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The Witch and Loaf Cat – Katherine Hemmings Creates a Magical and Adorable Duo from a Most Unlikely Premise in this Short Strips Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 12, 2025

A return to the UK small press world today and a look at one of the many comics I bought at Thought Bubble last year and have only just got…

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Colossive Press to Celebrate 5 Years of the ‘Colossive Cartographies’ with a Party Night at Gosh! Comics on June 20th, 2025

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 12, 2025

One of our very favourite series here at Broken Frontier is getting its own night in the spotlight next month. Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies are five years old and Colossive…

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Done with Demons – Meet Dora Grents’ Odd Couple in Hell in this Infernal Comedy

  • by Gary Usher
  • May 9, 2025

Dora Grents is an animator living in Denmark. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Storytelling from VIA University College, Denmark. According to her website, Done With Demons was her…

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Preparing for Pride Month 2025 at Broken Frontier – Creator Commentary and Coverage Opportunities for Your Queer Comics in June!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 8, 2025

Pride Month is very important to us every year here at Broken Frontier. Last year at BF we managed to get a review, interview, feature or creator commentary up every…

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“A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives” – Chris King Talks ‘Cold Chips’, Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2025

“Cold Chips is simply one of the most confident first-time self-published efforts I have seen in my nearly two decades of reviewing at BF.” Those were my words earlier this…

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Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #1 – Sanika Phawde Combines Humour and Pathos in an Autobiographical Account of the Stresses of Planning for an Indian Wedding

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2025

With its vibrant use of colour and chaotic energy the cover of Sanika Phawde’s Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas #1 instantly catches the reader’s eye and practically implores them to…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for May 2025 – Moonshadow, Spent, Low: Bowie’s Berlin Years, Checked Out and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 5, 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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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online on Thurs, May 8th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 5, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…

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Motherlover – An Ultra-Slick Lesbian Romance from Lindsay Ishihiro and Iron Circus Comics

  • by Edward Picot
  • May 2, 2025

The two lead characters in Motherlover have both already got kids. Queer romance, says the blurb, “tends to favor young love and coming out stories”, but Motherlover “begins where most…

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Limit Break Comics’ Cryptid Anthology ‘Bump in the Night’ Goes Live on Kickstarter

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 2, 2025

The latest comics anthology from Irish comics collective Limit Break Comics is now funding on Kickstarter. More on Bump in the Night below which also features work from Broken Frontier…

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The Fine Lines Festival Returns to the University of Gloucestershire on Saturday, May 10th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 2, 2025

The Fine Lines Festival makes its return to Gloucestershire next week on Saturday, May 10th with a great line-up of events and a comics and illustration market with over 80…

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Preview: Of Ichor & Bone – Asa Wheatley, Sammy Ward, JP Jordan and Chris Mole’s New Fantasy Horror Comic Coming to Kickstarter Soon

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 1, 2025

If you were intrigued by our recent review of writer Asa Wheatley’s Sagas of the Shield Maiden, or have enjoyed our coverage of hyper-talented Broken Frontier 2022 ‘Six to Watch’…

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The ‘2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2025’ to Feature Al Ewing’s Return to Judge Dredd

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 30, 2025

So little in the way of summer specials are still being published in the UK now. Some of us remember when newsagents where stuffed full of them. Some of us…

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“All the Characters are Basically Me, in One Way or Another” — An Interview with Ned Wenlock on His Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel ‘Tsunami’ from Pow Pow Press

  • by François Vigneault
  • April 30, 2025

Ned Wenlock is a quietly rising star in the international comics scene. Born in the UK, Wenlock has lived in New Zealand since the age of 13, where he works…

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Many Opinions and Errors – The Newest Minicomic From Brooklyn, NY Cartoonist Steven Solomon 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 29, 2025

Steven Solomon has exhibited paintings, collages, animation, and large single page comics internationally and domestically, but in recent years has been exploring the possibilities of sequential narratives through an ever…

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Night Shift – Jamie Kinroy Plays with Reader Expectations in a Crime Drama with a Difference

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 28, 2025

It has admittedly been a few years since I last reviewed work from Jamie Kinroy at Broken Frontier. Back in 2022 I covered Spit Dog, a two-feature comic with the…

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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ to Be Adapted as a Graphic Novel by Chris Ryall, Jacob Phillips and Abrams ComicArts

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 25, 2025

Megalopolis jumps media this Autumn via Abrams ComicArts… Abrams ComicArts to Publish Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis as an Original Graphic Novel Abrams ComicArts is thrilled to announce the debut graphic novel from…

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Ever & Always – Gender Fluidity and Fantasy in Paddy Wolfe’s Webcomic Series

  • by Edward Picot
  • April 25, 2025

Paddy Wolfe is a gender-fluid comics maker who, as they put it themself, creates stories “about nature, queerness, hope, the things I care about”. They might have added that their…

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