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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including 2dcloud Spring 2019, Finding Home, The Life and Times of Butch Dykes and Griff Gristle: The Endless Voyage

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 17, 2019

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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Malty Heave #1 – Phil Elliott and Robert Wells Re-Imagine ‘Heavy Metal’ with a Satirical Edge

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2019

Walking a fine line between cutting satire and fond parody, Malty Heave is a one-shot, tongue-in-cheek, sci-fi special collaboration between Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain)) and Phil Elliott;…

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Gender Queer: A Memoir – Maia Kobabe Explains What it Means to Be Non-Binary and Asexual in Eir Vitally Important Graphic Memoir from Lion Forge

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 15, 2019

“I don’t want to be a girl. I don’t want to be a boy either. I just want to be myself.” By the very nature of the form – that…

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Koyama Press Announces Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Season! – New Books from GG, Connor Willumsen, Michael DeForge, Keiler Roberts, Patrick Kyle and Ben Passmore

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 14, 2019

One of the most vitally important indie publishers in comics have announced their Fall 2019/Winter 2020 line-up and it’s an awe-inspiring collection of projects and creators. Koyama Press‘s next batch…

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Cannabis: An American History – Graphic Journalism at Its Most Piercing and Commanding from Box Brown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 13, 2019

Part biography, part social commentary, and part scathing skewering of fearmongering and dubious science, Box Brown’s Cannabis: An American History (published in the UK by SelfMadeHero and in the US…

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When I Arrived at the Castle – Emily Carroll’s Intense Character Study from Koyama Press is as Hypnotic as it is Terrifying

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 9, 2019

True narrative horror is as much about what isn’t said – what is left to the readers’ interpretation and imagination – as it is about the genre’s more overt and…

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Babyface – Alice Urbino’s Signature Line in Body Horror Poignantly Touches on Familiar Themes of Identity and Acceptance

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2019

Hot on the heels of her recent minicomic Blindenhund comes Babyface, another enticingly macabre graphic medicine/body horror hybrid comic from the distinctive vision of original Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press…

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Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Debuts at London Fields Arches this September

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 8, 2019

With a number of respected London small press and indie fairs like CECAF, SLCZF and Safari Festival either on hiatus for the moment or having drawn to a close over…

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Little Girls – Aflleje and DeLaine’s Supernatural Chiller is also a Touching Celebration of the Bonds of Friendship

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2019

Harar, Ethiopia, the early 2000s, and Sam is struggling to fit in at her new school. Constantly uprooted due to her father’s work, she makes a new friend in local…

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Radiator Comics to Publish Whit Taylor’s Minicomic Series ‘Fizzle’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 2, 2019

We have news today at BF from Radiator Comics who have announced they’ll be publishing Whit Taylor‘s Fizzle minicomics beginning with editions of the first two issues at CAKE in…

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Gogor #1 – Ken Garing’s Image Fantasy Series May Just Be the Serial Comics Sleeper Hit of the Year

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 1, 2019

Ken Garing’s new fantasy series Gogor, published by Image Comics, immediately grabs the reader’s attention with a tumultuously paced opening chase scene. It’s so immersive an experience that it leaves…

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Memoirs of a Book Thief – The Pretensions of 1950s Parisian Literary Society Are Skewered in Tota and Van Hove’s SelfMadeHero Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 29, 2019

Daniel Brodin is a man of many facets, few of them admirable. He considers himself a bibliophile but his love of prose is enabled by his practice of pilfering from…

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Bystander – Kadak Collective Announce New Anthology of Work by South Asian Women, Non-Binary and Queer Creators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2019

I first met some of the creators who make up the Kadak Collective three years ago at the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF). Their work was so exciting…

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Get Me a Snickers – A Witty Collection of Oddball Comics Shorts from Sophie Burrows

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 25, 2019

The last time we looked at the work of Sophie Burrows here at Broken Frontier it was for comics of a very different style. You can catch our Tom Murphy’s…

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Blindenhund – The Eerie Worlds of Alice Urbino Revisited in a Minicomic Tale of the Strangest of Friendships

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2019

While her comics influences range from Charles Burns to Junji Ito, Alice Urbino’s artistic style is uniquely her own; an Urbino-esque oeuvre that on a surface level embodies the unsettling…

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On Vinyl – Lorenz Peter’s Ode to Collecting Reminds Us of the Intimate Relationship Between Nostalgia and Melancholy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2019

Almost a sequential art ode to (specifically) vinyl records, and more generally to the joy of collecting and the nostalgia rush it brings, Lorenz Peter’s On Vinyl comes to us courtesy…

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Cat Festival – Shazleen Khan’s ‘Buuza!!’ One-Shot is a Joyous Celebration of Friendship and Family

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2019

Having enjoyed her self-published work in the past, I’ve been wanting to give Shazleen Khan’s comics some Broken Frontier space for some time now but have sadly never quite managed…

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Tumult – John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Layered and Twisting SelfMadeHero Thriller Keeps the Reader Guessing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 22, 2019

When we first meet central character Adam Whistler in John Harris Dunning and Michael Kennedy’s Tumult he’s a man in the midst of a self-destructive, existential crisis. The music video/commercials…

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