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Huda F Cares? – Huda Fahmy Explores Themes of Sisterhood, Family and Life as an American Muslim Woman in Another Funny and Touching Slice-of-Life Book

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 4, 2025

I cannot ever envisage a point where the slightly naughty wordplay of Huda Fahmy’s graphic novel titles will ever get wearisome. The follow-up to Huda F Are You? her most…

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The Power of Welcome: Real-Life Refugee and Migrant Journeys – Ada Jusic Brings Five Testimonies to the Page in this Comics Anthology Aimed at Younger Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 3, 2025

It hardly needs saying that it is an important time to be promoting work that brings the lived experiences of the marginalised, the displaced and the persecuted to the comics…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for February 2025 – Life Drawing, Raised By Ghosts, Bring Me the Head of Susan Lomond and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 31, 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 reimagined to fit the…

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The Trigan Empire Returns – Classic UK Comic Strip to Begin New Adventures for the First Time in 40 Years Courtesy of Rebellion, Michael Carroll and Tom Foster

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 31, 2025

This you may not have seen coming! Rebellion have announced the return of The Trigan Empire – the beautifully illustrated classic science fantasy strip from the pages of Look &…

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LICAF Now & Next – Discover More About the Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s Work Championing Comics in this Zoom Event with Lucy Sullivan and Mollie Ray

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2025

There have been some very inportant comics community initiatives from the direction of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival of late, including British Comics Now (of which I will be…

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Second Sight and Dark Horse Announce ‘Shook! Songs of the Dark Sirens’ – Follow-Up Horror Anthology to Feature Award-Winning Women Creators and Artists of Colour

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 30, 2025

If you enjoyed last year’s Shook!: A Black Horror Anthology then there’s excellent news below. Second Sight Publishing and Dark Horse Comics have announced a follow-up volume Shook! Songs of…

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The House on 52 Carlton Street – Exorcism and Otherworldly Horror Combine in Zen K.’s Gripping Manga Mystery

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 30, 2025

Another of this year’s Broken Frontier Six to Watch creators Zen K., aka Zenab Khan, has already featured on the site when our Lydia Turner reviewed the sci-fi one-shot Runaway…

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Belly Full of Heart – A Mushy Amalgamation of Hearts, Romance and Intimacy from Madeline Mouse

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 29, 2025

Described as a “comic book ode to ooey-gooey homosexual lovers of the past, present, and future”, Belly Full of Heart from Madeline Mouse and Silver Sprocket is exactly the kind…

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Exclusive Cover Reveal and Preview: I Am Their Silence – Jordi Lafebre’s Acclaimed Crime Thriller Coming in an English Translation from Dark Horse this Summer

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 28, 2025

It’s always pleasing to see acclaimed European work being picked and translated for the English-speaking market. Jordi Lafebre’s murder mystery I Am Their Silence, translated by Montana Kane, is coming to…

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Zarjaz Sci-Fi Special 2024 – The ‘2000 AD’-Inspired Anthology Revisits the Early Years of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 28, 2025

If, like myself, you are a crusty old comics fan of a certain age then you will no doubt be delighted that the latest incarnation of 2000 AD-inspired, fan-created anthology…

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SelfMadeHero Reveal Spring 2025 Publishing Schedule – Includes Work from Simon Elliott, Peter Kuper, Reinhard Kleist and Gareth Brookes

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 27, 2025

New year. new releases! Check out the first books of 2025 from SelfMadeHero in the press release below. SELFMADEHERO ANNOUNCE NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL TITLES FOR SPRING 2025 How has January…

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Comics Youth CIC and Marginal Changemakers Announce the “Game-Changing” Mersey Margins Collective Comics Fair this February

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 27, 2025

Exciting news from Comics Youth CIC that has that comics community vibe we love so much here at BF. Details on the Mersey Margins Collective Comics Fair (featuring BF Six…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online – Join Us Thurs, January 30th for a BF Six to Watch 2025 Special (NOW ON BLUESKY!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 27, 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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Con & On – Comedy and Pathos Go Hand in Hand in Cornell and Cresta’s Story of a Cast of Comic Convention Attendees Across the Years

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 24, 2025

Con & On has the strange quality of feeling slightly atypical of Ahoy Comics’ usual output and yet somehow completely at home in their catalogue of projects. “Funny Vertigo” may…

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Summit – Abi Wye’s Poignant Magical Realism Comic Has a Touching Yet Funny Quality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 23, 2025

It would be painful for me to say that in the pages of Summit Abi Wye takes the idea of magical realism to uncharted heights but it’s too late now…

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The Cave of Cats Chapter 1 – A Very Promising Opening Instalment for Céilí Braidwood’s Folkloric Story

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2025

If you are nearer to the beginning of your comics journey and embarking on a long-form narrative my advice has always been to get an early chapter out there in…

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Matter! – A Broken Frontier Commitment to Our Community in Response to Current World Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 22, 2025

We already knew we were living in the bleakest of timelines but with every passing day it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed by the stygian darkness of its excesses. As…

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Summer Maze – Reality and Truth Become Blurred and Indefinable in Zhenyi Zheng’s Form-Pushing Abstract Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 21, 2025

Abstract comics work often exists to allow us to find our own meaning in its pages. By definition it is not about elaboration; it provokes and evokes emotional responses, disseminates…

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