In four stories across two issues, writer Josh Trujillo and a group of talented artists take a wide-ranging and surprising look at how technology has affected every aspect of our…
Frank Candiloro crafts a gripping tale of family, vengeance and honour in the little-known world of the onna-bugeisha – Japan’s historic female warriors. Australian writer/artist Frank Candiloro has featured on Broken Frontier before: his…
Ms. Bean’s Art Class #1 is a collection of short slice-of-life observations and anecdotes surrounding events in the titular Cara Bean’s classroom. Each entry can vary in length from a single…
Eclectic and irreverent, Paul R. Cheshire’s Idle Hands Comix is nonetheless a curious humour anthology. Thoughtful subversion of the comics page sits side-by-side with the casually coarse in a book…
Knitting with Coalsmoke collects a selection of the “pleasantly musty” strips of John Bagnall – small press veteran of the heady 1980s days of Escape and Fast Fiction – and…
Although, to date, I’ve covered work from four continents in ‘Small Pressganged’ Brazil is virgin territory for this feature. For that you have Impossible Books – those fine UK online…
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Georgia Webber wields the full power of the comics medium to address the life-changing catastrophe of being forced into silence. Canadian artist Georgia Webber didn’t think much of it when…
Set in Egypt in a technologically advanced near future timeline, the admittedly rather cumbersomely titled Cosmic VII and the Chronicles of Opus: Axiom 5 #1 follows the exploits of street operative and…
A dream-like and beautifully illustrated look at myth, history and love by rising alt-comics star Sam Alden marks a fine start to Retrofit Comics’ new publishing programme. Last year I…
In the depths of a secluded forest, a wizened witch lives a solitary life isolated from the outside world. Her reality is about to be disrupted, though, when she discovers…
Those soul-destroying jobs we did for little pay as teenagers. The positions we took straight out of university because the truth was we really had very little idea what we…
‘Psychogeographical’ is one of the more tiresome and abused cultural buzzwords being chucked around at the moment, but it’s probably not a million miles away from describing the recent work…
One of the things that’s pleased me most about comics this year has been the discovery of small press subscription services. While the Internet makes it easy(-ish) to keep tabs…
Reading the background information which arrived with my copy of London artist Darren Cullen’s Join the Army I wasn’t surprised to note the polarised reactions this most uncompromising of anti-war…
The old West as it really was. That’s the mission statement behind Caryn A. Tate’s western series Red Plains… When I was preparing to write this review I was rather…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! I reviewed the opening issue of John Lees and Iain Laurie’s And then Emily Was Gone a couple of months back in this column. It was…
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Before I begin my reflections on Douglas Noble’s Youthful Attack I want to return to a soundbite from the great man himself about his comics from…
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
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