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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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Cold Chips – Sibling Conflict, Seaside Nostalgia and Psychogeographical Exploration All Come Together in Chris King’s Remarkable Debut Self-Published Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 20, 2025

As I said when we announced Broken Frontier’s 2025 ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ list last week it’s a rare occurrence but every so often someone comes along with…

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Kathleen – An Extraordinary Story of One Brave Woman, and Her 100 Animals, from Onion Press

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 20, 2025

You may not have heard of Inchkeith, an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. Completely uninhabited, not much is known about the early history of Inchkeith, yet it…

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Forty Lies: A Work of Ipsedixitism – David Shenton’s Graphic Memoir is an Essential Social Record of the UK Gay Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2025

“This is the history of every 70 year old gay man in Britain today.” Striking words on the back cover of Forty Lies: A Work of Ipsedixitism by David Shenton that…

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You Get What You Get – David Robertson’s Fred Egg Comics Provides Another Showcase Platform for a Whole Host of UK Indie Creators

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 17, 2025

David Robertson has been one of the most prolific creators on the UK self-publishing scene for many years, with his short story comics anthologies seeing him collaborate with a huge…

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Dark Horse to Collect EC’s Only Super-Hero Comic in ‘The EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 16, 2025

This was perhaps unexpected. While we all know and love EC’s classic comics in the horror, crime, science fiction and war genres the next Dark Horse project collecting their comics…

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Condoms Part One – Nick Merdasi’s Intriguingly Different Approach to Discussions on Safe Sex and the Gay Community

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 16, 2025

The first thing the reader will notice about Nick Merdasi’s Condoms is its physicality. Its square paperback format and the plastic “packet” it comes in are designed to mimic the…

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Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2025 – Spotlighting the Work of Beatrijs Brouwer AKA Beastly Worlds, Cara Brown, Chris King, Rein Lee, Shuning Ji and Zen K.

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 15, 2025

The time has come again for our Broken Frontier Six to Watch announcement. This is our most anticipated and well-read article of the year and let me say straight out…

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Jackie: 60 Years of Magic – DC Thomson Celebrate the Fondly Remembered Magazine for the UK Teen Girls Market with this Collection of Features, Articles and Photocomics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2025

It seems inconceivable to imagine now that a weekly print magazine for teenage girls could at its peak sell well over a million copies, and yet that’s what DC Thomson’s…

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Broken Frontier Awards 2024: Announcing the Winners – Assume Nothing in a Wonderful Year of Unpredictability, and Emma Hayley of SelfMadeHero, and Silver Sprocket Enter the BF Hall of Fame

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 14, 2025

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 21st annual BF Awards, as voted for by you, our readers, and the BF team. I spoke a little about this when…

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