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ELCAF (the East London Comics and Arts Festival) Announces Hiatus in These Uncertain Times for In-Person Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 29, 2021

It might have slipped under the radar in the run-up to the festive season but ELCAF, the East London Comics and Arts Festival, has announced it is officially “on pause”…

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Preview: ELCAF Haul 2021 – Pre-Order Your Bag Full of Artistic Goodies Including Work from Alxndra Cook, Olivia Sullivan, Till Lukat, Sonali Khanna and Many More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2021

It’s been an incredible pleasure for us at Broken Frontier to have been a festival partner for ELCAF over the last few years. It’s one of the most inspiring events…

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Just One Week Left to Apply to Be a Part of the 2021 ELCAF Haul Pack – A Range of Paid Commissions Available for Illustrators

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 1, 2021

ELCAF (the East London Comics & Arts Festival) celebrates its 10th edition in 2021 and, as you will no doubt have seen, the festival is celebrating with an “ELCAF Haul”…

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There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up – David Biskup Presents “a True Story About Chronic Illness, Disability and Love” in this Exemplary Use of Graphic Medicine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 16, 2020

At the East London Comics and Arts Festival in 2019 David Biskup’s There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up won the ELCAF x WeTransfer Award. The prize gives…

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A Team Statement on the Future of Broken Frontier – Our Plans for BF Going Forward into 2021 and Beyond

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 23, 2020

What follows is a statement on our plans for the future of Broken Frontier by Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver on behalf of the Broken Frontier team… As way of introductory explanation…

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Broken Frontier at ELCAF Online 2020 (UPDATED) – Catch Our Instagram Chats on Creating in Lockdown this Friday, July 24th with Shangomola Edunjobi, Charlot Kristensen and Rachael Smith

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 23, 2020

UPDATED: We hope you enjoyed our ELCAF Online video chats with Shangomola Edunjobi, Charlot Kristensen and Rachael Smith over on the ELCAF Instagram. Below are all the links you’ll need…

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ELCAF Goes Digital! – The East London Comics and Arts Festival to Be Held Online in 2020

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2020

With current events forcing postponements or cancellations of festivals and conventions ELCAF (the East London Comics and Arts Festival) have announced that this year’s event will be moving online. Regular…

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Celebrating ELCAF 2019 – Taking New Creators to New Audiences as Jayde Perkin’s ‘I’m Not Ready’ Debuts and David Biskup is this Year’s ELCAF x WeTransfer Award Winner

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2019

Taking new creators to new audiences. That was the title of this year’s Broken Frontier Panel at the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) but it could just as…

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ELCAF Fortnight 2019 Begins Today at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 27, 2019

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Today at Broken Frontier we’re delighted to launch our annual coverage of the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) with two weeks of reviews, interviews, features and…

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The Collected Dispatch from the Desert – Theora Kvitka’s Scrapbook Style Autobio Has a Zine-Style, Old School Charm

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2019

The democracy of the small press is embodied in books like Theora Kvitka’s Dispatch from the Desert. I first discovered Kvitka’s autobiographical minicomics when she tabled at London’s ELCAF in…

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This is Not an Appropriate Climate for Your Survival – Rachel O’Regan’s Snails in Hell Story is Disturbing, Intense and Strangely Cute

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2018

While there is a narrative in Rachel O’Regan’s This is Not an Appropriate Climate for Your Survival it’s actually the least interesting aspect of this intriguingly bizarre, almost visual stream-of-consciousness offering….

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Celebrating ELCAF 2018 – Five Major Positives We Took from this Year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2018

After our ELCAF Fortnight coverage at Broken Frontier (did we mention our 17 reviews, 15 interviews and 5 feature articles?) – not to mention our constant social media activity over…

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Jayde Perkin Announced as this Year’s ELCAF x WeTransfer Award Winner – 2018 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist’s Book to Be Showcased at Next Year’s ELCAF

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 25, 2018

One of the key points of the East London Comics and Arts Festival is the Sunday announcement of the winner of the ELCAF x WeTransfer Award which this year provides a…

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A View from the Frontier – Looking Back at ELCAF Fortnight 2018 at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 25, 2018

If, in general terms, a picture is worth a thousand words then just imagine what the exchange rate is like between my exhausted, post-ELCAF ramblings and the imagery below. We’ll…

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“I Don’t Like Things that Are Fully Resolved; I Like Leaving an Element of Ambiguity” – Andy Barron on the Brutal Alien Psychedelia of the World of OM

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Andy Barron is no stranger to the East London Comics & Arts Festival and regular festival attendees will no doubt be very pleased to see him there again this…

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Sutra: Songs from the World of OM – Andy Barron Returns to His Fantastically Eerie Alien Realm in a New Anthology Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! We took a trip to Andy Barron’s entrancing yet brutal world of OM earlier this year at Broken Frontier when we looked at Mantra, a collection of his…

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What a Life – Jayde Perkin Continues to Draw Powerful Emotional Reactions from Her Audience in Another Memorable Autobio Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! There’s a welcome synchronicity to reviewing a Jayde Perkin comic for this year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival given that my first coverage of her work at…

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A View from the Frontier – ELCAF Fortnight 2018 Begins Today at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Nearly six years ago at Broken Frontier I wrote very briefly about the buzz surrounding a brand new comics show on the UK indie circuit saying of it that…

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