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Preview: Human Garbage – New Collection of Stories from BF ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Josh Hicks to Be Published by Good Comics in June

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 28, 2017

Another press release, another piece of welcome news about a Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ artist getting picked up by a micropublisher… This time around it’s Josh…

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“I’m Switching the Mute Button on Self-Doubt” – Jessica Martin on Crowdfunding Her Graphic Memoir ‘Life Drawing: A Life Under Lights’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2017

Jessica Martin is another of those now established rising stars of the UK indie comics scene who you first heard about here at Broken Frontier. She was a finalist in…

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A View from the Frontier – And We’re Off… the Comics Calendar Kicks into Gear at Leamington Comic Con

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 27, 2017

“Excuse me, are you Broken Frontier?” “Yes. But my friends call me Broken…” In reality only the first part of that exchange has ever actually happened. But, such are my…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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87,000 Steps: Five Days in Amsterdam – Kristyna Baczynski’s Warm and Welcoming Travelogue Proves to Be a Diary Comics Delight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2017

Diary comics, in all their varying forms, have often seemed to me to be an unfairly maligned subset of the autobio genre of comics so readily associated with the small…

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3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘The Damned’ by Bunn, Hurtt and Crabtree

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 24, 2017

This re-issue of The Damned: Three Dead Men gets The Sixth Gun band back together again for a hellacious, high-octane romp through Prohibition-era America. At Broken Frontier, we’ve been huge…

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Preview: Thunder Brother Special – Paul B. Rainey’s Tales of the Soap Division Return at Leamington Comic Con

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2017

What if your favourite soap operas were real? That was the premise of Paul B. Rainey’s Thunder Brother: Soap Division series which originally ran for six issues until 2014. Rainey…

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Meet the Broken Frontier Team: EdieOP – “For Me Comics is the Best of Both Worlds… It’s Like Jelly and Ice Cream!”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 23, 2017

It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…

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Covers Album: Lord Hurk – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Igor Hofbauer, Daniel Clowes and Norman Mingo

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 22, 2017

In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Cosmos & Other Stories – Rozi Hathaway Explores Loneliness and Isolation in a Fragile and Beautiful Collection from Good Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 22, 2017

It’s been nearly three years since I first came across Rozi Hathaway’s work in the pages of Ravi Thornton’s multi-artist graphic memoir HOAX Psychosis Blues and immediately marked her out…

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It’s Going to Be Okay – Matt Boyce’s Economical Visual Clarity Communicates Complex Emotional Themes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2017

The greatest strength of Matt Boyce’s comics is his instinctive ability for conveying complex emotional states with the most economical visual clarity. That was a point I made a couple of…

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Staff Picks for March 22, 2017 – Cosmos & Other Stories, Underwinter, The Interview, Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 21, 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 or digital storefront, the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Staring from the Hill – Norbert Rybarczyk’s Delightfully Bizarre Celebration of Friendship Pulses with Energy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2017

A delightfully bizarre celebration of friendship and the bonds of music. Engagingly chaotic and pulsing with energy. Sometimes it seems like Centrala are one of the best kept secrets on…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Dusty Sideboard #1 – A Welcome Return to the Peculiarly British Idiosyncrasies of John Bagnall’s Gently Humorous Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2017

‘Small Pressganged’ has prided itself over the last few years of being a platform for the most exciting new small press talent and comics craft.  Discovery has been a prime…

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A View from the Frontier – Sneak Peeks from the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook 2017!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2017

Those of you who are long-time BF readers will probably just want to scroll down to the bottom of this piece. What follows, by way of explanation, is a little…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Flirting with Death – Rudra Purkayastha, Lyndon White and Paulina Vassileva Examine the Meaning of Life

  • by Matthew Box
  • March 17, 2017

In their self-published book Flirting with Death, writer Rudra Purkayastha and artists Lyndon White and Paulina Vassileva bring readers six thought-provoking and gorgeously-illustrated stories that teach us about Life. Just…

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Events Reminder – The Canny Comic Con Hits Newcastle this Saturday March 18th!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2017

It may seem like just five minutes since we were all partying away in Leeds at Thought Bubble but the UK festival and convention scene has slowly crept up on us…

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Meet the Broken Frontier Team: Tyler Chin-Tanner – “There’s Nothing You Can’t Do in Comics… It All Works”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 16, 2017

It’s a new era at Broken Frontier and to usher in the next stage in BF’s evolution we’ve been building an expanded writing team to broaden our scope and approach…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Tuesday March 21st with Guest Artists Jamie Coe, Alex Hahn and Eleanor Crewes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 15, 2017

It’s D&D time again! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this coming Tuesday March 21st with another fabulous threesome of peerless practitioners of pencilling prowess in Jamie…

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