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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, April 14th with a BHP Comics ‘Bold Universe’ Special

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 13, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 14th with a special evening tying into the current…

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Ghosts in Things – It’s a Hopkins Family Affair in this Witty Cartoon Collection of Unlikely Apparitions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 12, 2022

There’s something undeniably appealing about intergenerational creative projects. We’ve seen it before on the small press scene, perhaps most notably with the stalwart presence of father and son duo Henry…

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Hell-Hued: The Periwinkle Issue – Beatrice Mossman Curates Another Spooky Collection of Colour-Themed Supernatural Stories

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 11, 2022

When Beatrice Mossman launched her horror anthology Hell-Hued in 2020 she found a novel way of theming each issue. Rather than choosing a defined subject area, a phrase or a…

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What If… UK Small Press Creators Worked on DC Characters? – 12 Comics/Artist Match-Ups We’d All Like to See!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2022

A little bit of flight of fantasy fun today at BF based on a series of Twitter posts of mine from some years ago. We’ve probably all at some point…

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Time Zone J – Julie Doucet Uses Her Distinctive Style to Dissect a Whirlwind Romance In Her Latest Book for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 7, 2022

There is an early panel in Time Zone J where a version of Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 pop art painting, Kiss II, appears to show up. One isn’t quite sure about…

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Watch the Trailer for Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Norm Konyu’s ‘The Junction’, Published on April 12th by Titan

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 6, 2022

Norm Konyu was selected to be one of our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ after his acclaimed self-published debut graphic novel The Junction wowed readers and…

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G.I.L.T. #1 – The Conventions of Temporal Adventuring Are Very Different in the Appealing First Issue of Alisa Kwitney and Mauricet’s New Ahoy Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 5, 2022

It wasn’t as if I hadn’t already fostered a sense of growing appreciation for the output of Ahoy Comics. Second Coming and Billionaire Island feature the writing of Mark Russell…

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Bryan Talbot’s Luther Arkwright: 50 Years of a British Comics Legend – Cartoon Museum Exhibition Celebrates a Landmark Piece of British Comics History this Summer

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 5, 2022

A landmark part of British comics history will be celebrated this summer at London’s Cartoon Museum. ‘Bryan Talbot’s Luther Arkwright: 50 years of a British comics legend’ will tie in…

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Pixie Lice – Amanda Vähämäki’s Unlikely Blend of Slice-of-Life and Fantasy Takes Us to a Fantastic World that Deserves Revisiting

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 4, 2022

It’s always a pleasure to give attention to a comics micropublishing outfit we haven’t spotlighted before at Broken Frontier, especially one with a focus on alt and experimental comics offerings….

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“I’m Not Surprised Canada Isn’t Helping Us” – Emily Carrington on Confronting Her Painful Past with Drawn & Quarterly’s ‘Our Little Secret’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 1, 2022

It is impossible to read Emily Carrington’s graphic memoir, Our Little Secret, dispassionately. The pages are weighed down by her documentation of a traumatic personal history, but so many panels…

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‘GirlFIEND in Paris: A Bloodthirsty Bedtime Story’ by the Pander Brothers, Coming from Dark Horse this October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 1, 2022

It’s certainly been a big week for announcements of upcoming graphic novels and collections from Dark Horse. And it’s not quite over yet. Details of GirlFIEND in Paris: A Bloodthirsty…

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Preview: Fox and Hare #1 – Jon Tsuei and Stacey Lee’s New Cyberpunk Series Launches from Vault Comics in May

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 1, 2022

As is becoming a Friday regular here at BF we have another preview to go into the weekend with. Take a look below at sample pages from Jon Tsuei and artist Stacey Lee’s…

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Sour Pickles – Clio Isadora’s Avery Hill Graphic Novel Provides Incisive Social Commentary on Privilege and the Realities of the Contemporary Student Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 31, 2022

As part of our coverage of the last in-person East London Comics and Arts Festival I covered Clio Isadora’s short comic Is it Vague in Other Dimensions?, a very individual…

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Strays – Chris W. Kim’s SelfMadeHero Graphic Novel is a Powerful and Emotional Experience

  • by Jon Aye
  • March 30, 2022

For someone that has experienced a psychological trauma, the natural impulse is to seek out a safe space and take refuge. But the problem never goes away, it simply stays…

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Dark Horse to Publish ‘Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos’, a New Graphic Novel by S. Craig Zahler

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 30, 2022

It’s been a busy few days of announcements from Dark Horse about upcoming 2022 graphic novel and collections releases. The latest is S. Craig Zahler’s Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos….

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Pretty Flavours – J. Webster Sharp’s Comics Cabinet of Curiosities is Filled with Provocatively Alluring Imagery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 29, 2022

I have been meaning to explore the work of Jemma Webster Sharp for some time at Broken Frontier given how her strikingly strange visuals consistently capture my attention every time…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, March 31st with Guest Artists Clio Isadora, Dominique Duong and Beatrice Mossman

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 29, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, March 31st with guest artists Clio Isadora, and Broken Frontier…

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Dark Horse Comics to Publish ‘Birdking’ Vol. 1 by CROM and Daniel Freedman this September

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 28, 2022

While the old adage about not judging a book by its cover is obviously not without merit, sometimes in comics there are instances where you can probably make a pretty…

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