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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, May 6th for a Treasury of British Comics Special with Guest Artist Olivia Hicks

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 5, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, May 6th with a…

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Concrete Surfer – Skateboarding Rivalry and Family Drama in this Classic British Strip from the Pages of ‘Jinty’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 4, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! One of the staples of 1970s UK girls comics serials – including today’s review subject Concrete Surfer – was the story of the orphaned (or…

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The Best of Sugar Jones – Pat Mills and Rafael Busóm Clúa’s Biting 1970s Commentary on the Excesses of Celebrity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 4, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! Running from the early 1970s to 1980, Pink was a magazine for the British teen girls market, with its mix of pop features, fashion and…

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Billy’s Boots Vol. 1 – The Legacy of ‘Dead-Shot’ Keen Explored in this Treasury of British Comics Collection of the Much Loved Football Strip

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! First appearing in the pages of British football anthology Scorcher in 1970, Billy’s Boots was a serialised strip that would find a home in a…

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Crowdfunding Corner: Sensory: Life on the Spectrum – Over 30 Artists Come Together to Talk About Their Experiences of Autism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2021

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

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The Vigilant – A Loving Celebration of British Comics History, Updated and Revamped for a New Audience of Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! When Rebellion acquired their rich library of vintage IPC/Fleetway British comics characters a few years back it was very clear from the outset that celebrating…

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Welcome to Treasury of British Comics Week at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2021

It’s been a little while since we last ran a themed week at Broken Frontier, but over the next few days look for a mini-event of coverage focusing on Rebellion’s…

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Jules Verne’s Lighthouse #1 – Futuristic Adaptation Misses the Mark as Image Comics’s Next Great Sci-Fi Epic

  • by John Trigonis
  • May 3, 2021

Image Comics, in collaboration with Anomaly Productions and Shadowline, launches us into the Jules Verne story The Lighthouse at the End of the World––with a science-fiction twist. Located at a…

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Crowdfunding Corner: Rusalka Part 1 – Back the First Longer-Form Work by Polish Artist Pigeon and Discover One of the Most Exciting New Voices in Small Press Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 30, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature has been somewhat irregular since we first went into lockdown last year, with coverage of campaigns being featured elsewhere on the site in early reviews and…

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Ex.Mag Vol. 3: Crumbling Kingdom – Latest Peow Anthology Heralds the Misfortune, Misanthropy and Misery of the Dark Fantasy Genre (With Just the Right Amount of Wit and Whimsy to Sweeten the Pot)

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • April 29, 2021

This whopping 192-page collection by Peow is their latest in a series of genre-based anthologies. As noted in the preliminary pages of Ex.Mag Vol. 3, the anthologies were brought about…

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Preview: Super Magic Forest – Revival House Press to Publish Latvian Artist Ansis Puriņš’ Fantasy Graphic Novel this May

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 28, 2021

Given our emphasis on the small press here at Broken Frontier it’s always great to hear stories of self-published artists being picked up by publishers. We have a press release…

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Dead Dog’s Bite #1-2 – Tyler Boss Gives the Reader a Knowing Wink in His Enjoyable Small-Town Mystery

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 27, 2021

Comics auteur Tyler Boss clearly believes that If you want something done, you should do it yourself. For Dead Dog’s Bite, a four-issue mystery with hints of humour from Dark…

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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History – David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s Comics Biography is a Remarkable and Essential Read

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2021

Over half a century since the formation of the Black Panther Party – the African American revolutionary party founded in Oakland in 1966 by students Bobbly Seale and Huey P….

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Drawing Diversity – Institut Français Hosts Online Discussion on Representation in Comics this Thurs April 29th with Woodrow Phoenix, Lucie Quéméner, Barrack Rima and Emma Hayley

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 26, 2021

Drawing Diversity is an online discussion on representation in comics that will doubtless be of great interest to Broken Frontier readers and can be viewed on YouTube this Thursday, April…

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The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1 – A Tremendous and Exciting New Series on Reincarnation and Mythology by Ram V, Filipe Andrade and Co

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • April 23, 2021

As the saying goes, nothing is certain except for death and taxes. While we live our finite lives, we’re going to pay for it, one way or another. Laila Starr…

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The Silver Coin #1 – Zdarsky and Walsh’s Tale is Your Ticket to Fear Incarnate in the New Image Comics Horror Series

  • by John Trigonis
  • April 23, 2021

As the first tale of terror in The Silver Coin #1, a new anthology series from Image Comics, ‘The Ticket’ by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Michael Walsh delivers a…

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Snelson: Comedy is Dying – Paul Constant and Fred Harper’s New Ahoy Comics Series Sets Its Satirical Sights on “Cancel Culture”

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 22, 2021

Ahoy Comics’s output has been one of the true joys of the serial comics publishing model over the last couple of years. Books like Billionaire Island, Second Coming and Happy…

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Exclusive Preview: Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Ultimate Championship Edition – Graphic Universe to Publish Josh Hicks’s Grappling Comics Classic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2021

Sometimes here at BF we’re aware of exciting developments well in advance of their official announcements. When it’s to do with our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists it makes…

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