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The King – John Tucker’s Eccentrically Amiable Tale Combines the Downright Bizarre with Themes of Family and Responsibility

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 15, 2020

John Tucker’s The King is perhaps more illustrated story than pure comics but this eccentrically amiable tale has an idiosyncratic charm that makes it well worth picking up if you’re…

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Staff Picks for January 15, 2020 – Third World War, Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence, Second Coming and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 14, 2020

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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Rebellion Announce 2000 AD’s Graphic Novels Line-Up for 2020 – Titles Include Classic ‘Strontium Dog’, ‘2000 AD Regened’, ‘Fiends of the Eastern Front’ and ‘Thistlebone’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2020

The 2020 previews and publishing announcements have been coming in fast and furious over the last week here at Broken Frontier Towers. Below we have the latest communication from Rebellion…

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Preview: What We Don’t Talk About – Charlot Kristensen’s Debut Graphic Novel from Avery Hill Publishing Introduces “a Burgeoning Talent Devoted to Representation and Empowering Women of Colour”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2020

It will come as no surprise to anyone following Broken Frontier regularly that Avery Hill Publishing have an incredibly cool slate of releases lined up for 2020 (we announced them…

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The Lure of the Flesh – Beatrice Mossman’s Horror/Fairy Tale Hybrid Explores the Possibilities of the Page with Its Distinctive Tactile Presentation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2020

Beatrice Mossman’s The Lure of the Flesh brings together dark fantasy, allegorical storytelling and autobiographical elements in an enticingly unusual physical format. Freya is a young girl who has struggled…

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Sean Michael Wilson and Fumio Obata’s ‘The Garden’ Debuts in April 2020 – First Graphic Novel from Mind-Body-Spirit Publisher Liminal 11

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2020

Liminal 11, the mind-body-spirit publisher co-founded by Mike Medaglia and Darren Shill, have added a number of projects by names very familiar to indie comics fans to their catalogue over…

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Dark Horse Announce New Series in the ‘Black Hammer’ Saga – Broken Frontier Award-Winning Jeff Lemire and Tyler Crook Bring Us ‘Colonel Weird: Cosmagog’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2020

Dark Horse Comics have announced the next miniseries in the Black Hammer saga, this time featuring Colonel Weird. It’s written by Broken Frontier Award-winning Jeff Lemire with visuals by Tyler…

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Ken Reid’s World-Wide Weirdies – Another Macabre Collection from the Oddball Imagination of a True British Comics Genius, Courtesy of the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2020

After years of a puzzling lack of Ken Reid reprint volumes we’ve been spoilt for collections over the last few years with the Treasury of British Comics giving us both…

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Rebellion to Publish New ‘Essential Judge Dredd’ Line in 2020 – Range Begins with ‘America’ in September

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2020

With their high-profile Best of 2000 AD series launching this year as an entry point for new readers, Rebellion are also repackaging some classic Dredd stories in an Essential Judge…

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Preview: Slaughterhouse-Five – Ryan North and Albert Monteys to Adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Novel for BOOM! Studios/Archaia

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2020

A medium with a unique relationship to the concept of time meets a novel with much the same outlook later this year when BOOM! Studios adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel…

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IDW Publishing Team Up with the Smithsonian Institution for New Graphic Novel Publishing Initiative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2020

We’re always excited here at broken Frontier to hear about initiatives that take comics to new audiences or use the form to communicate information in intuitive and inspirational ways. So…

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World Illustration Awards 2020 Announce Call for Entries – New Category Celebrates Comics, Zines and Graphic Novels

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2020

The World Illustration Awards, presented by the Association of Illustrators in partnership with the Directory of Illustration since 2015, is currently open for entries. For the Broken Frontier audience the…

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Machine Gun Wizards #1-4 — Christian Ward and Sami Kivelä Bring the Magic to Eliot Ness and the Untouchables

  • by Moe Abbas
  • January 8, 2020

While Gangster yarns may be dying out in the world of cinema (see The Irishman), Dark Horse’s Machine Gun Wizards continues the age-old comics tradition of mashing up the crime…

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Preview: Alienated #1 – Spurrier and Wildgoose’s Subversive Coming-of-Age Story Debuts in February from BOOM! Studios

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2020

BOOM! Studios’ serial comics line had a notably strong year in 2019 which was reflected in a Broken Frontier Award nomination for Folklords and, of course, that BF Award win…

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Staff Picks for January 8, 2020 – British Ice, Daphne Byrne, Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 7, 2020

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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Wings and Oranges – The Art of Broken Frontier-Award Nominated Creator Wallis Eates to Be Featured in New Exhibition at the Lexi Cinema, London

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 6, 2020

Self-publisher Wallis Eates is an artist who will be very familiar to long-time Broken Frontier readers. Her autobio comics and zines have been reviewed multiple times at BF with her…

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Mikel – SelfMadeHero Bring Together Mark Bellido and Judith Vanistendael in this Profound Semi-Autobiographical Work Detailing an Aspiring Writer’s Relentless Search for His Story

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • January 6, 2020

From the outset, Mikel interweaves two stories together: a man’s longing to become a writer, and the story he eventually ends up telling, of a man putting his family and…

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Buuza!! Vol. 1: Good Morning Salwa – Shazleen Khan’s Broken Frontier Award-Winning Webcomic About “Found Family, Diaspora and Religion” Comes to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2020

Shazleen Khan describes her 2019 Broken Frontier Award-winning webcomic Buuza!! as bring about “found family, diaspora and religion, set in an urban fantasy 90s Middle East and central Asia.” Last…

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