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Staff Picks for February 10, 2016 – Second Sight, The Eltingville Club, Shaft, The Dark & Bloody, Weirdworld, and The Tipping Point

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 9, 2016

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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Mirror #1 – Through the Looking Glass of Ríos and Lim’s Animal Fantasy

  • by Paul Mirek
  • February 5, 2016

Emma Ríos and Hwei Lim’s Mirror invites us into a fully realized world where the fantastical has become mundane. Humanity has quite literally harnessed the stuff of legend to its…

Eyecatcher · Features

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Pain, Trauma and Comics – Steve Haines and Sophie Standing Talk about Creating Graphic Medicine for Singing Dragon

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 4, 2016

Author Steve Haines and illustrator Sophie Standing talk about their collaborative process to convert therapeutic concepts into engaging visual language. As part of our series on the “graphic medicine” books of Singing…

Dad's Not All There Any More (Alex Demetris; Singing Dragon)

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Dad’s Not All There Any More – Alex Demetris Demystifies Lewy Body Dementia with Humour and Sensitivity

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • February 4, 2016

First self-published in 2012, this wonderful example of the power and appeal of graphic medicine started life as an art school project. Since then, Demetris’s intimate account of his father’s struggle…

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Staff Picks for February 3, 2016 – Mirror, Voracious, Kennel Block Blues, Love and Rockets, Sherlock Holmes: Crime Alleys and Future Shock Zero

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 2, 2016

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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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A Life in the Day of Tillie Walden – The Collected Hourly Comic Day Strips!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2016

A second helping from yesterday’s #hourlycomicday Twitter hashtag fun and games at Broken Frontier today as we compile all of creator-of-the-moment Tillie Walden’s strips. If you missed our earlier collection of Danny Noble’s Hourly…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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A Life in the Day of Danny Noble – The Collected Hourly Comic Day Strips!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 2, 2016

Yesterday the hashtag #hourlycomicday made its annual trending appearance on Twitter as comics practitioners from all aspects of the medium recorded their exploits and adventures with a comic strip for…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger Adventure – Mike Medaglia and Rachael Smith Bring Kathy Hoopmann’s Much-Loved Children’s Book to a New Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 1, 2016

Blue Bottle Mystery is not just a solid exercise in taking an already successful work and re-imagining it for a new readership but also an object lesson in how to…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A Tale of Shadows, Book Two: Cause and Effect –This High Fantasy Epic of Science and Faith Avoids the Sophomore Jinx

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • February 1, 2016

A timely modern fable set in a fictional world divided along lines of science and faith, the second volume of A Tale of Shadows explores its opposing doctrines with intelligence and style….

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S.M.A.S.H. Returns to the Barbican on February 6th – Discussion Panels Include Alison Sampson, Mark Stafford, Kieron Gillen and Katriona Chapman

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 1, 2016

Following on from last November’s well-received afternoon of comics-related discussions (which included our own Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver as a panel guest) the London Graphic Novel Network are holding another S.M.A.S.H….

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Siren’s Calling #1 – This Noir Thriller Builds Its Own Dark Mythology with Heart and Style

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • January 29, 2016

Dredging the waters off the famous Santa Monica Pier, promising newcomers John T. Trigonis and Lauren Clemente compose a haunting and original love letter to all things noir, in this…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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I Love this Part – Tillie Walden’s Second Major Project is a Comic of Rare, Raw and Precious Beauty

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2016

If there was one name that came up again and again at the end of 2015 on the traditional annual ‘Best of’ lists and end-of-year reviews it was that of Tillie…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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Staff Picks for January 27, 2016 – Cry Havoc, Prophet: Earth War, Victorie City, Strayer, Blubber and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 27, 2016

It’s 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 BF…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Test Tube – Carlos Gonzalez Tests a Human Hypothesis in Experimental New Work

  • by Paul Mirek
  • January 26, 2016

Carlos Gonzalez’s Test Tube is an experiment in every sense of the word – and one that won’t leave its readers unchanged. In the realm of the Arts-with-a-capital-A, work has historically been judged…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Avery Hill Publishing Announces First Releases of 2016 – Includes Books by Tillie Walden, Rachael Smith, Matthew Swan and Claire Scully

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 26, 2016

What an astonishing year of achievement 2015 was for Avery Hill Publishing. British Comic Awards nominations for EdieOP’s Maleficium and Rachael Smith’s The Rabbit alongside that much deserved BCA win…

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Free Street Press Anthology ‘Off Life’ Opens Submissions for Issue #13

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 25, 2016

Since 2012 street press anthology Off Life has been bringing comics to a wider audience through a combination of online delivery and free distribution in print. Its line-up of contributors…

Reviews

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The Violent #1 & #2 – Ed Brisson and Adam Gorham’s Nuanced Street-Level Crime Story Has a Socioeconomic Edge

  • by Tom Murphy
  • January 25, 2016

Ed Brisson and his collaborators weave a gripping tale of flawed people trying to do the right thing, against a timely backdrop of gentrification and social exclusion. Writer (and letterer)…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Tales of the Old West – Dom McKenzie is Quick on the Draw in this Comedy Period Piece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 25, 2016

Taking a largely mythical Wild West as its inspiration, Dom McKenzie’s Tales of the Old West is a short collection of rapid fire shorts that fondly pull apart some of…

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