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ELCAF 2017 – The Broken Frontier Team Look Back on a Fabulous Weekend of Comics Culture in East London!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • June 23, 2017

This year’s East London Comics & Arts Festival (ELCAF) saw our highest level of Broken Frontier participation in the event to date. Last week we ran a very popular ELCAF…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Dirty Rotten Comics and Throwaway Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 16, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! Since their emergence as one of the most pivotal anthology projects on the small press scene in 2014, Dirty Rotten Comics have given a platform to dozens of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Outburst – Pieter Coudyzer Weaves a Brilliant and Tragic Tale of Isolation and Loneliness

  • by EdieOP
  • June 16, 2017

ELCAF WEEK!  “To get to know yourself… you have to leave others behind.” Outburst tells the story of introvert and isolated protagonist Tom Deleersnyder, a man who we quickly find…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Time May Change Me – Jayde Perkin Explores Grief and the Bonds of Music in a Poignant Autobio Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 16, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! “When I said goodbye to my mum and dad at the airport, I had no idea it would be the last time I’d see her with no wires,…

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Staff Picks ELCAF Special – Something City, Human Garbage, Badger Vs. Tiger!, Silica Burn #2, Tantra and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 15, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! Because there were just so many ELCAF debuts that they would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks we decided to cover just the tiniest handful of…

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An Exorcism – A Terrifying Descent into a Nightmarish Abyss Courtesy of Theo Ellsworth and kuš!’s Mono Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 15, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! Where to even begin with the absorbing and often deeply disquieting brilliance of Theo Ellsworth’s An Exorcism? The third and latest book in Latvian publisher kuš!’s mono series…

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Stones in Focus – Decadence’s Lando Invites Us into the Secret World of Rock Formations

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 15, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! Although I covered the last issue of the Decadence anthology here at BF last summer it’s been a couple of years since I last took a look at…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“We are a Collective that Celebrate and Appreciate Illustration in All Mediums and for All Purposes”- OIC Singapore Talk New Movements in Singaporean Illustration

  • by Ally Russell
  • June 15, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! Of all the exhibitors appearing at ELCAF 2017 this weekend, those perhaps travelling the greatest distance are the artists who make up the Organisation of Illustrators Council Singapore, or…

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Boxes #2-3 – Todd Oliver’s Uncompromising Fever Dream of a Comic is Back with More Gross-Out Slapstick

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! When I last reviewed Todd Oliver’s Boxes series I was particularly taken by the slapstick body horror on show – that cringingly funny and deliciously gross procession of…

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Tiny Pencil: The Cosmic Issue – TP Goes Astral as Gareth Brookes, Alexis Deacon, Kim Clements and Jun Cen Contribute to a Graphite Sci-Fi Extravaganza

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! While the latest issue of graphite arts anthology Tiny Pencil was a long time in coming, this fifth edition – a sci-fi spectacular with many of the darker overtones…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Josh Hicks

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! It’s a big week for 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ artist Josh Hicks. Not only is he is echibiting at ELCAF this Friday-Sunday but the…

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Samhain – Mhairi Braden’s Tale of Iron Age Rituals is a Tactile Zine Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! For the lover of the unique properties and storytelling possibilities of the physical object there are few comics festivals more filled with opportunities to immerse oneself in the…

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Dear Diary – The Creative Process Examined in Angela Pan’s Self-Reflective Autobio Study

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! Self-referential narratives that, almost paradoxically, exist to document their own construction are perhaps not always universally appreciated. That cyclical self-commentary is a difficult trick to pull off, after…

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Something City – Ellice Weaver’s Stunning Debut Graphic Novel Takes Us on an Entrancing Transitory Tour of a Patchwork World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! One of the most eagerly awaited debuts of 2017, Something City – Ellice Weaver’s first graphic novel – is innovative, distinctive and the product of an artist with a singular…

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Lucy the Confused Girl – The Gorgeously Coloured Misadventures of Akvile Magicdust’s Odd Trio Delight and Amuse in Equal Measure

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! Lithuanian artist Akvile Magicdust’s Lucy the Confused Girl strips first appeared on Vice.com (who also initially presented Anna Haifisch’s art world satire The Artist, recently collected by Breakdown…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Peony Gent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! If you’re a regular BF reader then Peony Gent will need little introduction. She is, of course, one of Broken Frontier’s 2017 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A City Inside – Tillie Walden Secures Her Place as One of the Leading Voices in Comics Today

  • by Ally Russell
  • June 12, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! So deftly crafted and deeply considered is Tillie Walden’s coming of age story A City Inside that those unfamiliar with the artist might fairly assume its wisdom to…

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A View from the Frontier – Welcome to ELCAF Week! And Announcing the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook Launch at Gosh! Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! Sometimes timing is everything. Several years ago, when I first shifted my Broken Frontier coverage almost exclusively to the UK indie world, I was fortunate enough to find…

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