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Joyride – Zoë Taylor’s Minimalist Drama Takes the Reader on a Spontaneous and Evocative Journey of Discovery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 4, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! The many nuanced layers on which sequential art can connect with its audience ensure that work that is indistinct and minimalist in presentation can be just as…

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Preview: ‘Kindling’ by Xia Gordon and ‘Architecture of an Atom’ by Juliacks – Books to Grab at Safari Festival from 2dcloud!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 3, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! It’s always exciting when international publishers with an ethos that you especially respect and admire make a rare festival visit to the UK. The inclusion of the ever…

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“Half the Fun is Finding New Illustrators and Seeing What They’ve Brought” – Artist Luke Stuart on His Comics Practice and the Safari Festival Experience

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • August 3, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I first came across Luke Stuart’s work when tabling next to him at last year’s Safari Festival, whereupon I was struck by his black and neon poster…

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kuš komiksi: š! #29 – Celebrating 10 Years of the Acclaimed Latvian Micropublisher’s Output

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! For the last ten years micropublisher kuš! has been bringing us a truly international body of work via its signature digest anthology comic, its mini kuš! minicomics and its…

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Preview: #classicdebeauvoir – A Community Commemorated by its Rubbish in Babak Ganjei’s New Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 2, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Babak Ganjei is a man of diverse artistic practice. UK small press comics aficionados may know him from his humorous strips in Hilarious Consequences – described by the…

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Staff Picks for August 2, 2017 – The End of the F***ing World, God Country, Education and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 1, 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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Slasher #1-2 – The Strangely Alluring Bleakness of Charles Forsman’s Psychological Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 1, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! If there is such a thing as a group of headlining artists at Safari Festival 2017 then Charles Forsman is most certainly among those who qualify for…

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Minor Leagues #3 – Grief and Loss Explored in the Latest Issue of Simon Moreton’s Essential Autobiographical Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! I have been writing about Simon Moreton’s work at Broken Frontier for several years now and I can point to many reasons as to why it has…

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Steam Clean – Tensions Rise in Laura Ķeniņš’ Multiple Character Study from Retrofit Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! There’s something a little synchronous in reviewing Laura Ķeniņš’ Steam Clean on the first day of our Safari Festival Fortnight of coverage today at Broken Frontier given that…

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A View from the Frontier – Welcome to Safari Festival Fortnight 2017!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 31, 2017

SAFARI FESTIVAL FORTNIGHT! Get used to that intro to articles at Broken Frontier over the next couple of weeks because it’s going to be a regular fixture on the site…

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Solo Exhibition of the Work of Graphic Novelist Gareth Brookes to Run at London’s WAR Gallery from August 4th-30th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 28, 2017

The name of Gareth Brookes is hardly an unfamiliar one here at Broken Frontier. From his brilliant first long-form work The Black Project – which won both the Myriad First Graphic Novel…

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Sunburning – Autobiographical Comics at Their Most Engaging and Quietly Uncompromising from Keiler Roberts and Koyama Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2017

Two years ago at Broken Frontier I reviewed Miseryland by Keiler Roberts and described that self-published book as “autobiographical comics at their absorbing best – frank, blunt and forthright on…

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King-Cat Comix + Stories #77 – An All-Animal Issue of John Porcellino’s Seminal Autobio Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 26, 2017

With 77 issues since the late 1980s the importance and influence of John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comix + Stories to the world of autobio comics and zine-making cannot be over-emphasised. King-Cat…

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Staff Picks for July 26, 2017 – By Chance or Providence, Shutter, BPRD: The Devil You Know and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 25, 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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Mania – Nominally a Comic Book Exploration of the Negative Stigma of Mental Illness from A.L.Ex Studios

  • by Jenny Robins
  • July 24, 2017

The premise of Mania, the series of comics put out by A.L.Ex Studios and soon to number three issues, had promise. Nothing new in the dystopian metropolis, the super-powered renegades, the…

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A View from the Frontier – Joining the BF Editorial Team: Edie OPerations Editor!

  • by EdieOP
  • July 24, 2017

Today at Broken Frontier we hand over our weekly editorial spot to our brand new Operations Editor EdieOP. Edie is, of course, a British Comic Awards-nominated graphic novelist, a contributor to…

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The Inking Woman: EdieOP – Showcasing the Artists of the Latest Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2017

“The Inking Woman was such an exciting and amazing exhibition to be a part of, it was an honour to have my work exhibited alongside such talented women in comics…

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Why We Still Need a British Comic Awards – Avery Hill Publishing’s Ricky Miller Discusses the Lack of UK Awards Recognition and Just Why They Are so Vital to the Industry

  • by Ricky Miller
  • July 20, 2017

Today at Broken Frontier we welcome back Ricky Miller (below right with Avery Hill’s David White and Rachael Smith) – Co-Publisher of the acclaimed Avery Hill Publishing – to give…

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