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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Continuing our preview coverage of Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival releases, we’re looking today at the comic/record combo pack Live at the Drive by Sorority, the band consisting…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei’s artistic practice ranges from his satirical blackout poetry to his his powerfully honest autobio comics. His self-deprecating humour often makes telling points but he’s as comfortable utilising it for throwaway gags…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! As all regular Broken Frontier readers will know by now, Safari Festival is coming this Saturday August 27th. But before the big day there are a number…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Debuting at Safari Festival Matthew Pettit’s Wax #1 is the first issue of a three-colour risograph “solo anthology” showcasing his work. Pettit describes the book as “made up of…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! One of the great joys of an event like Safari Festival is discovering creators whose work you may not be so familiar with. One such artist at…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! From the introductory moments when we’re introduced to the self-deprecatingly skewed on-page personas of Krent Able and Julian Hanshaw – one squatting Gollum-like in his subterranean kingdom…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Today’s pre-Safari Festival preview of Breakdown Press’s new releases looks at Palace #0, a collection of seldom seen gems from Breakdown regular Antoine Cossé. I was particularly taken…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes we use the word “experimental” far too casually to describe intriguing new comics work when the practitioners in question are not so much experimenting as perceptively…
We seem to say this on a six-month cycle here at Broken Frontier but what a year it’s been, once again, for micropublishers Avery Hill. Their 2016 line-up to date has…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! A newer face on the small press comics scene, Ally Russell makes her Safari Festival debut with the print version of her Killer Klowns from Outer Space…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Safari is coming this weekend and festival organisers Breakdown Press have a bumper batch of new releases to celebrate. We’ll be previewing those titles this week at…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Combining old school space opera with re-imagined creation myth, Ed Cheverton’s One and the Dawn of Reality is an A4 landscape format comic published by Otto Press….
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Artzine Tiny Pencil debuted back in 2013 as a showcase anthology celebrating all things graphite. A handsomely packaged publication it combines illustration and comics and, to date, has included work from…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Three tales loosely connected by the interlocking existences of their protagonists – but all linked firmly in theme – make up Lizzy Stewart’s A4-sized comic It’s Not What You…
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SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s almost a year to the day since I last covered Matthew Swan’s Parsley Girl comics here at Broken Frontier. There’s no uncanny synchronicity involved in that…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Paloma Dawkins’ Summerland – one of the latest batch of releases for those who backed US micropublisher Retrofit’s most recent Kickstarter campaign – is a comic that…
After our belated review of the seventh issue of Dirty Rotten Comics yesterday here at Broken Frontier we’re looking forwards today at the upcoming eighth issue of the popular small…
SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Blurring the lines between catalyst and non sequitur, Laura Ķeniņš’ Alien Beings is the latest short-form offering from Latvian micropublisher kuš!’s line of mini kuš! comics. Its…
“After Reading… So Many Works… from Caribbean-British Writers and African Americans… I Wanted to Create that Space for Myself in Comics”- Lara Boyle Talks to Michael D. Kennedy on the Process Behind the Making of ‘Milk White Steed’September 30, 2026
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Are Going to Make Glorious Comics About it! Get Used to It!” – The inQ! Team Are Back with the Second Edition of London’s Queer Comics FairSeptember 17, 2026
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
