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Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artists Get Major Awards Recognition – Alxndra Cook Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards and Shanti Rai Receives an Ignatz Nomination

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 15, 2023

We do like to remind you every so often that we have a rather impressive record here at Broken Frontier of predicting future stars of the comics world through our…

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Looking Back on Small Press Day 2023 – A Remarkable Celebration of the Creative Affluence of the Small Press Scene in the UK and Ireland

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 14, 2023

Moving to a predominantly in-person occasion again after the online or hybrid events of the pandemic, Small Press Day returned on August 5th with events across the UK and Ireland,…

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Broken Frontier is Taking a Summer Break! We’ll Be Back Again on August 14th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2023

It’s been a hectic few months here at Broken Frontier Towers, what with our mammoth Pride Month coverage, our intensely busy SLCZF event, and working on Small Press Day and…

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‘Breaking Frontiers: A Small Press Day Exhibition’ Opens at Jam Bookshop in East London this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2023

‘Breaking Frontiers’ is our first Broken Frontier-curated exhibition and it opens at Jam Bookshop in East London ready for Small Press Day this weekend! To get you ready for this…

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“Trust Yourself Enough to Stick to Your Vision” – Beck Kubrick on the Comics Publishing Journey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 3, 2023

In our fourth of our 2023 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ interviews, and ahead of their appearance at Travelling Man Manchester for Small Press Day, we chat today with comics…

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“Writing and Drawing Fantasy is Simply a Lot of Fun” – Kry Garcia Talks Self-Publishing, Pushing Boundaries, and the Spanish Indie Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2023

It’s time for another spotlight interview for one of our 2023 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators and today’s subject is Spanish artist Kry Garcia whose Shortbox Fair comic Meteors…

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“I Can’t Wait for It to Be in People’s Hands” – Dan White on the Eagerly Awaited ‘Cindy and Biscuit’ Collection from Oni Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2023

It’s been one of the great unanswered questions in UK indie comics for many years now: How has Dan White’s singularly brilliant Cindy and Biscuit all-ages series not been picked…

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“I Love the Escapism that Genre Fiction Offers” – Rachel Tubb on Comics Community, Creative Process and Contributing to Anthologies

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2023

Continuing our series of interviews featuring this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators we turn today to the work of frequent WIP Comics contributor Rachel Tubb. With her fluid,…

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Small Press Day 2023 – How Emerging Creators Can Apply for a Zoom ‘Work-in-Progress’ Meeting with BF’s Andy Oliver as Part of SPD/Our ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ Initiative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2023

It’s nearly here! In just over two weeks Small Press Day returns on Saturday, August 5th. With event notifications flooding in this is going to be the biggest in-person Small…

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SLCZF 2023 – Looking Back on this Year’s Triumphant South London Comic and Zine Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 20, 2023

While debate remains open on whether it’s pronounced Slick-Ziff, Sluk-Zuff, slƏzƏf or any other number of variables there’s one thing we can all agree on. This year’s South London Comic…

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A Spell of Trouble – The Treasury of British Comics Presents Two Beautifully Illustrated Supernatural Stories by Trini Tinturé

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2023

It seems almost inconceivable that both of the strips collected in the recent Treasury of British Comics collection of classic 1970s/1980s comics for girls are missing writer credits. But such…

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Crab Lane Crew – Jim Medway’s Wonderful All-Ages Evocation of Childhood from Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Whether it be the understated slice-of-life drama of Playing Out or the wonderfully silly hilarity of the lengthily titled Sgt. Chip Charlton and Mister Woofles of the Royal…

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Banana Trap – Zhenyi Zheng’s Atmospheric Account of Historical Worker Exploitation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Comics exploring themes of worker exploitation represent work we will always be keen to give space and consideration to at Broken Frontier. When they examine those issues with…

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“People Whose Identity Crosses Strongly Policed Social Boundaries Are Perfectly Positioned to Appeal to a Broader Audience” – Ed Firth on ‘Horny & High’ and the Eloquence of Comics as a Medium

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Since we interviewed comics creator Ed Firth at Broken Frontier back in 2021 his series Horny & High has become something of a constantly selling-out phenomenon. An uncompromising…

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The Last Day of Rain #1 and #2 – Claudia Matosa’s Ecological Sci-Fi Story Projects the Warnings of the Present on the Future

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Back in April at Broken Frontier we ran one of our themed coverage events with a special Earth Day Week of reviews on the site. The material featured…

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Browner-Knowle Vol. 2 #1 – Paul Ashley Brown Reflects on Identity, the Pandemic, Thatcherism and the Realities of the Comics Industry

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2023

SLCZF 2023! A year or two back at Broken Frontier I described UK horror comics artist Sarah Gordon as one of our finest practitioners in the area of “graphic melancholy”….

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Endswell #4-5 – Peter Morey’s Graphic Memoir Series is Unpredictable and Creatively Daring to the Very End

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2023

SLCZF 2023! Peter Morey’s Endswell has jumped around both narratively and chronologically since the first issue was published nearly five years ago. An autobiographical story (“based loosely on real events”),…

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Big Ugly – Ellice Weaver’s Second Avery Hill Graphic Novel is an Understated Yet Profound Study of the Sibling Relationship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2023

SLCZF 2023! As I have mentioned before on occasion here at Broken Frontier one of the great privileges of being involved with BF is getting to see work-in-progress months… or…

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