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Koyama Press Announces Spring 2019 Season! – New Books from Emily Carroll, Ben Sears, Chris Kuzma and Aaron Leighton

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 8, 2018

The ever excellent, innovative and boundary-pushing Koyama Press have announced their Spring 2019 line-up of books. There’s some cracking projects here, ready for us all to grab from the shelves…

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BCZF 2018 Preview: Dead Singers Society Volume 4 – Good Comics Say Farewell to Their Flagship Anthology with this Final Volume

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 5, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Back in 2015 the first issue of Dead Singers Society was the launch publication for UK micropublishers Good Comics with a variety of UK small press and…

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Terrible Means – B. Mure Revisits the World of Ismyre in a Magical Fantasy with a Very Contemporary Twist

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 5, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! When I reviewed B. Mure’s Ismyre here at Broken Frontier last year I spoke about the sense of powerful world-building to the first instalment of their fantasy…

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BCZF 2018 Preview: Who Killed JoJo? Book 1 – Cathy Brett’s Laydeez do Comics Prize-Nominated Work Launches its First Chapter at the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Earlier this year Cathy Brett was one of the shortlisted creators for the Laydeez do Comics Prize for her graphic-novel-in-progress, announced at the first LDC Festival back…

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Minor Leagues #6 – Simon Moreton’s ‘Where?’ is an Immersive Multi-Media Essay on Place, Memory and Loss… and also the Zine Event of the Year

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Simon Moreton’s autobio zine series Minor Leagues (twice Broken Frontier Awards-nominated to give you an idea of just how highly esteemed it is here at BF!) begins…

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My Other Mother, My Other Self – Laydeez do Comics Prize Winner Emma Burleigh’s Haunting Exploration of Identity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 3, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Earlier this year Emma Burleigh was announced as the inaugural winner of the Laydeez do Comics Prize for her work-in-progress graphic novel My Other Mother, My Other…

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Shane Faced: True Made Up Stories – Shane Melisse’s Amiable Autobio Strips Pop with Energy and Colour

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 3, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Shane Melisse’s profile on the London small press scene is inextricably linked with his place as part of the Backwards Burd collective; a collaborative group of creators…

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I’m Not Ready – Four Slice-of-Life Shorts that Underline Exactly Why Jayde Perkin Won this Year’s ELCAF x WeTransfer Award

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 2, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Jayde Perkin’s I’m Not Ready – a short compilation of some of the artist’s autobio comic strips – begins with a prose introduction to the collection that…

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Summer Break – Lottie Pencheon Explores Mental Health Issues in a Quietly Powerful Comics Masterpiece from ShortBox

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 1, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Graphic medicine – the term coined by graphic novelist and GP Ian Williams – is one of the strands of comics narrative that has played a vitally…

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Thinking in the Dark #1-2 – Aleesha Nandhra’s Fragmentary Minicomics Capture the Thoughts that Consume Us on Sleepless Nights

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 1, 2018

EXHIBITING AT BCZF! Two years ago at Broken Frontier I picked out the work of Aleesha Nandhra as being one of the highlights of the thirteenth issue of the much…

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Thought Bubble 2018 – A Broken Frontier Scrapbook Celebration of the UK’s Most Expansive Comics Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 25, 2018

Tired but so, so inspired. Five words that sum up our post-Thought Bubble feelings here at Broken Frontier Towers. B-Fronts hit T-Bubs (did I really just type that?) in Leeds…

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Gosh! Comics Hosts the London Launch for Avery Hill’s ‘Follow Me In’ and ‘Retrograde Orbit’ – Meet Katriona Chapman and Kristyna Baczynski on Sept 28th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 24, 2018

If you were in Leeds for Thought Bubble this weekend then you may well have caught the first leg of the Avery Hill Follow Me In and Retrograde Orbit Launch…

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Thought Bubble Preview 2018: Jazz Creepers #1 – An Anthology of Florid Stories by Douglas Noble, Sarah Horrocks, Sarah Gordon and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 21, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! That long-time favourite on the UK small press circuit Douglas Noble describes Jazz Creepers as “an anthology of florid stories, of disreputable comics, and of unruly…

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Thought Bubble 2018 Preview: Island – Laurel Pettitt’s Comics Memoir Takes a Charmingly Scrapbook Style Approach to the Graphic Travelogue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 21, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Since I first met her at our Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw this year and reviewed her minicomic Quiet Moments Laurel Pettitt’s graphic travelogue…

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Welcome to Oddleigh – Tor Freeman’s Delightful and Oddball All-Ages Stories Published by Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Admittedly this review is going to be something of a cheat, as will quickly become apparent below. But first a word or two about Gary Northfield’s…

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Sarararara: All-American Girl – Olivia Hicks Ensures Archie-Style Alien Hijinks Abound in this 1950s Comics Parody

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sarararara: All-American Girl, the webcomic creation of Olivia Hicks, makes its print debut at Thought Bubble this weekend. The strip is an intriguing oddity in terms…

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Thought Bubble 2018 Preview: Slang Pictorial – Nick Prolix Takes Us Back to North London in the Early 1960s in His ‘The Sheep and the Wolves’ Comedy-Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Over the last few months Nick Prolix’s Bullpen Boot-Camp column here at Broken Frontier has become a very popular feature on the site. Nick’s illustrated fortnightly…

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“I Think There’s Always Going to Be a Negotiation Between Sharing and Oversharing when You Make Autobiographical Work” – Eleanor Crewes On Her Critically Acclaimed ‘The Times I Knew I Was Gay’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2018

Back in early 2017 I reviewed a short autobiographical zine by UK small presser Eleanor Crewes and was struck by the immediate connection its creator made with her readership in…

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