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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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Staff Picks for March 18, 2020 – The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, X-Ray Robot, Starship Down and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 17, 2020

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre

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Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre – Verbatim Comics Reportage Brings to Life a Bloody Chapter of Social History

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 16, 2020

If we let it, time will bury everything under dust. For nearly 200 years, that’s what threatened to happen to the terrible events of August 16th 1819, when a peaceful…

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Department of the Peculiar Goes POP! #1 – The UK’s Unlikeliest Super-Team Returns Courtesy of Rol Hirst and Robert Wells

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 13, 2020

While artist Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack ( & Brain) and Malty Heave) may be more familiar to Broken Frontier readers, his collaborative partner on Department of the Peculiar…

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Stig & Tilde: Leader of the Pack – Max de Radiguès’ Teenage Twins Face a Lupine Menace in the Second Album in the Nobrow Press Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 12, 2020

It’s been a productive couple of years for Belgian creator Max de Radiguès whose work has spanned releases from such purveyors of indie and alternative comics excellence as Fantagraphics (Hobo…

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Becoming Horses – Disa Wallander’s Drawn & Quarterly Graphic Novel is Intriguing, Gorgeously Illustrated and Grapples with Topics that Will Always Occupy Us

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 11, 2020

A couple of years ago, Swedish cartoonist and illustrator Disa Wallander was asked to describe her work. It was not an inane question because, as anyone familiar with what she…

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Staff Picks for March 11, 2020 – Decorum, Thoreau and Me, All My Friends Are Ghosts, Machine Gun Wizards and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 10, 2020

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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Sleepless – Jules Scheele’s Diary Comics Explore Themes of Gender and Identity with a Raw and Resonant Candour

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 10, 2020

There are many reasons to appreciate Jules Scheele’s approach to the form, from the expressive clarity of their cartooning to the raw and insightful honesty of their autobio work. But…

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“I Am a Quiet Man, Busy with My Thoughts” – Artist Aleksandar Zograf on Serbian Comics, Flea Markets and Why the Graphic Novel is Not His Medium of Choice

  • by Zoran Djukanovic
  • March 9, 2020

Aleksandar Zograf is an extremely distinctive figure in Serbian comics with a strong international reputation. Both poles of comic culture are combined within him – the alternative impulse and his…

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Dreadful Ed and Mary Scary – Cosby and Nixey’s Gloriously Gruesome Children’s Story from Dark Horse Comics Will Appeal to Kids and Adults Alike

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2020

From Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss through to J.K. Rowling it’s no secret that some of the classics of children’s illustrated storytelling have weirder, darker undercurrents to them. Kids often…

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Preview: Sláine: The Horned God – Pat Mills and Simon Bisley’s 2000 AD Classic Returns in a New Collectors’ Edition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2020

Pat Mills and Simon Bisley’s classic 2000 AD strip Sláine: The Horned God returns in a special Collectors’ Edition this May. We have a preview below to intrigue the uninitiated and evoke…

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Preview: Folklords #5 – Take a Look at the Finale of the Critically Acclaimed BOOM! Studios Series from Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and Company Here

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2020

Courtesy of BOOM! Studios, we have a preview of the finale of the Broken Frontier Award-nominated Folklords series. If you’re already reading the book we don’t need to tell you…

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Billionaire Island #1 – Mark Russell, Steve Pugh and Company’s Satirical Series Provides Social Commentary with a Caustic Wit

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 5, 2020

With critical hits like Prez, The Flintstones, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles and Second Coming, Mark Russell has proved himself to be the master of serial comics satire of…

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Faithless Vol. 1 – Azzarello and Llovet’s Curious Mix of Urban Drama and Demonic Manipulation Collected by BOOM! Studios

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 4, 2020

Faith’s playful interest in magic is considered a harmless quirk among her social set but when a seeming chance coffee shop encounter with the mysterious Poppy leads to a passionate…

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Rebellion Announce the Final Chapter in the Story of ‘The Vigilant’ in ‘Judge Dredd Megazine’ in June

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2020

Of all Rebellion’s recent forays into the history of classic British weekly comics characters The Vigilant was perhaps the most enticing nostalgia-fest for long-time readers. Bringing favourite names back with…

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Staff Picks for March 4, 2020 – Familiar Face, 100%, Billionaire Island, Gamayun Tales and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 3, 2020

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…

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The Black Cloud – Dominique Duong’s Powerfully Expressive and Symbolic Depiction of Depression

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 3, 2020

Visual interpretations of depression and anxiety understandably tend to use similar metaphorical standards to express the experience of living with those conditions. That however is never a weakness underlining, as…

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