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BOOM! Studios to Publish Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo’s ‘We Only Find Them When They’re Dead’ this September

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2020

With so much uncertainty for comics stores at the moment it’s well worth making a note of some of the most exciting upcoming serial comics projects with an eye to…

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Comedy Women in Print Prize Announces Shortlists for Its 2020 Awards – Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Danny Noble Among Names in ‘Humorous Graphic Novel’ Category

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2020

The Comedy Women in Print Prize has announced its shortlists today. Lots to check out across the categories but obviously our focus at Broken Frontier is on the new ‘Humorous…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, June 11th with Guest Artists Amy Gallagher, Bex and Nic Mac

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 8, 2020

Now fortnightly due to popular demand! The online version of our monthly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw has been such a success that we’re now running it…

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Preview: Mongrel – Sayra Begum’s Graphic Memoir on Her Multicultural Upbringing as a British Muslim to Be Published by Knockabout in August

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2020

Coming this August via Knockabout Comics, those fine purveyors of underground and alt style comics, is a graphic memoir we’ve been looking forward to for some time here at Broken…

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Coffin Bound Vol. 1: Happy Ashes – Dan Watters and Dani’s Nihilistic Supernatural Thriller Sucks the Reader in with a Dizzying and Desolate Allure

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2020

For all the superficial veneer of its big guns, fast cars and uber violence, Coffin Bound is a profoundly philosophical comic series. Dan Watters and Dani’s initial story arc was…

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Preview: Monsters – Barry Windsor-Smith’s Epic Graphic Novel, 35 Years in the Making, to be Published by Fantagraphics in 2021

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2020

Fantagraphics have announced something we can all look forward to at the beginning of 2021 – a new graphic novel from comics legend Barry Windsor-Smith. With a new generation discovering…

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The Promise – Check Out the Work of Falmouth University’s Illustration Students in this Exciting Webcomics Project

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2020

As anyone who visits Broken Frontier on even a semi-regular basis knows, championing the next generation of comics creators is at the very core of everything this site stands for….

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Spit Three Times – Davide Reviati Presents a Melancholy Coming-of-Age Tale Several Years in the Making, Via Seven Stories Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2020

Set in a remote rural Italian village, Davide Reviati’s melancholy and haunting coming-of-age story Spit Three Times is a project several years in the making. Translated by Jamie Richards, and…

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Unsmooth #1 – E.S. Glenn’s Hybrid of Existential Reflection and Crime Caper is a Knowingly Self-Aware Collection from Floating World Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 26, 2020

Pleasingly recreating the visual appeal of a European album-style comic but with a cheekily alt sensibility, E.S. Glenn’s Unsmooth #1 from Floating World Comics merges crime caper, urban fantasy, anthropomorphic…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, May 28th with Guest Artists Becky Howard, Joe Stone and Ed Stockham

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 26, 2020

Now fortnightly due to popular demand! Thanks to your continued enthusiasm for the online version of our monthly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw we’re now running it…

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Preview: Understanding NF2 – New Graphic Medicine for Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month Debuts Via the Children’s Tumor Foundation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 25, 2020

We’ve always been big believers at Broken Frontier in the power of graphic medicine to educate, inform and raise awareness so we’re very pleased to be able to run this…

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Revisiting the Broken Frontier Anthology – Frederik Hautain and Tyler Chin-Tanner on the Highs and Lows of BF’s Ambitious Multi-Creator Project Five Years On

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 25, 2020

Has there ever been a more dramatic Kickstarter comics campaign? Five years ago this past weekend the Broken Frontier Anthology hit its funding after a last-gasp surge in funding for…

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Follow Friday: Abs Bailey – “Bailey’s Pages Toy with Traditional Panel-to-Panel Sequential Storytelling with a Self-Aware Sense of Fun”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 22, 2020

Continuing our new feature for Fridays today at Broken Frontier! At the end of each week in Follow Friday we run an extensive spotlight profile on an artist we believe deserves…

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Escapades – The Visual Poetry of Olivia Sullivan Showcased in Another Abstract, Stream-of-Consciousness Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2020

In my most recent interview with artist Olivia Sullivan (one of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators) she spoke about her creative process, explaining that her inspirations for…

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Preview: Wynd #1 – The Surprise New Series from BOOM! Studios Comes to Print and Digital in June Courtesy of James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas and Aditya Bidikar

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 21, 2020

Following their announcement of the surprise release of new series Wynd in June, BOOM! Studios have provided us not just with interior preview pages from the first issue but also…

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Preview: Object Compendium – Kilian Eng’s “Otherworldly Landscapes and Retro-Futuristic Illustrations” Collected in One Volume by Floating World Comics in September 2020

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 20, 2020

Not strictly comics but this collection of the work of Kilian Eng via Floating World Comics looks simply stunning. It’s coming to stores in September and we have an extensive…

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Preview: A Dark Interlude – Vault Comics Teases the “Not-Quite-a-Sequel’ to ‘Fearscape’ from Ryan O’Sullivan and Andrea Mutti

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2020

A press release with a meta flourish from Vault Comics today and who can pass that up? We have to wait until November but a follow-up series (of sorts) to…

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“It’s One Thing Telling My Own Misadventures, but Dragging My Family into it Too… that Was Always in the Back of My Mind” – Danny Noble on Her Witty and Touchingly Observed Graphic Memoir ‘Shame Pudding’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2020

Danny Noble’s comics have been extensively featured here since 2014 when we first covered her autobiographical work in the pages of Monday Morning. She was one of our original Broken…

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