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Thought Bubble 2018 Preview: Kels Choo’s Zines and Comics – Take a Look at ‘The Coven of Wellington Woods’, ‘Happy Home’ and ‘Windows’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Another day and another piece of pre-Thought Bubble coverage here at Broken Frontier! This one’s extra exciting for us at BF as today’s subject Kels Choo…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back for a Thought Bubble Special on Thursday September 20th with Guest Artists Ben Sears and Kels Choo

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 17, 2018

We’re squeezing in a Thought Bubble Special Edition of our  Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw this week! And we have an ace double bill of TB talent on Thursday…

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Finding Home Vol. 1: The Traveller – Hari Conner’s Fantasy Romance is a Thought Bubble Top Pick

  • by Holly Raidl
  • September 14, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Making its convention debut at Thought Bubble, Hari Conner’s fantasy graphic novel Finding Home Volume 1: The Traveller combines rich landscapes with delightful storytelling. Based on the journey…

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Preview: A Lone Deer at the End of the World, The Complete Matinee Idol and Bottoms Up! – Catch Birdcage Bottom Books at SPX this Weekend!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 14, 2018

Birdcage Bottom Books are one of our favourite US small press publishers here at Broken Frontier with their output of genuinely indie, experimental and alt comics typifying the kind of…

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Thought Bubble 2018 Preview: Nexus Chapter 1 – C Vinter’s New Sci-Fi Series Debuts in Print in Leeds

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! While one of them tries to keep it all together, the other keeps tearing it down. Hyder is doing his best trying to provide for his…

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Endswell #1 – It’s Impossible Not to Feel Invested in the Very Human Drama of Peter Morey’s Family Saga

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! A fictionalised retelling based on real events, Peter Morey’s Endswell is a slice-of-life saga touching on very real concerns about the exploitation of the elderly. Morey may…

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Faith Says You #1: It’s Dark Outside – Kate Brown’s Self-Published Comic is a Beautiful Pebble of Angst, Love and All the Questions We’re Afraid to Ask Ourselves

  • by Jenny Robins
  • September 13, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Faith Says You #1: It’s Dark Outside, self-published by Kate Brown, premieres at Thought Bubble and is a beautiful 128-page pebble of angst, love and all the…

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L1MA – A Stunningly Illustrated Peruvian Sci-Fi Saga with an Urban Edge from Gustaffo Vargas

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The most effective science fiction frames itself in terms of reference that we can, on some level, relate to. That may be through parallels to our…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Comics Comics #1 – Patton Oswalt and Company Put the Comic in Comics in New Kickstarter Anthology

  • by Tyler Chin-Tanner
  • September 12, 2018

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

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Stutter – Joe Stone’s Autobiographical Account of Living with a Speech Impediment is Our Thought Bubble Debut Comic of the Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! There is nothing we are more passionate about here at Broken Frontier than being able to point to practice that that makes use of those properties…

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Staff Picks for September 12, 2018 – Berlin, The Alcoholic, Archie 1941 and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 12, 2018

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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Hallo Spaceboy – Beth Barnett’s Bowie-Inspired Graphic Memoir is a Must-Buy at SPX this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 11, 2018

Music, above perhaps all other art forms, has an undeniable power to take us back to the formative periods of our lives: to remind us of places, people, times or…

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The Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels’ Seminal Text Brought to the Comics Page by Martin Rowson and SelfMadeHero

  • by Tom Baker
  • September 11, 2018

Communism is back baby. It’s good again. Awoouu (wolf howl). It may still be a dirty word to those on the right and centre, but a century after the October…

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Telepathy Practice – Enter the Enticingly Weird World of Joe Decie in Another Collection of Bizarre Slice-of-Life Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 11, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! One of the great joys of Joe Decie’s comics is that they have always sat in their own unique, hard-to-define niche. Where would you place them…

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Preview: smallness – Ashanti Fortson’s Sci-Fi Journey of Discovery Debuts this Weekend at SPX

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2018

While we’re going to be somewhat Thought Bubble-intensive over the next two weeks at Broken Frontier we mustn’t forget that SPX is coming this weekend with a whole host of…

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Sylvics – Julian Payne Asks the Question “What if Trees Walked Among Us in Our Hectic Modern World?”

  • by Jenny Robins
  • September 10, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! What if trees walked among us in our hectic modern world? What would they care about? Ecological issues? Or saving hot boys? Sylvics explores some age…

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Follow Me In – Katriona Chapman’s Mexican Graphic Travelogue is a Beautiful, Devastating and Hauntingly Fragile Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE!  No doubt Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In from Avery Hill Publishing will be broadly classified as a graphic travelogue, part of that burgeoning strand of graphic…

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Spinning – Tillie Walden’s Eisner Award-Winning Graphic Memoir is a Masterpiece of Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2018

From The End of Summer to I Love this Part through to A City Inside, a rich seam of autobiography runs through Tillie Walden’s comics, manifesting itself in everything from…

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