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Preview: Planet Divoc-91 – The Allegorical, Multimedia, Pandemic Comics Project Comes to Print with Work from Hannah Berry, Rachael Smith, Karrie Fransman, Anand RK and Many More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 7, 2022

Comics responses to the Covid pandemic have been many and varied in their approaches to the crisis, as can be seen in our list of pandemic comics resources here. Today…

Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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A Pocket Chiller: “Jeff” – Dan Cox and Fraser Geesin Invite a Ravenous House Guest to Stay in Another Taut One-Shot Horror Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 6, 2022

While I totally understand creators focussing solely on their own individual creative expression I do sometimes dream of what collaborative endeavours from different UK small pressers might look like. “Jeff”,…

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Pilcuyo: Altiplano Vol. 3 – The Grand Arc Finale to Gustaffo Vargas’s South American Cyberpunk Story Does Not Disappoint

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 5, 2022

The long-awaited grand finale of creator Gustaffo Vargas’s Peruvian cyberpunk series Altiplano is here, and it’s a denouement that does not disappoint. Pilcuyo is the third chapter in the Altiplano…

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The Brexit Effect: Part 4 – Artists on Dealing with the Mental Health Impact After Leaving the European Union, and EU National Comics Creators Talk About Dealing with Post-Brexit Xenophobia

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2022

In the fourth of our continuing discussions on the Brexit effect on the UK comics community and beyond at BF this week’s selection of creators/publishers talk about the psychological impact…

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Silver Sprocket Announce Their Publishing Line-Up for Spring 2023 – Includes Work by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, Sloane Leong and Many More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 4, 2022

We seriously need to get more Silver Sprocket coverage up here at BF! The indie comics publisher have an impressive range of titles coming in Spring 2023. Check out the…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Pigboy Chapter One – A Bleakly Appealing Opening Instalment as Tom Blackford Displays an Atypical Approach to Genre Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2022

In my most read piece ever at Broken Frontier on getting coverage for self-published work I spoke a little about my reluctance to cover small press super-hero work here on…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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Meteors – Kry Garcia’s Quietly Observed Coming-of-Age Story is Defined as Much by What Isn’t Said or Shown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 3, 2022

Kry Garcia’s Meteors is a curious comic. I certainly do not mean that in a pejorative way however, but rather to describe a short story that is idiosyncratic, unexpected and…

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Ulysses: Mahler After Joyce – Nicolas Mahler Gives Us a New Way of Reading Joyce with His Interpretation of ‘Ulysses’ For Seagull Books

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 3, 2022

It takes a bold artist to reinterpret a classic work of literature, and a supremely confident one to choose Ulysses, what many refer to as “the greatest novel in the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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45 Years of 2000 AD – New Visions of Established Faves in Rebellion’s Anniversary Art Book

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2022

Forty-five may seem a somewhat arbitrary number for a major publishing anniversary celebration. But when it spawns spin-offs like the 45 Years of 2000 AD Anniversary Art Book most of…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Sister Clawdetta: Murder at the Monastery – Tor Freeman’s Medieval Mystery for All Ages is a Fun, Anthropomorphic Romp from Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 29, 2022

It’s Tudor times and at Father Eglantine’s monastery the eighth librarian to be employed has been discovered murdered; a fate already suffered by his seven predecessors. Only one woman can…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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No One Else – R. Kikuo Johnson Explores Fractured Family Relationships in the Wake of a Bereavement

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 28, 2022

Winner of the Outstanding Graphic Novel in the 2022 Ignatz Awards, No One Else is a sensitively observed family drama from The New Yorker cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson. It’s one…

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Whit Taylor’s ‘Fizzle’ from Radiator Comics Returns at MICE 2022

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 28, 2022

The Ignatz-winning and Broken Frontier Award-nominated Fizzle by Whit Taylor returns via Radiator Comics at MICE 2022. The eagerly-awaited #4 continues the story we described as “a prime reminder of…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, September 29th for a Sammy Ward ‘All Ghosts’ Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 28, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, September 29th with a special night supporting small press creator…

Eyecatcher · Features

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The Brexit Effect: Part 3 – Creators on How the End of Freedom of Movement Has Cost Them Jobs and Will Diminish Our Comics Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 27, 2022

In the third of our continuing discussions on the Brexit effect on the UK comics community and beyond today at BF this week’s selection of creators talk about how the…

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Lucy Sullivan’s Crowdfunding Campaign for Her New Folk Horror Comic ‘SHELTER: Early Doors’ Launches

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 27, 2022

  New work by Lucy Sullivan is always an exciting prospect and last week saw the crowdfundr launch for her new comic SHELTER: Early Doors. Sullivan is the Broken Frontier…

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Preview: New ‘Bonjo From Beyond the Stars’ – Garth Ennis and Kevin O’Neill Bring Back a Forgotten Part of the Early Days of ‘2000 AD’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 27, 2022

If you’re a hardcore fan of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic then the news that near-forgotten humour strip Bonjo From Beyond The Stars is making a return 40-plus years after the…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Features · Small Pressganged

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“I’m Hoping Readers Will Take Their Time with the Art as They Decipher the Story for Themselves” – Sammy Ward on Wordless Comics and Her Love of the Fantasy and Horror Genres

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2022

One of our 2022 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, artist Sammy Ward has been building an impressive back catalogue of work in the fantasy, horror and supernatural…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Revenge of the Librarians – Tom Gauld Celebrates and Skewers Book Lovers with His New Collection for D+Q and Canongate

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 23, 2022

“Perfect cheer-me-up”, is how a reader describes Revenge of the Librarians, Tom Gauld’s latest collection of comic strips, on an online forum. As a succinct critique of everything he does,…

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