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Crowdfunding Corner: Avery Hill Publishing Spring 2022 Line – Three Top Books to Back from George Wylesol, Taki Soma and Claire Scully

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2021

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

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LDN – RAMZEE and Company Take Us on a Tour of the Vibrancy and Diversity of a Capital City

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2021

Reading RAMZEE’s first long-form book LDN I was struck by how his role with this anthology collection went beyond that of creator (he writes the multiple stories compiled herein and…

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TKO Studios Announce TKO Rogue, a New Imprint Dedicated to Releasing Novels and Illustrated Fiction

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 19, 2021

TKO Studios has announced TKO Rogue, a brand new imprint for 2022. Full details and cover reveals in the press release below. New York, NY – Independent publisher TKO Studios…

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The Catalogue of Tiredness – Insomnia Classified in its Many Forms in Jessika Green’s Zine-Style Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2021

Back in the summer, as part of the online Small Press Day events programming I spent many hours giving SPD “one-tweet reviews” to anyone who posted four pages from their…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, November 18th with Guest Artist KitsuneArt

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 17, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, November 18th featuring guest artist KitsuneArt. Not only do…

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Laughter Lab: What’s So Funny? – New Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum Looks to Uncover the Science Behind Funniness

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 16, 2021

Details about a very different kind of exhibition running between November and June today from our friends at London’s Cartoon Museum. The full press release for ‘Laughter Lab’ below… Laughter…

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The 12th Annual East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest to Run as Hybrid Event in 2021 on Dec 11-12

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 15, 2021

We always like to give a boost to indie and grassroots publishing events at Broken Frontier. Details below on this year’s East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest. Don’t forget…

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Reckless: Destroy All Monsters – A Solid, Melancholic Instalment of Brubaker and the Phillips’ Stellar Series

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • November 15, 2021

In typical pulp paperback pace, Destroy All Monsters is the third Reckless book that Brubaker and Phillips have published in a year. But within the world of Reckless, quite a…

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Sarararara: Homecoming – Hicks! Gives Us a Distinctly ‘Carry on Archie’ Vibe as the 1950s Teen Parody Series Comes to a Close

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! The third instalment in the series, Sarararara: Homecoming returns to Hicks!’s darkly comedic 1950s high school world where Archie Comics-style goofiness is warped into something altogether more…

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Wolvendaughter – Ver’s Fantasy One-Shot on the Cycle of Death and Rebirth from Quindrie Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT 2021! Ver’s Wolvendaughter was one of the original batch of releases from Quindrie Press, the Scottish micropublisher who burst onto the indie comics scene this year with…

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When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria – A Richly Peopled and Heartfelt Compilation of Positive Stories of Trans Identity

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 12, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria is the first comic anthology from Edinburgh-based indie comics publisher Quindrie Press. It Kickstarted in September, making substantially more than…

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Where to Find Our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artists at Thought Bubble 2021!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT 2021! With Thought Bubble looming there are, of course, scores of fantastically talented exhibitors to investigate in Harrogate this coming weekend, and many comics debuting there you…

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Reppion and Penman’s Arthurian Adaptation is a Narrative Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! From Sherlock Holmes to M.R. James to Alice in Wonderland, John Reppion (alongside Leah Moore) has a proven track record in adapting classic literature to comics. Debuting…

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Endswell #3 – Peter Morey’s Family Epic Takes Another Unexpected Sidestep in ‘Swanny’, the Strongest Episode Yet

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Returning to his autobiographical comic Endswell, Peter Morey takes another unexpected sidestep in a series which continues to surprise with its multiple perspectives on intergenerational family life…

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Really Horrible Folk – Douglas Noble Entertains Us with Another Collection of Unsettling Monologues from “a Choir of Desperate Voices”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! The fourth in Douglas Noble’s Horrible Folk series, the Thought Bubble-debuting Really Horrible Folk is another collection of brief but unsettling monologues from “a choir of desperate…

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FML Comics #5 -Natasha Natarajan Immerses Us in the Immediacy of the Moment in Another Collection of Candid Autobio Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Earlier this year at Broken Frontier our Jenny Robins interviewed artist Natasha Natarajan about her autobiographical comics collection FML Comics, the first four issues compiled into one…

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Three Comics – Peony Gent’s Latest Collection of Graphic Poetry is the Perfect Introduction to Her Boundary-Pushing Comics Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Events like Thought Bubble offer us an opportunity not just to celebrate the things we love about comics but also to make other discoveries, to open ourselves…

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One for the Road – Sean Azzopardi Returns to Autobio Comics with a Wistful Yet Forward-Looking Piece on Moving On

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Over the last couple of years Sean Azzopardi has stepped back a little from regular autobiographical work to take his practice in other directions. Although arguably best…

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