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Princess Wolf and Her Life of Darkness – Beatrix and Kristen Haas Curtis’s Joyous Meta Fantasy is a Beautiful Exploration of the Mother-Daughter Bond

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2020

It obviously goes without saying that trying to find upsides to the events of the last few months would be a pointless and inappropriate exercise. However, one thing it has…

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Whistle – Beneath the Whimsy, Louka Butzbach’s Rustic Fable Reflects Contemporary Concerns

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 25, 2020

Potatoes! Love them or hate them, you can’t ignore them! (Certainly not if you grew up in an Irish family in the 1970s.) Anyway, one of those magnificent jewels of…

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And Now, Sir — Is THIS Your Missing Gonad? – A New Perspective on the Unsettlingly Alluring World of Jim Woodring’s Frank

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2020

Something of a curio and a sidestep in the annals of Jim Woodring’s Unifactor stories And Now, Sir — Is THIS Your Missing Gonad? takes his signature anthropomorphic Frank character…

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WIP Comics Podcast Episode 13 – Joe Stone Interviews Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver on BF’s Work and Promoting Your Small Press Comic

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 21, 2020

Comics creator Joe Stone is the man behind the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, the London-based WIP Comics group for aspiring creators, and a talented comics artist himself. Indeed, Joe…

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Marvel Announces Aliens Omnibus for April 2021 – New Mega Compilation to Collect the Early Classic Dark Horse Xenomorph Comics from the Late ’80s and Early ’90s

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 20, 2020

As Marvel Omnibuses go this one is a bit of a corker! Not long after announcing that they would be taking on the Alien franchise after its decades-long residency at…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Wine: A Graphic History – An Accessible Glimpse into the Centuries-Spanning History of the Nectar of the Vine from Benoist Simmat, Daniel Casanave and SelfMadeHero

  • by John Trigonis
  • August 20, 2020

In Wine: A Graphic History, Benoist Simmat, Daniel Casanave, and SelfMadeHero offer an accessible glimpse into the centuries-spanning history of the nectar of the vine. From pioneers of the natural…

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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Spotlights Six Projects from the #SPDBFREVIEW One-Tweet Reviews on Small Press Day 2020

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 19, 2020

This past Saturday, to celebrate Small Press Day in a very Broken Frontier way, I took to Twitter  to write one-tweet reviews of small press comics with the hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW….

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Dreams of Queer Utopia – Thirteen LGBTQ+ Creators Imagine a Better Future in this Scandinavian Queer Comics Anthology

  • by Jenny Robins
  • August 18, 2020

The Dreams of Queer Utopia combines 13 different takes on the theme, compiled by editor and Finnish comic artist H-P Lehkonen and Paju Ruotsalaine from artists all over the world…

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Preview: Be Wild Be Free – Instagram Sensation Amber Fossey, aka @Zeppelinmoon, Arrives in Print Via HarperCollins

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 17, 2020

At the end of last year Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins interviewed Instagram sensation Amber Fossey, aka @Zeppelinmoon. Jenny described Fossey as “part of a growing movement of irreverent Instagram cartoonists…

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Little Lulu: The Fuzzythingus Poopi – Little Lulu First Appeared in 1935, and D+Q’s ‘Best-Of’ Collection Proves She is Still a Feminist Icon

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 14, 2020

The Lulu Moppet who first appeared in February of 1935 was a far cry from the girl millions of readers have grown familiar with in the decades since. That first…

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Get a One-Tweet Broken Frontier Review and a Shout-Out for Your Self-Published Comic from our Andy Oliver on Small Press Day 2020 with the Hashtag #SPDBFREVIEW

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 13, 2020

There’s so much going on for Small Press Day this coming Saturday August 15th as we make the move from the physical environment to the digital world for 2020. If…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Eight-Lane Runaways – Henry McCausland’s Debut Graphic Novel is a Riot of Comics Invention With Its Roots in the UK Small Press

  • by Tom Murphy
  • August 12, 2020

I was very pleased when Henry McCausland’s Eight-Lane Runaways appeared on the scrawled sheet of “new bukks” (sic) that Andy Oliver pushes under our cell doors every Sunday morning. It…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, August 13th for an ‘Insider Art’ Special Edition with Guest Artists Sofie Dodgson and Sarah Gordon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 12, 2020

It’s time for more bacchanalian bonhomie this Thursday August 13th as our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returms. As usual we’re back again at 7.30pm…

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A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities – Mady G and J.R. Zuckerberg Provide an Entertaining, Accessible and Easy-to-Read Guide to the Subject from Limerence Press

  • by Holly Raidl
  • August 11, 2020

A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G and J.R. Zuckerberg aims to provide information about LGBTQ+ identities and labels by explaining some of these numerous identities…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Zebedee and the Valentines – Abs Bailey’s Intense, Rewarding and Occasionally Trippy Character Study is a Confident and Affecting Debut Graphic Novel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 11, 2020

Zebedee and the Valentines is not the first time 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Abs Bailey has been published by Avery Hill. Two years ago, in the Comic…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Insider Art – Over 100 Creators Come Together in this Remarkable Benefit Anthology for Female and Non-Binary Retailers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2020

Launched in June, the Insider Art digital anthology aims to provide financial help for female and non-binary retailers as a response to the repercussions of the pandemic. With a playfully…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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The Last Kaiju – A Stunningly Illustrated Homage and Eco-Fable from Tobias Hamilton, Shane Melisse and Ishan Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2020

A loving homage to the Japanese Kaiju mega-monster genre of science fantasy, Tobias Hamilton and Shane Melisse’s The Last Kaiju (published by the Ishan Comics imprint) nevertheless manages to surpass…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Unknown – Anna Sommer’s Interlinked Parallel Narratives Make for a Compelling Study of Human Frailties

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 6, 2020

What makes the characters in Anna Sommer’s The Unknown so compelling is that they are all such flawed and, in some cases, almost broken individuals. Yet such is the subtlety…

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