I have to say that I love Portugal more than any comic I’ve read since Moon and Ba’s Daytripper. I don’t know why, I must actually have a thing for…
CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE BROKEN FRONTIER SMALL PRESS YEARBOOK! It’s Small Press Day this coming Saturday July 8th so what better occasion to mark the publication of our second…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
Many autobio comics stylize the events they are depicting to give them flair beyond the original incidents. But what if the events being depicted are already hyper real? Robert Young…
You may have missed it on Twitter this week but the TGC collective of Scottish women artists responsible for the long-running anthology Team Girl Comic (more recently re-branded as That…
For a hot minute at the turn of the millennium, the hot trend in superhero comics was for “widescreen” page layouts. That is, panels that took up the breadth of…
At what point does the taboo become normalized, even mundane? What power does art have in this process? These are questions to ponder over when reading Hazel Newlevant’s latest autobiographical…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 14th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our staff have selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
What if you were writing a biography, and the (deceased) subject of your work was trying to stop you? No wait, that’s too simple. What if you didn’t want to…
It’s been a while since we ran one of our ‘BF Bulletin Board’ pieces but with so much comics-related fun happening in London this weekend it seems almost criminal not…
King of quirk Wes Anderson’s first film, Bottle Rocket, is distinct from the rest of his oeuvre in genre if not style. It’s a crime thriller. More than that, it’s…
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Collecting Melanie Gillman’s continuing and multiple award-nominated webcomic in a first volume, As the Crow Flies was successfully crowdfunded earlier this year and brought to print by Iron Circus comics….
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
Horror, as we’re often told, is a safe space to explore the things that scare us. You sit in a cinema, read a book, play a videogame that gently guides…
“Dave McKean remains the master alchemist of comics imagery.” That was how Broken Frontier’s Tom Murphy described the acclaimed artist’s work when reviewing McKean’s Pictures that Tick and it’s a perfect…
When I first set out to read Best Wishes, I was poised to be both its biggest fan and its harshest critic. Concrete being my favourite comics work of all…
Behind the scenes at Broken Frontier over the last few weeks we’ve been beavering away on the nominations shortlists for this year’s Broken Frontier Awards. This past weekend saw myself…
Time for another of our intermittent Crowdfunding Corner blogs and this one has something of a link to Broken Frontier history as it contains work from our former Operations Editor…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
What a year it’s been for Avery Hill Publishing. From the Ignatz-nominated Comic Book Slumber Party Deep Space Canine anthology to Something City, the hugely acclaimed debut graphic novel of Ellice…
