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Helem – Two Lives at Critical Junctures Are at the Forefront of Stanley Wany’s Visual Stream-of-Consciousness Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 15, 2022

A quick online search for the word “Helem” – the name of Stanley Wany’s eerie graphic journey through the psyches of two lost characters – reveals that the name has…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, March 17th for Another ‘Classic Covers’ Night

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 14, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, March 17th with another ‘Classic Covers’ night. Not only do…

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Yoshin: Tales of the Tohoku Earthquake Ten Years On – Digital-First Anthology Includes Work from Emerging and Internationally Acclaimed Comics Artists

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 11, 2022

A new digital, app-led anthology Yoshin; Tales of the Tohoku Earthquake Ten Years On features illustrations from a number of Broken Frontier-championed artists including our ‘Six to Watch’ creators Jem Milton…

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Not Because of the People – David Allison’s Collection of Experimental Comics Narratives Take Us on a Tense and Brooding Journey Into Psychogeographical Horror

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2022

Psychogeographical comics are perhaps more widely acknowledged for their autobiographical explorations of the intersections between place, time and memory. But there are other strands to this area of graphic narrative,…

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Reveal! – New Initiative Championing the Work of Women Comics Creators from East Africa Announced

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 9, 2022

Exciting news today from the direction of LDComics‘ latest newsletter that, following the receipt of a British Council International Collaboration award, the ‘REVEAL! Women’s Comics East Africa-UK’ initiative will soon…

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Little Monsters #1 – What Secrets Lurk at the Heart of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s New Post-Apocalyptic Horror Series from Image?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2022

I went into Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s new Image Comics series Little Monsters completely blind, not having read so much as a press release or even a line of…

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The Domesticated Afterlife – Scott Finch Introduces Us to His Absurdist World in an Ambitious and Impressive Read

  • by Jon Aye
  • March 8, 2022

At about the midway point in Scott Finch’s The Domesticated Afterlife, one character advises another: ‘Things are getting weird. Roll with it.’ He’s right, of course, but he’s understating, and…

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Catalyst – SelfMadeHero’s Anthology Champions Emerging Creators of Colour Including Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artists Dominique Duong and Jason Chuang

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 7, 2022

It’s a most appropriate time to be looking at SelfMadeHero’s Catalyst anthology – the end product of their 2021 Graphic Anthology Programme designed to mentor and champion emerging creators of…

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Sorry for the Inconvenience… We Are Trying to Save the World – As the UK’s Conservative Government Looks to Suppress Fundamental Human Rights Myfanwy Tristram Reminds Us of the History of Protest

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 4, 2022

Emerging from an Inktober-related exercise, Myfanwy Tristram’s Sorry for the Inconvenience… We Are Trying to Save the World (the title coming from an Extinction Rebellion placard) is an 80-page celebration…

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Filmmaker Kevin Smith to Launch New Secret Stash Press Line of Comics at Dark Horse Later in 2022

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 4, 2022

One final news update to go into the weekend with the news that acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Smith is to launch a new line of comics with Dark Horse. Full details…

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Preview: The Realist: Last Day on Earth – Asaf Hanuka’s Autobio Graphic Novel Coming from Archaia in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 3, 2022

Time for a sneak peek at another upcoming comics project. This time Asaf Hanuka’s The Realist: Last Day on Earth, another collection of autobio work published by BOOM! Studios/Archaia in…

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mini kuš! #105: Li’l Jormly – Funny Animal Comics Pastiche Meets Capitalism-Induced Existential Terror in Christopher Sperandio’s Comics Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2022

One of the great delights of every four-issue batch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! range is you never know quite what you’re going to get from its series…

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London’s Cartoon Museum and SelfMadeHero Launch ‘Catalyst’ Online Exhibition Spotlighting Emerging Creators of Colour

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 2, 2022

London’s Cartoon Museum and publisher SelfMadeHero have announced a new online exhibition centred around the recent Catalyst anthology, a collection of stories designed to put a spotlight on emerging creators…

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Scaredy Cat Gets Pregnant Part 1 – Lilly Williams’ Pandemic Journey from Pregnancy to Parenting

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2022

Lilly Williams’ Scaredy Cat Gets Pregnant Part 1 is another reminder, if we needed one, of the breadth of approaches to capturing personal experience over the last two years of…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, March 3rd for an International Women’s Day Special with Guest Artists Kay Sohini, Štěpánka Jislová and Jenny Robins

  • by Jenny Robins
  • February 28, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, March 3rd with guest artists Kay Sohini and Štěpánka Jislová….

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mini kuš! #103: Grandad Reg – Clara Heathcock and Patrick Wray Explore Themes of Loss and Acceptance During the Pandemic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 25, 2022

Another entry in the vitally important and ever growing area of pandemic comics, Grandad Reg tell a story that is deeply personal and yet, sadly, simultaneously all too recognisable. Issue…

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Jumping Mouse Volume 1 – The First Chapter of Ali Hodgson’s Graphic-Memoir-in-Progress Shows Great Promise

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2022

If, like me, your perception of time has become so skewed since March 2020 that a few months ago can seem simultaneously like years ago and also yesterday afternoon, then…

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“Despair Only Aids the Enemies of Democracy” – Darryl Cunningham Warns Us About Putin in ‘Putin’s Russia’, His Latest Book for Myriad Editions and Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 23, 2022

To immerse oneself in a book by Darryl Cunningham is the equivalent of signing up for a history lesson by a particularly engaging lecturer. This isn’t only because of his…

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