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Drawing Diversity – Institut Français Hosts Online Discussion on Representation in Comics this Thurs April 29th with Woodrow Phoenix, Lucie Quéméner, Barrack Rima and Emma Hayley

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 26, 2021

Drawing Diversity is an online discussion on representation in comics that will doubtless be of great interest to Broken Frontier readers and can be viewed on YouTube this Thursday, April…

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The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1 – A Tremendous and Exciting New Series on Reincarnation and Mythology by Ram V, Filipe Andrade and Co

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • April 23, 2021

As the saying goes, nothing is certain except for death and taxes. While we live our finite lives, we’re going to pay for it, one way or another. Laila Starr…

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The Silver Coin #1 – Zdarsky and Walsh’s Tale is Your Ticket to Fear Incarnate in the New Image Comics Horror Series

  • by John Trigonis
  • April 23, 2021

As the first tale of terror in The Silver Coin #1, a new anthology series from Image Comics, ‘The Ticket’ by writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Michael Walsh delivers a…

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Snelson: Comedy is Dying – Paul Constant and Fred Harper’s New Ahoy Comics Series Sets Its Satirical Sights on “Cancel Culture”

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 22, 2021

Ahoy Comics’s output has been one of the true joys of the serial comics publishing model over the last couple of years. Books like Billionaire Island, Second Coming and Happy…

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Exclusive Preview: Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Ultimate Championship Edition – Graphic Universe to Publish Josh Hicks’s Grappling Comics Classic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2021

Sometimes here at BF we’re aware of exciting developments well in advance of their official announcements. When it’s to do with our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists it makes…

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Mason Mooney: Paranormal Investigator – Visit the Eerie Town of Grimbrook in Seaerra Miller’s Spooky New Book Series for Younger Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 20, 2021

In the town of Grimbrook, a locale steeped in supernatural strangeness and spooky legend, the young paranormal investigator Mason Mooney sees himself as the foremost expert on the ghostly, the…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, April 22nd with Guest Artists Simon Russell, Ria Grix and Shane Melisse

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 20, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 22nd with a terrific trio of titanic talent…

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Resistance: A Graphic Novel – An Informative and Eerily Relevant Chronicle of a (Fictional) Pandemic from Acclaimed Crime Writer Val McDermid and Artist Kathryn Briggs

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • April 19, 2021

Journalist Zoe Meadows doesn’t think much of the Northumberland “Solstice Festival,” considering it a fluffy puff-piece downgraded from her usual “investigative journalism,” but she needs the money. As does the…

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Creating Women – New Online Video Interview Series Debuts this May Featuring Guests Wallis Eates, Nicola Streeten, Rachael Ball and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2021

Announced this week, Creating Women is a new online interview series set to debut in May. Full details are in the press release below but observant Broken Frontier regulars will…

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“Making Comics is Good Noise” – Niki Bañados on Her New Comic ‘Return’, and Global and Local Perspectives on Small Press

  • by Jenny Robins
  • April 15, 2021

Returning across the planet to find a world on fire, a world contained, and the time to stop, listen to nature and try to hear what it has to tell…

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Monsters – A Must-Read Masterpiece of Trauma by Barry Windsor-Smith, a Book Which Was Decades in the Making

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • April 14, 2021

Much like the abused test-subject at its centre, Monsters is years in the making. Barry Windsor-Smith planned his macabre epic as a Hulk story, way back in 1984. Clashes with…

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Brownstone’s Mythical Collection: Leo and the Gorgon’s Curse – Joe Todd-Stanton Returns to the Brownstone Family Vaults for Another Magical Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2021

If you – or more likely the younger people in your life – are already a fan of Joe Todd-Stanton’s series of Brownstone’s Mythical Collection books then you will know…

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Graffeg to Publish New Line of Welsh Language Children’s Books Dealing with Mental Health Issues – Range Includes ‘Mum’s Jumper’ by BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Jayde Perkin

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 12, 2021

Publisher Graffeg have announced a number of new children’s books published in Welsh dealing with issues surrounding mental health awareness. The line-up includes Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Jayde…

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Haway Man, Klaus! – Richard Short’s New Collection from Breakdown Press Mixes Humour and Pathos in a World of Thwarted Ambitions

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 12, 2021

With its alluring design (in collaboration with Joe Kessler), Richard Short’s Klaus Magazine from Breakdown Press has been a welcome presence on the shelves over the past few years. Haway…

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“This Comic Initiative Aims to Raise Awareness of Autism and Dispel Some of the Stigma” – Cartoonist Bex/Schnumn on the ASD Comic Takeover to Celebrate Autism Acceptance Month on Social Media

  • by Bex (Schnumn)
  • April 9, 2021

If you’re at all involved in that nebulous entity we refer to as “Comics Twitter” then you will no doubt have seen the flurry of activity over the last few…

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I Feel Love – Romance Comics with the Bleakest of Twists in this New SelfMadeHero Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2021

A follow-up to 2018’s anthology I Feel Machine – an exploration of the darker implications in our relationship with technology – SelfMadeHero’s I Feel Love similarly brings us six unsettling…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, April 8th for a SelfMadeHero ‘I Feel Love’ Special with Guest Artists Julian Hanshaw and Krent Able

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 7, 2021

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, April 8th with a very special SelfMadeHero I Feel…

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“I’m Always Trying to Be a More Elastic Cartoonist, Especially with My Character Designs” – Michael DeForge on His New Book ‘Heaven No Hell’ from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 6, 2021

Following on from his review of Michael DeForge‘s Heaven No Hell last week at Broken Frontier, Lindsay Pereira talks to DeForge about his art, being productive during a pandemic, and…

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