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Future – Woodman and Smissen’s Twisting Time-Travel Tale is a Beautiful Celebration of Love and the Devotion it Inspires

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2021

It would be very easy when talking about Tom Woodman and Rupert Smissen’s graphic novel Future to prioritise describing it in terms of its complex and inventive science fiction elements….

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Vinyl #1 – The Premiere Issue of Wagner & Hillyard’s Series Ticks All the Boxes for a Promising Double-Platinum Hit from Image Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • July 13, 2021

Vinyl #1 starts off with lots of blood and gore and ends with the promise of more to come in 12-Gauge Comics’ new original story about a serial killer with…

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#ArtMubarak – The Art Hashtag Celebrating Creatives from the Muslim Community Returns on July 18th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2021

We were delighted to see today on Twitter that #ArtMubarak, the hashtag-led social media event aiming  to celebrate art from the Muslim community and uplift the voices of Muslim artists from…

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I’m a Wild Seed – Sharon Lee De La Cruz Reconstructs Her Identity as a Queer BIPOC in a Vibrant Debut from Street Noise Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2021

Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s conversational narratorial style immediately welcomes the reader into her graphic memoir I’m a Wild Seed, an examination of her identity as a queer BIPOC published…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“Where is Evil?” – A Comics Essay by Tony Wolf

  • by Tony Wolf
  • July 12, 2021

I found myself beginning to write this short comics essay during the summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests filled the headlines of the day. Very much inspired by…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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“Visual Metaphors and Analogies Allow Me to Make Sense of Things” – Mollie Ray on Creative Process, Graphic Medicine and Her Upcoming Graphic Novel ‘Giant’ from Faber & Faber

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2021

Mollie Ray was one of the many artists who submitted four pages of comics for our BF one-tweet reviews event on Twitter as part of last year’s Small Press Day celebrations….

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Inside Look: The Dancing Plague – Gareth Brookes on the Pyrographical and Embroidered Process Behind His SelfMadeHero Graphic Novel

  • by Gareth Brookes
  • July 8, 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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Liquid Realm – A Rich Vein of Misanthropic Humour Runs through Samuel Hickson’s Alt Comics Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2021

There’s something almost retro about Samuel Hickson’s Liquid Realm, a darkly comedic anthology collection of comics shorts created in lockdown during 2020 and one that has a definite underground sensibility….

Eyecatcher · Features

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Families, Parenting and Saving Face – Weng Pixin on Her New Book, ‘Let’s Not Talk Anymore’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 7, 2021

Writing about family is possibly the easiest thing to do, and the hardest. For the artist Weng Pixin, it was an opportunity to try and understand her mother, and the…

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Smithers&Wing – Heather Palmer and Kirsty Hunter’s Queer Graphic Novel Gives the Detective Genre a Magical Touch

  • by Holly Raidl
  • July 6, 2021

Smithers&Wing is a LGBT+ mystery fantasy story surrounding the disappearance of Catriona, a high school student whose absence is brought to our main protagonists Flora Smithers and August Wing by…

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“I Literally Just Create what I Feel Like” – Shane Melisse on Working in Multiple Genres and Participating in the UK Small Press Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 6, 2021

Shane Melisse is one of our Broken Frontier 2021 ‘Six to Watch‘ artists and a creator who I’ve been covering for a number of years here at BF. Over the…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“I Have a Lot of Doubts in Real Life” – An Interview with Guy Delisle on His Latest Book, ‘Factory Summers’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 5, 2021

Guy Delisle sounds exactly the way one imagines he would. The thought popped into my mind seconds after his quiet voice echoed on the phone from the South of France,…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Marmalade – Charlotte Cassidy and Kat Cass’s Tale of Love and Loss is a Confident and Assured Debut Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2021

Covering the self-publishing scene means that the majority of the comics one sees are the work of a singular vision. For whatever reason collaborative work (outside of anthologies and more…

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BHP to Publish Graphic Novel Series ‘Boat’ by David Lumsden, Mark Weallans and Marc Olivent in Digital Format

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 5, 2021

News from the ever eclectic BHP Comics today with the announcement they will be publishing graphic novel series Boat this year. Full details follow. Indie hit BOAT the graphic novel…

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Crowdfunding Corner: Om – Andy Barron’s Unforgiving Fantasy Realm Stories Collected with New Material by Huber Editions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot on the…

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Crowdfunding Corner: Candles – Lyndon White’s Gorgeously Illustrated Fantasy Graphic Novel from Cast Iron Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2021

Our Crowdfunding Corner feature returns again today as we continue to once again actively spotlight the more intriguing, exciting, experimental and daring uses of the form that we spot on the…

Reviews

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Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor – Pascal Girard Gives Us Another Unexpected Slice of Life

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 30, 2021

There’s almost always an element of doubt that creeps into the mind of a reader looking through the work of Pascal Girard. It is a healthy kind of doubt; one…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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All the Places in Between – A Powerful Reminder of John Cei Douglas’s Place as One of UK Indie Comics Most Eloquent Pure Visual Storytellers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2021

It’s been several years now since we first covered the often dreamy, always lyrical work of John Cei Douglas at Broken Frontier in the early Great Beast collection of his…

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