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Catboy – Benji Nate’s DiNKy Award-Winning Book is a Funny and Resonant Exploration of Friendship from Silver Sprocket

  • by Robin Enrico
  • April 24, 2018

Catboy by Benji Nate is a collection of twenty-two short comedic vignettes following the life of hapless young artist Olive and her equally bumbling cohort Henry, the titular human/cat hybrid….

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A View from the Frontier – ELCAF 2018 Programme Announced Today and We Look Forward to ELCAF Fortnight at Broken Frontier!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2018

There’s just two months to 2018’s East London Comics & Arts Festival, undoubtedly one of our favourite events on the UK comics calendar and a weekend that champions the kind…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday April 25th with Guest Artists Michael Lomon, Alexander Tucker and DCWB

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2018

Our fourth Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is this week! And, as ever, we have a cracking line-up of guest artists with us on Wednesday April 25th. Creators Alexander…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Retrofit Comics 2018 – Why You Should Back 12 Graphic Novels from the Acclaimed Broken Frontier Award-Nominated Publisher

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 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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Godhead – Ho Che Anderson’s Intriguing Foray into Speculative Fiction is Impressively Rendered and Ambitious in Scale

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • April 20, 2018

The crime noir opener to Ho Che Anderson’s latest output via Fantagraphics reveals a man blindfolded and held at gunpoint. Painted contours depict a masked kidnapper, his motivations as shadowy…

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Looking Back on DiNK 2018 – Indie Comics Continue to Shine in Year 3 of this Denver Festival

  • by Tyler Chin-Tanner
  • April 19, 2018

DiNK captures the spirit of indie comics with a well organized, community-based show featuring a variety of guests and filled with plenty of fun activities for fans of all ages….

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Anti-Gone – A Voyage to the Numb Limits of Sex, Drugs and Shopping by Connor Willumsen

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 19, 2018

Sometimes – maybe even most times – you pick up a comic because you know exactly how it’s going to look, exactly how it’s going to work and exactly how…

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Why Art? – Eleanor Davis Tackles the Big Question of Aesthetics with Acres of Wit and Pathos

  • by Jenny Robins
  • April 18, 2018

Why Art? Not What Art or When Art or How Art Thou? Eleanor Davis tackles one of those kind of stupid while at the same time super important questions with…

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Staff Picks for April 18, 2018 – Charley’s War, The Bridge, Tank Girl, Dirty Rotten Comics and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 17, 2018

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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Introducing ‘The Vigilant’ – Rebellion Brings Back Classic Fleetway/IPC Characters in a New One-Shot this Summer

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 17, 2018

After the success of last year’s Scream! and Misty Halloween Special (reviewed here at Broken Frontier), 2000 AD publisher Rebellion are raiding the vaults of their recently acquired back catalogue…

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Loud & Smart – The Humor of Alex Krokus Reflects the Anxiousness of Living in an Era of Uncertainty and Cynicism

  • by Robin Enrico
  • April 16, 2018

The four-panel diary gag strip is a form that has been run into the ground. Much of this has to do with there only being so much that can be…

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Preview: Shortbox #8 – Pre-Order the Latest Edition of the Acclaimed Independent Comics Box Featuring Work by Niv Sekar, Lottie Pencheon, Joe Sparrow, Anatola Howard, George Mager and Egle Zvirtblyte

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2018

Pre-orders for the latest edition of Zainab Akhtar’s carefully curated independent comics box ShortBox went live today and you have until April 27th to make sure you get hold of this…

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A View from the Frontier – Leam Comic Con Acts as a Welcoming Prologue for the UK Spring and Summer Festival Season

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 16, 2018

For the first time in 2018, the Broken Frontier t-shirt went on in an official capacity this past weekend for what was a relaxed and welcoming prologue to the UK…

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Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2018 Longlist Announced – Includes Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Sabba Khan and BF’s Own Jenny Robins

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 13, 2018

The longlist for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced today and, as you’d expect from a publisher of Myriad’s acclaim, it’s a list full of diverse artistic…

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3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘Scooby-Doo! Team-Up’ by Sholly Fisch and Dario Brizuela

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 12, 2018

‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that we think should be on your pull list. Whether it’s because of its…

Crushing by Sophie Burrows

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Crushing – Sophie Burrows Shows Chops and Charm in Her Tale of a Lovelorn Londoner

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 11, 2018

That spark of attraction can flare up in the most unlikely of circumstances. Just imagine: you’re stood in a comic shop, rainwater sloshing around your leaky brogues, the podcasty bantz…

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Staff Picks for April 11, 2018 – Clover Honey, Algeria is Beautiful Like America, Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 10, 2018

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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Sightings of Wallace Sendek – A Genuine UK Small Press Classic Returns in an Unnervingly Creepy New Expanded Edition from Noble and Azzopardi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 10, 2018

As writer Douglas Noble and artist Sean Azzopardi’s Sightings of Wallace Sendek was designed structurally to be periodically added to with new material interspersed among older work, it seems only…

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