In Through a Life from Nobrow Press Tom Haugomat exploits comics’ distinctive relationship with the passing of time to poignantly encapsulate an entire lifetime in less than 200 pages. Beginning…
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Describing the work of Cat Sims in XENOS: At the Edge of Life as “social commentary” seems a desperately inadequate term for such an undeniably potent piece of pure visual…
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A couple of years back, in an interview here at Broken Frontier, graphic novelist Karrie Fransman spoke about the potential of the form saying “There are still so many untapped…
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As part of our ELCAF Fortnight of coverage in the summer we reviewed the second edition of PersonaЖ from Russian micropress Sputnikat; an anthology that looked in on the life of TV…
David Robertson’s regular comics collections always compile an interesting mix of subject matter between their covers. The Dundee-based artist’s strongest offerings are usually those based in autobio work but his…
The festive season is upon us and the BF team will be taking some time off for a well deserved rest as we prepare for a very eventful beginning to…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Free Comic Book Day Funny Pages release from the Treasury of British Comics comes news of another jumping-on point-style from 2000 AD publisher Rebellion….
It will come as little surprise to any regular readers here at BF when we say that we’re huge fans of both Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics reprints and their…
It’s 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 event or digital storefront,…
To be completely upfront, Felice the Christmas Fairy isn’t strictly comics (though it does employ some of their specific structural tools) but this charming children’s book is still a graphic…
Christmas comics are few and far between in the small press world. I can think of less than a handful in the years I’ve been covering the UK scene. Of…
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 15th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
While we’re all largely concentrating on Christmas at the moment and the end of 2018, it’s worth noting that some top 2019 releases are currently being solicited. Today at BF…
We’re feeling suitably festive here at BF at the moment so expect to see some Christmassy-themed short blogs over the course of the next week or so. It’s been a…
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In the few short years since we first covered Olivia Sullivan’s sequential art we’ve witnessed her practice evolve from her first tentative short stories in the pages of anthology Dirty Rotten…
It’s the Catford Comic and Zine Fair this Sunday December 9th at the Blythe Hill Tavern, brought to us by that fine father and son small press duo Henry and…
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It’s been a year of major and much deserved achievement for 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Sabba Khan. An artist whose work I’ve described as combining “moments of…
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…
