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Silver Sprocket Announce Spring 2020 Publishing Schedule – Includes Books from Liz Suburbia, Archie Bongiovanni, Janelle Hessig, Hyena Hell and Many More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 29, 2020

In the last couple of years San Francisco-based small press publisher Silver Sprocket have emerged as one of the most vibrant, experimental and distinctive outfits in indie comics publishing. We…

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Staff Picks for January 29, 2020 – The Wolf of Baghdad, The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack, Year of the Rabbit and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 29, 2020

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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Video: Watch Nic Mac’s Film on Her Mental Health Awareness Zine ‘ØMIT’ – Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Talks About the Behind-the-Scenes Genesis of the Project

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2020

Reading about the genesis of creative projects in the words of their creators always brings an extra level of insight into the themes and creative decisions behind their work. To…

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“Go Forth with Glee!” – Sequential Art in the Spotlight at the Arts Foundation Future Awards as Esther McManus Wins in the Comics Category

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2020

Comics, graphic novels, sequential art… whatever you call the medium we all love it cannot be denied that the growing respect and recognition for it in the wider arts world…

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A Shining Beacon – James Albon’s Fatalistic Parable Captures the Zeitgeist with Disarming Insight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 27, 2020

When you live in a world beyond parody then satire is hard. James Albon’s A Shining Beacon, though, is less about exploring a dystopian future as much as extrapolating its…

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The Clock #1 – Weaponized Cancer Becomes a Chilling Reality in Hawkins and Doran’s Top Cow Thriller

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • January 27, 2020

Writer Matt Hawkins (COO of Top Cow, Think Tank) has transformed a smoldering curiosity about the possibilities of weaponizing cancer into a chillingly plausible comic where that science-based catastrophe becomes…

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The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2020 – Comics Category Shortlisted Artists Esther McManus, Danny Noble, Zara Slattery and Jess Taylor Talk About Practice, Process and what Being Nominated Means to Them

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 24, 2020

  This coming Monday, January 27th, sees the announcement of the winners of the Arts Foundation’s Futures Awards at the ICA, with the five sections including Experimental Short Film, Social…

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Preview: Hundred Wolves #1 – New Vault Comics Historical Fantasy Series by Myke Cole and Tony Akins Debuts in April

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 24, 2020

Vault Comics – publishers of the Broken Frontier Award-winning series These Savage Shores by Ram V, Sumit Kumar, Vittorio Astone and Aditya Bidikar – revisit the historical fantasy genre this…

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Hellboy Winter Special 2019 – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year in the Mignolaverse

  • by Arbaz M. Khan
  • January 23, 2020

Hellboy has always excelled in its ability to be an epic that embodies narrative elasticity. With this fourth instalment in its Winter Specials, the Hellboy series displays how it can…

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Rogue Planet – New Oni Press Sci-Fi Horror Series from Cullen Bunn and Andy MacDonald Debuts in April

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2020

We always like to give a shout-out here at BF to projects by creators who have been associated with Broken Frontier in the past. Writer Cullen Bunn was not only…

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Frontier #20: Anatola Howard – Anatola Howard Explores Aspects of Love in a Witty Entry in Youth in Decline’s Acclaimed Spotlight Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2020

Over the last few years Youth in Decline’s Frontier series has provided an acclaimed space for creators to spotlight their personal approaches to graphic narrative. Sometimes these self-contained one-shots showcase…

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In Search of Lost Time Book Two: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower – Stéphane Heuet Makes Marcel Proust Cool Again

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 23, 2020

À La Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time) ranks up there, with War and Peace and Don Quixote, a classic that everyone appears to have an opinion…

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Staff Picks for January 22, 2020 – Billy’s Boots, Folklords, X-Statix and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 22, 2020

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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Koyama Press Provides – New Community Initiative from the Canadian Publisher Promises a Year of “Monthly Giving”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2020

Three years ago at Broken Frontier, Koyama Press founder Annie Koyama was the first inductee into our Broken Frontier Hall of Fame, a category in our annual BF Awards designed…

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Preview: Heavy Metal #298 – Venerable Comics Anthology Magazine Goes Back to its Sci-Fi Roots and Journeys to the “Furthest Reaches” in March

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2020

We have an extensive preview of Heavy Metal #298 today at BF (the magazine that, of course, published work by our 2020 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creator Miranda Smart…

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UK Publisher SelfMadeHero’s Spring 2020 Line-Up Announced – Includes Graphic Medicine, Biography and Fiction Amongst Translated European Comics Work

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2020

More details of publishing plans for 2020 have reached us today. This time it’s the Spring slate of books from UK publisher SelfMadeHero. The full press release is below. SelfMadeHero…

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Internet Crusader – George Wylesol’s Innovative Story of Doomsday Cults and Satanic Computer Viruses Pushes, Probes, Tests and Even Breaks the Boundaries of What Comics Can Be

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2020

Arguments about what exactly constitutes comics as a form always seem something of an unnecessary distraction. The elasticity of that definition is surely one of the medium’s greatest strengths, allowing…

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More Classic Comics Return to Print with the Announcement of Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics Line-Up for 2020 – Titles Include ‘The Trigan Empire’, ‘The Thirteenth Floor’, ‘Death Squad’ and ‘Sugar Jones’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2020

After announcing their 2020 2000 AD collections line-up last week, Rebellion have today let us know what titles will feature in their Treasury of British Comics reprints range this year….

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