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Given how beautifully rendered her pencilled pages are it’s easy to overlook one of the subtler aspects of Katriona Chapman’s storytelling. It’s something that is undoubtedly one of her greatest…
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I don’t think I have ever known a year quite like 2020 for outstanding graphic novel debuts from UK-based creators. Of course there’s a surrounding sadness to that statement in…
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Zebedee and the Valentines is not the first time 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Abs Bailey has been published by Avery Hill. Two years ago, in the Comic…
Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point tells the story of Ellen, a young woman who returns to the seaside town she grew up in – the titular town – and brings…
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Avery Hill Publishing describe Patrick Wray’s debut graphic novel The Flood That Did Come as being set in “a little England drowning in its own future past” which is a…
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Kristensen’s vibrant visual characterisation, immersive employment of colour and playful sense of pacing marks her out as a genuinely exciting new emerging talent to watch. Those were my words earlier…
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If you’re a regular on the indie comics circuit you may already have been aware of Alabaster Pizzo’s Mimi and the Wolves in its self-published incarnation. Beginning in 2013, Pizzo…
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To call Lizzy Stewart’s Walking Distance “a book about walking” seems both an elegantly succinct if obvious encapsulation of its contents and yet also a woefully inadequate summation of its…
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Arguments about what exactly constitutes comics as a form always seem something of an unnecessary distraction. The elasticity of that definition is surely one of the medium’s greatest strengths, allowing…
It would be inappropriate to describe B. Mure’s Ismyre series of books as indie comics’ best kept secret. The first two volumes have been consistently critically acclaimed, after all, with…
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Approaching that well-worn term “psychogeography” from an alternative perspective, Claire Scully’s Desolation Wilderness from Avery Hill Publishing is a follow-up to her 2016 offering Internal Wilderness. Scully’s silent landscape comics…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Dark and light swirled together, a delicious metaphor baked into stories of unspoken angst and longing mixed up with moments of peace and pithy dialogue. Some people are…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! 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,…
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…
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“Sci-fi is way not my usual thing. But look, honestly I just wanted to draw lots of stars. Space is a great excuse to draw stars. And I feel like…
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“There’s magic in all music!” Defining Ricky Miller and Jules Scheele’s Metroland is not a simple task, stubbornly defying as it does any easy categorisation. This grand and sweeping (yet…
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With a Jenn Woodall cover that evokes fond childhood memories of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books and the excitement that the illusion of narrative control had on our younger selves,…
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EXHIBITING AT BCZF! When I reviewed B. Mure’s Ismyre here at Broken Frontier last year I spoke about the sense of powerful world-building to the first instalment of their fantasy…
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
