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Shimmer Paths – A Thematically Layered Yet Fun Romp through Fantasy Realms Courtesy of Beastly Worlds

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Beatrijs Brouwer (aka Beastly Worlds) has been building up quite the profile for her beautifully illustrated fantasy comics. It was in no small part thanks to…

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Fieldmouse Press Ask Us to Fight Queer Censorship with Their New Comics Crowdfundr Campaign

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 15, 2025

Our fine colleagues over at SOLRAD/Fieldmouse Press certainly piqued our interest with the declared intent of their latest crowdfunding campaign. With a rallying call to fight queer censorship, at a…

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This Land Was Ravaged – Tim Bird Revisits the Devastating Environmental Impact of the Twyford Down Motorway Development

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 14, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Tim Bird’s name has become synonymous with psychogeographical comics whether that be in long-form comics (his study of the ancient woodland that once ran across South-East…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE Small Press Day Special on Thurs, July 17th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 14, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…

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Good Day – Zhenyi Zheng Experiments with Form and Structure in a Symbolic Comics Short

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Authorial intent and reader inference do not always have to align for a successful comics narrative. Indeed, finding our own truths in work that may…

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The ‘2000 AD Annual’ and the ‘Treasury of British Comics Annual’ to Return with 2026 Editions

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 10, 2025

They’re back! After selling out last year the 2000 AD Annual and the Treasury of British Comics Annual (both forward-dated for 2026 as per British comics tradition) return in hardback…

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Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog – Marc Torices’ Drawn & Quarterly Graphic Novel is Amusing, Absurd, and Hard to Put Down

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 10, 2025

Is this really the first of what are meant to be 40 volumes? Is Cornelius an iconic comic that has been around longer than most of us? Has the anthropomorphic…

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I Am Perfectly Normal – Lindsey Sheehan’s Fantasy Autobiography is a Real “Slice” of Life with a Touch of Serial Killer 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 10, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! I Am Perfectly Normal is Lindsey Sheehan’s first published full-length comic, which is available exclusively during July through the LDComics Online Comics Fair. This comic…

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The Mice that Live in My Walls – Deadly Knitshade’s Jaunty Story is Both Darkly Witty and Strangely Poignant

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 10, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! After reading through a batch of LDComics Fair offerings dealing with some fairly heavy themes Deadly Knitshade’s The Mice that Live in My Walls was…

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Cows – Devi Menon’s Beautiful Meditation on Family and Loss is One of the Bargain Buys of the LDComics Online Comics Fair

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! It’s been a few years since we last reviewed work by Devi Menon here at Broken Frontier. On that occasion it was her slice-of-life graphic…

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The Cat Hotel – A Charming Must-Read for Cat Lovers from Teresa Robertson

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 8, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Teresa Robertson has worked as a professional illustrator since 1986 and has recently developed a passion for creating graphic stories. In 2023, she illustrated a…

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In My Shell I Am Safe – Aleesha Nandhra’s Collection of Existential Vignettes Hits Us with an Emotional Immediacy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Aleesha Nandhra describes the genesis of the comics in this collection in the following terms: “I usually initially make these for myself, to move through…

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Mad Cave Studios Announce ‘Socrates: The Trial of a Philosopher’, Coming Later in 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 8, 2025

Outside of just their genre fiction monthly comics Mad Cave Studios put out a lot of eclectic graphic novels and longer-form work that often seems to fly under people’s radars….

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“I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird” – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel ‘The Witch’s Egg’ from Avery Hill Publishing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2025

We have been following the career of British artist Donya Todd since her early self-publishing days and breakthrough book Death & the Girls from Blank Slate Books. Indeed she was…

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Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Zhenyi Zheng Longlisted in the World Illustration Awards 2025

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2025

Wonderful news here at Broken Frontier Towers as we celebrate the longlisting of 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Zhenyi Zheng in the 2025 World Illustration Awards in the…

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Never Mind It’s Only the Fucking Apocalypse – AJ O’Neill’s “Queer Fever Dream” Combines Social Commentary and Claustrophobic Horror

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! With a title like Never Mind It’s Only the Fucking Apocalypse AJ O’Neill’s LDComics Fair offering immediately feels like it’s reflecting the kind of weary…

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(Un)Diagnosed – Taran Taylor Shines Light On ADHD and Autism From an Adult Perspective  

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 7, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Taran Taylor studied art at Staffordshire University, gaining a “BA (Hons) Cartoon & Comic Arts, First Class”. He has quite a few zines and comics…

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Black Cohosh – Eagle Valiant Brosi’s Debut Announces the Arrival of a Powerful Artist and Writer

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 7, 2025

The coming-of-age novel, in any medium, has long been favoured by writers trying to make sense of their own particular worlds. In the hands of Eagle Valiant Brosi, however, it…

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