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Getting It Together – Sweet Slice-of-Life Relationship Stories for the Modern Era

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 26, 2021

The world is falling apart, and Jack is stuck in the middle. Well, at least the relationship between Jack’s best friend Sam and Jack’s sister (and roommate) Lauren is. The…

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Joe Stone Announces the Return of the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair as a Month-Long Online Event in September 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 25, 2021

One of the true highlights of the UK indie comics circuit of 2019 was the inaugural edition of the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair. A joyous day of small press…

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“This Series is All About Introducing Sexuality, Gender and Related Topics in an Engaging, Accessible and Somewhat Playful Way” – Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele on Their Icon Books ‘Graphic Guides’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 25, 2021

Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele‘s Graphic Guides from Icon Books have already been met with great critical acclaim for their concise and easily digestible account of the intricacies of the…

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#threefingers for Myanmar – New Cartoonist Initiative Launches to Raise Awareness of Life in Myanmar After the Military Coup

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 24, 2021

As we are all aware, back in early February the military staged a coup in Myanmar. It resulted in the detainment of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members…

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The Department of Truth Vol. 1: The End of the World – A Hypnotic and Horrifying Masterpiece on Conspiracies and Beliefs from Tynion IV, Simmonds and Bidikar

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 24, 2021

Phillip K. Dick once said “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” But, ironically enough, the paranoid sci-fi author never fully believed this saying,…

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Death Machine & Gravy Train Stay Indoors – Josh Hicks Revisits His ‘Glorious Wrestling Alliance’ Cast in Lockdown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2021

While diary comics and graphic medicine anthologies surrounding the events of the last year have been in plentiful supply fiction – particularly fiction focusing on established characters with a long-running…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, March 25th with Guest Artists Josh Hicks and David Robertson

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 23, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, March 25th with a couple of likely lads who…

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Two Stones – Love Finds a Way in Mollie Ray’s Delicately Rendered Comics Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2021

“Two stones, but one shape.” One of the hardest feats in comics is to meaningfully tell a story in a short and succinct page count. There’s a need to hook…

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“His Life Was Dedicated to Japan” – Zack Davisson on ‘Tōno Monogatari’ and the Legacy of Shigeru Mizuki

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 23, 2021

It’s safe to assume Zack Davisson spends as much time in the spirit world as he does in Seattle. It comes with the territory, given his roles as writer, lecturer,…

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Substrata – Olivia Sullivan and Sean Azzopardi’s Abstract Comic Looks “Beneath the Skin of Things”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2021

Substrata is a collaboration that sees two generations of UK indie comics coming together as stalwart of the British small press scene Sean Azzopardi teams up with Olivia Sullivan, undoubtedly…

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Cloud Comic Con Announced for June 18th-19th, 2021 – Crowdfunding Campaign Running to Support Online Convention

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 22, 2021

As, for the foreseeable future, we still need to celebrate our comics community online it’s no surprise to hear of more events retaining their digital approaches in 2021. Cloud Comic…

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Slightly Exaggerated #1 – A New Beautifully Rendered Fantasy from To Infinity Studios

  • by Jenny Robins
  • March 19, 2021

The sky is the limit, and also the sky is the sea. A new beautifully rendered fantasy. Slightly Exaggerated  is described as “a treasure hunt fantasy adventure where a dying…

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Preview: Basilisk #1 – New Horror Series by Cullen Bunn and Jonas Scharf Debuts from BOOM! Studios in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 19, 2021

Prolific horror comics writer Cullen Bunn teams up with artist Jonas Scharf this June for new supernatural series Basilisk from BOOM! Studios. We have a preview below today at BF….

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“Quindrie is Centred on the Idea of Helping Creators to Publish Passion Project Comics” – Quindrie Press Founder Eve Greenwood on Amplifying Emerging and Marginalised Voices

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 18, 2021

With four gorgeously illustrated comics currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, new small press publisher Quindrie Press have already made a huge impact before their first books have been published. Their stated…

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Post York – Dark Horse Delivers a Gorgeous (and Murky) Drenched Post-Apocalypse by James Romberger

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 17, 2021

Post York is a graphic novel of few words, but its concerns are neatly summarised by its epigraph: Michel Foucault saying how “man is an invention of recent date. And…

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Tōno Monogatari – Shigeru Mizuki Introduces New Readers to the Supernatural Wonder of this Japanese Classic

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 17, 2021

It’s interesting to consider that one of the most popular versions of Tōno Monogatari, Japan’s supernatural literary classic, was born because of one man’s desire to protect his country’s cultural…

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Sunshine State – John Carvajal’s Slice-of-Life Explores the Tension Between Uncertainty and Self-Identity

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • March 16, 2021

In Sunshine State, John Carvajal takes us along for the ride as we follow Milo, stumbling through life, trying to find his feet. Carvajal’s watercolours are evocative of these youthful, washed…

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NBM Graphic Novels List Announced for Summer 2021-Winter 2022 – Includes ‘Canciones of Federico Garcia Lorca’ by the Late, Great Tobias Tak

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 16, 2021

NBM have announced their upcoming releases for the second half of this year which include work from the late Tobias Tak, whose contributions to anthologies like The Comix Reader, Tiny…

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