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Staff Picks for February 14, 2018 – Bingo Love, Total Jazz, kuš! comics, Kick-Ass and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 13, 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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Hungry Ghosts #1 – Dark Horse’s Berger Books Line Kicks Off with Supernatural Chills Courtesy of Bourdain, Rose, Ponticelli, Del Rey and Co

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • February 13, 2018

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and his Get Jiro! co-writer Joel Rose reunite to cook up Hungry Ghosts #1; the first instalment of a four-part miniseries via new Dark Horse imprint Berger Books. The…

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Ink Toby – A.T. Pratt’s Inktober-Themed Commentary on the Artist’s Vocation in a Social Media World

  • by Robin Enrico
  • February 12, 2018

Ink Toby by A.T. Pratt is a rare thing in the world of indie comics, simultaneously a take down of the scene’s at times Pollyanna-ish culture yet one so steeped…

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Twisted Romance #1 – Alex de Campi and Her Gang Go Deep into the Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop of the Heart

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 12, 2018

Love is a universal migraine,  A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Well, that’s what the poet Robert Graves had to say on the subject – although if…

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Thomas Leaves – Ben Williams Redefines the Way We Interact with the Comics Page with His Bold Abstract Storytelling

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2018

Ben Williams is a young British creator who I first had the pleasure of meeting last year when I reviewed his portfolio at the East London Comics and Arts Festival’s…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including We Shall Fight Until We Win, Prima Ballerina Meltdown, Comic Turns and Corpus

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 9, 2018

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘Royal City’ by Jeff Lemire

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 8, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER AND BEST NEW SERIES NOMINEES! ‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that we think…

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Persephone – Shanti Rai’s Mythological Vignette is an Affecting Study of Fate’s Inescapable Clutches

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 8, 2018

The myth of Persephone and her abduction by Hades, the God of the Netherworld is an allegorical tale with a familiarity that extends far beyond the focused interests of the…

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“2017 Was Our Experimental Album” – Avery Hill Publishing Talk About an Award-Winning Year, Their Acclaimed Line-Up of Creative Talent and What We Can Look Forward to in 2018

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST PUBLISHER!  There’s been an almost parallel evolution between acclaimed UK indie publisher Avery Hill Publishing and Broken Frontier over the last several years. Back in…

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Staff Picks for February 7, 2018 – Inside Moebius, Twisted Romance, Please Destroy the Internet!!!, Incognegro: Renaissance and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 6, 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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In the Future, We Are Dead – Eva Müller’s Ruminations on Mortality from Birdcage Bottom Books

  • by Robin Enrico
  • February 5, 2018

In the Future, We Are Dead by Eva Müller is a collection of nine short comics thematically linked in their exploration of mortality. Some stories focusing on a young Müller coming…

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Dokudami Tenement – Takashi Fukutani’s Cult Gekiga Manga Brought to a Western Audience for the First Time by Black Hook Press

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • February 5, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC MATERIAL NOMINEE! Misunderstood in his short lifetime, mangaka Takashi Fukutani strove to give voice to the downtrodden through his art, drawing candid…

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Shiny Pippin and the Broken Forest – Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Rebecca Bagley Illustrates Harry Heape’s New Children’s Novel from Faber and Faber

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 5, 2018

It’s always a pleasure for us here at BF to be able to let you know about new projects from the artists we have followed through our annual ‘Six Small…

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Crowdfunding Corner – Four Campaigns to Back Including Birdcage Bottom Books, A Dark Forest, Nosferatu and The Golden Thread Project

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2018

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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Lazaretto #5 – Jey Levang’s Visuals Bring a Terrifying Edge to the Finale of Clay McLeod Chapman’s Body Horror Drama

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST LETTERER WINNER AND BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE!  When it was announced last year that 2016 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creator Jey Levang had been picked…

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Small Press Day 2018 is Coming! – The Annual UK and Ireland Celebration of Comics Self-Publishing Returns for Its Third Year on Saturday July 7th

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2018

It’s back! Small Press Day 2018 will be held this year on Saturday July 7th as the comics community comes together once again to celebrate self and micropublishing across the…

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Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics Announce Expanded Line-Up for 2018 – Charley’s War, Ken Reid’s ‘Creepy Creations’ and Volumes from Misty, Tammy and Jinty Among the New Releases

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2018

  Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics line has announced an expanded line-up for 2018 and it includes a bumper number of new releases from the UK vaults. We’ve been huge…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Sabba Khan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 31, 2018

Describing her work as examining “first world city life as a second generation Pakistani Muslim migrant” Sabba Khan is the last of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators…

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