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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online – Join Us Thurs, February 27th for a BF Six to Watch 2025 Special (NOW ON BLUESKY!)

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 24, 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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Fizzle #4 and #5 – Catching Up With Whit Taylor’s Slice-of-Life Classic from Radiator Comics 

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 21, 2025

Andy Oliver reviewed Fizzle #1-3 on this site in the halcyon pre-pandemic days. Today we revisit the long-running Whit Taylor series with its latest issue being published earlier this year…

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Battle Action Force Treasury Edition Vol. 1 – The ’80s Cult Favourite Makes a Return Courtesy of Total Toy Books and the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2025

The licensing complexities and how behind-the-scenes wranglings continued to affect the Action Force feature in weekly UK comic Battle Action Force make for as interesting a read as the strips…

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New Exhibition ‘Cats in Cartoons’ Opens at London’s Cartoon Museum this April

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 20, 2025

Details incoming from our friends at London’s Cartoon Museum about their upcoming exhibition. Cats in Cartoons opens on April 5th. Cats in Cartoons at The Cartoon Museum 5 April – September 2025 From Garfield…

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Dark & Golden Books to Publish Comics from Indie Legend Carol Swain as Part of Their ‘2x’ Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 20, 2025

Many years ago when I chaired my very first in-person panel event I was lucky enough to have UK indie legend Carol Swain (Invasion of the Mind sappers, Foodboy, Gast)…

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mini kuš! #129: Fire Rabbit – A Darkness Lurks Within the Childlike Innocence of Yuma Wang’s Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 19, 2025

The rather enticing thing about kuš! comics’ mini kuš! range is that their method of delivery – a batch of four releases every few months – means that in one…

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Preview: A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships – Mariah-Rose Marie is the Creator Behind the Next Offering in the Acclaimed Oni Press Series

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2025

Another preview post today as we have pages from Oni Press’s A Quick & Easy Guide to Healthy Relationships by Mariah-Rose Marie to share with you. The latest in their…

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Preview: The 2000 AD Art of Sean Phillips – Rebellion to Publish Another Showcase Collection of Comics in October

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 19, 2025

As well as their collections of serialised stories and classic comics of yesteryear, Rebellion/2000 AD have been very good in recent years at publishing more creator-centric collections that act as…

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Nancy & Sluggo’s Guide to Life – A Reminder of the Enduring Appeal of Ernie Bushmiller’s Precocious 8-Year-Old in this NYRC Collection of Classic Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 18, 2025

Denis Kitchen’s introduction to Nancy and Sluggo’s Guide to Life is certainly not the usual twee and 100% gracious foreword that collections like this often begin with. Nor should it…

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Cartoonists for Palestine – 60 Comics Creators Respond to the Genocide in Gaza in this Essential Comics Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2025

Published in print at the tail end of 2024 but added to online through the year, anthology/website Cartoonists for Palestine was undoubtedly one of the year’s most important comics projects….

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Commando #5829 – DC Thomson’s Long-Running Series Takes a Sidestep into Greek Mythology in ‘Sword of Destiny’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 17, 2025

It’s one of the last great survivors of a classic era of British comics on newsagents’ shelves and for decades the digest-sized Commando series has been presenting old-school tales of…

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Raised by Ghosts – Briana Loewinsohn Reflects on a Lonely Childhood in this Graphic Memoir from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • February 14, 2025

From the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A Memoir, Briana Loewinsohn, comes a brand new coming-of-age biography, based on Loewinsohn’s experience of high school: Raised by Ghosts. Also published by Fantagraphics,…

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Bring Me the Head of Susan Lomond – Connor B.’s Debut Graphic Novel from Silver Sprocket Delivers High School Hijinks of a Mad Scientist

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 13, 2025

Conor B. is an artist/writer who has self-published more than half a dozen mini-comics and is currently touring the West coast of the U.S. in support of their debut graphic…

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Sequential Scotland Debuts in Glasgow this August as Another New UK Comics Event Hits the Calendar

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 12, 2025

Another new comics event for 2025 which is shaping up to be a banner year for con/fair/festival debuts and rebirths. All you need to know about Sequential Scotland in the…

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mini kuš! #128: Silent Observations – Apolonija Lučić Sidesteps the Harshness of Reality in this Abstract Comics Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 12, 2025

Ah, abstract comics and that ironic aspect where their dissociative qualities actually bring the reader closer to their subject matter. ‘Silent Observations’ by Apolonija Lučić is #128 in the kuš!…

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Koguchi Press Announce Upcoming Kickstarter for ‘Sparrowsong’, the Second Graphic Novel from Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Creator Alxndra Cook

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 11, 2025

Here’s an absolute must-back crowdfunding campaign. Broken Frontier 2021 ‘Six to Watch’ artist Alxndra Cook’s second graphic novel Sparrowsong is coming to Kickstarter via Koguchi Press. We have covered many…

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Lebanon is Burning and Other Dispatches – Graphic Mundi and Yazan al-Saadi Present a Collection of Voices from the Middle East on the Fight for Self-Determination

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 11, 2025

To attempt to encapsulate the story of the 2011 Arab uprisings and those that would follow in the years thereafter into a 150-page anthology collection of graphic memoirs is an…

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Preview: LA Strong – Mad Cave Studios Give Details of the Creators Involved in Their Charity Anthology to Support Wildfire Relief Efforts in Los Angeles

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • February 11, 2025

More news about Mad Cave’s admirable community project LA Strong with a list of contributors and preview pages below. A powerhouse lineup of comic creators unites for LA Strong, a…

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