PRIDE MONTH 2024! There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for…
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…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! If it’s Pride Month at Broken Frontier then it must be time for another review of Okura’s manga series I Think Our Son is Gay. We covered…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! For the last couple of years here at Broken Frontier we have been adding to our year-round commitment to our LGBTQIA community with a dedicated month of…
With titles like Fizzle, Días De Consuelo and Spiny Orb Weaver, US comics micropublisher and distro Radiator Comics have already established themselves as champions of genuinely indie and socially relevant work….
In 2021, the English translation of French illustrator Mirion Malle’s This is How I Disappear taught us to question how we look at sexual assault and its devastating impact. It…
Out this week from Dark Horse Comics, Anna Kopp and Gabrielle Kari’s “sapphic political romance” The Marble Queen is a YA graphic novel that deftly blends themes of fantasy, love…
“I look at the body as a place that is traversed and shaped by affects.” German writer and artist Nino Bulling said that to journalist Lars von Törne in Der…
Starting life as a short self-published black and white comic Emma Oosterhous and Ollie Hicks’ Grand Slam Romance has evolved into something far more expansive. Now a three-book series of…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Making its festival debut at the ever excellent Silver Sprocket’s Pride in Panels event in San Francisco this Sunday, Ed Firth’s new…
Another book recognised in the 2023 Broken Frontier Awards nominations, Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward has already had some extensive spotlight time at BF when Lindell provided this pre-publication creator commentary ‘Inside…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Part of the new collaboration between Dark Horse Comics and Tapas, Jem Milton’s The Flying Ship Vol. 1 brings the artist’s webcomic…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! To describe Erika Price’s Disorder as body horror seems woefully inadequate. This collection of short visual essays takes autobiographical comics in new directions, employing the darkest of…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Our Thought Bubble coverage this year has seen a notable resurgence of the diary comic as a specific focus of autobiographical comics. Rowan Frewin’s Gyula Diary adopts…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Another debuting comic at this year’s Thought Bubble, Lor Phoenix and KitsuneArt’s Starlit Lovers is a slice-of-life story where the echoes of the past make themselves heard…
SLCZF 2023! Since we interviewed comics creator Ed Firth at Broken Frontier back in 2021 his series Horny & High has become something of a constantly selling-out phenomenon. An uncompromising…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! While we have covered a wide range of comics formats during our Pride Month celebrations here at Broken Frontier we haven’t as yet put a spotlight on…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! While Gabriel Ebensperger’s graphic memoir Gay Giant may be focussed on growing up queer back in the 1990s there’s obviously an entire social level that makes it…
“It’s about Fame, Friendship, and Just How Long You’re Willing to Fake it to Make it” – Duane Murray and Ahmed Raafat Talk ‘Who Are the Power Pals?’ from Dark HorseNovember 6, 2025
“It’s Tough Out There, But You’re Absolutely Not Alone!” – Dave Cook on ‘Killtopia: Phantoms’, Challenging Times for Crowdfunding, and Returning to Thought BubbleNovember 5, 2025
“My Brain Broke, and Out Came Donuts” – Neill Cameron Looks Back on ‘Mega Robo Bros’ and Forward with ‘Donut Squad’, the Latest Smash Hit Strip from the Pages of ‘The Phoenix’November 4, 2025
“The Biggest Challenge for Me Was Having to Think More Like a Director” – Michael Schwartz on Writing for Comics for the First Time and His Supernatural Ghost Story ‘Armored’October 31, 2025
“It’s a Fantasy Adventure about Growing Up” – Joe Latham Talks ‘Haru’, the Self-Publishing Journey, and Using Colour as a Narrative ToolOctober 30, 2025
