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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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Broken Frontier Awards 2019: Announcing the Winners – Old Favourites, New Voices and David Schilter and Sanita Muižniece of kuš! comics Are this Year’s Hall of Fame Entrants!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2020

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 16th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you our readers and the BF team This year’s Broken Frontier Awards saw unprecedented…

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Celebrating 2019 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2020

We supplemented our annual Broken Frontier tradition of rounding up just ten UK small press comics representing the diversity of approach in self-published comics practice this year with an additional…

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Staff Picks for January 1, 2020 – kuš! comics, The Mighty Elvis, Olympia and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 31, 2019

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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Wild – Debbie Fong’s New Minicomic Provides an Existential Reflection on the Pursuit of Happiness

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 30, 2019

In last year’s Broken Frontier Awards Debbie Fong’s short comic Greenhouse won the ‘Best One-Shot’ category for a story that I described as a subtle yet uncompromising account of mental…

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Just Beyond: The Scare School – R.L. Stine’s Creepy Tale for Younger Readers Features Energetic Visuals from Kelly and Nichole Matthews

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 27, 2019

From R.L. Stine, the author behind the phenomenon that is children’s horror book series Goosebumps, comes this series of eerily creepy tales for younger readers that promises to take them…

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Happy Holidays to Our Broken Frontier Readers from the BF Team!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 24, 2019

We’re turning off the lights at Broken Frontier Towers now, hopping on Bertie the BrokenFrontierasaurus and making our way to the office seasonal party. So it’s time for a little…

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Celebrating the 2010s – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Should Have Read Over the Last Decade!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 23, 2019

A bit of fun today as we head towards the end of the year and the end of the decade (and yes, technically, I know that’s actually really a year…

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Special ‘Best of 2000 AD’ #0 Issue Announced for Free Comic Book Day 2020

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 20, 2019

After the recent announcement from Rebellion about next year’s Best of 2000 AD series comes news of a Free Comic Book Day tie-in special. The full press release and cover…

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Bang! – Dark Horse Releases Further Details on New Comic Debuting in 2020 From Kindt, Torres, Kim and Piekos

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 19, 2019

Surely now one of the most eagerly anticipated comics debuts of 2020 (just check out those pull quotes below!) Dark Horse Comics have released details this week of the mysterious…

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The Pits of Hell – Breakdown Press Collect the Raw, Visceral and Ever Vital Work of Alternative Mangaka Ebisu Yoshikazu

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • December 19, 2019

“Television star, father of three, professional gambler, writer, cartoonist, pioneer”. Add in mop rental salesman, and there reads the resumé of Ebisu Yoshikazu; the alternative mangaka whose raw, visceral and…

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Staff Picks for December 18, 2019 – Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas, Tales from Harrow County: Death’s Choir, Sonata and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 18, 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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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2019 – Celebrate Another 12 Months of Inspiring Comics Craft and Practice with the BF Team!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 17, 2019

Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 16th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…

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Preview: Folklords #2 – Take a Sneak Peek at the Next Issue of Kindt, Smith and Company’s Breakout Fantasy Comic from BOOM! Studios

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 16, 2019

“With a mischievous hint of the meta this opening instalment underlines Folklords’ claim on the title of the Next Big Thing in serial comics.” That’s what we said about the first…

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