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Stacey’s Pop Culture Parlour and Geek Syndicate Join Forces to Host a Live 24 Hour Podcast to Help Beat Heart Disease.

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2018

We don’t often post press releases here at BF so when we do you can be sure it’s something extra-special that we want to throw our support behind! Below is news…

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A View from the Frontier – ELCAF 2018 Programme Announced Today and We Look Forward to ELCAF Fortnight at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2018

There’s just two months to 2018’s East London Comics & Arts Festival, undoubtedly one of our favourite events on the UK comics calendar and a weekend that champions the kind…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday April 25th with Guest Artists Michael Lomon, Alexander Tucker and DCWB

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2018

Our fourth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is this week! And, as ever, we have a cracking line-up of guest artists with us on Wednesday April 25th. Creators Alexander…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Retrofit Comics 2018 – Why You Should Back 12 Graphic Novels from the Acclaimed Broken Frontier Award-Nominated Publisher

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2018

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF every week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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Introducing ‘The Vigilant’ – Rebellion Brings Back Classic Fleetway/IPC Characters in a New One-Shot this Summer

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2018

After the success of last year’s Scream! and Misty Halloween Special (reviewed here at Broken Frontier), 2000 AD publisher Rebellion are raiding the vaults of their recently acquired back catalogue…

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Preview: Shortbox #8 – Pre-Order the Latest Edition of the Acclaimed Independent Comics Box Featuring Work by Niv Sekar, Lottie Pencheon, Joe Sparrow, Anatola Howard, George Mager and Egle Zvirtblyte

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2018

Pre-orders for the latest edition of Zainab Akhtar’s carefully curated independent comics box ShortBox went live today and you have until April 27th to make sure you get hold of this…

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A View from the Frontier – Leam Comic Con Acts as a Welcoming Prologue for the UK Spring and Summer Festival Season

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2018

For the first time in 2018, the Broken Frontier t-shirt went on in an official capacity this past weekend for what was a relaxed and welcoming prologue to the UK…

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Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2018 Longlist Announced – Includes Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Sabba Khan and BF’s Own Jenny Robins

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2018

The longlist for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced today and, as you’d expect from a publisher of Myriad’s acclaim, it’s a list full of diverse artistic…

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3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘Scooby-Doo! Team-Up’ by Sholly Fisch and Dario Brizuela

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 12, 2018

‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that we think should be on your pull list. Whether it’s because of its…

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Sightings of Wallace Sendek – A Genuine UK Small Press Classic Returns in an Unnervingly Creepy New Expanded Edition from Noble and Azzopardi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 10, 2018

As writer Douglas Noble and artist Sean Azzopardi’s Sightings of Wallace Sendek was designed structurally to be periodically added to with new material interspersed among older work, it seems only…

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Radio On: Broadcast #4 – Another Music-Based Anthology Sampling of UK Small Press Talent Including Emily Rose Lambert, Joel Benjamin and Darrell Thorpe

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 6, 2018

As I said when we chose the latest issue of Rob Carter’s annual music-themed anthology Radio On as one of our Staff Picks last month, its a project that is…

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R – Future War Taken to Its Brutal and Inevitable End in DCWB’s Sci-Fi Minicomic from Undimensioned

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 3, 2018

The second book, following Entity Reunion, from Undimensioned Press, the new micropress venture from Alexander Tucker (World in the Forcefield), R echoes its predecessor’s slightly oblique but hypnotically compelling narrative…

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Later Still – Grace Wilson’s Acutely Observed Autobio Comics Perfectly Capture the Fragile Human Foibles of Her Subjects

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 2, 2018

Grace Wilson’s work is so acutely observed, so perfect in capturing the fragile human foibles of the people she brings to her pages, that she puts me in mind of…

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A View from the Frontier – Catch Broken Frontier Tabling at this Year’s CECAF and SLCZF Festivals, Plus Applications Open for BCZF

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 2, 2018

Spring has finally (almost) sprung and with it we look forward at BF, as ever, to the UK festival season ramping up between now and the Autumn. Broken Frontier doesn’t…

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The Times I Knew I Was Gay – Eleanor Crewes Combines Comics and Illustrated Prose in this Witty and Quietly Poignant Autobio Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 30, 2018

Following up on her original short-form zine offering from last year, Eleanor Crewes’s The Times I Knew I Was Gay presents a fragmentary series of autobiographical vignettes in an often…

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Avery Hill Publishing Announce Schedule for Late 2018 – Including Books by Kristyna Baczynski, B. Mure and Tillie Walden

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 29, 2018

As if the six books already scheduled for 2018 were not enough of a draw, Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award-winning Avery Hill Publishing have announced a further three graphic novels today to…

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Laydeez do Comics Festival 2018 – Emma Burleigh Wins the First Laydeez Prize on an Inspiring Day of Comics Community and Celebration in London

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 26, 2018

For several years now the Laydeez do Comics group have provided a vital supportive platform for new voices in comics through their popular monthly meet-ups. A combination of creator presentations…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday March 28th with Guest Artists Michelle Mildenberg, Jenny Robins and Elizabeth Querstret

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2018

Our third Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is next week! And, as ever, we have three of the movers and shakers of the UK small press world…

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