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Dead Eyes #1 – Duggan and McCrea’s Crime Drama is a Strangely Pleasing Mix of the Grim, the Slapstick and the Poignant

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 8, 2019

Having ripped off the mob in the 1990s in one last big job, Martin (the former feared masked criminal Dead Eyes) has spent the intervening decades looking after his disabled…

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In Conversation: James Lawrence – The Creator of ‘The Legend of La Mariposa’ on Inspirations, Themes and Crowdfunding a Collected Edition for His Plucky Rookie Luchadora

  • by Owen Michael Johnson
  • October 8, 2019

It’s been said that we’re currently living in a Golden Age of comics. While this is under debate, one look around the libraries, bookstores and artist alleys of the industry…

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The UK’s Autumn Festival Season Has Arrived – A Quick Look Back at the Weekend’s Leam Comic Con and Brighton Illustration Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 7, 2019

Autumn is festival time in the UK and, after last month’s fantastic inaugural Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, the Broken Frontier team were at two established events this past weekend….

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Paul Jon Milne’s ‘Grave Horticulture’ Comics Come to ComiXology Courtesy of Douglas Noble’s Strip for Me

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2019

Exciting news today via UK small press mainstay Douglas Noble that his Strip For Me imprint will be bringing the work of Paul Jon Milne, whose comics we’ve covered in…

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Heritage Comics Launches Starblazer Graphic Novel – Classic DC Thomson Sci-Fi Comic Returns in a New Reprint Collection with Work from Creators Including Grant Morrison and Mick McMahon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2019

Those of you who follow my own rather self-indulgent social media streams as well as the official Broken Frontier one will be aware of my posts over the summer focusing…

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Taxi!: Stories from the Back Seat – Aimée de Jongh’s Collection of Interweaving Encounters with Taxi Drivers Has a Quiet and Compelling Humanity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2019

Some of the most powerful slice-of-life work speaks to us so eloquently not through an overt attempt at ostentatious profoundness but rather because it reveals familiar truths with a quiet…

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The Tower in the Sea – The Third Volume of B. Mure’s ‘Ismyre’ Books Underlines that We Are Witnessing a Truly Classic Comics Series Emerging Here

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2019

It would be inappropriate to describe B. Mure’s Ismyre series of books as indie comics’ best kept secret. The first two volumes have been consistently critically acclaimed, after all, with…

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They Called Us Enemy – George Takei Revisits a Shameful Chapter in US History in His Acclaimed Graphic Memoir on Growing Up in a Wartime Internment Camp

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • October 3, 2019

Legendary actor; LGBTQ+ advocate; community activist; social media influencer. As one of the most visible Japanese Americans in the public eye, George Takei has consistently used his platform to draw attention to urgent…

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The River at Night – Kevin Huizenga Turns Sleeplessness into Something Magical in His New Drawn & Quarterly Offering

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 2, 2019

That space between lucidity and sleep has always been an elusive one, especially for writers and artists who have long tried to pin it down. Kevin Huizenga has made a…

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Hitsville UK Collected Edition – Check Out John Riordan’s Groovy Cover Art for the Long Awaited Compilation of this British Indie Cult Fave

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 2, 2019

Recently, we covered the crowdfunding campaign for the collection of Dan Cox and John Riordan’s Hitsville UK here at Broken Frontier and, as this veritable institution of UK self-publishing reaches its…

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Staff Picks for October 2, 2019 – Rusty Brown, Kai and the Monkey King, Ruby Falls, Dead Eyes and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 1, 2019

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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‘The Book of Forks’ to Conclude Rob Davis’s SelfMadeHero Trilogy Begun in ‘The Motherless Oven’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2019

Eisner and British Comic Awards-nominated creator Rob Davis’s trilogy of graphic novels that began in The Motherless Oven five years ago is set to conclude in the coming month with…

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I Feel Weird #3 and 4 – Haleigh Buck’s Account of Living with Depression and Anxiety Opens the Reader’s Minds to the Thorny Realities of Psychotherapy

  • by Robin Enrico
  • September 30, 2019

In the third and fourth issue of Haleigh Buck’s I Feel Weird series she mixes grim and grotesque humor with achingly honest confession to depict the challenges of her depression and…

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A Puff of Smoke – An Exhibition of Sarah Lippett’s New Jonathan Cape Graphic Memoir Comes to East London this November

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2019

Three years ago at Broken Frontier I covered Sarah Lippett’s graphic memoir Stan and Nan here; a comics record of the life of the grandfather she never knew and the…

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Scooby-Doo Team-Up #50 – ‘Crisis on Infinite Scoobys’ in the Meta, Multi-Dimensional Wrap-Up to Ironically the Most DC Universe Book DC Have Published Since 2011

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2019

Undoubtedly the most delightful hidden gem in the Big Two’s super-hero publishing schedules, DC’s Scooby-Doo Team-Up came to an end this month with a fittingly celebratory 50th anniversary issue. Over…

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Fran of the Floods – The 1970s ‘Jinty’ Tale of Environmental Collapse from the Treasury of British Comics Has a Vital Topicality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 27, 2019

If your vague memories of the 1970s UK girls comics market were limited to twee tales of ballerinas and boarding schools then Rebellion’s recent Treasury of British Comics volumes will…

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Sobek – James Stokoe’s Shortbox Tale of an Ancient Egyptian Crocodile God is a Sumptuous Visual Feast of a Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2019

If you were reading US serial comics in the 1990s you’ll remember the craze for “cover enhancements” during that period, when the major publishers became locked in an ever escalating…

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Arrowheads – Steven Christie’s Softly Packaged, Razor Sharp Satire on the World of Art

  • by Robin Enrico
  • September 25, 2019

The sharpest satire always comes from satirists who are well versed in the subject matter they are skewering. In his graphic novella Arrowheads, Steven Christie takes aim at the haughty…

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