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There wasn’t much to celebrate in 2020 but one thing we could take some joy in was that, despite everything, there was still plenty of amazing self-published comics work to…
Our first festival press release of 2021 has arrived with news of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Comic Book Festival next week. Full details below including…
Debuting last year from Ahoy Comics the premise of Penultiman was described with the blurb “The Next-To-Last-Stage In Human Evolution, is the greatest, best-looking, and most admired super-hero in the…
Marta Selusi’s second graphic novel, Winter Night: A Lost Kid’s Tale tells the story of Shu, a young boy who wakes up one morning to find his mother gone and…
Yesterday when we revealed the results of 2020’s Broken Frontier Awards we also announced that this year’s Hall of Fame winner would be one who represented the work of comics…
Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 17th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team. Last year in our BF Awards write-up…
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A personal reflection on my journey through pregnancy and pregnancy loss. Following the urge to acknowledge the existence of our lost babies – too precious to deny or forget. Talking…
Let’s say farewell to 2020 on a positive note with this announcement of the winners of the UK’s Young Cartoonist of the Year… THE CARTOON MUSEUM AND BRITISH CARTOONISTS’ ASSOCIATION…
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It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year replete with diary-style comics documenting the strangest nine months of our lives. In time, of course, they will be an…
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Fondly sending up a certain decades-old bastion of fantasy magazine publishing (the clue is in the anagrammatical title) Robert Wells and Phil Elliott’s Malty Heave makes a welcome end-of-year return…
Ethan Reckless, freelance enforcer, operates out of an abandoned cinema. Despite his current shortage of funds, he is not eager to rent it out. The El Ricardo is a temple,”…
We’ll be taking a few days off at Broken Frontier Towers from today to enjoy a festive break! But before we go we want to wish our extended BF family…
Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 17th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…
With the ominous spectre of Brexit looming ever closer here’s a reminder of something comics-related designed to foster links within the European comics community. The UK’s Lakes International Comic Art…
Seeing the year out with a bang, our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Wednesday December 23rd with a festive special! (Note the one-off…
“Mind, body, spirit” publisher Liminal 11 have announced their Spring 2021 books and there’s a whole host of talent who will be familiar to Broken Frontier readers in the mix….
Ryan North and Albert Monteys continually twist the comic form in this undeniably self-aware adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five, for BOOM! Studios/Archaia. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Ryan North and Albert Monteys…
We were huge fans of Nicole Goux and Dave Baker’s F*ck Off Squad from Silver Sprocket (catch our review here at Broken Frontier for evidence of that) given the way it…
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