Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…
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With the East London Comics and Arts Festival rapidly approaching it seems most appropriate to be revisiting a younger presence on the UK small press scene today. I first discovered the…
The waiting is over and the seven shortlisted works-in-progress for the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition have been announced and, once again, the list is a testament to the…
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I was very taken by Fraser Geesin’s The Cleaner: Man of Destiny when I reviewed the first three issues a couple of years back at Broken Frontier. Geesin’s irreverent, relentlessly self-deprecating…
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Comics as a medium is one that asks for an extra level of involvement from the reader; not just in terms of interpretation but also in how we interact with…
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Comics that push the boundaries of the form, interrogate the potentialities of its unique language and manipulate its singular narrative possibilities define the type of material that we exist to champion here…
A collection of personal reflections on consumerism and identity may not sound like subject matter that one would naturally associate with feelgood DIY culture, or that most readers would think…
The prolific Rachael Smith is not an artist to rest on her laurels. After last year’s massively lauded Wired Up Wrong – her collection of autobiographical strips on living with…
If you were in London at the end of last year you may well have taken the opportunity to visit the exhibition of Olivier Kugler’s graphic reportage at Rich Mix…
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Sean Azzopardi has long been not just a vital fixture of the London small press scene but also one of its most important activists. Having self-published something in the region…
Fresh from their success at the Doug Wright Awards at TCAF, Canadian indie publisher Koyama Press have announced their line-up of books to debut in September. It is, as will…
Mental Health Awareness Week has come around again and, just as we did last year, we want to take a very quick moment to showcase just some of the powerful explorations of…
Launching this Friday May 11th at London’s Orbital Comics Times Like These is the second collection of cartoonist (and my esteemed colleague on the Small Press Day organising team) David Ziggy Greene’s…
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Throughout this week at Broken Frontier we have been chatting with and exploring the work of the South Asian women artists who make up the Kadak Collective. Over the last two days we’ve…
We’ve been keeping a close eye on the output of US indie publisher Silver Sprocket this year at Broken Frontier. Their releases have been regular fixtures in our weekly Staff…
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Ths week at Broken Frontier we began a three-part look at the work of the South Asian women artists who make up the Kadak Collective; a group that ELCAF-goers may…
My personal highlight of 2016’s East London Comics & Arts Festival was meeting some of the artists who make up the Kadak Collective who were exhibiting at ELCAF as a group for…
When the premise of Afterwords was announced it gave me a sense of acute anticipatory glee. Forget your various super-hero cinematic blockbusters, if you’re a fan of UK indie comics…
