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HCZF MONTH! Collecting Peggy Wang’s popular webcomics series Peanut Butter Season 1 is a compilation of short strips exploring the minutiae of life living as a couple; one that does…
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HCZF MONTH! One of the joys of events like Hackney Comic + Zine Fair is the opportunity to discover new practice from creators you have not encountered before. I consider…
HCZF MONTH! There are self-published comics that I have reviewed over the years here at Broken Frontier that particularly stick with me not because they are necessarily profound in subject…
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HCZF MONTH! This year’s month-long Hackney Comic + Zine Fair kicked off over the weekend with great fanfare on social media. The brainchild of comics community activist Joe Stone this…
HCZF MONTH! Hackney Comic + Zine Fair kicks off tomorrow Saturday, September 4th promising a month of indie comics and DIY culture goodness from an amazingly eclectic and diverse line-up…
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While my coverage to date of the A Pocket Chiller series from Strip for Me has been perhaps a touch sporadic – cherry picking issues from a publishing output so…
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In some ways I feel like a bit of a cheat when approaching a review of the deliberately enigmatic short comic Quivertree by our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’…
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Strip for Me’s A Pocket Chiller line promises “new nightmares and strange visions from a world next to yours”. Its line-up of UK indie and alt talent to date has…
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One of the most pleasing things about how our small press coverage has developed here at Broken Frontier over the years is the way that our reach has grown so…
Disillusioned with life in his cramped family house, and determined to achieve his dream of becoming a champion fighter, young Jimmy runs away from home seeking his fortune elsewhere. His…
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With the UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day remaining an online event this year I took to Twitter again to write one-tweet reviews of your small press comics with the…
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Finishing up our coverage of the Spring minicomics releases from Latvian publisher kuš! comics today at Broken Frontier we take a look at ‘World Ceramic Fair’ by Jooyoung Kim, #98…
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If you’ve been following this week’s coverage of some of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series then you’ll be aware already of how eclectic a range it is. While…
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Matt Madden’s recent mini kuš! offering ‘Bridge’ began life as a 24-hour comic, with an added requirement that a decade would pass between each page. In some ways it’s perhaps…
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Once more I find myself remarking on how vitally important the empathetic quality of comics as a form is and will be when it comes to a social record of…
One of the joys of following the publishing output of as eclectic a publisher as Conundrum Press has been discovering not just new voices from the North American scene but…
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Jack Chick’s Chick Tracts – religious mini-comics with a (to say the least) conservative Christian agenda – have been notorious for some decades for their hellfire and damnation-style approach to…
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It’s just days since the announcement that The Junction, the much lauded and self-published graphic novel by Norm Konyu, has been picked up by Titan for publication in a new…
“It’s about Fame, Friendship, and Just How Long You’re Willing to Fake it to Make it” – Duane Murray and Ahmed Raafat Talk ‘Who Are the Power Pals?’ from Dark HorseNovember 6, 2025
“It’s Tough Out There, But You’re Absolutely Not Alone!” – Dave Cook on ‘Killtopia: Phantoms’, Challenging Times for Crowdfunding, and Returning to Thought BubbleNovember 5, 2025
“My Brain Broke, and Out Came Donuts” – Neill Cameron Looks Back on ‘Mega Robo Bros’ and Forward with ‘Donut Squad’, the Latest Smash Hit Strip from the Pages of ‘The Phoenix’November 4, 2025
“The Biggest Challenge for Me Was Having to Think More Like a Director” – Michael Schwartz on Writing for Comics for the First Time and His Supernatural Ghost Story ‘Armored’October 31, 2025
“It’s a Fantasy Adventure about Growing Up” – Joe Latham Talks ‘Haru’, the Self-Publishing Journey, and Using Colour as a Narrative ToolOctober 30, 2025
