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Preview: The Flood That Did Come – Catch a Video Trailer and Preview Pages from Patrick Wray’s Debut Graphic Novel from Avery Hill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 14, 2020

Coming this August in the UK and September in the US, The Flood That Did Come is the debut graphic novel of Patrick Wray. Another cool find by the Avery…

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Preview: Giga #1 – Vault Comics Debuts New Sci-Fi Series, Co-Created by Alex Paknadel and John Lê, this Summer

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2020

While we’re all missing our serial comics fix at the moment here’s an advance look at a new series from Vault Comics, announced today as debuting this summer. The full…

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The Screaming – Daniel Bristow-Bailey Provides a Decidedly Different Piece of Graphic Medicine with a Haunting, Disconcerting Quality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2020

Daniel Bristow-Bailey’s The Screaming is a curious comics short, rife with ambiguity and yet oddly immediate at the same time. The catalyst for Bristow-Bailey’s dark short comes from his personal…

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Cor!! Buster Easter Special – A Glorious Celebration of Classic British Humour Comics with an Assured Appeal to a Contemporary Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2020

If keeping the kids occupied is something of a priority at the moment then, of course, there are plenty of UK comics distractions out there that fit the bill perfectly…

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Inside Look: The Palace of Tears – Michael Lomon Talks About the Inspirations and Process Behind His Gorgeously Illustrated Fantasy Series

  • by Michael Lomon
  • April 10, 2020

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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London Horror Comic #8 – The UK Supernatural Small Press Anthology Returns with Tales to Amuse and Chill

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 9, 2020

John-Paul Kamath’s London Horror Comic is one of the true mainstays of the UK small press scene. It’s been around for longer than this column has been at Broken Frontier…

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ELCAF Goes Digital! – The East London Comics and Arts Festival to Be Held Online in 2020

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 8, 2020

With current events forcing postponements or cancellations of festivals and conventions ELCAF (the East London Comics and Arts Festival) have announced that this year’s event will be moving online. Regular…

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Slowly but Shirley – Catalina Rufín’s Graphic Novel Captures the Experience of Finding Yourself and the Community You Belong To

  • by Robin Enrico
  • April 8, 2020

With Young Adult fiction there is always the question of who exactly the intended audience is. Are stories of teenagers growing into adulthood meant to serve as a guide for…

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Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide – Kate Charlesworth’s Essential Graphic Memoir/LGBTQ+ History is Poignant, Celebratory, Informative and Wryly Humorous

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 7, 2020

The title of Kate Charlesworth’s acclaimed graphic memoir/LGBTQ+ history comes from an old saying that implied the kind of woman who “preferred to wear sensible shoes” may have been, or…

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Preview: Little Josephine – New Graphic Medicine from Humanoids Explores Living with Alzheimer’s

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 7, 2020

We’re always interested at Broken Frontier in the ways that graphic medicine communicates and conveys personal experience. This week a new Humanoids graphic memoir by Valérie Villieu and Raphaël Sarfati…

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Preview: All-New ‘Baltimore’ Short Story – Mignola, Golden and Stenbeck 8-Pager Debuts in Dark Horse’s Second ‘Baltimore’ Omnibus

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 7, 2020

While monthly comics from the US serial comics publishers are currently on hold a number of trades and collected editions are still on the publishing schedule. This week sees the…

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Mimi and the Wolves Vol. 1 – Alabaster Pizzo’s Epic Fantasy is Replete with Foreshadowing, Foreboding and Exquisite Comics Craft

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 6, 2020

If you’re a regular on the indie comics circuit you may already have been aware of Alabaster Pizzo’s Mimi and the Wolves in its self-published incarnation. Beginning in 2013, Pizzo…

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Nothing to See Here – Howard Chackowicz’s Conundrum Press Collection of Cartoons Ranges from the Uncompromisingly Crude to the Surprisingly Profound

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 3, 2020

Strictly speaking, Canadian indie artist Howard Chackowicz’s Nothing to See Here isn’t actually comics given that it’s a book of mostly single illustration cartoons. But this Conundrum Press collection of…

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Misty Presents the Jordi Badia Romero Collection – An Anthology of Classic Horror Thrills from the Pages of the Cult 1970s British Weekly for Girls

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 2, 2020

Rebellion’s fourth collection of strips from the spooky late 1970s girls weekly comic Misty takes a slightly different approach than its predecessors. Rather than pairing a couple of collected serials,…

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The Blade of Arozone II and III – J. Edward Scott’s Storytelling Confidence Grows with Every Issue of His Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Saga

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2020

J. Edward Scott’s The Blade of Arozone takes a post-apocalyptic scenario, mixes it with sword and sorcery elements, and then adds a liberal helping of social commentary to the recipe,…

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*Major Spoiler Warning* – 2000 AD Promises a Shock Revelation in Today’s Issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2020

*MAJOR SPOILER WARNING* – 2000 AD have a twist in the tale in today’s Prog so we’re not going to say too much in this introductory blurb and instead let…

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Action 2020 Special – The Notorious 1970s British Comic They Tried to Ban Returns in an All-New 21st Century Incarnation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 31, 2020

The 1970s weekly Action has become something of a legend in the history of UK comics. The brainchild of Pat Mills, that most pivotal of figures in the British industry,…

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Nothing – Gareth A Hopkins Uses His Abstract Method to Highlight the Power of Empathy

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 30, 2020

If you spend much time around the dark entries and shadowy corners that attract your average small-press aficionado, you’ll have heard the name of Gareth A Hopkins murmured often in…

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