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Don’t Miss the LDComics Festival Online this Sunday, December 5th Including a Presentation on the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 3, 2021

This Sunday December 5th sees the return of the LDComics Festival online. For those not in the know LDComics is the UK’s largest women-led comics forum. They describe their ethos…

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Exclusive Preview: Poogurtory – New Self-Published Comic from Jenny Robins Acts as a Spin-Off from Her Acclaimed Graphic Novel ‘Biscuits (assorted)’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2021

We have an exclusive (unsurprisingly!) preview today from Broken Frontier team member Jenny Robins from her new self-published comic Poogurtory, a spin-off from her lauded debut graphic novel Biscuits (assorted),…

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The Gift – Zoe Maeve Takes Us on a Supernaturally Disquieting Trip Into Russian Pseudo-History and the Last Days of Anastasia Romanova

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2021

Building a haunting tale around the life of the teenage Grand Duchess Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, The Gift merges historical events with the stark…

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“I Think There’s So Much Room in Comics for Experimentation – George Wylesol on His “Point and Click” Graphic Novel ‘2120’ and the Avery Hill Kickstarter

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 29, 2021

With Avery Hill’s first ever Kickstarter approaching its final week we chat today with one of the featured creators, George Wylesol, whose book 2120 is one of the three projects…

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A Pocket Chiller: Ripple in the Dark – Mark Stafford Joins Douglas Noble in Another One-Shot Journey Into the Macabre

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 26, 2021

“Pray that the stories, names, characters and incidents portrayed in this comic are untrue” says the knowing subversion of the traditional opening disclaimer in Strip for Me’s latest A Pocket…

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Nottingham to London – Fragments of Lived Experience Are Scattered Across the Pages of this New Work from Peony Gent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 25, 2021

One of a trio of new comics that Peony Gent debuted at Thought Bubble this year (see our review of Three Comics here for another of those offerings) London to…

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Lights, Planets, People! – Molly Naylor and Lizzy Stewart Remind Us that the Enormity of Outer Space is Dwarfed Only by the Enormity of Our Personal Space

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 25, 2021

Molly Naylor and Lizzy Stewart’s Lights, Planets, People! is a layered book, not just in terms of theme but also in its storytelling structure. Three intertwining narrative strands weave in…

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Home – Gareth Brookes Takes Us on a Psychogeographical Journey with a Lurking Morbidity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 23, 2021

Psychogeographical comics work looks to explore the intersections between place, time and memory. It can look at how we shape our environments and, in turn, how our environments shape us….

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Crowdfunding Corner: Avery Hill Publishing Spring 2022 Line – Three Top Books to Back from George Wylesol, Taki Soma and Claire Scully

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental, community-based or daring uses of the form that we spot…

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LDN – RAMZEE and Company Take Us on a Tour of the Vibrancy and Diversity of a Capital City

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2021

Reading RAMZEE’s first long-form book LDN I was struck by how his role with this anthology collection went beyond that of creator (he writes the multiple stories compiled herein and…

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The Catalogue of Tiredness – Insomnia Classified in its Many Forms in Jessika Green’s Zine-Style Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2021

Back in the summer, as part of the online Small Press Day events programming I spent many hours giving SPD “one-tweet reviews” to anyone who posted four pages from their…

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Sarararara: Homecoming – Hicks! Gives Us a Distinctly ‘Carry on Archie’ Vibe as the 1950s Teen Parody Series Comes to a Close

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! The third instalment in the series, Sarararara: Homecoming returns to Hicks!’s darkly comedic 1950s high school world where Archie Comics-style goofiness is warped into something altogether more…

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Wolvendaughter – Ver’s Fantasy One-Shot on the Cycle of Death and Rebirth from Quindrie Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT 2021! Ver’s Wolvendaughter was one of the original batch of releases from Quindrie Press, the Scottish micropublisher who burst onto the indie comics scene this year with…

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Where to Find Our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artists at Thought Bubble 2021!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT 2021! With Thought Bubble looming there are, of course, scores of fantastically talented exhibitors to investigate in Harrogate this coming weekend, and many comics debuting there you…

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Reppion and Penman’s Arthurian Adaptation is a Narrative Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! From Sherlock Holmes to M.R. James to Alice in Wonderland, John Reppion (alongside Leah Moore) has a proven track record in adapting classic literature to comics. Debuting…

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Endswell #3 – Peter Morey’s Family Epic Takes Another Unexpected Sidestep in ‘Swanny’, the Strongest Episode Yet

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Returning to his autobiographical comic Endswell, Peter Morey takes another unexpected sidestep in a series which continues to surprise with its multiple perspectives on intergenerational family life…

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Really Horrible Folk – Douglas Noble Entertains Us with Another Collection of Unsettling Monologues from “a Choir of Desperate Voices”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! The fourth in Douglas Noble’s Horrible Folk series, the Thought Bubble-debuting Really Horrible Folk is another collection of brief but unsettling monologues from “a choir of desperate…

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FML Comics #5 -Natasha Natarajan Immerses Us in the Immediacy of the Moment in Another Collection of Candid Autobio Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier our Jenny Robins interviewed artist Natasha Natarajan about her autobiographical comics collection FML Comics, the first four issues compiled into one…

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