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Thought Bubble Announces 2021 Festival Dates and First Guests – Plans for a Physical Convention Continue Apace for this November

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 3, 2021

An actual year without comics festivals and cons may only be a matter of months in real terms but somehow it’s felt like decades for all of us whose world…

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Preview: Seen: Rachel Carson – BOOM! Studios Announce the Next Volume in Their ‘True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers’ Series from Birdie Willis and Rii Abrego

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 2, 2021

BOOM! Studios have announced the latest volume in their Seen: True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers series, this one focusing on the life and work of author and activist Rachel Carson,…

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2021 – Spotlighting the Work of Alxndra Cook, Hannah Carwardine, Mereida Fajardo, Mollie Ray, Norm Konyu and Shane Melisse

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2021

As redundant an observation as it is to make, 2020 was a challenging year for the UK comics self-publishing community. In a time of continuing uncertainty, and with real world…

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Cast Iron Books Announces 2021 Publishing Schedule – Includes Work from Woodman, Smissen & Bidikar, G.E. Gallas, Lyndon White and Sierra Barnes

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 29, 2021

Another publishing line-up announcement to go into the weekend with as we look at what’s coming from Cast Iron Books in 2021. It’s an eclectic list for the year that…

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Oni-Lion Forge Announce ‘Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms’, a New Queer YA Graphic Novel by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 28, 2021

Oni-Lion Forge have announced a new queer YA graphic novel coming this summer. Full details on Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms in the press release below. CHEERLEADING AND QUEER RELATIONSHIPS…

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Cream Maid – Mark Dickson and Rebecca Burgess’s Queer, All-Ages Graphic Novel is an Adorable, Much Needed and Uplifting Book

  • by Holly Raidl
  • January 27, 2021

Cream Maid by writer Mark Dickson, artist Rebecca Burgess and letterer Davis Rush is ultimately a book about family. The main crux surrounds the relationship that develops between Cream Maid,…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, Jan 28th with Drawing Themes from Jenny Robins and Joe Stone

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 27, 2021

We’re back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, January 28th with drawing themes by two of our regulars – Myriad graphic novelist…

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That Texas Blood Vol. 1 – Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips’s Lone Star Crime Drama is the Apex of Graphic Novel Crime Fiction

  • by John Trigonis
  • January 26, 2021

When I reviewed That Texas Blood #1 for Broken Frontier over the summer, I was really hoping that subsequent issues of this “sardonic slowburn of cinematic proportions” from Image Comics…

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Myriad Editions Announce 2021 Publishing Line-Up – Includes Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Sabba Khan’s ‘The Roles We Play’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 25, 2021

In the latest of our series of articles on publisher plans for 2021, the UK’s Myriad Editions have announced their line-up for this year. Of particular interest for us here…

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Ed Piskor’s ‘Red Room’ Debuts this May from Fantagraphics, Promising a “Shared Universe of Sci-Fi Horror”

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 22, 2021

In what for many will no doubt be one of the most exciting announcements of 2021 so far Fantagraphics have announced a new Ed Piskor (Hip Hop Family Tree) series,…

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Billionaire Island Vol. 1 – Mark Russell and Steve Pugh’s Scorching Swiftian Satire of the Super-Wealthy from Ahoy Comics

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • January 22, 2021

How big is a billion? Don’t be fooled by the banal numerical stats that it’s simply “1000 million”, for beneath those small ovular zeroes lies an exponential explosion of wealth….

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BOOM! Announce ‘The Many Deaths of Laila Starr’ – Ram V & Filipe Andrade’s New Series “Explores the Fine Line Between Living and Dying in Mumbai through the Lens of Magical Realism”

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 22, 2021

Announced today from BOOM! Studios is a new series from prolific (and multiple Broken Frontier Award-recognised) writer Ram V and artist Filipe Andrade. We have preview art from The Many…

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‘Beasts of Burden’ Returns with a Wartime Twist this April Courtesy of Dorkin, Dyer, Dewey, Piekos and Dark Horse Comics

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 21, 2021

New Beasts of Burden is always welcome news and our favourite canine-flavoured horror series returns this April with a story with a wartime twist. Details and cover reveals in the…

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Single Point of Failure – Alex Newton’s Non-Linear Story Invites the Reader to Adapt Their Interpretive Approach to Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2021

The medium of comics, as any aficionado is aware, constantly plays with our perceptions of time. It asks us to make inferences about time’s passage between pages and scenes, to…

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Being Black and Working Class – RAMZEE’s Autobio Webcomic Offering is a Succinctly Impactful Piece from the Khidr Comix Lab Platform

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2021

At the end of last year we ran an interview with Zain Dada and Kumail Rizvi of Khidr Comix Lab, a new digital micropublishing venture seeking to provide a platform…

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Silver Sprocket Announce Spring 2021 Publishing Line-Up – Includes Work from Ashley Robin Franklin, Matt Lubchansky, Abby Jame and Robyn Chapman

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 19, 2021

It’s certainly been a packed few days of publisher line-up announcements for 2021 and today we have another with this Spring’s releases from those indie specialists at Silver Sprocket. As…

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Preview: Berzerkid – Gax Vallez and Mikael Lopez’s “Dizzying Ride with Robots, Mechs, Cops and Criminals” is Peow’s First Graphic Novel of 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 19, 2021

The 2021 publishing line-ups are taking precedence at BF this week and we have a bumper preview today of Gax Vallez and Mikael Lopez’s Berzerkid from indie specialists Peow. Check…

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Preview: Radio Apocalypse #1 – New Vault Comics Series from the Acclaimed Team of Ram V, Anand RK and Aditya Bidikar Debuts this April

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 19, 2021

A new collaboration from 2020 Broken Frontier Award-nominated creators Ram V and Anand RK and four-times Best Letterer winner Aditya Bidikar is always going to be something to watch out…

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