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Galvanising Comics – Watch this Myriad Editions Online Panel Featuring Gareth Brookes, Corinne Pearlman, Woodrow Phoenix, Jenny Robins and More Here at Broken Frontier

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 10, 2020

Chaired by Aneurin Wright and featuring a whole host of comics folk from editors to artists through to the odd commentator on the form, the recently recorded online ‘Galvanising Comics’…

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Home Sick Pilots #1 – Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard Present a Finely Paced Tale of Horror and High School Band Rivalry

  • by John Trigonis
  • December 10, 2020

Paper Girls meets The Shining along the darker alleyways of Nineties nostalgia in Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard’s Home Sick Pilots from Image Comics. Turning over the cover to Dan…

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Rebellion Announce 2021 ‘Treasury of British Comics’ Collections – Includes More ‘Misty’, ‘Trigan Empire’ and the ‘Who Shot Roy Race?’ Storyline from ‘Roy of the Rovers’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 9, 2020

As we draw to the end of this strangest of all years something to look forward to in 2021 with the announcement of the line-up for next year’s Treasury of…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, December 10th for a Street Noise Books Special with Danny Noble, Woodrow Phoenix and Bishakh Som!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 8, 2020

Our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday December 10th with a Street Noise Books Special! As usual we start at 7.30pm UK…

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Genius Animals? – Vali Chandrasekaran and Jun-Pierre Shiozawa’s Web-Based Collaboration Feels Both Fresh and Classic

  • by Jenny Robins
  • December 7, 2020

Genius Animals? is a lot of fun on a lot of levels. From US TV writer Vali Chandrasekaran (Modern Family, 30 Rock, My name is Earl) and France-based illustrator Jun-Pierre…

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Planet Paradise – Jesse Lonergan Propels Readers on a Journey Across Multiple Panels, Pages and Planets

  • by John Trigonis
  • December 4, 2020

Wielding a signature storytelling style all his own, Jesse Lonergan propels readers on a journey across multiple panels, pages, and planets in Planet Paradise from Image Comics. Without a doubt,…

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Holly – Steven Ingram’s Composed Depiction of Island Life Shows Us a Young Woman at a Crossroads

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 3, 2020

Scottish artist Steven Ingram has been building up a substantial comics presence in recent years, including Left, a graphic novel about a cult survivor facing up to the past, and…

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Preview: The Last Witch #1 – BOOM! Studios Announces New Dark Fantasy Series from Conor McCreery and V.V. Glass

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 2, 2020

More early 2021 previews are coming in at BF right now including today BOOM!’s The Last Witch by Conor McCreery, V.V. Glass (a past guest artist at the Gosh! Comics…

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In Memoriam: Marleen Starksfield Lowe – 1979-2020

  • by Owen Michael Johnson
  • December 1, 2020

The comics medium has lost a rare talent with the passing of Marleen Starksfield Lowe on the evening of 7th November 2020, after a long battle with Leukemia which she…

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The Dog and the Cat – Dominique Duong’s Queer Asian Romance Effortlessly Blends Mythology and Slice-of-Life Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 30, 2020

I have expressed sentiments like this before on many occasions at Broken Frontier but I never tire of repeating them. One of the greatest joys of our championing emerging creative…

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Preview: Happy Hour #2 – Milligan and Montenat Return to a World Where Unhappiness is Illegal Via Ahoy Comics

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 27, 2020

Hitting stores next week from Ahoy Comics, Peter Milligan and Michael Montenat’s Happy Hour (with colouring from Felipe Sobreiro and lettering by Rob Steen). Set in a world where unhappiness…

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Dunce: Brego – Canine Capers from the Autobiographical World of Norwegian Creator Jens K Styve

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 26, 2020

Spinning out of his autobiographical Dunce series (described as “an alternative universe, where Calvin has grown up and moved to Norway”) Norwegian cartoonist Jens K Styve’s comic Dunce: Brego follows…

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Inspiration: A Comics School Anthology – New Community Comics Project Showcases the Work of Emerging Creative Voices in a Digital Short Story Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 25, 2020

Community-based projects will always be at the heart of what we do at Broken Frontier and Inspiration, the first of three digital anthologies from the Comics School project certainly fits…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, November 26th for an Avery Hill Publishing Special Featuring Owen D. Pomery, Abs Bailey and Claire Scully

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 24, 2020

Our long-running, fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday November 26th with an Avery Hill Publishing Special! As usual we start at 7.30pm UK…

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Affordable Amazement #2 – The European Comics Anthology Returns with More Outlandish Offerings from Lord Hurk, Paul Ashley Brown, Tobias Tak and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 23, 2020

I would argue that Lord Hurk and, in turn Fancy Butcher Press the small press imprint he runs with Kevin Ward, have been criminally overlooked on the UK small press…

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Listen to Broken Frontier’s Jenny Robins and Andy Oliver Talking Graphic Novels on Radio Reverb’s Brighton Book Club

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 23, 2020

Broadcast over the weekend and now available as a podcast, the graphic novels special of Radio Reverb’s Brighton Book Club featured our own Jenny Robins talking about her new graphic…

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Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir – Bishakh Som’s Exploration of Identity is a Remarkably Layered Graphic Memoir with More than a Hint of the Meta to Its Pages

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2020

Bishakh Som’s Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir may be an intricately layered piece of storytelling but such is the elegance of its narrative structure that the reader only comes to that…

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Preview: Specter Inspectors #1 – New Queer Paranormal Series from Bowen McCurdy and Kaitlyn Musto Debuts from BOOM! in Early 2021

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 20, 2020

February 2021 seems to be a pivotal month in publishers’ schedules with a flurry of previews for new series having been sent to us this week. Today it’s another book…

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