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Manu: Altiplano Vol. 1 – Gustaffo Vargas’s New Dystopian Peruvian Sci-Fi Underlines His Position as Comics’ Next Great Breakout Talent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 5, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! As part of last year’s Thought Bubble coverage at Broken Frontier I was introduced to the South American dystopian worlds of Gustaffo Vargas in the pages of…

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Thought Bubble 2019 Preview: Knifepoint Horror Anthology – Soren Narnia’s Supernatural Tales Adapted by V.V. Glass, Adam Cadwell, John J. Pearson and Company!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Adapting the stories of Soren Narnia from the Knifepoint Horror podcast the Knifepoint Horror Anthology is a Thought Bubble-debuting collection that includes the work of a number…

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Journey to the Surface of the Earth #1 – What Would Thought Bubble Be Without Our Annual Exposure to Fraser Geesin’s Endearingly Peculiar Worldview?

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! “Voyage into the known with these credible tales of the expected” says the cover copy of Journey to the Surface of the Earth, Fraser Geesin’s new collection…

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Other Horrible Folk – Douglas Noble Does It Again with Sinister Subtlety and Canny Uncanniness in this Poetic Time Capsule of Tradition

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 4, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! “They see what they want to see, don’t they? The Devil in the long grass and old gods scratching behind the moon.” Other Horrible Folk dances through…

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The Teeth – A Poetic Comics Fable from the Natural World Via Huw “Lem” Davies

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Sometimes the slightest narratives can have the profoundest depths. In The Teeth Huw “Lem” Davies provides a tale of the natural world with anthropomorphic qualities that teaches…

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Thought Bubble Anthology 2019 – The Annual Festival Anthology Makes a Welcome Return Mixing New Talent with Established Creators Including Luke Pearson, Rachael Smith, Jock and Tula Lotay

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! One of my annual traditions for Thought Bubble in years past was to devour that year’s Thought Bubble Anthology on the train journey up to Leeds. What…

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The Last Scarecrow – Dystopian Gang Warfare Evolves into a Far More Reflective Human Drama in Losty and Carey’s One-Shot Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Writer-artist Aaron Losty and letterer Becca Carey’s The Last Scarecrow is an expectation-defying one-shot. Initially presenting itself as a tale of ongoing gang warfare it gradually evolves…

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Preview: The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire – Hardcover Edition Available for a Limited Time Only from the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 2019

Arguably the most eagerly anticipated collection from Rebellion’s much respected Treasury of British Comics line, The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire is now available to order in a…

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House of Sweets – Secrets of the Past Come to the Fore in Campbell, Laurie, Cooper and Bell’s Giddying Spiral into Madness

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Given the nature of the self-published area of comics that I focus on here at Broken Frontier the vast majority of the work I review tends to…

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Retroflect: The Scarecrow – From the Dead of Night to Marvel Two-in-One, the Short-Lived 1970s Horror History of Marvel’s Straw Man

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2019

Retroflect has a long history at Broken Frontier, having been both a series of blogs and an ongoing column here in the past. Today we return to this irregular feature…

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Who Killed JoJo? Episode Two: Ghost Town – Cathy Brett’s Supernatural Mystery is a Magnificently Meta Use of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Shortlisted for both the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition and the Laydeez do Comics Prize, the first chapter of Cathy Brett’s work-in-progress graphic novel Who Killed…

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They’re Coming Down the Stairs – Bananas in Pyjamas Prove to Be the Most Chilling Sight for Halloween in Shane Melisse’s Comedy Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! It’s Halloween and Megan is trick or treating with her younger siblings Andy and Luna, with the three of them showing varying degrees of enthusiasm for the…

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Scream! Presents The Thirteenth Floor – A Full-Length Return to a ‘Scream!’ Classic Just in Time for Halloween, as the John Stokes Renaissance Continues

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2019

There’s no Scream! and Misty Special this year for Halloween but instead we do get to take an extended trip to a familiar horror environment in Scream! Presents The Thirteenth Floor. Continuing…

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The Museum of Censored Souls – Abandonment, Identity and Belonging Explored from Parallel Perspectives in Emma Burleigh’s Melancholy Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! In 2018 Emma Burleigh won the first Laydeez do Comics Prize for her graphic-memoir-in-progress My Other Mother, My Other Self, an excerpt of which I reviewed here…

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Broken Frontier Meets PositiveNegatives – Real Stories, Drawn From Life 

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2019

The vitally important work of PositiveNegatives has been spotlighted before here at Broken Frontier but admittedly not nearly enough. Their growing online catalogue of comics and animation explores “contemporary social…

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Staff Picks for October 30, 2019 – Basketful of Heads, Sandman Universe Presents Hellblazer, Joker: Killer Smile and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 30, 2019

It’s 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 storefront,…

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Roy & Rei at the Fair – Zara “Zukinee” Williams Employs a Vibrant and Enchanting Use of Colour in this Comedy Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Debuting at Thought Bubble via the Wine & Zine collective, the first thing that strikes the reader about Zara “Zukinee” Williams’s Roy & Rei at the Fair…

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Last Orders – Sean Azzopardi Examines His Relationship with Alcohol in Another Outstanding Collection of Autobiographical Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! When I first started covering the work of Sean Azzopardi at Broken Frontier he had long since become one of the integral fixtures of the London small…

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