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Love and Rockets Vol.4 #3 – History is Hard to Shake in the Latest Issue of Los Bros Hernandez’s Epic Series

  • by Tom Baker
  • August 15, 2017

For all their differences in subject matter, illustrative style and setting, Los Bros Hernandez have one thing in common with their ongoing Love and Rockets epics: the history weighing down…

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The Backstagers – There’s Never a Dull Moment in the First Trade Paperback Collection of the Boom! Series

  • by EdieOP
  • August 14, 2017

They say to never judge a book by its cover but I am a shallow, aesthetic-obsessed illustrator so that is a big deciding factor in how I choose my comics,…

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A View from the Frontier – Broken Frontier’s Ally Russell and Andy Oliver Look Back on Safari Festival 2017

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 14, 2017

Something a little different this week for ‘A View from the Frontier’ as Broken Frontier staffers who were at the fourth Safari Festival this past weekend give their thoughts on…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including the 2dcloud Summer 2017 Collection, Drawing Blood, Gothic Tales of Haunted Love and Reel Love

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 2017

Every fortnight-(ish) 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 and…

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Staff Picks Safari Festival Special – Shaky Kane’s Good News Bible, Corridors, Berserker, Clubhouse and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Because all the Safari Feestival debuts would have swamped the regular Broken Frontier weekly Staff Picks this week we decided to cover just some of the handful of…

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Corridors – A Day at the Office Becomes a Buñuel-esque Odyssey in Lane Milburn’s Unsettling Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 11, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! As the profile of Breakdown Press’s Safari Festival has grown and evolved since its inception three years ago it has become known as much for the notable…

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Performance – Gender and Performativity Explored in One Beat Zines’ Vital Anthology Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 10, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Outside of a a couple of upcoming festival appearances, Sarah Broadhurst and Julia Scheele’s feminist zine micropublisher and distro One Beat Zines are currently on hiatus until the…

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Preview: Dokudami Tenement – Takashi Fukutani’s 1980s Japanese Cult Manga Series Translated into English Via Black Hook Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! One of the most exciting new releases available at Safari Festival this weekend, Dokudami Tenement collects the first volume of Takashi Fukutani’s 1980s Japanese cult manga series…

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Sound of Snow Falling – Maggie Umber Explores the Natural World in this Gorgeous Study of the Great Horned Owl

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I’ve probably expressed similar sentiments before at Broken Frontier over the years but for those about to discover micropublisher 2dcloud for the very first time at this…

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Entity Reunion – The Unique Comics Vision of Alexander Tucker Embodied in this Safari Festival Debut

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Impenetrable yet eerily familiar, indefinable yet focused, unique in delivery but soaked in the standards of pop culture, metaphysical and still fundamentally human…  Alexander Tucker’s work is…

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Prismatik Man #1 – Witness the Sheer Visual Spectacle of Small Press Sci-Fi Master Stathis Tsemberlidis’s Latest Decadence Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 8, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Stathis Tsemberlidis is one half of the Decadence Comics team alongside artist Lando (Gardens of Glass, Stones in Focus) – a micropublishing duo who have put out…

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Samurai Chef – Mayamada’s Action-Packed TV Chef Manga (Warnings though, You May Never Look at a Plate of Food Quite the Same)

  • by Jenny Robins
  • August 8, 2017

I was very much up for reviewing Samurai Chef because it seemed to combine two things I enjoy – battle manga and competitive cooking shows. Turns out there’s more of…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for August 9, 2017 – Mister Miracle, Tank Girl: World War Tank Girl, My Pretty Vampire, Redlands and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 8, 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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Preview: Spare Me – Disa Wallander’s New Comics Zine from O Panda Gordo Debuts at Safari Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! New Disa Wallander work is always worth checking out and this weekend’s Safari Festival sees the debut of Wallander’s new comics zine published by João Sobral’s Glasgow-based micropublishing…

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The Fields Beyond Episode 1 – Matthew Pettit Introduces Us to the Nightmarish Environs of the Electric Gentleman’s Club

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Sometimes helplessness is the greatest horror of all. Matthew Pettit’s The Fields Beyond – a book that debuts this weekend at the fourth annual Safari Festival – bills…

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A View from the Frontier – UK Festival Season Begins as Safari Festival Looms on the Horizon

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! This Saturday the focus of the London comics scene will once again be on the east side of the capital as Safari Festival returns for its fourth…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Catastrophe – Somali Poet Xasan Daahir Weedhsame’s Poem on the Refugee Crisis to Be Illustrated by Comics Legend Bryan Talbot

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2017

An extra supplement to our semi-regular Crowdfunding Corner articles today at Broken Frontier to give you all a heads up on a tangentially comics-related project that has just a handful…

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Preview: ‘Mirror Mirror II’ Edited by Julia Gfrörer & Sean T. Collins and ‘Yours’ by Margot Ferrick – Books to Grab at Safari Festival from 2dcloud!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The ever experimental Minneapolis micropublisher 2dcloud are on the exhibitor line-up at this year’s Safari Festival and we’re previewing some of the new books they’ll have on show…

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