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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Thursday July 25th with a Bog Eyed Books Spectacular Featuring Gary Northfield and Tor Freeman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2019

We’re well into the summer and a new era of our Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw begins this week Gosh’s Clare Wood takes over from Nora Goldberg…

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The Follies of Richard Wadsworth – Drawn & Quarterly’s Graphic Compendium Should Finally Establish Nick Maandag as One of the Foremost Humour Cartoonists Working Today

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • July 19, 2019

Newly released via Drawn & Quarterly, The Follies of Richard Wadsworth marks the first major comics collection from Toronto-based satirist Nick Maandag. Previously micro-published (Streakers, Mean Dog Comics 2011) and self-published (The Libertarian, 2012; Facility Integrity,…

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The Drunken Sailor – Nick Hayes Breathes Life into French Poet and Surrealist Arthur Rimbaud’s Story

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 18, 2019

In 1871, the French poet, surrealist, traveller, soldier, trader, arms dealer, and explorer Arthur Rimbaud wrote a poem called Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat). He was 16 at the…

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Staff Picks for July 17, 2019 – They Called Us Enemy, Bags (Or a Story Thereof), Build Your Own Theme Park, Love and Rockets and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 17, 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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Inside Look: Swim – Abs Bailey Talks Creative Process and Working in Multiple Media on Her Slice-of-Life One-Shot

  • by Abs Bailey
  • July 16, 2019

Our Inside Look feature at Broken Frontier provides creators with the opportunity to share exclusive commentaries on their comics projects with our readers, giving insights into the genesis, process and…

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The Small Press Day 2019 Scrapbook – Looking Back on the Biggest and Best SPD to Date!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2019

With 31 registered events over 33 venues, Small Press Day 2019 was our biggest and best annual celebration of all things self and micropublished in comics to date! A huge…

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Read the Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics Small Press Day Dream-Themed Collaborative Comic Here!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2019

Over the course of Small Press Day we’ll be uploading pages from the special dream-themed collborative comic being put together by Orbital Comics and Gosh! Comics from the amazing line-up…

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Inbetween Life – Angela Pan Provides a Beautiful Introspection on Travel and Friendship

  • by Holly Raidl
  • July 12, 2019

Documenting her visit to London, Angela Pan’s new comic exudes serenity through textured colouring and its portrayal of memories. The narrative follows her trip in 2017 during which she attended…

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Small Press Day 2019 is this Saturday July 13th – Stores and Event Organisers on What You Can Expect from the Fourth Annual Celebration of Self and Micropublished Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2019

After months of build-up, Small Press Day is back this Saturday July 13th in venues across the UK and Ireland as shops, activists and organisers come together to celebrate all…

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Staff Picks for July 10, 2019 – Second Coming, Alay-Oop, X-Statix, Reaver and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 10, 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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Invasion 1984! – Extraterrestrial Terror Invades the Pages of War Comic ‘Battle’ in Another Classic Collection from the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2019

Seeming rather incongruous in the pages of Battle in the mid-1980s, Invasion 1984! was a perhaps a somewhat unlikely science fiction offering from the long-running weekly war comic anthology. It…

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Space Bandits #1 – A Wild Ride of Revenge-Fuelled Space Opera from Mark Millar, Matteo Scalera and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2019

Cody Blue and Thena Khole. Two of the most notorious criminals in the universe, each with their own distinctive modus operandi and long list of criminal activities. Cody is a…

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Shout Out – Queer YA Comics Anthology Tells the Stories Its Creators Would Have Loved to Read Growing Up

  • by Holly Raidl
  • July 5, 2019

Shout Out is an anthology edited by Andrew Wheeler (assistant editors Joamette Gil and BC Holmes) from TO Comix Press which contains eighteen shorts spanning numerous genres, made by creators…

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The Legend of the Wizards of Little Humdrum – Dom McKenzie’s Irreverent Fantasy Will Be a Hit with Younger and Older Readers Alike

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2019

Sitting between illustrated children’s storytelling and pure comics, The Legend of the Wizards of Little Humdrum purports to be a tale discovered by artist Dom McKenzie (whose Tales of the…

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Staff Picks for July 3, 2019 – Skip, kuš! comics, Sea of Stars, The Walking Dead, Silver Surfer: Parable and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 3, 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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Class of 1922 – This Study of Tragedy and the Passage of Time is Prime Douglas Noble at His Disconcerting Best

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2019

With a Douglas Noble comic what goes unsaid – or equally what is left to our imaginations – is often as important as what is articulated on the page. Noble’s…

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Marilyn Manor #1 – Defiantly Ostentatious Oddness and ’80s Nostalgia in Visaggio and Zarcone’s IDW Blast from an Alternative Past

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2019

First issues are all about the set-up; about hooking the reader, investing them in the protagonist and cast, and establishing the thematic core of the narrative as quickly as possible…

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Seven Stories #3 – Third Issue of O Panda Gordo’s Anthology Series Features Glasgow-Based Artists Including João Sobral, Jules Scheele, Suds McKenna and Jessica Taylor

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 28, 2019

We’re playing catch-up a little at the moment with anthology series Seven Stories – artist João Sobral’s pet project through his O Panda Gordo micropress – given that two issues…

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