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Staff Picks for September 12, 2018 – Berlin, The Alcoholic, Archie 1941 and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 12, 2018

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 event or digital storefront,…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Hallo Spaceboy – Beth Barnett’s Bowie-Inspired Graphic Memoir is a Must-Buy at SPX this Weekend

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 11, 2018

Music, above perhaps all other art forms, has an undeniable power to take us back to the formative periods of our lives: to remind us of places, people, times or…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels’ Seminal Text Brought to the Comics Page by Martin Rowson and SelfMadeHero

  • by Tom Baker
  • September 11, 2018

Communism is back baby. It’s good again. Awoouu (wolf howl). It may still be a dirty word to those on the right and centre, but a century after the October…

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Telepathy Practice – Enter the Enticingly Weird World of Joe Decie in Another Collection of Bizarre Slice-of-Life Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 11, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! One of the great joys of Joe Decie’s comics is that they have always sat in their own unique, hard-to-define niche. Where would you place them…

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Preview: smallness – Ashanti Fortson’s Sci-Fi Journey of Discovery Debuts this Weekend at SPX

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2018

While we’re going to be somewhat Thought Bubble-intensive over the next two weeks at Broken Frontier we mustn’t forget that SPX is coming this weekend with a whole host of…

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Sylvics – Julian Payne Asks the Question “What if Trees Walked Among Us in Our Hectic Modern World?”

  • by Jenny Robins
  • September 10, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! What if trees walked among us in our hectic modern world? What would they care about? Ecological issues? Or saving hot boys? Sylvics explores some age…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Follow Me In – Katriona Chapman’s Mexican Graphic Travelogue is a Beautiful, Devastating and Hauntingly Fragile Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE!  No doubt Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In from Avery Hill Publishing will be broadly classified as a graphic travelogue, part of that burgeoning strand of graphic…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Spinning – Tillie Walden’s Eisner Award-Winning Graphic Memoir is a Masterpiece of Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2018

From The End of Summer to I Love this Part through to A City Inside, a rich seam of autobiography runs through Tillie Walden’s comics, manifesting itself in everything from…

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The Gosh! Comics ‘Reads’ Group Discuss ‘Sabrina’ – Pop Along and Chat about Nick Drnaso’s Booker Prize-Nominated Graphic Novel on September 12th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2018

Broken Frontier readers will be aware that our chums at Gosh! Comics put on a number of regular evening events that reach out to the wider London comics community. We…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Full Colour: A Graphic Anthology – Young Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Artists Spotlighted in BHP’s New Collection of Comics Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2018

The end result of the Full Colour Project, an initiative to promote diversity in Scottish comics and provide mentorship to young Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic artists, BHP Comics’ Full Colour anthology features the work of…

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Sanpaku – Kate Gavino’s Coming-of-Age Story is a Touching and Funny Account of Adolescence from Archaia

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2018

Kate Gavino came to prominence as the creator of the blog (and subsequent book) Last Night’s Reading where she compiles her illustrations and favourite quotes from the many book readings she attends….

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Lumen #1 – Tony McMillen Takes Us on a Trip to a World of “Shadows, Monsters, Magic and Mechazoids”

  • by Tom Baker
  • September 5, 2018

Tony McMillen’s elevator pitch for his one-man, small-press miniseries Lumen name checks Michel Fiffe’s Copra. Not only does the first issue follow Fiffe’s lead in being written, drawn, lettered, inked…

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Staff Picks for September 5, 2018 – Prism Stalker, War Bears, Mortals & Immortals of Greek Mythology and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 4, 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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Myriad Editions Announce Graphic Novels by Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Sabba Khan and BF Team Member Jenny Robins

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2018

It’s been a summer of comics success for our Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’. As we revealed exclusively here at BF, 2018 inductee Shanti Rai will be…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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One Dirty Tree – Noah Van Sciver’s Family Saga Cements His Status as One of the Foremost Cartoonists Working Today

  • by Robin Enrico
  • September 3, 2018

The nature of autobiographical comics forces the cartoonist to examine their past and try to assemble meaning from it. Noah Van Sciver in his book One Dirty Tree from Uncivilized…

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House Amok #1 – The Nature of Reality Questioned on Multiple Levels in Sebela and McManus’s New Miniseries from IDW and Black Crown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 3, 2018

When you’re a child the adult world can seem a nonsensical, mystifying environment, full of arbitrary rules and baffling contradictions. But what if, in your family unit, you’re not only…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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The Little Bookshop Between – Luke Finch’s Charming but Dark Tale of the Joy of Literature and the Horrors of Corporate Greed

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 3, 2018

We’ve given significant coverage this summer to the projects of Baguette Trousers – the small creative collective who are made up of artists Chloe Elise Dennis, Sinae Carrotate Park and…

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People of Comics: The Graphic Anthology Exhibition – Young Creators of Colour Showcased at Glasgow Event this September

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 31, 2018

Over the course of the summer I had the pleasure of meeting BHP Comics’ Sha Nazir when we were both speaking at the ‘Sustaining Comics: What the Future Holds‘ event…

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