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Dalí – Baudoin Perfectly Captures the Essence of the Great Surrealist Painter in SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2017

Published as part of SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters series, Dalí recounts the life and work of the Spanish surrealist painter as brought to the comics page by Edmond Baudoin, the legendary…

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Redneck Volume 1: Deep in the Heart – Clan Rivalries Explode in Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s Tense Vampire Thriller

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • November 8, 2017

Collecting issues #1-6 of Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s southern fried vampire yarn, new trade paperback Redneck Volume 1: Deep in the Heart will jump off comic store shelves for…

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Staff Picks for November 8, 2017 – Best Wishes, As the Crow Flies, Redlands, 4 Kids Walk into a Bank and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 7, 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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The First Wimbledon Comic Art Festival Opens Its Doors on Saturday November 11th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2017

This coming Saturday November 11th sees an all-new small press-oriented comics festival added to the ranks of the UK fair circuit when the very first Wimbledon Comic Art Festival opens…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Kate-mia White

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2017

One of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, Kate-mia White has been working steadily on the dark fantasy series A Dark Forest for the last couple…

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A View from the Frontier – The Evolution and Importance of Comic Shops as Community Hubs

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 6, 2017

Traditionally this point in the year is when the great and the good of British comics gears up for the final big blow-out and hits Leeds for the grand finale…

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A Small Revolution – A Tongue-in-Cheek Yet Heartrending Political Fable by Boum from Soaring Penguin Press

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 3, 2017

Visually somewhere in the territory between Tekkonkinkreet and Henry Selick’s Coraline, the small in A Small Revolution can refer to the pre-teen anti-heroes at its heart. From the beginning, the mini-protagonist…

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Memory, Connectivity and Living with Brain Injury – Wallis Eates Talks about the Responsibilities of Her New Graphic Narrative ‘Like an Orange’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 2, 2017

There are many comics crowdfunding projects out there worthy of attention for reasons of craft, aesthetics or narrative. And then there are those that need to happen for reasons beyond the…

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Deadman #1 – Vintage Plot Threads Revisited in This Neal Adams Revival from DC Comics

  • by Tony Ingram
  • November 2, 2017

I’ve always rather liked Deadman as a character; his original series is an undisputed classic, and nobody who has written him since has really failed to make him interesting.  And…

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Staff Picks for November 1, 2017 – Grandville: Force Majeure, The Gravediggers Union, Out of Nothing, Expansion and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 1, 2017

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 events or digital storefront,…

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Mr. Higgins Comes Home – Warwick Johnson-Cadwell Brings Mike Mignola’s Hammer Horror Pastiche to the Creepiest Undead Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Presented in a handsomely packaged, slim hardcover format, Mr. Higgins Comes Home is both a loving homage to a classic era of Hammer Horror films and a knowing pastiche of their…

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Scream! & Misty Halloween Special – Rebellion Revisit the Spookier Side of Classic British Weekly Comics in a Chilling New Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Way back in 1984 a new British weekly comic hit the newsagent shelves that, despite lasting just fifteen issues, would go on to attain major cult status. While…

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The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #23 – A Solid if Undemanding Collection of Halloween Shorts from a Once Experimental Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Just like its parent TV show counterpart in its heyday Bongo Comics’ annual The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror comic has often provided something of a venue over the…

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Cindy and Biscuit: Sundays – Dan White’s Ever Experimental Approach to His Signature Characters Results in Another Winning One-Shot Issue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Without even a shadow of a doubt, one of the true annual treats of the small press year is new Cindy and Biscuit material from artist Dan White…

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The Dracula File – Rebellion Bring the 1980s ‘Scream!’ Weekly Classic Back to Print in the Treasury of British Comics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! When coming up with concepts for strips in the fondly remembered 1980s British comic Scream! a Dracula-led serial may not have been the most original idea but it was one that…

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Halloween Tales – Humanoids Present Three Haunting Stories of Childhood by Olivier Boiscommun and D-P Filippi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Collecting three haunting shorts that focus on childhood perceptions of the world Halloween Tales is a showcase compilation for the art of Olivier Boiscommun who illustrates all the…

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A View from the Frontier – Welcome to Frontier Frights!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 30, 2017

FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Halloween is coming and our spookily festive Frontier Frights two-day mini-event starts today with a look at some suitably supernatural comics offerings. To get us in the mood…

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The Unquotable Trump – Real Quotes from a Real Life Supervillain

  • by Joseph Marczynski
  • October 27, 2017

Petulant man-baby at his best and harbinger of nuclear apocalypse at his worst, sentient wotsit Donald Trump is certainly a ripe subject for parody. The absurdity of his pre and…

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