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Word on the Street: A Celebration of Our Right to Protest – An Exhibition of Myfanwy Tristram’s Socially Conscious Comics Opens this Week at The Workers Gallery

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 1, 2022

From Draw the Line: 100+ Things You Can Do to Change the World to Sorry for the Inconvenience… We Are Trying to Save the World Myfanwy Tristram’s comics activism has undeniably…

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Zinezilla 2: Zinezilla Vs. Kong – Bristol’s New Illustration and Zine Fair Returns for Its Second Year on Saturday, October 8th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 1, 2022

Zinezilla, an illustration, comics and zine fair that debuted last year in Bristol, returns for a second year on Saturday, October 8th 2022 with the intriguing title Zinezilla 2: Zinezilla…

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Stray – Molly Mendoza’s Slice-of-Life Tale Uses Every Aspect of the Medium to Its Fullest Communicative Capacity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2022

The most notable aspect of Molly Mendoza’s comics for me is the way they unlock the full potential of the form; absolute graphic storytelling that isn’t simply a combination of…

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Everyday Stories of Climate Change – A Global Look at Environmental Collapse from Gemma Sou, Adeeba Nuraina Risha, Gina Ziervogel and Cat Sims

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2022

With an unwelcome but sadly appropriate synchronicity I found myself reading and reviewing Everyday Stories of Climate Change on the evening of the day the UK hit its hottest temperatures…

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SelfMadeHero’s Autumn 2022 Releases Include an Adaptation of ‘Sophie’s World’ and New Work from the Eisner-Nominated Rickard Sisters

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 28, 2022

SelfMadeHero’s Autumn releases have been announced. For the philosophy graduates there’s exciting news with an adaptation of Sophie’s World, and there’s new work from the Eisner-nominated Rickard Sisters with No…

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Hummingbird Heart – Love and Loss Inform Travis Dandro’s D+Q Memoir Set in the 1990s

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 28, 2022

There are moments in every memoir involving a certain kind of trauma where one can sense the writer reaching deep within to find something worth holding on to. Those moments…

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A New Event on the UK Indie Comics Calendar as the Winchester Comics Fair Debuts this November

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2022

After a depressing week of reports surrounding a big convention’s recent shocking treatment of indie comic artists some better news this week with the announcement of a new event for…

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Best of 2000 AD #1 – A Perfectly Curated Gateway into the Worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic for New Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2022

Two and a half years ago at Broken Frontier we advance-reviewed the first issue of Best of 2000 AD, an upcoming anthology maxiseries designed as a gateway publication into the…

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My Perfect Life – Lynda Barry Continues to Shine a Light On Her Iconic World of Ernie Pook for D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 26, 2022

Nostalgia is a tricky thing, painting the past to be a lot rosier than it often is. That overriding scepticism comes to the fore whenever the great Lynda Barry approves…

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“Being Compared to Harvey Pekar is an Honor” – Chad Bilyeu Talks ‘Chad in Amsterdam’, Working with Juliette De Wit, and His New Comic ‘The Re-Up’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 25, 2022

Chad Bilyeu has been diligently producing his Chad in Amsterdam comics – collections of narrative vignettes of his experiences as an American living in Amsterdam – since 2018. Working in…

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Devil Hotline – Religion and Youthful Subversion in a New Comic Strip from Tony Wolf and SirGryphon

  • by Tony Wolf
  • July 22, 2022

Time for more comics from two of our creative faves, writer/artist Tony Wolf and colourist SirGryphon! Devil Hotline is another autobio strip via the duo that combines nostalgic remembrance with…

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The Work of Richard Corben to Be Collected in New Volumes by Dark Horse and Fantagor Press

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 21, 2022

News already out of SDCC for fans of the work of that pivotal artist in the history of US comics, Richard Corben. Full details in the press release below. Books…

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Fantagraphics Celebrates 40 Years of ‘Love and Rockets’ by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 20, 2022

With Love and Rockets – the seminal series by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez – reaching its landmark 40th anniversary this year there’s lots planned in celebration. With a special 40th…

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Komi Can’t Communicate – Tomohito Oda’s Story About Rejecting the Stigmatization of Disability and Embracing One’s Talent Instead

  • by Anson Leung
  • July 20, 2022

Tomohito Oda’s Komi Can’t Communicate focusses on a boy helping a girl navigate through high school life. It is a friendship story that has the distinct twist of the girl,…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, July 21st for a Manga Jiman Special with Guest Artist Chloe Starling

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 19, 2022

Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, July 21st with a special night celebrating the Manga Jiman…

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Dark Horse to Publish ‘Hellboy in Love’ in Time for Halloween this October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 18, 2022

Difficult to be thinking about Halloween as we endure the hottest July on record in the UK. But a number of books debuting around the spooky season with a supernatural…

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Exclusive Preview: Pearl III #6 – An Advance Look at the Cover Art of the Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos Dark Horse Comics Series, Including Andrew Lima Araujo’s Variant

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 18, 2022

A special sneak peek today, exclusive to Broken Frontier, of the cover art for the upcoming Pearl III #6. Check out both covers for the finale of the third storyline…

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Sick Chip – Ria Grix Introduces Us to the Adventures of the Anomalous Viola Holm

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2022

Comics that defy easy categorisation are, unsurprisingly, among my very favourite forms of sequential art. Case in point: I don’t know where to begin in that regard when trying to…

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