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‘Beasts of Burden’ Returns with a Wartime Twist this April Courtesy of Dorkin, Dyer, Dewey, Piekos and Dark Horse Comics

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 21, 2021

New Beasts of Burden is always welcome news and our favourite canine-flavoured horror series returns this April with a story with a wartime twist. Details and cover reveals in the…

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Single Point of Failure – Alex Newton’s Non-Linear Story Invites the Reader to Adapt Their Interpretive Approach to Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2021

The medium of comics, as any aficionado is aware, constantly plays with our perceptions of time. It asks us to make inferences about time’s passage between pages and scenes, to…

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Being Black and Working Class – RAMZEE’s Autobio Webcomic Offering is a Succinctly Impactful Piece from the Khidr Comix Lab Platform

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2021

At the end of last year we ran an interview with Zain Dada and Kumail Rizvi of Khidr Comix Lab, a new digital micropublishing venture seeking to provide a platform…

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Silver Sprocket Announce Spring 2021 Publishing Line-Up – Includes Work from Ashley Robin Franklin, Matt Lubchansky, Abby Jame and Robyn Chapman

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 19, 2021

It’s certainly been a packed few days of publisher line-up announcements for 2021 and today we have another with this Spring’s releases from those indie specialists at Silver Sprocket. As…

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Preview: Berzerkid – Gax Vallez and Mikael Lopez’s “Dizzying Ride with Robots, Mechs, Cops and Criminals” is Peow’s First Graphic Novel of 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 19, 2021

The 2021 publishing line-ups are taking precedence at BF this week and we have a bumper preview today of Gax Vallez and Mikael Lopez’s Berzerkid from indie specialists Peow. Check…

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Preview: Radio Apocalypse #1 – New Vault Comics Series from the Acclaimed Team of Ram V, Anand RK and Aditya Bidikar Debuts this April

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 19, 2021

A new collaboration from 2020 Broken Frontier Award-nominated creators Ram V and Anand RK and four-times Best Letterer winner Aditya Bidikar is always going to be something to watch out…

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Rebellion Announces 2000 AD Graphic Novel Schedule for 2021 – Print and Digital Line-Up of 34 Titles Includes ‘Judge Dredd: Origins’, ‘Flesh’, ‘Durham Red’, ‘Brink’ and Many More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 18, 2021

Last month Rebellion announced their 2021 line-up of Treasury of British Comics collections. Today they have released details of this year’s 2000 AD volumes with a mix of classic and…

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SelfMadeHero Announce 2021 Spring Line-Up – Includes Work from Gareth Brookes, Reinhard Kleist, Fermín Solís and Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Cat Sims

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 15, 2021

SelfMadeHero have announced their 2021 Spring line-up of books which includes I Feel Love, an anthology featuring work from our 2018 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Cat Sims (XENOS,…

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Avery Hill Publishing Announce 2021 Publishing List – Includes Books from Tillie Walden, Karen Shangguan, Lizzy Stewart & Molly Naylor, B. Mure, Lord Hurk and Clio Isadora

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 15, 2021

Avery Hill Publishing, Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award winners for 2020, have announced six books coming this year and it’s another cracking line-up of returning artists and new names. A…

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Idiot Corpse – Aled Lies, Dylan Wyn Owen and Shehzad Ahmad Playfully Experiment with the Process of Comics Collaboration in this Bleakly Humorous Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2021

Riffing on the “Exquisite Corpse” storytelling set-up Idiot Corpse is an anthology exercise in narrative experimentation from Aled Lies, Dylan Wyn Owen and Shehzad Ahmad (with a striking cover by…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, Jan 14th for an ‘Idiot Corpse’ Special with Guest Artists Aled Lies, Dylan Wyn Owen and Shehzad Ahmad

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 13, 2021

We’re back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, January 14th with an Idiot Corpse anthology special! As usual we start at 7.30pm…

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The Other Side of the Border – This Bordertown Crime Story Fails to Differentiate Itself

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • January 12, 2021

Francois Combe is a mobile figure. A rich French-Belgian author of detective stories (nicknamed the “French Edgar Wallace”), Combe has transplanted himself to a ranch in Arizona, raising his son…

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Celebrating 2020 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 11, 2021

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…

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to Host the 9th Annual Black Comic Book Festival January 13-16, 2021

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2021

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…

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Preview: Penultiman #4 -Early Retirement Haunts Our Hero in the Fourth Issue of Peyer and Robinson’s Ahoy Comics Series

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 7, 2021

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…

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Winter Night: A Lost Kid’s Tale – Marta Selusi’s Whimsical Fantasy Comic Explores the Effects of Anxiety in a World Full of Monsters

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • January 6, 2021

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…

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#CelebrateYourLCS – Let’s Promote and Support Our Favourite Comics Shops on Social Media!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 5, 2021

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…

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Broken Frontier Awards 2020: Announcing the Winners – A Huge Year for Zoe Thorogood, Shazleen Khan and Avery Hill Publishing, and Gosh! Comics Are this Year’s Hall of Fame Entrants!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2021

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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