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Tia and Guthrie – Chie Hosaka’s Sweet Comics Short Provides a Delightful Character Set Piece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Chie Hosaka’s LDComics Fair offering Tia and Guthrie loosely fits into the romcom category, albeit a succinct one-act one. It’s the story of the relationship…

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Rebellion to Publish the ‘Judge Dredd by Carlos Ezquerra: Apex Edition’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2025

News that will no doubt please many with Rebellion informing fans today of the upcoming Judge Dredd by Carlos Ezquerra: Apex Edition. This one looks epic. Rebellion is proud to…

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A Eye: Lighting Up the Mirror to Racism – Moi Tu’s Remarkable Stream-of-Consciousness Graphic Dialogue Poses Difficult Questions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Moi Tu’s A Eye (the title a play on artificial intelligence) is a difficult comic to define. Perhaps that’s because in many ways it’s a…

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Gou Tanabe’s Comics Adaptation of Lovecraft’s ‘The Shadow Out of Time’ to Be Translated and Published by Dark Horse

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 22, 2025

If you enjoyed the recent Dark Horse edition of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space (reviewed here at BF by Edward Picot) then you’ll no doubt be very interested…

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Looking Back on Small Press Day 2025 – Probably the Most Well-Received Year in the History of SPD as Small Press Communities Celebrate the Scene Across Six Countries and Two Continents

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2025

We were looking for something triumphant for the tenth year of Small Press Day and you certainly delivered! SPD 2025 was very possibly the most enthusiastically received yet with 24…

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Poet – The Creative Process Visually Dissected in Madeleine Burt’s Form-Pushing Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 22, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! One of the great joys of this inaugural LDComics Fair has been discovering so much experimental work. Comics that really grasp the potential of the…

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The Ardent – Carl Antonowicz Takes Us on a Journey through a World of Grungy Cynicism

  • by Edward Picot
  • July 22, 2025

The Ardent by Carl Antonowicz, from Fieldmouse Press, is set in an imaginary medieval land. It opens in a monastery which is closing down because its lands and buildings are…

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The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo’s Scrolling Digital Comic is a Work of Experimental Genius

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Mereida Fajardo is probably largely known for her tactile comics work; practice the physicality of which is a key ingredient in its presentation. But first…

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Delayed Outing – A Poignant Reflection on Coming Out Later in Life from Toria McCallum

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 21, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! I had the pleasure of meeting Toria McCallum at last year’s Pride Comics and Art Festival (PrideCAF), and immediately recognised their cutesy style when I was…

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Falcão – Rayne Booth’s Haunting Character Study Has a Melancholy Truth at its Heart

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMIC FAIR 2025! Have we already reached three weeks of our LDComics Fair coverage? Today’s first subject of coverage at Broken Frontier is Rayne Booth’s Falcão, a haunting…

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A Woman’s (Art) Work is Never Done – Jenny Robins Brings Us Imagined Conversations with Great Women Artists in this Dreamy Collage Comics Experiment

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Jenny Robins has applied the subtitle ‘Imagined Conversations with Great Women Artists’ to her LDComics Online Comics Fair offering A Woman’s (Art) Work is Never Done….

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Erin + Pig – Magical Hijinks Ensue with a Witch and her Familiar in this LDComics Fair Offering from Iliadtea

  • by Lydia Turner
  • July 18, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE FAIR 2025! Iliadtea is a creator who has been on my radar for quite a while after I had the pleasure of meeting her at last year’s Pride…

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Occultz: Oxford Comic, Cult and Zine Fair Expands for 2025 with a New Fair, Monthly Socials, and a Jack Kirby Event

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 18, 2025

Last year at BF we covered the first Occultz: Oxford Comic, Cult and Zine Fair event here on the site. Since then the cult arts group have continued to expand…

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Silver River – Catriona Q. Andrew’s Beautifully Illustrated, Sweeping and Tragic Family Memoir 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 18, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Catriona Q. Andrew has been a freelance illustrator for three decades, as well as a speech and language therapist, art educator, and has also created…

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Small Press Day 2025 Poster Gallery – Get in the Mood for Saturday with this Selection of SPD Posters

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 17, 2025

While there’s always a template poster available for Small Press Day events every year many organisers will create their own bespoke imagery. As so much effort goes into this each…

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Running Out – Myfanwy Tristram Brings Together the Ephemeral and the Profound in this Existential and Experimental Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 17, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! While the LDComics Online Comics Fair is an international event the large of amount of work from UK-based creators is a reflection of just how rich…

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Ìrìn Àjò – An Exhibition of the Work of Cartoonist Samuel Ojo at London’s Cartoon Museum Explores His Experiences as a Nigerian Immigrant in the UK

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 16, 2025

Coming in just over a week ‘Ìrìn Àjò’ is an exhibition of the practice of Samuel Ojo which will be running at the Cartoon Museum in London. This looks like…

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(Don’t) Go To Law School – Maddy Buck Convinces Herself (and, Her Readers) Law School is Not Boring After All in this Humorous Memoir 

  • by Gary Usher
  • July 16, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Maddy Buck’s cartooning career began at the University of Michigan Law School, and her quest to distill large amounts of information into easily digestible comic…

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