Crossing Borders Archive
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Cancer Vixen: A True Story
NY Fashionista Marisa Acocella Marchetto chronicles the title bout of her life, Marisa vs Cancer in this autobiographical tale.
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Menage a Trois Goes to Print
Bart takes a look at the erotic webcomic Menage a 3 following a comic book geek and his way-sexier-than-he-is roommates.
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Brian Fies Wonders Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow
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Brecht Evens is at the wrong place at the right time
Brecht Evens lays it all on the table: relationships, parties and a gray slab of life turned into colour.
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Luc Schuiten Has a Heart for Nature
Architectural drawings in service of man and nature. Luc Schuiten, brother of Fran?ois Schuiten, spreads his talent around in a new exhibition in Brussels.
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Ceci n'est pas la bande dessinée flamande
A sampling of the best of Belgian talent was a huge success at the renowned comics festival Angoul?me this year. BF breaks it down to the most promising players.
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Second Thoughts, Second Chances
Everyone at one time has experienced second thoughts in relationships. But how do people act on them and how do they find the strength to persevere in Swedish Niklas Asker's OGN?
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Autobio - A Labor of Love
This columnist admits it, he is one of THEM. The Eco-activist, the green men. But that's okay, because so is Cyril Pedrosa.
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Mawil and the heartbreak of youth
BF talks to Mawil about the folly of youth, creating autobio comics and the advantages of hiding behing a funny animal.
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Lewis Trondheim Chases the Rainbow
Without pretention or need for a masquerade, Lewis Trondheim lets you take a dive into his head and hart in his latest graphic novel by NBM Comicslit.
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The Pomposity of Art
NBM, in conjunction with the Louvre, delivers a GN by Marc-Antoine Mathieu dealing with the relation between art and history and the absurdity of cataloguing art.
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Talking to My Boy, Olivier Schrauwen
Olivier Schrauwen, internationally acclaimed creator of the 'My boy' GN, talks to Broken Frontier.
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Into the Vortex of Identity
Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds is a stunning debut, a marvelous work which explores the multiplicity of identity and the lies we tell both to others and to ourselves.
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Theme and Variations
Matt Madden's 99 Ways to Tell a Story is a brilliant exploration of the possibilities and pleasures of the comics medium – a formalist's delight.
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A Year-End Introduction
In which your faithful, generally regular columnist surveys his own year in comics, as well as his aspirations for the coming year.
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Strangeways, Here We Come
In his long-running Strangehaven, Gary Spencer Millidge presents an epic tale set in a narrow locale, a mysterious English village of uncertain existence.
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The Incalculable Incal
Fans of speculative fiction could do worse than to check out The Incal, the wildly imaginative world created by European legends Alexandro Jodorowsky and Moebius.
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In With The Old
Comics fans take note: Old Boy, Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi?s masterful thriller of a man without a past, has been translated into English.
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Treasure-Filled Fortune Cookie
Gene Yang?s American Born Chinese brings a new honor to the graphic novel medium: its first National Book Award finalist.
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Praising Kane
From the U.K. comes Paul Grist?s Kane, a hard-boiled police detective determined to redeem a corrupt, crime-ridden town called New Eden.
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More Fun in the New World
Alison Bechdel, creator of the long-running strip Dykes to Watch Out For, addresses coming of age and coming out of the closet in her brilliant memoir, Fun Home.
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Traveling East
Osamu Tezuka, the godfather of Japanese comics, turns his prodigious talents to the life of a religious icon, in his multi-volume epic, Buddha.
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Why Aren?t You Reading This?
Norwegian comicker Jason brings his clean, minimalist storytelling to a higher dramatic level in his suspenseful thriller, Why Are You Doing This?
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Travels in the Hermit Kingdom
In Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, French Canadian Guy Delisle recounts his experiences in the capital city of a nation oppressed by a totalitarian regime.
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Gone Fishin?
In Night Fisher, Manning Award-winner R. Kikuo Johnson portrays life on Maui for a teenage transplant, struggling amidst the lures of girls, drugs, and wayward pals.
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- Preview: Twilight's Kristen StewartSneak peek by Richard Boom
- Moonstone Books July 2010 SolicitationsSolicitations by Frederik Hautain
- Preview: 2000AD Does Reality TVSneak peek by Bart Croonenborghs
- Final Scott Pilgrim Volume Released in JulyReport by Frederik Hautain
- Image's Guardians Of The GlobePress release by Richard Boom
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- Human Target - Episode 108Lowdown by James Wortman
- Early Frost: Valerie D'Orazio on X-Men Origins: Emma FrostLowdown by Matt Adler
- MegaCon 2010: Event RecapLowdown by Noel Bartocci
- Marvel Unveils More Iron Man By Design VariantsHeadline by Frederik Hautain
- Grant Morrison's Mahabharata TeaserBlog by Bart Croonenborghs
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- Up in The Air Comment by nicholkaye in Up in The Air
- Convention Moments!! Comment by boomvavavoom in Convention Moments!!
- Cosplayers are pathetic Comment by Cray_ws in Cosplayers are pathetic
- Comic of the week: Nominations 3-10-10 Comment by Lew N. Enema in Comic of the week: Nominations 3-10-10
- KIDPOOL!!! Comment by AOliver in KIDPOOL!!!
