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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for May 2025 – Moonshadow, Spent, Low: Bowie’s Berlin Years, Checked Out and More!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 5, 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 re-imagined to fit…

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Come Join the Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online on Thurs, May 8th – Check Out Our Gallery of Recent D&D Art Here!

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 5, 2025

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Online is back again this week and we’re inviting you to join in the fun with a little reminder of some…

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Motherlover – An Ultra-Slick Lesbian Romance from Lindsay Ishihiro and Iron Circus Comics

  • by Edward Picot
  • May 2, 2025

The two lead characters in Motherlover have both already got kids. Queer romance, says the blurb, “tends to favor young love and coming out stories”, but Motherlover “begins where most…

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Limit Break Comics’ Cryptid Anthology ‘Bump in the Night’ Goes Live on Kickstarter

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 2, 2025

The latest comics anthology from Irish comics collective Limit Break Comics is now funding on Kickstarter. More on Bump in the Night below which also features work from Broken Frontier…

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The Fine Lines Festival Returns to the University of Gloucestershire on Saturday, May 10th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 2, 2025

The Fine Lines Festival makes its return to Gloucestershire next week on Saturday, May 10th with a great line-up of events and a comics and illustration market with over 80…

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Preview: Of Ichor & Bone – Asa Wheatley, Sammy Ward, JP Jordan and Chris Mole’s New Fantasy Horror Comic Coming to Kickstarter Soon

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • May 1, 2025

If you were intrigued by our recent review of writer Asa Wheatley’s Sagas of the Shield Maiden, or have enjoyed our coverage of hyper-talented Broken Frontier 2022 ‘Six to Watch’…

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The ‘2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2025’ to Feature Al Ewing’s Return to Judge Dredd

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 30, 2025

So little in the way of summer specials are still being published in the UK now. Some of us remember when newsagents where stuffed full of them. Some of us…

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“All the Characters are Basically Me, in One Way or Another” — An Interview with Ned Wenlock on His Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel ‘Tsunami’ from Pow Pow Press

  • by François Vigneault
  • April 30, 2025

Ned Wenlock is a quietly rising star in the international comics scene. Born in the UK, Wenlock has lived in New Zealand since the age of 13, where he works…

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Many Opinions and Errors – The Newest Minicomic From Brooklyn, NY Cartoonist Steven Solomon 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 29, 2025

Steven Solomon has exhibited paintings, collages, animation, and large single page comics internationally and domestically, but in recent years has been exploring the possibilities of sequential narratives through an ever…

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Night Shift – Jamie Kinroy Plays with Reader Expectations in a Crime Drama with a Difference

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 28, 2025

It has admittedly been a few years since I last reviewed work from Jamie Kinroy at Broken Frontier. Back in 2022 I covered Spit Dog, a two-feature comic with the…

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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ to Be Adapted as a Graphic Novel by Chris Ryall, Jacob Phillips and Abrams ComicArts

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 25, 2025

Megalopolis jumps media this Autumn via Abrams ComicArts… Abrams ComicArts to Publish Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis as an Original Graphic Novel Abrams ComicArts is thrilled to announce the debut graphic novel from…

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Ever & Always – Gender Fluidity and Fantasy in Paddy Wolfe’s Webcomic Series

  • by Edward Picot
  • April 25, 2025

Paddy Wolfe is a gender-fluid comics maker who, as they put it themself, creates stories “about nature, queerness, hope, the things I care about”. They might have added that their…

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“We Try to Actively Incorporate Asian Characters in Our Comics” – Talvinder Sehmbi of Guru Comics on Their Range of Genre Fiction Books and Establishing Yourself in the Small Press Scene

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 24, 2025

Founded in the early part of the pandemic Guru Comics are a London-based micropublisher specialising in genre fiction comics that range from horror to science fiction, crime noir to satire….

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“I Think it’s so Valuable to Have More Vulnerable Works Out There” – Cara Brown on Mental Health in Comics, Creative Process and Starting Her Artistic Journey

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 23, 2025

Cara Brown may just be starting her comics practice but this 2025 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist has already amassed a small body of work that demonstrates her ability…

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Preview: Big-Ass Sword – Andreas Butzbach Brings His Lockdown-Created Sci-Fi Graphic Novel to Rebellion

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 23, 2025

A nice substantial preview today of Andreas Butzbach’s Big-Ass Sword graphic novel, courtesy of publisher Rebellion… Set in an unrecognisable futuristic wasteland filled with brutalist structures, struggling remnants of the…

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Dark Horse Comics to Publish Sara Soler’s Graphic Novel ‘Red & Blue: Monster Hunters’ – The Middle Grade Adventure Story to Be Presented in English for the First Time

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 22, 2025

In news exclusively broken on Broken Frontier today we have the full details of Dark Horse’s publication of Sara Soler’s Red & Blue: Monster Hunters, making its English language debut in…

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Covers Album: Damon Herd – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Powerpaola, Geneviève Castrée and Tom Williams

  • by Damon Herd
  • April 22, 2025

In ‘Covers Album’ each Tuesday, we ask comics creators, publishers, and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers… but with a small twist. One must be chosen for inspirational…

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Steven Appleby in Conversation with Alex Fitch for ‘Dragman: The Story Behind the Book’ at Space Station Sixty-Five on April 25th

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • April 22, 2025

Hot on the heels of the announcement about their Nothing is Real: Talks Gender event our chums at London gallery Space Station Sixty-Five have let us know about another evening…

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