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Full List of Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Exhibitors Now Revealed – Check Out Who Will Be Tabling in East London this September 8th!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2019

If you’ve been following UK small press comics Twitter/Instagram over the last few weeks you will have seen the daily reveals of artists, publishers and comics institutions tabling at this…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: The Seas – New Small Press Publisher Body Parts Debut Their First Anthology Including Work by Gareth A Hopkins, Miranda Smart and Simon Russell

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 30, 2019

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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Staff Picks for July 31, 2019 – Enemy of the People: A Cartoonist’s Journey, Death’s Head, Manor Black and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 30, 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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SelfMadeHero Announce Autumn 2019 Releases – Including New Graphic Biographies on Isadora Duncan and Mozart, and the Conclusion of Rob Davis’s Surreal Trilogy with ‘The Book of Forks’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2019

We’ve reviewed six SelfMadeHero graphic novels this year at Broken Frontier which is rather synchronous as the acclaimed publisher of graphic biography, international comics, literary adaptations and OGNs have just…

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History of the Marvel Universe #1 – Waid, Rodríguez and López’s Epic Saga Will Reignite Your Sense of Wonder and Awe at the Magic of the Marvel Mythos

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2019

The longstanding appeal of super-hero comics is arguably as much about their wider narrative tapestry – the sprawling universes they take place in and the rich history that represents –…

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Garden Party – New Exhibition of Illustrator Lizzy Stewart’s Work at the Garden Museum in London from August 6th-September 30th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 26, 2019

Bringing together a collection of painted work by illustrator Lizzy Stewart ‘Garden Party’ is new exhibition at London’s Garden Museum that promises to explore the “joy, madness and solitude of…

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Death Wish Vol. 1: Best Wishes – Reckless Stuntman Blake Edmonds Returns in this Collection of the Bleakly Compelling 1980 British Comics Classic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 25, 2019

Debuting in the short-lived British weekly comics anthology Speed in 1980, Death Wish would go on to be featured in both Tiger and Eagle as the various weekly comics that hosted…

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Apollo & Daphne – Greek Mythology Revisited in Lizzie Fray’s Gorgeously Rendered Comics Adaptation

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 24, 2019

One of a number of self-published comics I discovered this year on Small Press Day at London’s Mega City Comics, Lizzie Fray’s Apollo & Daphne retells the Greek myth in…

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Derek the Sheep: Let’s Bee Friends – The Riotous All-Ages Adventures of Gary Northfield’s Ovine Rascal Collected by Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2019

If you’ve been a fan of Gary Northfield’s all-ages comics output over the years (and we’ve certainly reviewed lots of it including The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! and Gary’s…

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Staff Picks for July 24, 2019 – Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, History of the Marvel Universe, Life Drawing: A Life Under Lights, Sweeny Toddler and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 23, 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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Catch the Work of Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Olivia Sullivan at the World Illustration Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, Running Until July 28th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2019

Our many generations of Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ never cease to amaze us with their diverse approaches to the form and their ongoing achievements. So we…

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Alay-Oop – William Gropper’s 1930 Graphic Novel is Introduced to a Whole New Audience Courtesy of New York Review Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2019

New York Review Comics – the New York Review of Books’ sequential art imprint – have been doing vital work in introducing new readers to some long out-of-print classic material…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Thursday July 25th with a Bog Eyed Books Spectacular Featuring Gary Northfield and Tor Freeman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2019

We’re well into the summer and a new era of our Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw begins this week Gosh’s Clare Wood takes over from Nora Goldberg…

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The Follies of Richard Wadsworth – Drawn & Quarterly’s Graphic Compendium Should Finally Establish Nick Maandag as One of the Foremost Humour Cartoonists Working Today

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • July 19, 2019

Newly released via Drawn & Quarterly, The Follies of Richard Wadsworth marks the first major comics collection from Toronto-based satirist Nick Maandag. Previously micro-published (Streakers, Mean Dog Comics 2011) and self-published (The Libertarian, 2012; Facility Integrity,…

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The Drunken Sailor – Nick Hayes Breathes Life into French Poet and Surrealist Arthur Rimbaud’s Story

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 18, 2019

In 1871, the French poet, surrealist, traveller, soldier, trader, arms dealer, and explorer Arthur Rimbaud wrote a poem called Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat). He was 16 at the…

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Staff Picks for July 17, 2019 – They Called Us Enemy, Bags (Or a Story Thereof), Build Your Own Theme Park, Love and Rockets and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 17, 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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Inside Look: Swim – Abs Bailey Talks Creative Process and Working in Multiple Media on Her Slice-of-Life One-Shot

  • by Abs Bailey
  • July 16, 2019

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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The Small Press Day 2019 Scrapbook – Looking Back on the Biggest and Best SPD to Date!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2019

With 31 registered events over 33 venues, Small Press Day 2019 was our biggest and best annual celebration of all things self and micropublished in comics to date! A huge…

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