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Broken Frontier Awards 2024: Announcing the Winners – Assume Nothing in a Wonderful Year of Unpredictability, and Emma Hayley of SelfMadeHero, and Silver Sprocket Enter the BF Hall of Fame

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2025

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 21st annual BF Awards, as voted for by you, our readers, and the BF team. I spoke a little about this when…

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Mary Tyler MooreHawk – Dave Baker’s Exercise in Metafictional Narrative is One of the Most Intriguingly Experimental Graphic Novels of the Last Decade

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2025

One thing I have come to expect from the work of Dave Baker (as seen in our coverage at Broken Frontier of his multiple comics collaborations with Nicole Goux) is…

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2 Stories Both Involving an Egg – Edward Taylor Takes Us Into a Surreal Kafkaesque Comedy World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2025

How to describe Edward Taylor’s 2 Stories Both Involving an Egg? The nearest I can come to grasping at something suitable would be Kafkaesque. But if Kafka wrote sitcoms rather…

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British Comics Now – Apply to Two Incredible New Opportunities for British Creators!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 13, 2025

British Comics Now is back for 2025 with two amazing new opportunities for British creators. The initiative “aims to be a nationally-significant project for Britain’s comics and graphic novels sector,…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online – Join Us Thurs, January 16th for an Events Special (NOW ON BLUESKY!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 13, 2025

Your favourite online comics social is back! But in a new location. With recent events on Twitter/X/Xitter seeing a mass exodus of comics folk from the platform we have made…

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Celebrating 2024 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2025

First as part of our now retired  ‘Small Pressganged’ feature, and now as an annual standalone feature, we have been running our ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to…

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“Portrayal of a Person with a Long Term Disability Living Their Life is So Rare” – Jeremy Whitley on ‘Navigating with You’, His Slice-of-Life Graphic Novel Collaboration with Cassio Ribeiro

  • by Ellie Egleton
  • January 10, 2025

Recently named as one of the School Library Journal’s Best Graphic Novels of 2024 writer Jeremy Whitley, artist Cassio Ribeiro and letterer Nikki Foxrobot’s Navigating with You, from Mad Cave’s Maverick…

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LA Strong – Mad Cave Studios Announce Charity Comic for Victims of the LA Fires

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 10, 2025

We are always happy to push comics community initiatives here at Broken Frontier whenever we can and Mad Cave Studios have been impressively quick to put this one into motion….

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Monster Fun #26 – The Abrupt Cancellation of Rebellion’s Wonderful All-Ages Anthology Series Poses Important Questions About the Future of UK Periodical Comics for Kids

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2025

When the news hit in November that Rebellion’s much lauded Monster Fun monthly – the re-imagining of the classic 1970s British weekly comic – was coming to a premature end…

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Yo Comics! – New South London Comics Fair for Kids and By Kids Launches March 23rd, 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 10, 2025

New year, new comics event. And Yo Comics! has an extremely distinct target demographic. Read everything you need to know about this upcoming comics fair in the press release below….

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Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain – Luke Pearson’s Latest ‘Hilda’ Story is the Perfect Book to Snuggle Up with this Winter

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 9, 2025

There’s something incredibly nostalgic about Luke Pearson’s world of Hilda that transports you right back to your childhood. The Hilda series has come a long way since its first graphic…

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Colossive Cartographies #61 – Julian Payne’s ‘Women’s Work’ is a Reminder that the Erasure of Women’s Contributions to History Goes Back Far Further than We Imagine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2025

One of the most impressive aspects of the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series is the way in which they can explore big ideas or hugely important themes in such a…

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GOOF – Pure, Unadulterated Fun for Kids from Marc Jackson, Charlie Adlard, Tor Freeman, Rachael Smith, James Kochalka and Company

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2025

Described as “the world’s goofiest comics magazine!”, editor Marc Jackson’s GOOF is a fun collection of short humour comic strips by an extremely impressive line-up of creators from across the…

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All in Line – From Absurdist Whimsy to Anti-Fascist Statements, New York Review Books Bring Saul Steinberg’s Classic Collection of Cartooning Back to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 7, 2025

Over the last few years we have reviewed a number of books from the direction of New York Review Books/New York Review Comics. Putting their original material to one side…

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There Was Screaming Everywhere! – London’s Cartoon Museum Plays Host to a Comic Reading Evening with Lily Blakely, Ethan Llewellyn and Jan Blum on January 30th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 7, 2025

One of the things we always stress to newer creators embarking on self-publishing journeys is to get involved with as many events as possible and put yourself at the heart…

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Stories of Migration – PositiveNegatives Bring a New Exhibition Featuring Powerful Stories of Global Movement in Comics and Animation Form to SOAS in London

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 7, 2025

We have spotlighted the work of PositiveNegatives, an organisation who “create compelling animations, comics and podcasts about pressing social, humanitarian and environmental issues”, a number of times over the years…

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A Little Book of Comic Shop Price Stickers – Tom Oldham Makes the Ephemeral Vital in this Dark & Golden Books Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 7, 2025

As someone who once wrote a Masters dissertation that included an evaluation of the importance of ephemera as social history (in regards to collection development in academic libraries) a project…

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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2024 – In a Year of Turmoil Escapism Goes Hand in Hand with Activism in 2024’s Nominations

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 6, 2025

Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 21st annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…

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