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Bulgilhan Press to Publish Huahua Zhu’s ‘The King’s Warrior’ and Breeze Hu’s ‘A Night to Ride the Day’ this Month

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 13, 2024

Bulgilhan Press have put out some fine experimental indie comics in the last few years, and it’s great to see them back with news of two new titles coming this…

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Forces of Nature – Edward Steed Provides a Smart, Hilarious Collection of Gags About a World Gone Awry

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 12, 2024

Legendary cartoonist Adrian Tomine has a wry endorsement of Edward Steed at the back of this, the latter’s debut collection. “I met Steed years ago at a fancy New Yorker…

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Raw Sewage Science Fiction – For Those Wondering What Marc Bell is Trying to Say, It’s Great How His Drawn & Quarterly Book Comes No Closer to an Answer

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 11, 2024

One of the nicest things one can say about an artist is that their work is confounding. It may seem like a backhanded compliment, but it expresses a willingness to…

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Ahoy Comics to Publish New Supernatural Action-Adventure Series ‘Archaic’ by Melissa F. Olson, Sally Cantirino and Gab Contreras

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 11, 2024

New Ahoy Comics offering on the horizon! Full details of Archaic and cover reveals below. ARCHAIC is a Action-Adventure Series About a Sentient Island and its Mythological Inhabitants From AHOY…

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Ocultos – Dance Between Dreams and Reality in New Cosmic Mysteries from Laura Pérez and Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 10, 2024

Earlier this year, I had the joy of reading and reviewing Laura Pérez’s first English-translated graphic novel, Totem. With an overlying feeling of uncanniness, and a focus on the spiritual…

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BUUZA!! Vol. 5 Campaign is Live on Kickstarter – Shazleen Khan’s QPOC Fantasy Series Comes with the Heartiest of Broken Frontier Recommendations

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2024

It’s not as if Shazleen Khan needs BF’s help in getting the latest volume of the epic series BUUZA!! to its Kickstarter funding target. But this series, bringing the hugely…

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Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It – A Great Introduction to the Fearless World of Tara Booth from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 9, 2024

Tara Booth describes herself as an Ignatz Award-winning comic artist, illustrator and painter from Philadelphia, whose candid autobiographical comics shed lightness and humour on issues related to mental health, addiction,…

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There is No Alternative – Ed Firth Provides a Number of Emotionally Charged Vignettes in this Queer Comics Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the vein of his NP zine (reviewed here at Broken Frontier a few months back) Ed Firth’s new queer comics short…

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Nothing is Real – A New Exhibition of the Work of Acclaimed Cartoonist Steven Appleby is Coming to London’s Space Station Sixty-Five in October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 6, 2024

Well this rather splendid news. London gallery Space Station Sixty-Five have announced a new exhibition of the wonderful work of the equally wonderful cartoonist Steven Appleby. You can read a…

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Humanising Narratives Around Migration – PositiveNegatives and MIDEQ Present a Film Screening and Panel Discussion Event at London’s Rich Mix on September 18th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 6, 2024

We’ve been covering the work of PositiveNegatives for many years here at Broken Frontier given their propensity for using comics to explore the realities of migration and the refugee crisis….

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Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley – Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard Recapture the Magic of Rogue’s ‘2000 AD’ Glory Days in a Twisting Thriller

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 5, 2024

It would be impossible to talk about Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard’s Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley – the hardcover collection of the recent serialised 2000 AD story – without some…

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The Philosopher, the Dog and the Wedding – A Riveting Account of One of the First Female Philosophers from Barbara Stok and SelfMadeHero

  • by Lydia Turner
  • September 4, 2024

Picture the scene: it’s Ancient Greece, in the fourth century BCE. Young Hipparchia has one aim in mind; to marry into a prominent family and become even richer. Little does…

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“The Simplicity of Black and White Can Deliver a Powerful Visual Impact” – Tinglin Liu on Adapting Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ for Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the fourth of our 2024 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ interviews we chat today with Chinese artist Tinglin Liu about her…

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Don’t Forget that Queer Comic Fair inQ! Debuts in London this Saturday, September 7th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 4, 2024

A quick reminder that queer comic fair inQ! holds its inaugural event this Saturday, September 7th, at the London LGBTQ+ Centre on London’s South Bank. Co-organised by Manga Jiman award-winning…

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“Fantasy Seems to Have Had a Bit of a Renaissance in Comics” – Gary Moloney Takes Us to the World of ‘When the Blood Has Dried’

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • September 3, 2024

Described as “a tragic tale of loss and redemption” by publishers Mad Cave Studios fantasy series When the Blood Has Dried follows the story of Meabh of Cklonia, a small…

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Preview: Sycamore – ThirdBear Press to Collect the Short Comics Work of K. Briggs, Coming to Kickstarter Soon

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 3, 2024

Just last week at Broken Frontier we took a look at the most recent issue of ThirdBear Press’s anthology series Boxes. From this September the micropublisher will be expanding their…

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Gosh! Comics Hosts Our ’10 Years of the Broken Frontier Six to Watch’ Party – Looking Back on a Fabulous Night of Small Press Comics Celebration in London

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF 6 TO WATCH! Creating as many profile-raising opportunities as I can for our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artists has become one of the most…

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Zarjaz Returns – The ‘2000 AD’-Inspired Fanzine Anthology is Back with Volume 3

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • September 2, 2024

News of the revival of the fan-created, 2000 AD-inspired, small press anthology Zarjaz this week. Full details of this new era for the comic below. This September sees the relaunch of…

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