FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! As part of our celebration of 50 years of Fantagraphics, we’re highlighting their most revolutionary, their most out there, their most individual graphic novels of the last…
PINNED POST! Introducing Broken Frontier Connects, the next stage in our evolution! Broken Frontier Connects is our new initiative designed to extend our community hub philosophy. BF already has an…
One final Comics Cultural Impact Collective online roundtable meeting for the moment with a Scottish Comics Roundtable coming in September. There’s an incredible evolving small press and indie scene in…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Reading a book as raw and candid as Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish the reader can’t help but ask themself the question of whether this truly singular approach…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! A couple of weeks ago at Broken Frontier our Swati Nair reviewed the first volume of Marina Lisa Komiya’s On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…
Gloria Ladson-Billings’ The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children was first published in the ‘90s. Its analysis of how the culturally relevant practice of eight teachers achieved outstanding results…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! If you’re not familiar with the wonder that is Katie Skelly, let me take you back to 2020. Yes, there was COVID. But there was also a…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Today’s exclusive look at a recent or upcoming Fantagraphics project comes from their Underground imprint. It’s the first time that underground comix veteran Barbara “Willy” Mendes’ Queen…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Such are the quirks and whims of serial comics publishing that Fantagraphics’ recent issue #3 of Donald Duck is also #391 in legacy terms. Much like IDW’s…
No doubt we can expect more of this kind of this kind of thing in 2027 as 2000 AD celebrates its 50th anniversary. A canny move to bring in new…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Another exclusive to Broken Frontier preview today as part of our ‘Fantagraphics at 50!’ Month through August. Today it’s new work from the brilliant Jim Woodring (Frank,…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! In retrospect there’s an added layer of poignancy to writer Salomé Parent-Rachdi and artist Deloupy’s Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis…
“In the earliest days of the Earth, before recorded history, two powerful gods laid claim to the world… Ghraagg’Endah, the bestial avatar of Chaos…[and] Thuuna, goddess of creation and control”….
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! From the Fantagraphics Underground line, Charlie: Charles Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World may be unwieldy in title but it’s breezily charming in delivery. At 32…
Sports comics. Once a great genre staple of the British comic industry but now something of a publishing footnote. They’re not entirely unknown in indie and alt circles either –…
Fresh from her first ever panel event at Caption Festival at the beginning of the month, 2026 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Daisy Crouch has launched the Kickstarter campaign…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Time for another celebratory exclusive preview courtesy of Fantagraphics and today it’s the turn of Mikael Ross for his new book Nirvana is Here, translated by Nika…
FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Blending documented fact and speculative fiction Marcelo D’Salete’s Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom is a meticulously researched re-creation of the story of…
Our friends at Gosh! Comics have released the line-up for their upcoming Gosh!Fest of small press comics and there are no less than 12 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
