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Seasons
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…
Tales from Scene City #4
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today we return to the environs of Scene City in the latest issue of Rob Cureton’s music industry satire… When last we left Rob Cureton’s Tales…
Why ‘Batman: The Deal’ Can Never Ever Become Reality
Fan fiction tends not to get a lot of press. It carries with it, deservedly or not, a host of stereotypes, including that it’s amateurish, hackneyed, uncreative, and occasionally, very…
Fever Dreams
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today’s column takes a look at Adam Murphy’s Fever Dreams, a collection dredged up from the darkest corners of his imagination… Adam Murphy is the creator…
Protectors Inc. #1
JMS’s latest series for Image, illustrated by Gordon Purcell, is a low-energy, poorly executed dose of non-superheroics that never gets off the ground. Now I’m not really the superhero guy…
Process #8: Poyiadgi at the Lakes, Fiorini on Risso, and Richy K. Chandler’s Watercolour Process
This month at Process we had Andy Poyiadgi talk about why and how his work was put in a tea room in Kendal, Lorenzo Fiorini shared some tips on comics…
Broken Frontier Staff Picks for November 13, 2013
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
Alex + Ada #1
Jonathan Luna and co-writer Sarah Vaughn tread familiar territory with refreshing style in Alex + Ada. Alex is depressed. Having recently (seven months ago, that is) broken up with his…
One Day Only
The lives of travelling show people come under the spotlight in creator Abbey Massey’s look at 24 hours of a working circus. I ‘m (sort of) returning to the Comica Festival…
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Get Harry Ex
If you’re going to be referencing one of the all-time great revenge movies, you better make sure that your comic lives up to the reference and I can safely say…
Drumhellar #1
Trippy, with a side of potential. Know how you feel when you wake up somewhere other than at home and you freak out for a second before realizing where you…
Angus & Felix #1
Katie Craven’s poignant twilight allegory is the first spotlighted book in ‘Small Pressganged’ from the attendees of the latest Comiket independent comics fair. The recent Comica Festival Comiket – the…
The Tomorrow People: Mark Bertolini
Breaking into the comics industry is, as anyone who’s tried it knows, a very hard thing to do. But one of those who have managed it in the past few…
Action Comics #25
The best interpretation of the Man of the Steel since the New 52 launched. The Superman that appeared in the early issues of Grant Morrison’s Action Comics was one of the few…
Comics Are My Rock and Roll: Daniel James Baldwin’s Self-publishing Documentary Needs YOU!
Daniel James Baldwin’s documentary on the self-publishing scene both needs and deserves your support! Today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ isn’t the usual review or in-depth interview piece. Instead I want to belatedly…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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