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HCZF MONTH! A very special treat for those of you following our Hackney Comic + Zine Fair month of coverage as we talk with Jane and Tom Murphy of DIY…
Breakdown Press have been one of the most important publishers over the last several years when it comes to boundary-pushing and experimental comics practice, bringing a wide range of diverse…
Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental, community-based or daring uses of the form that we spot on…
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HCZF MONTH! Sometimes you don’t need to see an extensive portfolio of a creator’s work to know their potential. When I was selecting artists for our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six…
With a mission to bring European comics practice to far wider audiences, digital publisher Europe Comics has been making an incredibly diverse range of genres and approaches with a Eurocentric…
HCZF MONTH! Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, September 23rd for another comics extravaganza with…
HCZF MONTH! I have covered the work of Beatrice Mossman a couple of times before in this column at Broken Frontier with reviews of The Lure of the Flesh and…
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Many of us can no doubt remember that one special friend from our childhood whose presence in our lives became such a vital and important experience that years (or even…
Great news today via Rebellion about the return of classic kids humour comic ‘Monster Fun’ as an ongoing series. Full details in the press release below. Watch out parents –…
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HCZF MONTH! The opportunity to give some spotlight time to talented creative voices yet to have been given coverage at Broken Frontier has certainly been one of the most rewarding…
While much of our coverage in September is dedicated to celebrating Hackney Comic + Zine Fair let’s not forget that there are still plenty of exciting comics projects being announced…
HCZF MONTH! One of the in-person events on the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair programme this year features the work of our very own Broken Frontier team member Jenny Robins….
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HCZF MONTH! Over the last 18 months we have seen the emergence of a new sub-genre of graphic medicine in the form of the pandemic comic. So much so that…
Before his death, Orwell requested that no biography be written about him. That request has been ignored so often that Orwell is only a minor expansion of a collective crime….
HCZF MONTH! As part of this year’s Hackney Comic + Zine Fair a number of events both online and in-person have been commissioned to complement the HCZF digital fair. One…
HCZF MONTH! The annual Manga Jiman competition has brought a number of new creators to the attention of the comics community over the last few years. Indeed our very own…
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HCZF MONTH! Sometimes a cover doesn’t so much capture your imagination as entrance it in an alluring (yet sinister) embrace. The opening image to Sammy Ward’s short comics story The…
HCZF MONTH! We’ve featured WIP Comics a number of times over the last few years at BF in terms of both their publishing output and their work in providing a…
There’s a quote from Emile Griffith that is the first thing the reader sees when opening Knock Out!, Reinhard Kleist’s exploration of the life of the bisexual Black boxer whose…
“We Try to Remain as True as Possible to the Original Work” – Digital Publisher Europe Comics on Bringing the Very Best of European Comics Practice to Wider AudiencesSeptember 21, 2021“Art Should Never Be a Point of Privilege” – Nora Goldberg on the ‘Ink Well’ Exhibition Bringing Comics to the Community as Part of Hackney Comic + Zine FairSeptember 14, 2021
Inside Look: Such, Such Were the Joys – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on Pluto Press’s George Orwell Adaptation by Sean Michael Wilson and Jaime HuxtableSeptember 2, 2021
“She is Beginning to Realize that She is Not so Young Anymore” – An Interview with Walter Scott, Creator of WendyAugust 30, 2021
“Feeling Part of the Community is a Big Reason I Make Comics” – Matthew Dooley on the UK Indie Scene and His Eisner Award-Nominated Graphic Novel ‘Flake’July 21, 2021
