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“We Don’t Believe You Can Really Put a Price on the Joy that Art Brings People” – Ashling Larkin and Cat Laird on the New CHIP Collective Anthology ‘Working In: The Arts’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 22, 2021

Currently funding on Kickstarter, Working In: The Arts is the latest anthology offering from the CHIP Collective. This collection of comics looks to highlight “the HUGE variety of potential career…

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Resistance Sustenance Protection – Rachael House’s Essential Collection of Pandemic Comics is in Turns Scathing, Compassionate, Empathetic and Funny

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2021

I have said it before here at Broken Frontier and I shall say it again today. I do not believe we can overestimate how invaluable a social document pandemic comics…

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The Dancing Plague – One of History’s Most Mysterious Unexplained Events Revisited in Graphic Novel Form by Gareth Brookes and SelfMadeHero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 16, 2021

New comics work from Gareth Brookes – whether it be experimental zines and minicomics or full-length graphic novel – is always to be eagerly anticipated such is his dedication to…

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The Delicacy – James Albon Takes His Characters on a Dark Fungi-Fuelled Journey of Gastronomic Ambition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2021

There’s something intimately appealing about a graphic narrative that so deftly wrongfoots the reader by taking them in one assumed direction before turning their expectations on their head. I went…

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“The Central Conflict in Any Artist’s Life is Inherently Compromise” – Dave Baker and Nicole Goux Talk About ‘Everyone Is Tulip’ from Dark Horse Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2021

Out this month from creators Nicole Goux and Dave Baker, with colours by Ellie Hall, Everyone Is Tulip is set to be one of the year’s most thought-provoking graphic novels….

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Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Shangomola Edunjobi Launches New ‘Dragondown’ Fantasy Webcomic Series on Instagram

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2021

2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Shangomola Edunjobi launches a major new online project as his Dragondown fantasy comic series makes its debut on Instagram. Billed as the story…

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Springtime with Badger & Vole – Howard Hardiman’s Delightful Short is Diverting, Cathartic and the Kind of Comic You Will Want to Lose Yourself In

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 2, 2021

When I say that not very much happens in Springtime with Badger & Vole it’s most assuredly not a critical observation. Nor am I damning it with faint praise by…

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The Sea Shepherd – “Defend the Oceans” with Sean Azzopardi’s Graphic Biography of the Direct Action Marine Conservation Organisation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 1, 2021

A graphic biography of the titular marine conservation organisation and its environmental activist founder Paul Watson, The Sea Shepherd marks one of long-time UK small presser Sean Azzopardi’s semi-regular digressions…

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At Any Given Time – Mollie Ray’s Minicomic is One of the Finest Pieces of Pure Craft that the Growing Graphic Medicine Sub-Genre of Pandemic Comics Has Produced

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2021

One of the most curious elements of our lockdown/pandemic existences has been the way it has forced us to examine the way we perceive the passing of time. Months merge…

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Panel by Panel: Natasha Natarajan and Jenny Robins – Book Your Place on this Cartoon Museum Online Discussion Event with a Special Discount for BF Readers!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2021

Tying into the current exhibition of Natasha Natarajan’s work in the ‘In Focus’ space at London’s Cartoon Museum, Saturday June 5th sees a special ‘Panel by Panel’ event with Natasha…

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Crowdfunding Corner: MechaTon #1 – Giant Robots, Mutant Insects and a Socially Conscious Message Combine in the First Issue of this New Serial Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature is back again today as we continue to actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot on the…

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What is Britain? – Simon Moreton’s “Imperfect Polemic” is a Quietly Damning Indictment of a Broken Country

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2021

While national pride is a philosophy I have never found myself able to subscribe to, a sense of national shame – particularly in the five years since 2016 in the…

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Brat Soup #1 – Bethany Hall and Mia Ryder Bring Us an Indie-Centric Urban Fantasy Featuring Twentysomething Angst, Punk Band Devotion and Demonic Influences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 26, 2021

A few years back I took a look at Bethany Hall’s allegorical comic Cosmo Hotel at Broken Frontier, a confidently presented piece of extended visual metaphor that I described as…

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“Making this Comic also Helped Me Slowly Get More Comfortable with My Own Identity” – Shazleen Khan Talks ‘Buuza!!’, Representation in Comics and Celebrating Art from the Muslim Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 25, 2021

One of the rising stars of the indie comics scene Shazleen Khan has just launched the Kickstarter for volume 3 of the print edition of webcomics series Buuza!!, the much…

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The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook – Matt Lubchansky’s Satire Skewers Right-Wing Rhetoric with an Unforgiving Flourish

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 20, 2021

Taking delusional right-wing thinking as its satirical starting point, Matt Lubchansky’s The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook poses the question “what if everything the right thought about the left was real?”, combining…

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“I Hear Again and Again that ‘Quarantine Comix’ Helped People Get through this Awful Year, and that is Just Amazing to Hear” – Rachael Smith Talks About Her Acclaimed Comics Series on Life in Lockdown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2021

For the best part of a decade Rachael Smith’s comics journey has weaved in and out of our coverage at Broken Frontier with a remarkable regularity. From her early self-published…

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“I’ve Connected with So Many Other Second-Generation Muslims as They Opened Up to Me About Their Experiences” – Sayra Begum on Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Mongrel’ and the Responsibilities of Autobio Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 18, 2021

One of a crop of outstanding British first-time graphic novels to hit the shelves in 2020, Mongrel by Sayra Begum incorporates autobiographical elements elements to tell the story of Shuna,…

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Preview: ELCAF Haul 2021 – Pre-Order Your Bag Full of Artistic Goodies Including Work from Alxndra Cook, Olivia Sullivan, Till Lukat, Sonali Khanna and Many More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2021

It’s been an incredible pleasure for us at Broken Frontier to have been a festival partner for ELCAF over the last few years. It’s one of the most inspiring events…

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