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Preview: Post-Apocalypto – Tenacious D Come to Comics as Kyle Gass and Jack Black’s Comedy Rock Duo Team Up with Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2020

Coming this September, Kyle Gass and Jack Black’s comedy rock duo Tenacious D come to comics via Fantagraphics with the graphic novel Post-Apocalypto. We have a preview courtesy of Fantagraphics…

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Cardiff Comics Carnival Returns on March 29th!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2020

After the winter break it’s time to be thinking again about the annual comics calendar of events. We have a notable Spring one to announce today with the return of…

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Mary and Agnes – Cathy Brett’s True Tale of Two Teenage Penpals in 1920s Scotland Has a Twist in its Gorgeously Illustrated Pages

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2020

Cathy Brett’s tale of two 1920s penfriends reunited in reflection in the latter days of their lives may sound like touching if standard slice-of-life comics fare at a first glance…

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“The Dedication Angoulême Has to the Art and Craft of Comics is Unrivalled in My Experience” – Joe Stone Looks Back on Angoulême 2020

  • by Joe Stone
  • February 10, 2020

With the Angoulême buzz still at the forefront of the comics world’s collective consciousness we welcome 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ artist and Hackney Comic +…

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Laurel & Hardy Meet the Three Stooges – A Classic Comedy Team-Up Coming from American Mythology this Month

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 10, 2020

Monthly comics in that traditional US format can often feel inaccessible with their long story arcs designed for trade collections and a lack of easy entry, self-contained individual issues. American…

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Now #7 – Fantagraphics’ ‘New Comics Anthology’ is a Powerful Advocate for the Diverse Storytelling Potential of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2020

Fantagraphics’ anthology series Now (subtitled The New Comics Anthology) has gained deserved critical acclaim in its seven-issue life to date. Indeed it was nominated in both our 2017 and 2019…

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Plummet – Experience a Life in Freefall in Sherwin Tjia’s Fantastic Tale of Survival and Human Nature from Conundrum Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2020

The lurching feeling in your stomach as you find yourself endlessly falling into a void. It’s a triggering sensation that will have abruptly woken many of us from our slumber…

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The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland – Carol Isaacs Provides a Haunting Account of Persecution in Mid-Twentieth Century Iraq

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2020

Carol Isaacs, aka The Surreal McCoy, is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Spectator and the Sunday Times. Her debut graphic novel The Wolf of…

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Frontier #21: Derek Yu – A Meditation on the Creative Process Via Youth in Decline’s Showcase Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2020

A week or two back at Broken Frontier we began a game of catch-up by looking at some of the recent issues of publisher Youth in Decline’s acclaimed and award-recognised…

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Protector #1 – Artyom Trakhanov’s Visual Storytelling is the Highlight of a Strong Debut for Image’s New Post-Apocalyptic Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2020

Welcome to 33rd century America, a country almost unrecognisable from our the one we know and yet imbued with fragmentary echoes of its past. Here, in a world that appears…

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Helen Lederer’s ‘Comedy Women in Print’ Prize Opens Up Graphic Novel Category to Self-Published and Micropublished Creators!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2020

It’s been an exciting few months in terms of recognition for our favourite art form with a number of major awards – including the Arts Foundation Future Awards and the…

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Walking Distance – Lizzy Stewart’s Meditation on Perambulation Underlines the Remarkable Communicative Power of Her Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 4, 2020

To call Lizzy Stewart’s Walking Distance “a book about walking” seems both an elegantly succinct if obvious encapsulation of its contents and yet also a woefully inadequate summation of its…

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Staff Picks for February 5, 2020 – Glass Town, The Man Who F#&%ed Up Time, EC Archives: Psychoanalysis and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 4, 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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Sports is Hell – Ben Passmore Unleashes the Culture Wars on America’s Favourite Sport

  • by Moe Abbas
  • February 4, 2020

In addition to war, Seinfeld and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, America is known for its sports fanaticism. Nothing unites this melting pot of socially siloed people than wearing overpriced…

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The Misadventures of Jay + Han Book One – Havva Bird’s Tale of University Life Takes Us on an Eventful Night Out with Its Titular Protagonists

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2020

Returning to covering more grassroots self-publishing is one of my main aims for ‘Small Pressganged’ this year at Broken Frontier and, after my recent look at Beatrice Mossman’s The Lure…

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Americana (And the Art of Getting Over It.) – Nobrow Presents Luke Healy’s Passionate and Conflicted Ode to a Colossal Continent and a Convoluted Ideal

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • February 3, 2020

Americana is an undeniably passionate and sincere reflection on both the physical and metaphorical America – the country, the culture and the ideal. Luke Healy’s masterful graphic memoir tells the…

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#HourlyComicDay2020 – Read the Collected Comic Strips of 2019 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Olivia Sualdea in One Place Here!

  • by Olivia Sualdea
  • February 3, 2020

Saturday was February 1st which also meant it was #HourlyComicDay2020. Cartoonists the world over provided a short comic strip for every hour they were awake and posted it online to…

Constantly by GG (Koyama Press)

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Constantly – GG Brings Control and Artistry to Her Intimate Vignette of Anxiety from Koyama Press

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 3, 2020

As we all know, comics is a medium of infinite possibilities. And as a long-overdue openness about mental health has become increasingly prevalent, it’s no surprise that creators have used…

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