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Preview: Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine – An Extensive Advance Look at the New Charity Comics Anthology to Support the Palestine Red Crescent Society

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 12, 2025

We have an extensive advance look in an exclusive capacity today at BF at the upcoming anthology Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine, a charity anthology to benefit the Palestine…

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“It Oozed Creativity, Comics Community Spirit and FUN” – Yo Comics! Proves that Kids Can’t Get Enough of Comics

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 11, 2025

The other week I was lucky enough to volunteer at the wonderful Yo Comics! – “a comic fair for kids and by kids”. Organised by comics advocate and educator Helen…

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“All I Had at the Beginning Was Vampire Brothel, Priest, Period Setting, Sexy!” – Paige Hender Tells All about ‘The Confessional’ from Silver Sprocket

  • by Lydia Turner
  • April 10, 2025

Here at Broken Frontier, we recently had the pleasure of reviewing Paige Hender’s debut graphic novel The Confessional from Silver Sprocket. ‘Sensual, grisly and totally unique’, this compelling horror focuses…

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We All Got Something – Lawrence Lindell’s Drawn & Quarterly Graphic Novel is a Reminder that the Simplest Stories Can also Be Profound

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 9, 2025

There may be an easy way of paraphrasing Lawrence Lindell’s new book. Here goes one attempt: Things may sometimes be hard, but we should remind ourselves that there are always…

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Covers Album: David Avallone – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Bill Sienkiewicz, Jack Kirby & Mike Royer, and Russ Heath

  • by David Avallone
  • April 8, 2025

In ‘Covers Album’ each Tuesday, 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 inspirational…

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Not Red Deeps! – A New Entry in the UK’s Long-Running ‘Life’s A Party’ Autobiography Series from Sean Azzopardi 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 8, 2025

On his site, Sean Azzopardi describes ‘Life’s A Party’ as “15 years, 600+ pages, one autobiographical series.” Previously, BF’s Andy Oliver has reviewed two entries in this series Once There…

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Preview: Zarjaz Vol.3 #1 – The Indie Anthology Inspired by ‘2000 AD’ Returns with Work from BF ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Alba Ceide

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 7, 2025

Last year the long-running indie anthology Zarjaz, presenting stories based on the worlds of 2000 AD, returned with a Zarjaz Sci-Fi Special (reviewed here at Broken Frontier). The first issue…

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Fieldmouse Press Asks for the Community’s Support as Trump’s Tariffs Hit Home

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 7, 2025

And so it begins. Fieldmouse Press put out the kind of indie and alt work that will always appeal to the Broken Frontier audience and they have been hit hard…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online – Join Us Thurs, April 10th for a Sci-Fi Special (NOW ON BLUESKY!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 7, 2025

Your favourite online comics social is back! And on Bluesky, our new home. Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns on Thursday, April 10th. Not only…

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Baby Blue – Bim Eriksson’s Dystopian Graphic Novel, the Swedish Underground in Translation from Fantagraphics 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 4, 2025

There is a burgeoning alternative comics scene in Sweden that Fantagraphics Books and translator Melissa Bowers have been bringing to English-speaking audiences over the last seven years. It includes Erik…

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Freelancer – Monster Hunting, Dead-End Jobs and Existentialism… Alex Newton’s Story Has Got it All!

  • by Lydia Turner
  • April 3, 2025

When hearing the term ‘freelancer’, a few jobs spring to mind: a publicist, a plumber, a tutor or a graphic designer, perhaps. But rarely a monster hunter. I’m all for…

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“The Comics Courier is Really a Love Letter to Comics Criticism” – Tiffany Babb on Bringing Comics Commentary Back to Print in the Acclaimed Newspaper-Style Publication

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 2, 2025

Described as “a newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism” the Comics Courier debuted last year not just to widespread praise but also notable enthusiasm for its method of presentation….

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Covers Album: David Gallaher – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from John Buscema & Tom Palmer, Greg LaRocque & Mike Esposito, and George Pérez and Al Vey

  • by David Gallaher
  • April 1, 2025

In ‘Covers Album’ each Tuesday, 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 aesthetic…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for April 2025 – Huda F Wants to Know?, Goes Like This, The Cabbie: Definitive Edition and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 1, 2025

Before the pandemic BF’s Staff Picks feature had run for many years, with members of the team giving a weekly overview of recommended new releases. Now, retooled and re-imagined to fit…

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Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 – Camp and Rodriguez Embrace the Language of the Form in Their Re-imagining of the Classic DC Super-Hero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 1, 2025

Something we perhaps discuss less frequently when we refer to the “language of comics” is how alternative forms of delivery can provide different storytelling tools. There are opportunities available in…

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There Was Screaming Everywhere II – The Cartoon Museum’s Live Comics-Reading Event Returns on May 8th with Peony Gent, Jade King and Roman Muradov

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 1, 2025

News from our friends at London’s Cartoon Museum who will be putting on their second ‘There Was Screaming Everywhere’ evening of comics reading, this time with Jade King, Roman Muradov…

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Helen of Wyndhorn HC – A Powerhouse Creative Team Bring Us this “Gothic Sword and Sorcery” Story

  • by James Calderbank
  • March 31, 2025

Helen of Wyndhorn reunites the amazing Tom King, Bilquis Evely, Matheus Lopes, and Clayton Cowles, the team behind arguably one of the best Supergirl comics from DC in recent years,…

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Safer Places – Kit Anderson’s Collection of Comics Short Stories from Avery Hill is Haunting, Meditative and Quietly Profound

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 31, 2025

With the last few days of the Kickstarter campaign for her new book, Second Shift, winding down we’re taking the time to look at Kit Anderson’s first Avery Hill book…

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