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A View from the Frontier – Don’t Miss the Crouch End Comic Arts Festival this Saturday June 9th!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2018

It’s time for one of our semi-regular pushes for our wider comics-related activities here at Broken Frontier and a channce for a final promotion of one of the friendliest shows…

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“CECAF, Cartoonists, Comics and Beer… It Will Be Amazing” – Sean Azzopardi Looks Forward to the 2018 Crouch End Comic Arts Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2018

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…

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A View from the Frontier – Catch Broken Frontier Tabling at this Year’s CECAF and SLCZF Festivals, Plus Applications Open for BCZF

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 2, 2018

Spring has finally (almost) sprung and with it we look forward at BF, as ever, to the UK festival season ramping up between now and the Autumn. Broken Frontier doesn’t…

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Looking Back at CECAF 2016 – Bringing Comics to the Crouch End Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2016

Taking comics to new audiences. It’s the ideal we all aspire to, something we all claim to aim for and, on so many levels, discovering an expanded demographic for the…

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The Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival 2016 – Sean Azzopardi’s CECAF Returns on June 18th Featuring Broken Frontier, Danny Noble, One Beat Zines, Avery Hill Publishing and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2016

The Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival (CECAF) – one of the friendliest, most accessible and endearingly laidback fairs on the UK comics show circuit – returns to the Earl Haig Hall this…

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Broken Frontier’s ‘Six UK Small Press Creators to Watch’ at CECAF 2015 – Come Meet Rozi Hathaway, Emma Raby and Danny Noble this Sat 6th June!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 5, 2015

For London-based lovers of small press and indie comics tomorrow’s Crouch End Comic Art Festival (organised by that stalwart of the scene, Sean Azzopardi) will, of course, be a must-attend…

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The Crouch End Comic Art Festival 2015 – Sean Azzopardi’s CECAF Returns on June 6th Featuring Roger Langridge, Breakdown Press, Simon Moreton, Danny Noble, Tiny Pencil and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2015

On June 6th the Crouch End Comic Art Festival (CECAF) – Sean Azzopardi’s smaller scale but incredibly welcoming and relaxed show – returns to the Earl Haig Hall as part…

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Small Press Round-Up, Mid-March 2015 – Alternative Press Takeover Applications Open, CECAF 2015 Coming in June, Yeti Press 2015 Publishing Schedule and More…

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2015

The Alternative Press Takeover, CECAF 2015, Eleni Kalorkoti’s new exhibition, Katriona Chapman’s new zine, Yeti Press’s upcoming 2015 schedule and more feature in our latest round-up of what the great…

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State of the Small Press Nation – Is the Small Press Comics Audience Too Narrow and Self-Defined? How Do We Build a Wider Readership?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 12, 2015

Is the audience for small press comics too narrow and self-defined? Do we need more events like the Crouch End Comic Art Festival (CECAF), the Alternative Press Takeover, the East…

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Looking Back on the Inaugural Crouch End Comic Art Festival – Sean Azzopardi’s CECAF Takes UK Indie Comics to a New Audience!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2014

There were probably a few raised eyebrows when UK small press mainstay Sean Azzopardi first proposed his idea for curating the Crouch End Comic Art Festival. With a stated intention…

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Introducing the Crouch End Comic Art Festival 2014 – Sean Azzopardi’s CECAF Comes to the Earl Haig Hall on November 7th Featuring Roger Langridge, Karrie Fransman, Gary Northfield, Gareth Brookes and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 24, 2014

On November 8th the Crouch End Comic Art Festival – the latest London celebration of all things utterly splendid about the current UK comics scene – will open its doors…

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