We are all very aware of what harrowing times we are living in and of the challenges now facing marginalised communities. At the beginning of the year we spoke about…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! A Wave Blue World’s queer comics anthologies have garnered deserved critical acclaim in recent times. Indeed they have also become a staple of our annual Pride Month…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! It is, of course, very rare for us to cover super-hero comics here at Broken Frontier. But Pride Month is one of those occasions when we are…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! We’ve reviewed a number of projects featuring Rowan Frewin’s work over the last year and a half here at Broken Frontier, encompassing a number of different formats….
PRIDE MONTH 2025! As love stories go, Mamita’s The Metalhead Next Door is something of a slow burn. This is not a criticism because this pensive, introspective pacing is very…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Last year for Pride Month at Broken Frontier I covered Leo Fox’s My Body Unspooling, a remarkable study of dysphoria and trans identity. Here we are, almost…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! When a project has been shortlisted for both the First Graphic Novel Competition and the LDComics Prize you know it has quite the impressive back story. Anna…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier I reviewed our 2025 ‘Six to Watch’ creator Rein Lee’s comic My Taxidermy Angel declaring it to be “incredibly confident early…
PRIDE MONTH 2025! Although LGBTQIA coverage is a regular all year round part of our posting at BF, Pride Month is always extremely important to us as an even more…
It’s always exciting to see a new micropublishing venture on the UK scene and PJ Fairweather’s Don’t Fold Press makes its debut with an anthology mixing familiar small press names…
There are few discussions that have brought the comics community together as firmly in recent years as the threat of generative AI “art”. In the same vein as some of…
Every Colossive Press-related review at the moment needs to start with a reminder that the South London micropublisher will be celebrating five years of their Colossive Cartographies series with a…
Hearing that one of our annual Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators has been picked up by a publisher is always an absolute joy for us here at Broken Frontier…
Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has been the subject of a spotlight in comics form before. Back in 2021 Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins reviewed Elisa Macellari’s Kusama: The Graphic Novel,…
Even with their fifth anniversary party coming up at London’s Gosh! Comics it’s hard to believe now that Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines have been such a…
There’s something that I like to think of as a sophisticated minimalism to Norwegian creator Fredrik Rysjedal’s short comic Cramp. It’s a simple enough premise. Rysjedal grew up living by…
Many years ago, on a panel at the late, lamented London shop Orbital Comics, I was asked about my role in comics journalism. My answer was a simple one. “I’m…
Described as “a darkly comic adventure through club culture, spanning space and time”, Acid Box is a multi-creator graphic novel with a difference, currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Written by Sara Kenney…
Inside Look: How to Love Yourself – An Exclusive Creator Commentary from Artist A. MauriJune 13, 2025
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
