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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, August 26th for Our ‘Classic Covers’ Evening!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 25, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, August 26th for another comics extravaganza with our first…

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A Pocket Chiller: Mutton Chops – Ovine Suspense from Olivia Sullivan in this Psychogeographical Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 24, 2021

Strip for Me’s A Pocket Chiller line promises “new nightmares and strange visions from a world next to yours”. Its line-up of UK indie and alt talent to date has…

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60 Percent Chance of Raining – Namsai Khaobor’s Atmospheric Tale of “Unrequited Love and Loneliness”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2021

One of the most pleasing things about how our small press coverage has developed here at Broken Frontier over the years is the way that our reach has grown so…

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How to Pick a Fight – Lara Kaminoff’s Likeable Coming-of-Age Story is a Quirky and Energetic Affair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 20, 2021

Disillusioned with life in his cramped family house, and determined to achieve his dream of becoming a champion fighter, young Jimmy runs away from home seeking his fortune elsewhere. His…

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Thought Bubble Launches the Comic Book Donation Drive – New Community Initiative Looks to Expand Readership of the Form

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 20, 2021

We love to shine a spotlight on a good comics community project here at Broken Frontier and Thought Bubble’s Comic Book Drive certainly fits that category. Details on a really…

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It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be – Lizzy Stewart Shows Us in Her Gentle, Raw Way How Beautiful and Foolish We Look, Trying to Live Our Lives with Any Sort of Continuity in this World

  • by Jenny Robins
  • August 19, 2021

In It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be, Lizzy Stewart shows us in her gentle, raw way, how beautiful and foolish we look, trying to live our lives with…

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Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver Spotlights Six Projects from the #SPDBFREVIEW One-Tweet Reviews on Small Press Day 2021

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 18, 2021

With the UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day remaining an online event this year I took to Twitter again to write one-tweet reviews of your small press comics with the…

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Preview: Lunar Room #1 – Vault Announce New Werewolf Series by Danny Lore and Gio Sposito for November 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 17, 2021

Hitting shelves not long after Halloween this year, Lunar Room is a new Vault Comics werewolf series with a fantasy/crime twist. Check out the details and preview art in the…

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Preview: Misty Presents the Jaume Rumeu Collection – Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics to Reprint Another Classic Collection of Supernatural Strips this Autumn

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 16, 2021

Another volume of reprints from classic UK weekly Misty is always welcome and this November sees yet another volume from the Treasury of British Comics. This one spotlights Spanish artist…

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ShortBox Comics Fair 2021 – Exclusive Digital Releases from 48 Creators to Debut During October’s Month-Long Online Event

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 16, 2021

As comics festivals and fairs have continued to adapt and evolve online in response to the events of the last 18 months there’s been a growing move towards events that…

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mini kuš! #98: World Ceramic Fair – The Insidious Nature of Casual Racism Laid Bare by Jooyoung Kim

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 13, 2021

Finishing up our coverage of the Spring minicomics releases from Latvian publisher kuš! comics today at Broken Frontier we take a look at ‘World Ceramic Fair’ by Jooyoung Kim, #98…

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mini kuš! #97: BLINK – Peruvian Artist Martín López Lam Takes Us to a World of “Lazy and Libertine Monsters”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 12, 2021

If you’ve been following this week’s coverage of some of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series then you’ll be aware already of how eclectic a range it is. While…

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mini kuš! #96: Bridge – Matt Madden’s Reality-Warping Tale Plays with Comics’ Unique Relationship with the Passage of Time

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 11, 2021

Matt Madden’s recent mini kuš! offering ‘Bridge’ began life as a 24-hour comic, with an added requirement that a decade would pass between each page. In some ways it’s perhaps…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, August 12th with Guest Artists Sharon Lee De La Cruz and Gareth A Hopkins

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 10, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, August 12th for another comics extravaganza with guest artists…

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mini kuš! #95: Before the Pandemic There Was a Touch Football Tourney – David Collier Takes Us Back to the Days When Our Lives Changed Forever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2021

Once more I find myself remarking on how vitally important the empathetic quality of comics as a form is and will be when it comes to a social record of…

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Parasomnia #1- Bunn & Mutti Embark on a Befuddling Journey through Dream and Waking Life from Dark Horse Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • August 9, 2021

A stranger rides on horseback through haunted woods and towns in search of a missing boy, presumably his own son. He wears a bicorne hat and moves like a silver-screen…

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Represented Immobilized – The Autobio Comics of Rick Trembles Provide a Colourful and Unrestrained Collection of Outrageous Anecdotes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 6, 2021

One of the joys of following the publishing output of as eclectic a publisher as Conundrum Press has been discovering not just new voices from the North American scene but…

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Texas Tracts: Holy Diver – Rachelle Meyer Subverts the Format of the Notorious Chick Tracts with a Wry Slice-of-Life Appeal

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2021

Jack Chick’s Chick Tracts – religious mini-comics with a (to say the least) conservative Christian agenda – have been notorious for some decades for their hellfire and damnation-style approach to…

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