ELCAF Fortnight 2019 Begins Today at Broken Frontier!
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Today at Broken Frontier we’re delighted to launch our annual coverage of the East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) with two weeks of reviews, interviews, features and…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1: High School is Hell – The Scooby Gang Get the Reboot Treatment in this New BOOM! Studios Take on the Buffy Mythos
Bringing successful television franchises into the comics medium is always a difficult path to navigate. By definition major character development is near impossible and every story borders on the realms…
Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Buuza!! Vol. 1: Good Morning Salwa – Rising Star Shazleen Khan’s Acclaimed Webcomic Comes to Print
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…
The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday May 29th for an ELCAF Extravaganza with Aleesha Nandhra, Holly St Clair and Olivia Sualdea
ELCAF is coming and we’ll be celebrating this year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival in style at our next Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw! And, as…
Full Court Crush – Hannah Blumenreich’s Tale of Love and Basketball is an Utter Joy to Read
Pink, black and white are the colours chosen by Hannah Blumenreich for Full Court Crush; pink fitting the theme of budding romance within the comics narrative. Despite consisting of twelve…
Preview: Lorna – New Benji Nate Work Hits Stores from Silver Sprocket
New and out now from Silver Sprocket, those ever reliable purveyors of indie excellence, Lorna is the latest comics offering from Benji Nate whose Catboy got such a glowing review…
Staff Picks for May 22, 2019 – The Book of Sarah, Road of Bones, Drawing Blood Spilled Ink and More!
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,…
Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn Speaks About the Power of Graphic Novels to Change Lives – ‘The Many Not the Few’ Launches at the House of Commons
In my capacity representing Broken Frontier I’ve attended many book launches over the years in venues including shops, museums, bars, galleries and at festivals. But last night was something of…
Red Ultramarine – The Symbolism of Manuele Fior’s Graphic Novel Leaves Its Mark on the Reader
One of the greatest strengths of comics is that in being a purely visual medium, they can use evocative cartooning to charge even the most threadbare of plots with meaning….
“I’ve Been Attending TCAF Since 2011… Coz I Bloody Love It” – Graphic Novelist Joe Decie Looks Back on the 2019 Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Today at Broken Frontier we’re delighted to present a very distinctive report from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival by graphic novelist Joe Decie. Joe is a stalwart of UK self-publishing…
The Labyrinth – Here’s Why Saul Steinberg’s Work, First Published in 1960, Still Inspires
Holding the hardcover edition of The Labyrinth in 2019 is a special feeling for a number of reasons. For a start, it shouldn’t even be here, given that it will…
Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including 2dcloud Spring 2019, Finding Home, The Life and Times of Butch Dykes and Griff Gristle: The Endless Voyage
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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Malty Heave #1 – Phil Elliott and Robert Wells Re-Imagine ‘Heavy Metal’ with a Satirical Edge
Walking a fine line between cutting satire and fond parody, Malty Heave is a one-shot, tongue-in-cheek, sci-fi special collaboration between Robert Wells (Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain)) and Phil Elliott;…
Gender Queer: A Memoir – Maia Kobabe Explains What it Means to Be Non-Binary and Asexual in Eir Vitally Important Graphic Memoir from Lion Forge
“I don’t want to be a girl. I don’t want to be a boy either. I just want to be myself.” By the very nature of the form – that…
Staff Picks for May 15, 2019 – Gender Queer, Bitter Root, The Horror of Collier County and More!
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…
Koyama Press Announces Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Season! – New Books from GG, Connor Willumsen, Michael DeForge, Keiler Roberts, Patrick Kyle and Ben Passmore
One of the most vitally important indie publishers in comics have announced their Fall 2019/Winter 2020 line-up and it’s an awe-inspiring collection of projects and creators. Koyama Press‘s next batch…
Five Reasons Why TCAF 2019 Was a Great Way to Spend Last Weekend in Toronto
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) has been held since 2003. That piece of information came to us not from Wikipedia, but from legendary artist Seth, who had stopped by…
Cannabis: An American History – Graphic Journalism at Its Most Piercing and Commanding from Box Brown
Part biography, part social commentary, and part scathing skewering of fearmongering and dubious science, Box Brown’s Cannabis: An American History (published in the UK by SelfMadeHero and in the US…
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