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Misty Presents the Jordi Badia Romero Collection – An Anthology of Classic Horror Thrills from the Pages of the Cult 1970s British Weekly for Girls

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 2, 2020

Rebellion’s fourth collection of strips from the spooky late 1970s girls weekly comic Misty takes a slightly different approach than its predecessors. Rather than pairing a couple of collected serials,…

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The Blade of Arozone II and III – J. Edward Scott’s Storytelling Confidence Grows with Every Issue of His Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Saga

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2020

J. Edward Scott’s The Blade of Arozone takes a post-apocalyptic scenario, mixes it with sword and sorcery elements, and then adds a liberal helping of social commentary to the recipe,…

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*Major Spoiler Warning* – 2000 AD Promises a Shock Revelation in Today’s Issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2020

*MAJOR SPOILER WARNING* – 2000 AD have a twist in the tale in today’s Prog so we’re not going to say too much in this introductory blurb and instead let…

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Action 2020 Special – The Notorious 1970s British Comic They Tried to Ban Returns in an All-New 21st Century Incarnation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 31, 2020

The 1970s weekly Action has become something of a legend in the history of UK comics. The brainchild of Pat Mills, that most pivotal of figures in the British industry,…

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Nothing – Gareth A Hopkins Uses His Abstract Method to Highlight the Power of Empathy

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 30, 2020

If you spend much time around the dark entries and shadowy corners that attract your average small-press aficionado, you’ll have heard the name of Gareth A Hopkins murmured often in…

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Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Online Drink and Draw, March 26, 2020 – Sample Last Night’s Fun with Our D&D Art Gallery Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2020

Last night’s edition of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw was a frantic but hugely rewarding affair as we moved the fun online for the first time…

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Retroflect: The Golem – The Strange Tale of the Bronze Age Series that Spawned an Editorial Apology from Marvel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 26, 2020

Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column here in the past. Today we return to this irregular feature…

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“My Admiration for Scientists Comes Across in the Strips, Even the Ones Where I’m Teasing Them” – Tom Gauld Talks ‘Department of Mind-Blowing Theories’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 25, 2020

In a world struggling not just with a pandemic but a general aversion towards the cultivation of a scientific temperament, the presence of a new book by Tom Gauld seems…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Goes Online! – Join Us Thurs, March 26th for our First Digital Edition with Guests Gareth Brookes, Jenny Robins and Will Humberstone!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 25, 2020

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this week, retooled and re-imagined as an online extravaganza! We’ll be kicking off tomorrow, Thursday March 26, at 7.30pm…

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Don’t Go Without Me – Shortbox Presents Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s Trio of Surreal, Otherwordly Narratives

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • March 24, 2020

In Don’t Go Without Me, Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s masterful comic storytelling takes us to three extensively detailed, captivating worlds where we are given space to reflect on love and memory, and…

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Preview: Stone Fruit – Lee Lai’s Debut Graphic Novel Coming in 2021 from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2020

When something is spoken of as a story that “could only be told through comics” it’s always going to pique our interest here at BF. That’s how Fantagraphics publisher Gary…

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Preview: Victory Point – Owen D. Pomery’s Second Graphic Novel of 2020 Debuts this Summer from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2020

Hot on the heels of his recent bleak thriller British Ice from Top Shelf Productions, creator Owen D. Pomery follows up this summer with his second graphic novel Victory Point…

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Floating – An Immediate and Resonant Study of Feeling Lost from 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Pigeon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2020

Sometimes brevity can be the most powerful tool in expressing emotion or message. Floating by Pigeon (aka Kamila Król, one of this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists) is…

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An Open Letter to Comic Readers – How You Can Help Support Your Local Comics Shops During the Current Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2020

With recent events already having a notable impact on comics retail, our friends and collaborative partners at London’s Gosh! Comics have sent us this open letter to comics readers about…

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Berserker Unbound Vol. 1 – Jeff Lemire, Mike Deodato, Jr. and Co Bring Us Sword and Sorcery Action with a Very Human Heart from Dark Horse Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2020

Back in the 1980s when Marvel had a little more… shall we say… restraint about their Conan license they published a couple of issues of “imaginary” series What If…? that…

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Wage Slaves – Daria Bogdańska Exposes Immigrant Exploitation in Bold Graphic Memoir from Centrala

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • March 19, 2020

Wage Slaves brings an audacious openness to some unknown realities: being an immigrant and having very little money, and the ease at which certain employers and institutions can exploit these…

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The Worlds of 2000 AD Return to Audio as Rebellion Announce New Audiobook Partnership with Penguin Random House

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 19, 2020

It’s not the first time that the worlds of 2000 AD have come to audio with Dirk Maggs producing a Judge Dredd series for BBC Radio in the 1990s and…

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Talking to Strangers: A Memoir of My Escape from a Cult – To Find Out What Life in a Cult is Really Like, Pick Up Marianne Boucher’s Graphic Memoir 

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 18, 2020

I had no idea what a deprogrammer was until I read Talking to Strangers. It sounded like the kind of title one would give a computer technician, which is why…

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