To describe Forest Hills Bootleg Society merely as a coming-of-age story seems woefully inadequate given the number of thematic strands that run through its pages. As a revealing afterword notes,…
When I interviewed Ed Firth last year about his queer comics series Horny & High he gave me an editor’s dream pull quote for the article title: “One friend said…
Penge-based micropublisher Colossive Press have been providing us with a positive feast of eclectic zine and book publishing for a few years now. A Wolfgang Crowe’s Fractures is their first…
There’s an early scene in Lewis Hancox’s Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure that looks back to his pre-transition schooldays as Lois and being referred to by classmates…
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 and themes…
Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged
Another of my comics picks for our Small Press Day One-Tweet Reviews event last August, Jack Smith’s Forest Spirit is a fantasy tale that acts as an extended metaphor for…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! Some years ago I was chatting with Avery Hill Publishing’s Ricky Miller and, as often happens in our conversations, we turned to promising new artists we…
BROKEN FRONTIER AT 20! A couple of years back at Broken Frontier we made a team statement about how where possible we would be looking to prioritise work from or…
One of our stated commitments to our Broken Frontier readership is the creation of resource lists for work covering socially relevant subject matter or championing marginalised voices. One of those…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Features · Small Pressganged
SLCZF WEEK! Continuing our week of coverage of the South London Comic & Zine Fair today at BF we chat with exhibitor Rachael House whose Resistance Sustenance Protection – a…
Celebrating Pride Month! Takeshima’s Whisper Me a Love Song, at first glance, appears to be an average high school girl love story that, while being lighthearted and comedic in tone,…
Celebrating Pride Month! Collecting the recent four-issue Dark Horse Comics miniseries, Killer Queens is a snappy, high-speed, intergalactic romp with a queer comics focus. If the title doesn’t give a…
Celebrating Pride Month! Given that we have been running a number of reviews this month for Pride 2022 it feels appropriate to also give some space to relevant work that…
Celebrating Pride Month! Taking a Scottish folk ballad dating back to the sixteenth century as its starting point Aven Wildsmith’s Tamlin, from Knight Errant Press, brings queer romance, mythology and…
Celebrating Pride Month! Sometimes in comics commentary you can be very aware of work that can only be described as a true publishing phenomenon without having directly experienced it yourself….
Celebrating Pride Month! Despite social awkwardness being at the heart of each instalment, Okura’s I Think Our Son is Gay is a truly delightful collection of short strips that sits…
Celebrating Pride Month! As we move ever onwards into this year’s Pride Month it’s important to remember that, while graphic memoirs and graphic biographies exploring the prejudice and challenges faced…
Celebrating Pride Month! Arguably no publisher has done as much as Arche Comics in the last several years in terms of both taking decades-old iconic characters in radical new directions…
Inside Look: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage – Eve and Spire Greenwood on Their Graphic Novel Exploring Religion and Queer IdentityJune 6, 2025
“Welcome to Foodtopia: Where the Crumbs Matter” – The ‘Aw, Nuts!’ Team Spills All on Puns, Peanut Butter, and Building a Delicious UniverseJune 6, 2025
“We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before” – The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press PerspectiveMay 19, 2025
“A Time Travel Story through Rave Culture” – Sara Kenney and Company on ‘Acid Box’, Working with Avery Hill, and Mentoring Young CreatorsMay 16, 2025
“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media PracticeMay 7, 2025
