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As the Crow Flies – Melanie Gillman’s Critically Acclaimed YA Webcomic Exploring Gender, Sexuality and Marginalisation Comes to Print Via Iron Circus

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 6, 2017

Collecting Melanie Gillman’s continuing and multiple award-nominated webcomic in a first volume, As the Crow Flies was successfully crowdfunded earlier this year and brought to print by Iron Circus comics….

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Staff Picks for December 6, 2017 – Paradiso, Klaus and the Crisis in Xmasville, Sleepless and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • December 5, 2017

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 events or digital…

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Mirror Mirror II – Horror and Erotica Converge in the Julia Gfrörer and Sean T. Collins-Led Anthology for 2dcloud

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 5, 2017

Horror, as we’re often told, is a safe space to explore the things that scare us. You sit in a cinema, read a book, play a videogame that gently guides…

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Dave McKean’s Surreal Short Films Come to Dark Horse – Blu-ray and Book Set Released in 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 4, 2017

“Dave McKean remains the master alchemist of comics imagery.” That was how Broken Frontier’s Tom Murphy described the acclaimed artist’s work when reviewing McKean’s Pictures that Tick and it’s a perfect…

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Best Wishes – Mike Richardson and Paul Chadwick’s Tale of Hope and Romance is a Magical Piece of Storytelling

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • December 4, 2017

When I first set out to read Best Wishes, I was poised to be both its biggest fan and its harshest critic. Concrete being my favourite comics work of all…

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A View from the Frontier – Looking Forward to the Broken Frontier Awards 2017 Later this Month

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 4, 2017

Behind the scenes at Broken Frontier over the last few weeks we’ve been beavering away on the nominations shortlists for this year’s Broken Frontier Awards. This past weekend saw myself…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Swan Song – A New Music-Based Anthology from the Canadian Cloudscape Comics Society

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 1, 2017

Time for another of our intermittent Crowdfunding Corner blogs and this one has something of a link to Broken Frontier history as it contains work from our former Operations Editor…

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Avery Hill Publishing Announce Schedule for 2018 – Including Books from Tillie Walden, Katriona Chapman, Tim Bird, Luke Healy, Seekan Hui and Ricky Miller & Julia Scheele

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 30, 2017

What a year it’s been for Avery Hill Publishing. From the Ignatz-nominated Comic Book Slumber Party Deep Space Canine anthology to Something City, the hugely acclaimed debut graphic novel of Ellice…

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Staff Picks for November 29, 2017 – Faceache: The First 100 Scrunges, The Green Hand and Other Stories, Zegas, Minor Leagues and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 29, 2017

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 events or digital storefront,…

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Void Trip #1 – The Opening Chapter of O’Sullivan and Klaus’s Cosmic Slacker Comedy-Travelogue is an Eminently Likeable Affair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 28, 2017

Putting a sci-fi spin on the road movie concept, Ryan O’Sullivan and Plaid Klaus’s Void Trip comes to us via Image Comics and is the product of a team with…

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All is Not Well – Jonathan Clode Talks Graphic Medicine and Comics Exploring Caregiving

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • November 27, 2017

Founded by comics writer and former care manager Jonathan Clode, in conjunction with Cardiff University and with funding from ESRC Impact Acceleration, All Is Not Well (AINW) is a new online space for independent…

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A View from the Frontier – Looking Back on a Year of the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw with Artists Including Ariela Kristantina, Katie Skelly and Jamie Coe

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 27, 2017

Last Tuesday November 21st marked our last Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2017 and what a positive and invigorating year of comics community it’s been in…

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Patreon Push: Gareth Brookes – Help ‘The Black Project’ Creator Bring New Self-Published Comics to Life in 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 24, 2017

Pushing individual Patreon accounts here at BF is something that we rarely do simply because there are so many talented folk out there and time is limited. But we’re going…

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David Hine and Shaky Kane in Conversation with Sharks’ Steve Parsons at Troubador on November 29th as Part of ‘Trebuchet Talks’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 23, 2017

As the year begins to come to a close so do too the London comics events slowly begin to wind down but there are a few last hurrahs for 2017…

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Staff Picks for November 22, 2017 – Giant Days 2017 Holiday Special, Winnebago Graveyard, Forlorn Funnies and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 22, 2017

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 events or digital storefront,…

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Laydeez do Comics Announces First UK Women’s Prize for Unpublished Graphic Novel Work-in-Progress

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2017

Hot on the heels of the announcement of this year’s Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition comes news of a new women-only prize for unpublished graphic novel works-in-progress, courtesy of our…

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The Knight – Not All is as it Seems in Shane Melisse’s Supernatural Fantasy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2017

A member of the long-running small press collective Backwards Burd, Shane Melisse is a regular face on the London small press circuit. His projects have included Joel and his contributions…

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A View from the Frontier – Join the Broken Frontier Team: We’re Looking for New Contributors!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2017

The end of the year means we start thinking about two of the pivotal points of our annual calendar here at Broken Frontier – the Broken Frontier Awards and our…

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