MYRIAD WEEK! Way back in 2012 in my ‘Small Pressganged’ column at Broken Frontier I first alerted our readership to a promising new talent I had come across in the…
MYRIAD WEEK! A truly joyous graphic novel from one of the UK’s fastest rising indie comics stars. There’s a little backstory to this review so bear with me… Back in…
It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns this month on August 23rd. As ever, your co-hosts for the night are myself (Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
This past weekend saw a whole host of events at the British Library as the hugely popular Comics Unmasked exhibition reached its final days. On Friday night Panel Borders’ Alex…
It seems almost redundant to say it given what a declaration of the glaringly obvious it is but for London-based comics aficionados it’s been an amazing few months of Comica…
The waiting is over! Jade Sarson’s For the Love of God, Marie is the winner of the 2014 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition. On the evening of Friday 23rd May,…
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Jade Sarson’s webcomic Cafe Suada – an offbeat, manga-influenced romantic comedy charting the rivalry between Piyo Piyo tea shop manageress Geraldine Grey and Ewan from the next door Dark Moon…
On Friday 23rd May the winner of the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition will be revealed at the British Library as part of the Comics Unmasked programme of events. On…
Myriad Editions is delighted to announce the shortlist for their First Graphic Novel Competition 2014, revealed today to coincide with the first week of Comics Unmasked, the UK’s largest-ever exhibition of British comics…
Beginning on Monday 24th February the second edition of WASP – the Webcomic Artist Swap Project overseen by Lucy the Octopus creator Richy K. Chandler – will see another batch…
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It’s been a longer than usual gap between issues for David O’Connell’s chunky but digest-sized ink + PAPER – a publication that I’ve referred to here in the past as…
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Broken Frontier’s ‘Small Pressganged’ column – our regular spotlight on the worlds of small press, self-published and micropublished comics – will be two years old this weekend and, at the…
In the early part of 2013 Tempo Lush’s Richy K. Chandler instigated a rather fun little initiative he called the Webcomic Artist Swap Project (or WASP for short) that saw…
This year’s shortlist for the British Comic Awards has just been released providing a telling reflection of the robust creative health and rich diversity of the art form on these…
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Richy K. Chandler is a comics creator whose work embraces both the tactile and the digital through his Tempo Lush publishing brand. The cartoonist behind the popular Lucy the Octopus…
Jade Sarson’s online Cafe Suada series is the epitome of feelgood comics. To great comic effect it depicts the ongoing feud between Geraldine, manager of the Piyo Piyo teahouse and…
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