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    “The Emotions All Hit Me After I Released ‘Daddy'” – Beatrice Mossman on Tactile Presentation in Comics, Allegorical Narrative, and the Sensitivity of Autobio Work

    • by Andy Oliver

    Beatrice Mossman has been cultivating a growing audience of admirers over the last couple of years for her tactile, experimental comics that have their roots in horror motifs, coming-of-age standards,…

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Broken Frontier: Who We Are and What We Do – Championing Emerging Talent, Prioritising Marginalised Voices and Boosting Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2022

Pinned post! Want to know more about the history, mission and ethos of Broken Frontier? We have a handy guide here to who we are and what we do, complete…

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‘Project Monarch’ by Michael Avon Oeming and Victor Santos Explores a Post-Conspiracy Society from Dark Horse in September

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 31, 2023

The announcements from Dark Horse just keep on coming this month. Next up is Project Monarch, from Oeming and Santos. More details in the press release below. THIS JUST IN:…

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Charity ComicBooks For Kids! to Bring Superman to Children in Hospitals and Cancer Centres in the US and UK

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 31, 2023

We’ve featured the work of ComicBooks For Kids! before at Broken Frontier, back when their operations expanded to the UK in 2022. The charity’s aim is a simple one: “to…

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Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 – New Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum to Feature the Worlds of ‘Thunderbirds’, ‘Captain Scarlet’, ‘TV Century 21’ and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 30, 2023

The next exhibition from our chums at the Cartoon Museum in London has been announced as ‘Gerry Anderson’s Century 21’ opens in March. Fans of the influential TV Century 21…

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Our Stories Carried Us Here – Green Card Voices Bring Us a Powerful Sequential Art Antidote to Toxic Media Coverage of Immigration and the Refugee Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2023

The plight of those affected by the refugee crisis has been conveyed to wider audiences with great empathy by many comics projects over the last decade, both online and in…

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Lake Como Comic Art Festival Returns to Villa Erba, May 12-14, 2023

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 27, 2023

As dates for the 2023 comics festival circuit start being announced, here’s a look at the guests and details for this year’s Lake Como Comic Art Festival. Lake Como Comic…

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Once There Was Dancing – Sean Azzopardi’s Latest Autobiographical Work is a Knowingly Reflective and Accepting Piece of Gentle Self-Deprecation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 27, 2023

The autobiographical works of Sean Azzopardi recently found a new “home” under the banner imprint of Life’s a Party. One of the UK’s greatest, yet still criminally underappreciated, proponents of…

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Dark Horse to Publish Jay Martin’s ‘Lost Boy’ in June – A “Different Kind of Survival Story” from the Renowned Music Video Director

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 26, 2023

A busy week or so for press releases from Dark Horse Comics. Here’s all the info on June’s new survival story Lost Boy. DARK HORSE BOOKS PRESENTS: “LOST BOY” A…

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SelfMadeHero’s Spring 2023 Publishing Schedule Announced – Includes the new David Bowie Graphic Biography by Reinhard Kleist

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 25, 2023

SlefMadeHero have made their Spring 2023 publishing slate known and there’s some huge names involved this time around including perennial SMH faves Reinhard Kleist and Oscar Zarate. Full info below….

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R. E. Burke’s ‘Over-Inkers’ Mental Health Comics Anthology Open to Submissions on the Theme of ‘Strength’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 24, 2023

Our very own R. E. Burke is looking for submissions for her new mental health-focussed comics anthology Over-Inkers. The theme of the first issue is ‘Strength’ and she describes what…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, January 26th for Another Evening of Arty Fun on Twitter

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 24, 2023

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, January 26th. Not only do our online D&Ds keep all…

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Sensory: Life on the Spectrum – Project Runner Bex Ollerton’s Autistic Comics Anthology is a Monumental Achievement

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2023

Originally presented via the #ASDComicTakeover tag on social media, the short comics collected in the pages of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum – An Autistic Comics Anthology come to us…

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Dark Horse Comics to Publish Anti-Fascist Fairytale ‘Hans Vogel is Dead’ by Sierra Barnes

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 23, 2023

Note to publisher publicity departments: We can only publish a selection of news stories but as we’re Broken Frontier you’re upping your chances of that press release getting a spotlight…

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Dark Horse to Parody the Pop Cultural Zeitgeist with John Allison and Max Sarin’s ‘The Great British Bump-Off’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 20, 2023

Feeding into our obsessions with gentle reality TV shows and adding a wicked twist, The Great British Bump-Off comes to us via John Allison, Max Sarin, Sammy Borras, Jim Campbell…

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Where I’m Coming From – Drawn & Quarterly Remind Us of How Powerful the Voice of Barbara Brandon-Croft Has Always Been

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 20, 2023

They’re referred to as ‘truth bombs’, defined as ‘blunt, undiplomatic statements of something true that others may not want or expect to hear.’ You can experience a whole lot of…

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Zenith – Centrala’s New Book from Maria Medem Lingers Like a Dream that Bleeds into Waking Life

  • by Jon Aye
  • January 19, 2023

Maria Medem’s body of work seems to exist as a record of some alternative envisioned landscape. There are certain key formal aspects to her style: a fine, clear-line for example,…

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Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos – B-Movies and Existential Terror Abound in S. Craig Zahler’s Dark Horse Offering

  • by Tom Baker
  • January 18, 2023

Reports of UFO sightings and alien abduction begin roughly around the same time manned space flights began. As ghosts represent the landed gentry’s guilt over their legacies, Dracula’s a xenophobic…

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Titan Comics Announce Graphic Biography ‘In Search of Gil Scott-Heron’, Celebrating a Legend of the Afro-American Music Scene

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 18, 2023

Something that sounds well worth looking out for this summer as Titan announce a new graphic biography of the legendary Gil Scott-Heron… TITAN COMICS TO PUBLISH IN SEARCH OF GIL…

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“I Always Think that Humor is the Best Way to Get Any Message Across” – Eric Nguyen on Subverting a Narrative Trope in ‘White Savior’ from Dark Horse

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2023

Out this week from Dark Horse Comics, Eric Nguyen and Scott Burman’s White Savior takes a deeply problematic cinematic standard and puts a new and very distinct spin on it….

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