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Island – Laurel Pettitt’s Icelandic Travelogue is an Endearing Scrapbook-Style Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2019

When I reviewed Laurel Pettitt’s Quiet Moments last year at Broken Frontier here I argued that it was a minicomic that was “proof positive that truly exciting new work doesn’t have…

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“I Was Keen to Use it as a Platform to Help People Really Get Their Work Out There and in Front of an Audience” – Joe Stone on Supporting Emerging Talent with the Work in Progress Comics Group

  • by Joe Stone
  • February 6, 2019

We’re always very keen to promote initiatives that spearhead a sense of comics community here at Broken Frontier. So we’re very pleased today to welcome artist Joe Stone to the…

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Cardiff Comics Carnival Debuts this March 24th – A New Date on the 2019 Comics Calendar from Small Pressers Josh Hicks and Ioan Morris

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 6, 2019

It’s always heartening to see debut comics fairs and festivals popping up in new venues so we’re delighted to hear that small press stars Ioan Morris and 2017 Broken Frontier…

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Staff Picks for February 6, 2019 – The Girl in the Bay, Gunhawks, Female Furies and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 5, 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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Lucy the Octopus – Richy K. Chandler’s Cephalopod Heroine Shines in the Complete Collection of the Anti-Bullying Webcomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 4, 2019

Collecting the long-running webcomic (previously presented in a number of self-published print issues over the years), Jessica Kingsley Publishing’s Lucy the Octopus brings together all of the adventures of Richy…

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Now #5 – Fantagraphics’ Anthology Series Returns to Remind Us All of the Uniquely Sophisticated Language of Sequential Art

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2019

When we last reviewed an issue of Fantagraphics’ bumper-sized anthology series Now at Broken Frontier we described it as “a vitally important piece of comics curation that deserves to be…

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‘The 12 Labours of Windy’ and ‘Drake Goes into the Underworld’ – New Adventures for Two of Small Press Godfather Ed Pinsent’s Familiar Faces

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 1, 2019

If Pete Frame did one of his “rock family trees” for the UK small press comics scene, a lot of the current activity could probably trace its roots back to…

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The Sea – Rikke Villadsen’s Debut English Language Graphic Novel from Fantagraphics Proves to Be a Disquieting Descent into Madness

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2019

Danish artist Rikke Villadsen’s The Sea – her debut English language comics offering from Fantagraphics – is as much extended visual metaphor as it is narrative. Its protagonist is a seaworn…

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Preview: Prolix Sketchbook – Take a Sneak Peek at New Work from Broken Frontier Columnist Nick Prolix Debuting at True Believers this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2019

One of the earliest convention events of the year, the True Believers con, comes to Cheltenham this weekend and Broken Frontier columnist Nick Prolix (you can read all his Bullpen…

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Rebellion Announce ‘Cor! & Buster Special’ for Easter – Classic British Favourites to Return in All-New Material

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2019

Regular Broken Frontier visitors will know we’re huge fans of what publisher Rebellion have been doing with the classic British IPC characters since they began acquiring the rights to so…

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“Deep Down, I Always Wanted to Create Stories” – Frederik Hautain on His Debut Graphic Novel ‘The Whale’, Collaborating with Hanne Dewachter and Leaping into the Comics World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2019

Two years to the day that he left the site to pursue his own storytelling dreams it seems very fitting today to be talking to Broken Frontier founder Frederik Hautain…

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Staff Picks for Jan 30, 2019 – The Lady Doctor, Deep Roots, Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 29, 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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Ambition – Ed Stockham’s Eclectic Package of Multi-Media Slice-of-Life Comics Experimentation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 29, 2019

Last year in this column I reviewed Ed Stockham’s minicomic Owl Goes for a Walk and was so taken by its titular avian protagonist’s nonchalant, jaunty journey through a series…

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Moonstruck Vol. 1: Magic to Brew – Friendship, the Fantastic and Fun Combine to Ensure There is Something for Everyone in the Pages of ‘Moonstruck’

  • by Holly Raidl
  • January 28, 2019

Moonstruck combines mystery, magic and friendship in a fun an engaging way. If you know anything about my taste in comics from my Broken Frontier reviews, you will be aware…

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Metroland #4 – Miller and Scheele’s Contemporary Fantasy Mixes Music and Time Travel in a Revelatory Finale to the First Arc

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2019

“There’s magic in all music!” Defining Ricky Miller and Jules Scheele’s Metroland is not a simple task, stubbornly defying as it does any easy categorisation. This grand and sweeping (yet…

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ØMIT – Nic Mac Uses Dreamlike Visual Metaphor to Explore Living with Depression and Anxiety in this Tactile, Fold-Out Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 25, 2019

The empathetic nature of comics as a communicative tool has seen an explosion of material in the area of graphic medicine over the last few years. Sequential art explorations of…

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Wildcat: Turbo Jones – An Enjoyable Romp through One of the Less Remembered Corners of the IPC Universe Via the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Tony Ingram
  • January 24, 2019

Of all the many IPC titles Rebellion recently acquired the rights to, Wildcat would seem on the face of it to be one of the least likely to qualify for…

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Seven Stories #2 – O Panda Gordo Present Another Collection of Experimental Comics Shorts from Bruno Borges, Émilie Gleason, Lasse Wandschneider, Giada Ganassin and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2019

Edited and published by João Sobral as part of the output of his micropublishing venture O Panda Gordo, the twice-yearly anthology Seven Stories takes its premise from nineteenth/twentieth century literary critic Arthur…

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