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“I Wanted to Make it Feel Like a Celebration of the Medium” – Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Founder Joe Stone on What to Expect from HCZF 2021

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2021

HCZF MONTH! This year’s month-long Hackney Comic + Zine Fair kicked off over the weekend with great fanfare on social media. The brainchild of comics community activist Joe Stone this…

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Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Launches this Saturday, September 4th – Look Out for a Month of #HCZF Coverage Here at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 3, 2021

HCZF MONTH! Hackney Comic + Zine Fair kicks off tomorrow Saturday, September 4th promising a month of indie comics and DIY culture goodness from an amazingly eclectic and diverse line-up…

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Inside Look: Such, Such Were the Joys – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on Pluto Press’s George Orwell Adaptation by Sean Michael Wilson and Jaime Huxtable

  • by Sean Michael Wilson
  • September 2, 2021

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…

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A Pocket Chiller: Speckle & Ash – Fraser Geesin’s Horror Double Bill Combines Borderline Nihilism and Optmistic Fatalism

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 1, 2021

While my coverage to date of the A Pocket Chiller series from Strip for Me has been perhaps a touch sporadic – cherry picking issues from a publishing output so…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms – Frasier and Wise’s Queer YA Graphic Novel is a Heartwarming Delight

  • by Holly Raidl
  • August 31, 2021

Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms gets straight into the story, introducing us to all the characters through its high school setting. Annie is academically gifted but brash, which is what…

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ZineZilla – The UWE Illustration + Zine Fair Comes to Bristol on Saturday, September 18th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 30, 2021

A new small press event is always something to celebrate and ZineZilla, debuting on Saturday September 18th in Bristol, is particularly of note to us here at Broken Frontier given…

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Fantagraphics to Publish ‘Keeping Two’ by Jordan Crane in March of 2022

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 30, 2021

News of a major new release from Fantagraphics coming in the first quarter of next year. The full press release with details of Keeping Two by Jordan Crane runs below….

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“She is Beginning to Realize that She is Not so Young Anymore” – An Interview with Walter Scott, Creator of Wendy

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 30, 2021

It’s hard to explain why Wendy, the awkward, funny millennial created by artist Walter Scott not so long ago, continues to be so relatable. She has played a starring role…

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Preview: Better Angels – Jeff Jensen and George Schall’s ‘Kate Warne Adventure’ Debuts this October from BOOM! Studios/Archaia

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 27, 2021

To take us into the weekend today at BF, an advance look at the BOOM! Studios/Archaia Better Angels graphic novel coming this October… BOOM! Studios today revealed a new look…

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Night Bus – Artist Zuo Ma’s Debut for Drawn & Quarterly Uses Surrealism and Humour to Make Sense of a Fast-Changing China

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 26, 2021

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was once asked a series of questions by other artists from around the world, one of which came from German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘In free…

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Quivertree – The Symbolic and the Actual Mirror Each Other in Distorted Reflection in More Boundary-Pushing Work from Mereida

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2021

In some ways I feel like a bit of a cheat when approaching a review of the deliberately enigmatic short comic Quivertree by our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’…

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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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