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    Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #1 – Sanika Phawde Combines Humour and Pathos in an Autobiographical Account of the Stresses of Planning for an Indian Wedding

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 6, 2025

    With its vibrant use of colour and chaotic energy the cover of Sanika Phawde’s Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #1 instantly catches the reader’s eye and practically implores them to…

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    Night Shift – Jamie Kinroy Plays with Reader Expectations in a Crime Drama with a Difference

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 28, 2025

    It has admittedly been a few years since I last reviewed work from Jamie Kinroy at Broken Frontier. Back in 2022 I covered Spit Dog, a two-feature comic with the…

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    “We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 24, 2025

    Founded in the early part of the pandemic Guru Comics are a London-based micropublisher specialising in genre fiction comics that range from horror to science fiction, crime noir to satire….

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    “I Think it’s so Valuable to Have More Vulnerable Works Out There” – Cara Brown on Mental Health in Comics, Creative Process and Starting Her Artistic Journey

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 23, 2025

    Cara Brown may just be starting her comics practice but this 2025 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist has already amassed a small body of work that demonstrates her ability…

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    The Comics Cultural Impact Collective Makes the Case to the UK Government for £1.5 Million Funding for Comics

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 17, 2025

    News today from the direction of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective, the independent collective of professionals from the UK comics community who have been collaborating since February 2023 to amplify…

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    “I Think Comics Have So Much Versatility in the Way They Can Tell a Story” – Zen K. Talks Comics Craft and Language, Manga Inspirations, and Being Published by Koguchi Press

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 16, 2025

    Today we bring you the first of our interview series for the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists for 2025 and our initial subject is Zen K. aka Zenab Khan….

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    “The Comics Courier is Really a Love Letter to Comics Criticism” – Tiffany Babb on Bringing Comics Commentary Back to Print in the Acclaimed Newspaper-Style Publication

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 2, 2025

    Described as “a newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism” the Comics Courier debuted last year not just to widespread praise but also notable enthusiasm for its method of presentation….

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    Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 – Camp and Rodriguez Embrace the Language of the Form in Their Re-imagining of the Classic DC Super-Hero

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 1, 2025

    Something we perhaps discuss less frequently when we refer to the “language of comics” is how alternative forms of delivery can provide different storytelling tools. There are opportunities available in…

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    Safer Places – Kit Anderson’s Collection of Comics Short Stories from Avery Hill is Haunting, Meditative and Quietly Profound

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 31, 2025

    With the last few days of the Kickstarter campaign for her new book, Second Shift, winding down we’re taking the time to look at Kit Anderson’s first Avery Hill book…

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    Celebrating 10 Years of Small Press Day! – SPD is Back on July 19th, 2025

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 26, 2025

    Can it really be the tenth edition of Small Press Day? Founded by JAM Bookshop’s David Ziggy Greene (Private Eye, Scene & Heard), the event’s mission is to forge links…

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    Safaa and the Tent: Diary of a Cartoonist from Gaza Oct 2023-Dec 2024 – A Simply Essential Piece of Personal Testimony from Safaa Odah

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 24, 2025

    While all the comics work we have recently covered on the genocide in Gaza has been deeply affecting, today’s addition to our Broken Frontier Palestine Resource List is particularly heartrending….

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    Becky Burke is Home – A Family Statement Clarifying the Realities of British Cartoonist R. E. Burke’s Ordeal and Thanking the Community for Its Support

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 23, 2025

    Over the last few weeks the comics community has been deeply concerned about the plight of British cartoonist R. E. Burke, detained for 19 days in the US by ICE…

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    Crowdfunding Corner: Edgar Allan – New Poe-Inspired Work with the Haunting Visuals of Norm Konyu

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 21, 2025

    A return to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner feature today at BF where we spotlight campaigns we have either discovered ourselves or by sifting through all the many crowdfunding coverage requests…

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    mini kuš! #130: A Box of Candy – etchingroom1 Reflects on the Harsh Pain of Unfulfilled Love

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 19, 2025

    And so to the final release from the latest clutch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! minicomics (catch up with our most recent reviews of the series here). Ukranian…

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    Preview: Safaa and the Tent – LICAF Bring Palestinian Cartoonist Safaa Odah’s Account of Living through the War on Gaza to Print

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 18, 2025

    A week or so back on social media I spoke of an upcoming review of a book that you would not have heard of yet but was going to be…

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    Free For All #1 – Waging War on Billionaires in Patrick Horvath’s Satirical One-Shot from Oni Press

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 17, 2025

    If there were ever a time to “wage war on billionaires”, as the promo blurb for Patrick Horvath’s Free For All puts it, it is right here and now. This…

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    Colossive Cartographies #63 – Experience the Capabilities of the ‘Astorial Shower App’ in Ed Pinsent’s Latest Colossive Cartographies Edition

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 14, 2025

    A third outing for UK small press comics legend Ed Pinsent in the Colossive Cartographies series from Colossive Press acts as a welcome reminder of the unique vision of this…

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    So Buttons #14 – ‘Life and Death’ is the Theme for the Latest Issue of Jonathan Baylis’s Always Welcome Autobio Anthology

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 11, 2025

    Hitting us on an annual schedule Jonathan Baylis’s So Buttons anthology series sees Baylis collaborating with numerous artists to bring largely autobiographical snapshots to life. One of its greatest selling…

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