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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Retrofit Comics, Dickie, That Girl Comic and Bottoms Up!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 5, 2017

Spotlights for crowdfunding campaigns are among our most frequently requested items for coverage from creators here at Broken Frontier. That’s understandable as platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and others have changed…

Dickie / Boerke by Pieter De Poortere

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‘Dickie’ by Pieter De Poortere Lays Our Soul Bare as His Sardonic Comedy Strips Us to the Bone

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 13, 2015

The brain child of Belgian artist Pieter De Poortere, Dickie (Boerke) has been around for more than 15 years and has been published in French, Spanish, Hungarian and Finnish. Don’t you want…

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