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Celebrating Small Press Day 2016 – Ten Top UK All-Ages Comics for Your Consideration!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2016

SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! Saturday July 9th sees the first Small Press Day in the UK – an event that seeks to spotlight the exciting new voices in self-publishing…

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Small Press Day 2016 – A Guide to Events in the Midlands on July 9th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2016

SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! The UK and Ireland’s inaugural dedicated day of celebration of self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY Culture is nearly upon us. This week at Broken Frontier we’re breaking…

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Celebrating Small Press Day 2016 – Ten Top UK Anthology Comics for Your Consideration!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2016

SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! Saturday July 9th sees the first Small Press Day in the UK and Ireland – an event that seeks to spotlight the exciting new voices…

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Small Press Day 2016 – A Guide to Events in the South East and South West on July 9th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2016

SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! The UK and Ireland’s inaugural dedicated day of celebration of self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY Culture is nearly upon us. This week at Broken Frontier we’re breaking…

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Celebrating Small Press Day 2016 – Ten Top UK Autobio Comics for Your Consideration!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2016

SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! Saturday July 9th sees the first Small Press Day in the UK and Ireland – an event that seeks to spotlight the exciting new voices…

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Small Press Day 2016 – A Guide to Events in London on July 9th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2016

SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! After months of eager anticipation the UK and Ireland’s inaugural celebration of self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY Culture is nearly upon us. Over the next few…

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Introducing Safari Festival 2016 – Simon Hanselmann, Joan Cornellà, Laura Callaghan, Anna Haifisch and Fantagraphics Among this Year’s Confirmed Guests

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 30, 2016

For the last two years Safari Festival has been a shining oasis of alternative comics goodness in that fallow period between the Spring shows on the UK indie circuit and…

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How to Make Catfish Pie – Exploring the Zines of ‘Tiny Pencil’ Editor Amber Hsu

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2016

When not overseeing respected anthology Tiny Pencil, the ever versatile Amber Hsu can be found applying her multiple talents to all manner of diverse artistic pursuits. One of those many…

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Golden Campaign Volumes II-III – Cristian Ortiz’s Epic Fantasy/Autobio Fusion Shows Its True Potential

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2016

SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! Autobio work is undoubtedly one of the true staples of the small press world. To a degree that’s probably because self-publishing provides the perfect opportunity for…

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Small Press Day 2016 is Coming! – Self-Publishing, DIY Culture and Micropublishing Celebrated Across the UK and Ireland on July 9th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2016

There’s less than a fortnight to go until the inaugural Small Press Day on July 9th. This celebratory day showcasing the amazing wealth of talent on show in the allied…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on June 28th with Star Artists Amber Hsu, Cristian Ortiz and Rozi Hathaway

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2016

It’s nearly Gosh! Comics/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw time again as our popular collaborative event returns next week on June 28th. We’re returning to last month’s venue – the BrewDog pub on…

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Binsted: The Heart of Our Horizon – Bucolic Serenity Threatened in Matilda Tristram’s Resonant Piece of Graphic Reportage

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2016

A celebration of rural life, Matilda Tristram’s Binsted: The Heart of Our Horizon places the bucolic serenity of the small West Sussex village of Binsted in the greater context of…

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Looking Back at CECAF 2016 – Bringing Comics to the Crouch End Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 20, 2016

Taking comics to new audiences. It’s the ideal we all aspire to, something we all claim to aim for and, on so many levels, discovering an expanded demographic for the…

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Championing Comics – ELCAF Cements Its Place as One of the Most Distinctive and Important Festivals on the UK Calendar

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 16, 2016

Championing comics. Two words that we like to think of here at Broken Frontier as summing up our entire ethos. They’re also the title of the panel I chaired at the…

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The Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival 2016 – Sean Azzopardi’s CECAF Returns on June 18th Featuring Broken Frontier, Danny Noble, One Beat Zines, Avery Hill Publishing and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2016

The Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival (CECAF) – one of the friendliest, most accessible and endearingly laidback fairs on the UK comics show circuit – returns to the Earl Haig Hall this…

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Exclusive Preview: Static – A New Collection of Comics by John Cei Douglas Debuts at ELCAF this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2016

It’s been a good couple of years since I reviewed the last collection of John Cei Douglas’s comics here at Broken Frontier. Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other…

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Off Life #13 – Matthew Dooley, Aleesha Nandhra and Till Lukat Are Among the Stars of the Latest Edition of the Free Street Press Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 9, 2016

“We started Off Life back in 2012 as a way to not only help break new or undiscovered talent, but almost to break the indie side of comics to a…

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Greasy’s Guide to Nookie – Comic Book Slumber Party Return with an “Alternative Sex Education” Featuring Work from Lottie Pencheon, Eleni Kalorkoti, Lizzy Stewart and Jess Milton

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2016

After their British Comic Awards nomination for Fairytales for Bad Bitches it seemed a given that the Comic Book Slumber Party collective would return to their signature character Greasy with…

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