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Dark Horse and Yoe Books to Collect a 1950s Oddity with ‘Space Western Comics: Cowboys vs. Aliens, Commies, Dinosaurs, and Nazis!’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 12, 2024

With a title like Space Western Comics: Cowboys vs. Aliens, Commies, Dinosaurs, and Nazis! how could we not give a spotlight to a new collection of vintage Charlton comics coming…

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Colossive Cartographies #51 – Ed Pinsent Fondly Parodies the Batman Mythos in this Fun, Foldout Comics Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2024

It was another year of outstanding DIY culture output from micropublisher Colossive Press. One where comics became a more fixed part of their publishing plan with new material from A…

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Comics Conference ‘Origin Stories’ Celebrates the Influence and Impact Comics Have on Wider Culture

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 12, 2024

Details below of ‘Origin Stories’, a comics conference coming to us in February, courtesy of the Art & Design department at Sheffield Hallam University. Origin Stories is a one day…

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Yurayura #1 – François Giro and emino’s Flipbook Gives Two Fascinating Perspectives on the Same Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 11, 2024

François Giro and emino’s Yurayura is fascinating in that it’s a collaborative zine wherein the two creators concerned don’t actually, strictly speaking, collaborate. Rather it uses a flipbook format to…

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Broken Frontier Awards 2023: Announcing the Winners – A Glorious Year for Indie and Small Press Picks, and Thought Bubble and TCAF Enter the BF Hall of Fame

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 11, 2024

Broken Frontier proudly announces the winners of the 20th annual BF Awards, as voted for by you, our readers, and the BF team. It may not have been a vintage…

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Radiator Comics to Publish Vol. 1 of Cosmic Fantasy ‘UM’ by buttercup

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 10, 2024

While we gear up for tomorrow’s big Broken Frontier Awards announcement here’s a press release today from the ever excellent Radiator Comics, who will be bringing UM by buttercup to…

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Adherent – Chris W. Kim Takes Us on a Quest for Knowledge in this Key Conundrum Press Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2024

There are books that ask us to find our own truths within their pages; to not simply solicit responses in their audience but to provoke them as well. Chris W….

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, January 11th with a New Year Special Celebrating the BF Awards Winners

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 9, 2024

Your favourite online comics social is back as we celebrate the first D and D of 2024! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday,…

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Boxes #1 – ThirdBear Press’s Carefully Curated New Anthology Series Provides a Vital Platform for Emerging Indie Comics Talents

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If there’s been one thing we have been sorely lacking on the UK small press scene in recent years it’s the plethora…

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Celebrating 2023 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 5, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! While we quietly retired the ‘Small Pressganged’ branding early in 2022 one of that former regular feature’s most popular pieces was always…

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Mind Over Margins – Comics Youth Presents A Collection of Empowering Mental Health Awareness Stories from Marginalised Voices

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Before we look at anthology comics collection Mind Over Margins today let us first consider the aims and objectives of Comics Youth,…

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Middle Distance – Mylo Choy’s SelfMadeHero Debut Explores Exertion, Introspection and a New Way to Be in Your Own World

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 3, 2024

Given that Mylo Choy’s graphic memoir Middle Distance started as an idea for a thirty-page comic, and quickly grew into a full-blown graphic novel produced by SelfMadeHero, this is no…

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“Beauty is Not Only to Be Seen by Our Eyes” – Xiaoyi Hu on Bringing the World of the Visually-Impaired to the Comics Page

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! With 2024 bringing our tenth intake of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ creators to wider recognition we’re looking forward to celebrating…

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2000 AD Prog 2362 – The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic Looks to the Future While Embracing Its Past, Including Rufus Hound’s Debut on ‘Strontium Dog’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2024

I imagine I am not the only long-term 2000 AD fan (yes I did buy Prog 1 from my local WHSmith way back in 1977) who, while perhaps not considering…

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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2023 – Vote for Your Shortlisted Favourites in What Was an Undeniably Vintage Year for Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2024

Broken Frontier proudly presents the shortlists for our 20th annual Broken Frontier Awards. Our team has selected five nominees for each of the 15 main categories that comprise the BF…

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A Christmas Bestiary – A Dark and Spellbinding Guide to Wintry Horror from Benni Bødker, John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2024

Festively themed work can often go overlooked simply because the window of relevant reviewing opportunity is, by its nature, a restricted one. However, it would seem remiss to let that…

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The Caliburn Prize Returns in 2024 for Unpublished UK-Based Comics Creators

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 2, 2024

The first comics-related prize/competition of the year has been announced with news of the 2024 Caliburn Prize. Full details below. 2024 CALIBURN PRIZE FUND RETURNS FROM HOODED MAN MEDIA Launching today,…

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Happy New Year! – News on Our Ten Years of the Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ Celebrations and How You Can Help Safeguard BF’s Future in 2024

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Happy New Year, one and all! And with a new year comes some news about our plans for 2024. This year marks…

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