Confession time. I LOVE blind boxes. It doesn’t matter what’s in them, something about those little, colourful boxes of joy gets me every time. The element of surprise, of trying…
Grog the Frog: The Book of Taurus is a short graphic novel about, you guessed it, a frog named Grog. However, Grog isn’t our ordinary run-of-the-mill frog. This frog is…
PRIDE MONTH 2024! When it comes to building up a range of genuinely indie queer comics output there are few publishers the equal of San Francisco-based Silver Sprocket. They will…
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…
There’s an immediacy to comics that makes them a particularly powerful medium when it comes to communicating themes of mental health awareness. Not that any Broken Frontier readers would be…
An announcement of upcoming releases from Silver Sprocket is always to be eagerly anticipated and their list for the second half of the year has some real gems on it….
This review adapts our original 2019 coverage of E.M. Carroll’s When I Arrived at the Castle when it was first published by Koyama Press. The book is republished this month…
Those who scrutinised the results of the 2023 Broken Frontier Awards will remember that Caroline Cash’s PeePee-PooPoo won in the category of Best Periodical Series. And deservedly so. I have…
Back towards the end of 2023 radical publishers Silver Sprocket put out an open call for submissions for minicomics. An exciting initiative and a great opportunity for indie artists. The…
We were huge fans of Yugo Limbo’s previous Silver Sprocket book Be Kind, My Neighbor when we reviewed it here at Broken Frontier earlier this year. Viscera Objectica is Limbo’s…
As we prep for the announcements for next week’s Broken Frontier Awards shortlist we’re slowing up a little on the regular posting as we approach year’s end. But we do…
Post-Thought Bubble we’re catching up with all the news that got temporarily pushed to the side during our TB extravaganza, including a number of announcements about 2024 publishing schedules. First…
Hot on the heels of our recent review of PeePee-PooPoo #420 here last week at BF we have a preview of the upcoming November issue below! PeePee PooPoo #80085 By Caroline…
There’s more Everything Sucks coming from Michael Sweater and Silver Sprocket this Autumn. Take a look at the preview below and then make sure it’s on your pull list! Everything Sucks:…
After an Ignatz win in 2022 for Outstanding Minicomic and a 2023 nomination for Outstanding Artist, there’s far, far more than just a growing buzz around Caroline Cash’s PeePee-PooPoo anthology…
It’s becoming rarer and rarer to see publishers opening up submissions from artists so great news today that 2022 Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award winners Silver Sprocket are doing just…
PRIDE MONTH 2023! In Yugo Limbo’s Be Kind, My Neighbor we have a trans-centric comics narrative with a very different approach than much of the trans and non-binary comics we…
Silver Sprocket, Broken Frontier’s Best Publisher Award winners for 2022, have announced their publishing schedule for this autumn. Check out the list below for undoubtedly some of the very best…
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
