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Prismatik Man #1 – Witness the Sheer Visual Spectacle of Small Press Sci-Fi Master Stathis Tsemberlidis’s Latest Decadence Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 8, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Stathis Tsemberlidis is one half of the Decadence Comics team alongside artist Lando (Gardens of Glass, Stones in Focus) – a micropublishing duo who have put out…

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Preview: Spare Me – Disa Wallander’s New Comics Zine from O Panda Gordo Debuts at Safari Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! New Disa Wallander work is always worth checking out and this weekend’s Safari Festival sees the debut of Wallander’s new comics zine published by João Sobral’s Glasgow-based micropublishing…

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The Fields Beyond Episode 1 – Matthew Pettit Introduces Us to the Nightmarish Environs of the Electric Gentleman’s Club

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes helplessness is the greatest horror of all. Matthew Pettit’s The Fields Beyond – a book that debuts this weekend at the fourth annual Safari Festival – bills…

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A View from the Frontier – UK Festival Season Begins as Safari Festival Looms on the Horizon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! This Saturday the focus of the London comics scene will once again be on the east side of the capital as Safari Festival returns for its fourth…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Catastrophe – Somali Poet Xasan Daahir Weedhsame’s Poem on the Refugee Crisis to Be Illustrated by Comics Legend Bryan Talbot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

An extra supplement to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner articles today at Broken Frontier to give you all a heads up on a tangentially comics-related project that has just a handful…

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Preview: ‘Mirror Mirror II’ Edited by Julia Gfrörer & Sean T. Collins and ‘Yours’ by Margot Ferrick – Books to Grab at Safari Festival from 2dcloud!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The ever experimental Minneapolis micropublisher 2dcloud are on the exhibitor line-up at this year’s Safari Festival and we’re previewing some of the new books they’ll have on show…

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Joyride – Zoë Taylor’s Minimalist Drama Takes the Reader on a Spontaneous and Evocative Journey of Discovery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The many nuanced layers on which sequential art can connect with its audience ensure that work that is indistinct and minimalist in presentation can be just as…

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Preview: ‘Kindling’ by Xia Gordon and ‘Architecture of an Atom’ by Juliacks – Books to Grab at Safari Festival from 2dcloud!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 3, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s always exciting when international publishers with an ethos that you especially respect and admire make a rare festival visit to the UK. The inclusion of the ever…

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kuš komiksi: š! #29 – Celebrating 10 Years of the Acclaimed Latvian Micropublisher’s Output

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! For the last ten years micropublisher kuš! has been bringing us a truly international body of work via its signature digest anthology comic, its mini kuš! minicomics and its…

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Preview: #classicdebeauvoir – A Community Commemorated by its Rubbish in Babak Ganjei’s New Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei is a man of diverse artistic practice. UK small press comics aficionados may know him from his humorous strips in Hilarious Consequences – described by the…

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Slasher #1-2 – The Strangely Alluring Bleakness of Charles Forsman’s Psychological Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! If there is such a thing as a group of headlining artists at Safari Festival 2017 then Charles Forsman is most certainly among those who qualify for…

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Minor Leagues #3 – Grief and Loss Explored in the Latest Issue of Simon Moreton’s Essential Autobiographical Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I have been writing about Simon Moreton’s work at Broken Frontier for several years now and I can point to many reasons as to why it has…

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Steam Clean – Tensions Rise in Laura Ķeniņš’ Multiple Character Study from Retrofit Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! There’s something a little synchronous in reviewing Laura Ķeniņš’ Steam Clean on the first day of our Safari Festival Fortnight of coverage today at Broken Frontier given that…

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A View from the Frontier – Welcome to Safari Festival Fortnight 2017!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Get used to that intro to articles at Broken Frontier over the next couple of weeks because it’s going to be a regular fixture on the site…

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Solo Exhibition of the Work of Graphic Novelist Gareth Brookes to Run at London’s WAR Gallery from August 4th-30th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2017

The name of Gareth Brookes is hardly an unfamiliar one here at Broken Frontier. From his brilliant first long-form work The Black Project – which won both the Myriad First Graphic Novel…

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Sunburning – Autobiographical Comics at Their Most Engaging and Quietly Uncompromising from Keiler Roberts and Koyama Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2017

Two years ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed Miseryland by Keiler Roberts and described that self-published book as “autobiographical comics at their absorbing best – frank, blunt and forthright on…

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King-Cat Comix + Stories #77 – An All-Animal Issue of John Porcellino’s Seminal Autobio Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 26, 2017

With 77 issues since the late 1980s the importance and influence of John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comix + Stories to the world of autobio comics and zine-making cannot be over-emphasised. King-Cat…

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The Inking Woman: EdieOP – Showcasing the Artists of the Latest Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2017

“The Inking Woman was such an exciting and amazing exhibition to be a part of, it was an honour to have my work exhibited alongside such talented women in comics…

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