir which tells how he and his family,…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed our 2025 ‘Six to Watch’ creator Rein Lee’s comic My Taxidermy Angel declaring it to be “incredibly confident early…
The two lead characters in Motherlover have both already got kids. Queer romance, says the blurb, “tends to favor young love and coming out stories”, but Motherlover “begins where most…
Paddy Wolfe is a gender-fluid comics maker who, as they put it themself, creates stories “about nature, queerness, hope, the things I care about”. They might have added that their…
When Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One hit shelves back in 2017 it was, as we all know, an indie phenomenon. Ostensibly a murder mystery wrapped in…
Described as a “comic book ode to ooey-gooey homosexual lovers of the past, present, and future”, Belly Full of Heart from Madeline Mouse and Silver Sprocket is exactly the kind…
The first thing the reader will notice about Nick Merdasi’s Condoms is its physicality. Its square paperback format and the plastic “packet” it comes in are designed to mimic the…
In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! With a remit to explore “queer love stories in medieval/historical fantasy settings” Queer Knights features three stories; one from KitsuneArt who has featured on a number…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! The Weird and Wonderful Surviveries of Squid Horse is a collection of comic strips that defies easy categorisation. It’s autobio but with sidesteps into fantasy interwoven…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! What makes an event like Thought Bubble such a draw for anyone who enjoys the full breadth and depth of the medium is the sheer diversity…
Comics are a particularly effective medium when it comes to taking an extended visual metaphor and running with it. AJ O’Neill’s The Kid in the Cave is a strong example…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the vein of his NP zine (reviewed here at Broken Frontier a few months back) Ed Firth’s new queer comics short…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank is a graphic biography with an added level of authenticity given that its creator is Eric Orner, the one-time staff…
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
