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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! When I first started covering the work of Sean Azzopardi at Broken Frontier he had long since become one of the integral fixtures of the London small…
Venerable British war comic Commando first debuted way back in 1961 and has been a DC Thomson fixture for nearly 60 years. With its numbering now well into the 5,000s…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! The more I see of the work of Gareth A Hopkins the more convinced I become that his hypnotically compelling abstract graphic narratives are exploring the language…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! A new issue of John Riordan and Dan Cox’s brilliantly bizarre music industry send-up Hitsville UK has been something of a Thought Bubble tradition over the last…
It may be a year away but multiple award-winning artist Tillie Walden’s (Spinning, On a Sunbeam) next project from mind-body-spirit publisher Liminal 11 is one that will no doubt be…
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From a human vantage point Lauren Barnett’s Bernadette is a sedately paced affair. But then our viewpoint isn’t the important one in this tale of one cat’s ongoing conflict with the…
Exciting news from Rebellion today about their line-up of Specials for 2020. Fans of classic British comics will, no doubt, be delighted at their plans for next year’s schedule. The…
The recent news that IDW Publishing and Shelly Bond’s entertainingly eclectic Black Crown imprint were parting ways was one met with understandable sadness from fans of genuinely indie serial comics…
We’ll be trick or treating next Thursday October 31st for this month’s Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw. Time for an Autumn spook-tacular as we welcome guest creators Gareth…
This year’s Ghost Comics Festival comes to the Art School in Glasgow this Saturday October 26 with an impressive array of alternative and contemporary comics creators. Combining the type of…
Breakdown Press – those fine purveyors of the alternative, the cutting edge and the forgotten classics – have two new books debuting in November. We have the press releases and…
Time for another visit to Professor Brownstone’s vault of treasures courtesy of creator Joe Todd-Stanton and Flying Eye Books this month as the latest volume of Brownstone’s Mythical Collection –…
One of those pivotal moments in 2000 AD history, Pat Mills and Simon Bisley’s Sláine: The Horned God will be published in a special “Collector’s Edition” next year. The full…
A young boy spending a hazy summer’s day collecting frogs in a tin sets the scene for Frogcatchers, Jeff Lemire’s new graphic novella from Simon and Schuster imprint Gallery 13….
After the recent announcement of the shortlisted artists in the comics section of this year’s Arts Foundation Futures Awards there’s an opportunity to hear the final four creators in conversation…
News today from Fantagraphics about their new graphic novel series The Cloven by Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth. The full press release is below. SEATTLE, WASH., OCTOBER 8, 2019—Fantagraphics is…
Having ripped off the mob in the 1990s in one last big job, Martin (the former feared masked criminal Dead Eyes) has spent the intervening decades looking after his disabled…
Autumn is festival time in the UK and, after last month’s fantastic inaugural Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, the Broken Frontier team were at two established events this past weekend….
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